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Vol.18 n°11 october 1993

Vol.18 n°11 october 1993

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News & Views

News & Views

p.22 High Stakes for High-Speed

p.22 High Stakes for High-Speed

Two proposals are competing to he sanctioned as the 100-Mbps standard

[theme : NETWORKS]

p.23 Quattro Pro for Windows

p.23 Quattro Pro for Windows

Borland's newest spreadsheet tries to make life easier for new users and pros.

[theme : SPREADSHEETS]

p.28 Programming Tools Catch Memory Misuse

p.28 Programming Tools Catch Memory Misuse

New Unix development packages help find a variety of memory-related errors.

[theme : SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT]

p.34 PCs Catch Criminals Using Fingerprint Analysis

p.34 PCs Catch Criminals Using Fingerprint Analysis

Companies in Taiwan and India have developed technology that uses image-processing techniques to identity suspects and present unauthorized entry

[theme : SECURITY]

p.40 Optical-Computing Power Coming to Light

p.40 Optical-Computing Power Coming to Light

A researcher makes strides toward an OPLA (optical programmable logic array) computer.

[theme : EMERGING TECHNOLOGY]

p.42 IBM's Ambra

p.42 IBM's Ambra

Big blue comes out with a new business model and a new line of low-end PCs.

[theme : SYSTEMS]

p.42 PowerPC Goes Underground

p.42 PowerPC Goes Underground

Embedded processors based on the PowerPC architecture could show up in printers, PDAs, and other products.

[theme : EMBEDDED PROCESSORS]

p.46 Frame Puts on a New Face

p.46 Frame Puts on a New Face

FrameMaker 4 shows valuable improvements.

[theme : DESKTOP PUBLISHING]

p.236 (237) What's New

p.236 (237) What's New

A self-moving hand scanner, pen computing on the desktop, PDA software. and more

[theme : NEW PRODUCT]

COVER STORY

COVER STORY

[theme : NEW TECHNOLOGY]

p.66 PDAs Arrive But Aren't Quite Here Yet

p.66 PDAs Arrive But Aren't Quite Here Yet

The first Personal Digital Assistants from Apple and Tandy/Casio fall short in key areas such as price, handwnting recognition, and communications. But these systems are still an impressive first step toward an easy-to-use computing and communications device.

[author : TOM R. HALFHILL]

p.69 Sharp's Non-Newtonian PDA

p.69 Sharp's Non-Newtonian PDA

p.74 Ink vs. ASCII

p.74 Ink vs. ASCII

p.80 PDA CPUs: New Form Demands New Functions

p.80 PDA CPUs: New Form Demands New Functions

p.84 The Wireless Factor

p.84 The Wireless Factor

p.89 Ease of Use Is Relative

p.89 Ease of Use Is Relative

BYTE editors test drive the Apple Newton MessagePad, the Tandy/Casio Zoomer, and the Eo Personal Communicator 440.

[author : TOM THOMPSON, TOM R. HALFHILL, AND MICHAEL NADEAU]

Feature

Feature

[theme : PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS]

p.57 Keeping Time on Your PC

p.57 Keeping Time on Your PC

For many tasks, your computer's clock isn't accurate enough. Here's how to make your PC a precision timekeeper.

[author : MICHAEL A LOMBARDI]

State of the Art

State of the Art

[theme : PEN AND VOICE INPUT]

p.98 Pen and Voice Unite

p.98 Pen and Voice Unite

The strengths of pen and voice technologies complement each other to create a powerful, natural user interface.

[author : HEWITT D. CRANE AND DIMITRY RTISCHEV]

p.100 Matching the Input Mode to the Task

p.100 Matching the Input Mode to the Task

p.105 Pen Computing Catches On

p.105 Pen Computing Catches On

Following much hype and great expectations, pen technology is finally beginning to deliver on its promise of mobile, intuitive data entry. Ink standards and good applications are helping to bring pen computing into the mainstream.

[author : DAN MEZICK]

p.110 Jot Defines Electronic Ink

p.110 Jot Defines Electronic Ink

p.113 Talk to Your Computer

p.113 Talk to Your Computer

Voice technology can add another dimension to the human-computer interface. Speech recognition will let you tell your computer what to do, and let your computer convert spoken words into text.

[author : WILLIAM S MEISEL]

p.114 Voice Recognition over the Telephone

p.114 Voice Recognition over the Telephone

REVIEWS

REVIEWS

p.124 Personal Databases

p.124 Personal Databases

If you don't need the programmability of a high-end data-base, the new class of personal databases for Windows can do the job without all the hassle.

[theme : APPLICATIONS SOFTWARE] [author : MATT TRASK AND DON SORENSEN]

p.133 Acrobat vs. Common Ground

p.133 Acrobat vs. Common Ground

The age of digital highways demands a standard for platform - and application - independent electronic documents, Adobe's Acrobat and No Hands Software's Common Ground deliver two unique solutions.

