Last year, reports surfaced about a Bill Gates memo that allegedly discussed the "nightmare" of IBM "attacking" Microsoft in systems software and Novell "defeating" the company in networking. Now, Windows NT appears poised to turn the tables.

Quattro Pro for Windows takes on Excel 4.0.

SGI Crimson lights the flame for the R4000 processor from Mips.

Compaq fires low at the competition.

MultiView 24, a fast full-color graphics board for Windows

LanRover/L, a box that unites PowerBooks and AppleTalk networks

IBM LaserPrinter 10A, an IBM printer for your Mac

AcerPac 150, a multimedia powerhouse

The SPARCard 2joins DOS and Unix; the I/O Station 464 collects data remoiely; and more.

Apple and traditional notebook PC vendors take divergent paths toward the ultimate personal computer.

It ain't over till it's edited.

Soon you'll see an assortment of display technologies, but CRTs won't go away.

There is more to your display than just a bunch of pixels.

Two new technologies provide ways of obtaining brighter and bolder displays that have better resolution.

HDTV will help improve computer-monitor technology and digital-image manipulation.

Knowing how our vision works is the basis for developing superior displays.

The BYTE Lab tests seven portable user-interface libraries and tells how to choose the one that best fits your needs.

The BYTE Lab evaluates 24-bit color scanners for the PC and the Mac.

Six modular and upgradable EISA and Micro Channel systems,

Intel's new 486DX2 doubles the clock on eight new systems.

With Quattro Pro 4.0, Borland builds an even better DOS spreadsheet.

With Arago Professional providing a dBase-compatible interpreter and a compiler, Wordtech becomes a dark horse in the Xbase race.

A display adapter for Power Books, a Mac program to adjust fonts, and an MO drive from Sony.

Touchscreens aren't just for kiosks anymore.

Creating the right menus for your Mac applications.

A functional INT 14h replacement, communications for the Mac, and ZMODEM transfers from Unix.

The smart approach to writing Windows device drivers.

[author : John Barker]

Upgrade questions; Windows; and a Unix clone.

Jerry looks at Windows software.

[author : Jerry Pournelle]

Two industry exposés target Bill Gates, Ed Yourdon on the decline of the American programmer, telephone listings on CD-ROM, and other subjects.

As personal computers invade the battlefield, interoperability becomes crucial.

A New Wave of Portables

Birth of the CPU reexamined, and a response from DARPA's Computer Memory Project.