"Magic" is the code name for Hewlett-Packard's latest personal computer project-and it fits. In this preview, we take a look at the hardware and software that make the machine so special.
[author : Phil Lemmons and Barbara Robertson]
Jim Sutton and John Lee talk about the development of the HP 150.
[author : Phil Lemmons and Barbara Robertson]
In this final article in the series, you'll learn how to attach the camera to the expansion buses of the Apple II Plus and the IBM PC and how the camera is programmed to work.
[author : Steve Ciarcia]
In an interwiew, Trip Hawkins, president of Electronic Arts, discusses the criteria he uses to judge software and explains his view of the programmer as artist.
[author : Phil Lemmons and Barbara Robertson]
A medical diagnosis-by-computer program is the star attraction this month.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
The multiuser, multitasking operating system developed at Bell Laboratories offers powers and abilities far beyond those of normal microcomputer operating systems. Our theme articles explore the reasons behind Unix's popularity
[author : Bruce Roberts]
The final article in th is series explains the differences between various Unix versions and between true Unix systems, work-alikes, and look-alikes.
[author : David Fiedler]
The Unix operating system and the C language will be major factors in the standardization of file handling and compatibility across small systems and mainframes.
[author : Jean L. Yates]
A devoted Unix user surveys points of interest in Unix's hierarchy of files.
[author : James Joyce]
The author of the standard Unix shell presents the program that interprets users' commands and is a programming language in its own right.
[author : Stephen R. Bourne]
Unix is the operating system of choice for many programmers because it offers portability, communications capability, a rich set of utilities, and a large body of applications.
[author : Mark Krieger and Fred Pack]
A look at a network of more than 500 Unix systems and its various and sundry uses.
[author : Sandra L. Emerson]
This applications package can improve your writing by analyzing rough drafts and suggesting improvements.
[author : Lorinda L. Cherry and Nina H. Macdonald]
With troff. you can typeset manuscripts, tables, and equations with Unix.
[author : Bill Tuthill]
Unix is highly portable, but transporting a large body of software can present problems.
[author : Michael Tilson]
The author met the microcomputer of his dreams in the form of high-resolution graphics, color, and 16-bit performance.
[author : David B. Suits]
Offering a host of new features and a new, improved price tag, the Model 4 is proof that large corporations can be responsive to the needs of their customers.
[author : Rowland Archer Jr.]
A review of the company's first effort at a single-board, stand-alone personal computer.
[author : Tom Wadlow]
Until now, the cost of adding vision to a computer has been out of reach for most users. Now there's the Microneye solid-state camera, which interfaces easily with a variety of popular microcomputers.
[author : Chris Wieland]
For $495, you can get acquainted with a 68000-based single-board computer with 32K bytes of RAM and what the author says may be the best monitor program in RAM ever developed.
[author : Robert W. Floyd]
With this easy-to-use program and an Epson printer, you can design your own type styles.
[author : Paul E. Hoffman]
The Microtools package includes the most popular utilities available for the Unix operating system.
[author : Christopher O. Kern]
By interfacing a movie camera to a computer, you can achieve the animation quality of commercial movies or television.
[author : Peter Cann]
This year's NCGA conference offered improved graphics hardware, but graphics software still leaves a lot to be desired.
[author : Alexander Pournelle]
In the conclusion of this series, the author explains how his system produces relocatable code from English-like programs.
[author : C. Bradford Barber]
The machine that provides businesses with a competitive edge is also placing them at the mercy of a new type of lawbreaker the computer criminal. Fortunately there are ways to prevent unauthorized computer access.
[author : Collen Gillard and Jim Smith]
If you have a smart terminal program and a microcomputer capable of high-resolution graphics, you can display complex graphics.
[author : Mahlon Kelly]
Writing a talking program is simple, says the author, if you can use PRINT and INPUT statements to automatically transfer information to a speech synthesizer.
[author : Heyward S. Williams]
Strings of ones and zeros can make short work of ordered-list comparisons and file searches.
[author : Eric Sohr]
A programming technique based on jump and data tables simplifies the interface between two programs when at least one of them has fixed entry points and data addresses.
[author : Raymond Irvine]