[theme : ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING] [author : STANFORD DIEHL]

p.137 Mac for Workgroups

p.137 Mac for Workgroups

Apple's Workgroup Server 95 sets a new performance standard for Macs and doubles the speed of AppleShare networking.

[theme : NETWORKING] [author : RAYMOND GA CÔTÉ]

p.141 BASIC Windows Programming

p.141 BASIC Windows Programming

Wiggins finds the latest upgrades of CA-Realizer and Visual Basic vast improvements: powerful, fast, and easy to use. And VB's database engine is a real knockout, although it has a few quirks.

[theme : VISUAL DEVELOPMENT TOOLS] [author : MICHAEL C. WIGGINS]

p.145 DOS Dilemma: Word or WordPerfect?

p.145 DOS Dilemma: Word or WordPerfect?

6.0 of one, or half-dozen of another? Two DOS word processors launch new releases that are surprisingly similar. The choice boils down to one between features and simplicity.

[theme : WORD PROCESSING] [author : SELINDA CHIQUOINE]

p.151 Integra VDB

p.151 Integra VDB

Coromandel's Visual Database Builder is a powerful toolkit for building source-independent database applications using Visual C++ and Visual Bask. Udell uses Integra VDB to quickly build some applications under Windows.

[theme : DATARASE DEVELOPMENT] [author : JON UDELL]

p.159 Bounds Checker for Windows

p.159 Bounds Checker for Windows

Nu-MEga4s debugging tool finds errors that other programs can't. Apiki uses Bounds Checker to snag elusive memory related problems in two programs. but he discovers that Bounds Checker, too, has its limits.

[theme : PROGRAMMING TOOLS] [author : STEVE APIKI]

p.162 Lab Report 62 High-Power Notebooks

p.162 Lab Report 62 High-Power Notebooks

Performance benchmarks, battery-life testing, and hands-on keyboard and screen evaluations find the be notebooks-from 25-MHz DOS systems to high-end Apple PowerBooks.

[theme : NOTEBOOKS]

p.164 The Best Windows Notebooks

p.164 The Best Windows Notebooks

p.166 The Best Color Notebooks

p.166 The Best Color Notebooks

p.170 How We Tested

p.170 How We Tested

p.174 Mac (Macintosh) PowerBooks

p.174 Mac (Macintosh) PowerBooks

p.178 Notebook CPUs

p.178 Notebook CPUs

p.181 The Best DOS Notebooks

p.181 The Best DOS Notebooks

p.182 How to Buy a Notebook

p.182 How to Buy a Notebook

p.184 Unix on a Notebook

p.184 Unix on a Notebook

p.189 The Best Desktop Replacement Notebooks

p.189 The Best Desktop Replacement Notebooks

p.190 Honorable Mentions

p.190 Honorable Mentions

p.190 Dubious Achievements

p.190 Dubious Achievements

Hands On

Hands On

p.195 Under the Hood: Fractal Image Compression

p.195 Under the Hood: Fractal Image Compression

An inside took at how it works.

[theme : GRAPHICS TECHNOLOGY] [author : LOUISA F. ANSON]

p.205 Beyond DOS: The Visual Toolbox

p.205 Beyond DOS: The Visual Toolbox

New tools expand OS/2's popular REXX(programming language).

[theme : PROGRAMMMING TOOLS] [author : MARK J. MINASI]

p.209 Some Assembly Required: Windows NT, OS/2, and Debuggers

p.209 Some Assembly Required: Windows NT, OS/2, and Debuggers

Good support at the operating-system level is essential to developing OS/2 and Windows NT applications.

[theme : SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT] [author : MATT PIETREK]

Opinions

Opinions

p.217 Pournelle: The State of Multimedia

p.217 Pournelle: The State of Multimedia

SriptX and other software could give multimedia the push it needs.

p.49 Books & CD-ROMs: Hawking Returns

p.49 Books & CD-ROMs: Hawking Returns

Essays from Stephen Hawking, Windows Internals, the Beatles on CD-ROM, and other selections.

[author : HUGHES PACK AND OTHERS]

p.288 Commentary: Building Component Software

p.288 Commentary: Building Component Software

From GUIs to distributed objects, component software is evolving rapidly.

[author : JON UDELL]

p.10 Editorial

p.10 Editorial

[author : DENNIS ALLEN]

p.18 Letters

p.18 Letters

High-speed modems, the EMF controversy, and more.

READER SERVICE

READER SERVICE

p.286 Editorial index by Company

p.286 Editorial index by Company

p.282 Alphabetical index to Advertisers

p.282 Alphabetical index to Advertisers

p.284 Index to Advertisers by Product Category

p.284 Index to Advertisers by Product Category

p.282 Inquiry Reply Cards

p.282 Inquiry Reply Cards

p.247 BUYER'S GUIDE

p.247 BUYER'S GUIDE

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Hardware/Software Showcase

Buyer's Mart

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