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YGA Monitors ............................27

It is phenomenal how far desktop

publishing technology has come in just
a few short years. Equally phenomenal
is the ability to quickly adapt it to our
own usage, forget that it exists, and
crave more innovation.
My ideal of desktop publishing is to
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A buyer's guide of things to consider when shopping for n VGA momtor.

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Imagesettets, OCR softwaxe, scanners, shde mahcrs where you can rent them.

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that is true.
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scanned image files that it will take to replace a PMT camera. Another
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and then automatically index a table of contents and an advertiser list).
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for tax filing season, and ~
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New Members
by f6mberrey Byoob
(CorPon telo nd Remd ters 687-5999)
Software S.C.'s membership continues to climb in leaps and bounds.New
members this month include: Glen
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systems consultants), Readware Technologies Inc., (6624787 - document
processing), Boxmaster (software pack-

aging), Softline Systems (689-7658desktop publishing and accounting software), Technical Secvice Council (682-

8861 - computer professional personnel

agency), CBM Consulting Inc. (662-7869
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development).
Next month's meeting will feature
Icosta Cbatzipiios from Ogivar TechnologyInc., who will speakon the benefits o
bundling software with harchvare. It will
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115-1025 Robson Street.
For Bmnz infortnation on Sopcoaro BC,
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Carillon Music and Tri-Tech Computers ate joining forces to present Cnmput
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highcech sound gear. On the hardware
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at all times. As weLI,
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Finally, cells in the spreadsheet can be
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items through column headings in the
spreadsheet, so that producing reports
for new time periods is as easy asediting
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First there were desktop computers. Then

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You may say that sounds like a split
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Nelson Mandela
Runs South Africa By Fax
This may be a third-hand story, butwe
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uuyon how technologyisa8ecting people
everywhere. EorrEocus, the weekly Stcsimilc newspaper of the American Far3irnile
Association, contains the foHowing in its
February5, 1990, issue regarding Nelson

inte
resting

Mande'

"Wildly unexpected events have been

takmg pLrce in South A&ica. To quote

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Pretection is the we>et
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are inaccurate. Miniscribe has fsled for
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not bankruptcy. The Longmont, Colo.
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representatives to Canada on more than

one occasion this year to reassure distributors and custiomers alike, and to
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PCRcddy Sphstt Saves

Olm Unused PC Resollces
Instead ofactuaily saving themmoneyx
manymicrocomputersareadrain on the
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per centof the time. Many of these same
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Atypical',

cess to while the rest of the of6ce contin-

ues towork mauuamy or waits for the

person with the computer to provide
them with information. The problem is
to provide these users with a method
where many people can access an existing PC for a low costand which willwork
with all Msaware.

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ted t h a t Commodoxu's devel- the Wel German computer company, hss
nczw con6nned it will 1aunch its two Amiga
Liptops-one with an LCD screen, the other
with a gas plasma screenmhich have been
pxocessor late last month.
developed with Commodore UK's c~iexaNewsbytes'souxceshavexuled thisout.One
tion.With the AmigaA5000serieslined up a
developer Newsbytes spokewith said that two
well, Atari w61 have a job on iti hands to
machines aze expected one based around
secuxe the industry's attendon.
a 16MHz 68050, the other around a RSMHz
6805Q microprocessor.
These machines were, Newsbyzes understands, in a state of readiness for Comdex Pall
last November but were beki back for softApple Promises A Steady
ware reasons. The machines are uow being
Hand, Lou-End Mac
readied for launch at Hannover next month.
CUPERTINO, CAUPORNIA, USA., 1990
CeBit '9Q promises to be an interesting
FEB 1 (NB) Apple Computer Chairman
show with regard io the perennial Ataxi ST
have ~

oper's ccmfemnce fs nuked with Motozola's

Rmmal tmveilingof the RSMHz 68040mi~

Amiga NoIlcl
Commodore Unveils
New Amigas In Europe
PARIS, FRANCE, 1990 FEB 07 (NB)Commodorecalleda topeeczetmeetmg with
softxvszedevelopezsin Paxisfortodayto unveil
new bazdwaze. AII auendees to the confere nce have been bound by non ~
osu x e
agreements until the CeBit '90 fair in Hannover, West Germanynext month.
AsNewsbyteswent to press,therewas much
speculation on what harchrare Coxnmodore
wss preparing to unveil UK pxess sources

Apple Wol'ld

versus Commodore Amiga wars. Gigarnm,

John Sculley,hopingtoalhyfearsoverApple's

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tency in how we xaana

me our business," and
assigned much of the job to newly appointed

Michael Spmdler, chief operating of6cer.

