The new version of Adobe's drawing program for the Mac offers layering, gradient fills. and an interface make-over.
[theme : GRAPHICS SOFTWARE]
Matrox's new 64-bit video card for the PC represents a new standard for accelerated graphics.
[theme : VIDEO HARDWARE]
The Peripheral Component Interconnect local-bus architecture receives a powerful endorsement.
[theme : ARCHITECTURE]
Apple and National Semiconductor say QuickRing will be used to deliver 180-MBps data transfer over fiber-optic networks.
[theme : CONNECTION TECHNOLOGY]
Adobe's Acrobat has a tough balancing act in delivering electronic, no-font-hassle documents to the screen.
[theme : ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING]
Two technologies that will eventually let you interact with your computer solely through spoken commands.
[theme : SPEECH TECHNOLOGY]
Apple, TI, and Tadpole deliver a new wave of color notebook computers.
[theme : PORTABLE COMPUTING]
The European Community takes a community approach to research.
Fargo's Primers Color Printer, Octocom V.fast modems, and more.
[theme : NEW PRODUCTS]
Will your next desktop PC be RISC-based? The PowerPC 601 has the performance. low cost. and support for multiple operating systems needed to make that a possibility come true.
[theme : NEXT-GENERATION SYSTEMS] [author : TOM THOMPSON]
The PowerPC puts all the best features of RISC-pipelining, branch prediction, and plenty of registers-into a scalable, low-price package.
[author : BOB RYAN]
[theme : TOMORROW'S NETWORKS]
Beyond file and print sharing, networks are evolving into the preferred medium for all sorts of communications-voice, text, graphics, and video.
[author : JOHN P. MELLO JR.]
ATM can span the network, from the desktop to the wide-area network. Is it the answer to a network manager's dreams? It could be if all the pieces fall in place.
[author : MARK CLARKSON]
The competition is intensifying in the race to define a 100-Mbps Ethernet standard.
[author : JOHN BRYAN]
The BYTE Lab review's eight fax package with OCR built in. OCR on faxed documents is not quite automatic, but these systems can speed the transition from graphical image to usable text data.
[theme : APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE] [author : STAN WSZOLA]
Next is back, but not in black. NextStep for Intel Processors brings Next's strong object-oriented environment to PCs. Ben tests NextStep 3.1, concluding that Next's move to "white" hardware was a wise move.
[theme : ENVIRONMENTS] [author : BEN SMITH]
DeskStation Technology is not the first to build a PC for NT based on a Mips processor, but it is the first to price machines directly against 486s. Test results based on BYTE's preliminary Portable Benchmarks illustrate the speed you can expect from the Evolution RISC PC.
[theme : SYSTEMS] [author : RICK GREHAN]
Two nest Windows applications deliver different approaches for authoring multimedia titles. Authorware Professional 2.0 is more suitable for interactive training and information kiosks, while Microsoft Viewer 2.0 has stronger support for indexing, searching, and linking large textual databases.
[theme : MULTIMEDIA] [author : HARRIETT HARDMAN]
The first real PDA is somewhat lees ambitious than systems (like Newton) still on the drawing board. Dick works with Amstrad's PDA 600 Pen Pad, which offers pen input with character recognition.
[theme : PEN COMPUTING] [author : DICK POUNTAIN]
Workman, Reach Software's work-flow applications development package, is the first system to present a usable model for the creation of work-flow applications. Unfortunately. the implementation fails to deliver on the architecture's promise.
[theme : APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT] [author : JON UDELL]
We tested 100 Ethernet network interface cards and picked the best 8- and 16-bit cards for workgroups, large networks, and transaction-based networks.
[theme : NETWORK INTERFACE CARDS]
A developer's view of Microsoft's Windows Multimedia Extensions and IBM's MMPM/2 architecture.
[theme : OPERATING SYSTEMS] [author : THOMAS JEFFRIES]
The power of this peer-to-peer protocol in Windosss for Workgroups remains largely unappreciated.
[theme : DATA ACCESS] [author : JON UDELL]
Reusable Masses let you construct special Windows dialog boxes.
[theme : PROGRAMMING] [author : GEN KIYOOKA]
Programming a QuickBasic application, tax software, and the search for the ideal word processor.
[author : JERRY POURNELLE]
The impact of Nintendo, Mac networking, nanotechnology, artificial life, OS/2 programming, and other subjects.
[author : HUGH KENNER AND OTHERS]
Needless complexity has alienated many businesspeople from the personal computer revolution.
[author : WALTER S. MOSSBERG]
[author : DENNIS ALLEN]
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