'With Spindler there is a better chance we

can do it with less disrupuon than in the
psst.
As Apple faces an ixaxmnentdedsion about
layo6s, comes to terms with a 10 percent
increase in pro6ts compared to the previously anticipated 20 percent, and copes with
an industxy~deslowdown, the company also
seems to be rethinhng iis global strategy.
Speci6cally, Apple is facing a battle in the
price arena where competitoxs include IBM
aud compatible compaxues, whose ofkrings

increasingly have the ease of use assadated

with Apple computers but are dropping in
price 6rr 6rster.
Scuileysold shareholders that the 6nnxuust
noteamarketwhichis chsngmgatthelawer
end. Sculleyadzmtted that the 6xst~e user
market is signi6cant, but disappointed ana-

lystxata meeting the neztdayby telling them

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Sculley told one xelurrter that the dray in
g products io market could not be

on engineezL "h isn't getting engineers so work hanlm, they work extremely
hard as itia lt'sgetdng decisions to bexnade
Stater, and getdng the integration beuveen

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access on the SCSI (Small Computer Systems
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Theznadune fsexpected tohavea60 to 100
percentperformance improvement over the
llci snd will cost about $10,000.

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The 68050-based machine is expected to

TORONTO, ONTARIO 1990 JAN 51 (NB)

Canada will become the sixth counuy to

hasta MacWorld Expo this October. Laurentian TechnomediaofTozonrohasannounced
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Apple Canada Cuts Mces

MARKIIAM,ONTARIO 1990JAN 29 (NB)

As iscustomaxy before the introduction of

new computexs, Apple Canada hss reduced

prices on Madntosh computets by C$500 tio

C$RP00 and on LaserWriter printexs by as

much as C$2P00.
The Macintosh SE with diskette drive only

hasbeen cuthxxmC$4,187 to$8,675. The SE

I/% hasbeen cutfrom C$5,058 to C$4~.
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Apple dmplied the pxice of the Lssexwriter
IISC &om C$4,8% ao C$$,995 and thatof the

Leexwxiter IINT fiem C$7~9 ao C$6,450.

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oC $8,595.Contacu Apple Canada

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Trojan Horse Destroys

Mac File Directories
EDMONTON,ALBERTA 1990FEB9 (NB)
A Tmjan Hoxse pmgxamunder the name
Mosaic has muck iwo Macintosh usexsin the
Edmontion area,destxeying their Sledirectio.
rieL One expert is calling the Tmjan "the
most destructive that we've ever seen.
Peter JoBnston, senior analyst at the Uni-

tec virus expert Kareem Ismail tells Newsbytes that Symantec is not preparing a special
update to SAM ao Sght this Tmjan.
Other major antiviral softw.ire producers
axe known tobe examining this Tmjan Hoxse

pmgram, says
Jeif Schuhnan, author of Virus
Detective, and the company which makes

Vixex.

John Noxstad, author of Disinfectant, tells

Newsbytes that he is not worhng on a new
vexaon ao detect this Tmjan yet, because he
believes it is confined ao the Edmonton,
Canada area"

Palpnm@er 4.0 For MacSigniScant Improvements

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA,U.SA.,

1990 FEB 6 (NB) In a mope to strengtlien

its position in the Deskaop Presentation

BC Bytes

users' appoinunents.
A number of other fea'
tuxes are
added, the company said.
Peters said the smgle-user version will sell
for US$295in the Uniaed Statesand C$%5in

17ce Maximizer Contact

Manager V. 2.0 Ships

Canada,up fi
om $195 for the previous version. The LAN version goes fmm $495 to
$695.Richmondsells thesoflwarem Canada,

VANCOUVER,BR1TlSHCOLUMBIA,1990

JAN RS (NB) Richmond Software plans ao

begin shipping vexsion LOof The Maximizer
the U.S., Australia and Euxope. Contacu
on February
RO.Theupgraded contactmanJanette Petexs, Richmond Soflware, 604499agement softwaxe will have a number of new
RIRL
featuxes for an increased price tag accoxdmg
to company spokeswomanJaneue Peter
Network Courier For OS /2
Among the enhancements inMaximizer
R.O will be more reporting capabiTities, a
built-in popup calculaaor, the ability so store
more addresses, a real text editor and han-

dling of incoming telephone calla The localareaneiworkvexsionwill allow access aoother

And Macintosh
VANCOUVER, B.C. 1990 JAN Sl (NS)Consumers Sofiware plans to show its Network Courier electronic mail soflwaxe run-

ning under Micmsolt Windows and OS/R

market,
Aldus hasannounced version 4.0 of
Pagemaker for the Macintosh. Many of the
features thought tio be lachng fmm earher

vmions, by usexsand indusuy obsexvers, sxe

now incoxpoxated in what Aldus is calling

Ihe New Pagemaker."

Text handhng enhancements indude full
word pmcessing capabilitieswithin the Story
Editor, text mtation, point/izes in 0.1 point
(pt] increments &om 4 pt ao 650 pt, and
leading in O.l-pt incxementa There is im
pmved controloverkerning, condensed and
expanded text; an option of eleven language

dictionaries; and improved hyphenation

controL

Enhancements in graphics han ' indude the ability to import color graptdcs,
user selectable display mode for imported
graphics, and the ability tio tie rules aud
graphics to text with fun Sow chaxactexistica
File management capalities have been

impmved by retaining links with original

imported iles (aaxt and graphics) to enable

anaomaticor prompted updatingofelements

within a document. Also new is the "book"
feature which anaws the user ao link multiple
different fmm a virus in that it does not
Pagemaker documents (chaptexs) intio a
repmduce by itself, Srst appeared on a local
bulletin bosxd ~
The s ystem operaaor single publicauon. A standalone table genexaaor is also included with Pagemahv 4.0,
downlosded the Sle ao test it, whexeupon it
an indication of thirdyartypmductsaocome.
promptly destroyed the dixectories of all
The pmductwill ship in the second quarter
available physicallyunlockedhard and floppy
of
1990 ata price of US$795 (upgrade
disks, induding the one on which it resided.
US$150), with PC Windows and OS/2 verThe attacked disks were then renamed,
sions "ti
o be announced." Recommended
"Goachat"
configuration is any 68080 Mac with hard
Mostof the datawas recovered with a utiTity
disk and RMBofRAM. Since July,1985,Aldus
program, but the Sle names were lost.
has shipped in excess of 400,000 copies of all
Johnston tells Newsbytes such an occurrence
versionsofPagemaker. Contact: Roger Gulrais like "cutting ofi' the spines, and page
jani,
Aldus, R06422-5500.
numbers of all the books in your libxaxy, then
throwing the remains in a garbage bag for
you to sort out."
One other BBS subscriber is reported tio
have sufiered the same fate after he downAtari Portfoho II
loaded the pxogram Rom the same EdmonIn The Wings?
ton Macintosh BBS.
SUNMtVALFCALlFORNIA, U.SA., 1990
There is a possibility that the Trojan proJAN 24 (NB) According to the CPUNnax
gram may alsohave originated on aboard in
Cpafidcaaal weekl newsletter, available for
the Seattle, Washington area, he says
download ona growing number of US BBSs
Johnston says two strains of the Tmjan
(bulletin board services),Atari may be about
program have been found, the one above,
ao announce the Portfolio II, an 80286-based
and one in a public domain pmgxam called
''Fontfinder." This one hasa trigger date oflO
version of iis popular pocket PC machine.
Accoxdhtg ao the newsletter, the Portfolio's
Februaxy, 1990. Before that date, the pm128Kmemoxy is likely ao be boosted tio 51RK
gnm simply displays a list of the fonts and
by replacing the 6RR56 chips with 62104L
pointsizes in tbe System Sle. Itwas posted on
"Suddenlyyou have 512K with no noticeable
the board as part of a Stufiitt archive named
power consumption increase," says the news"FontFinderait."
letter. "Could these be the reasons why the
'This appeaxs to be the Sist dehbexately
original device is on sale m discount houses
desuucuvemaliciouscode that targets on the
already'" the newsletter questionL
Macinaosh," saysJohnston. Previous Trojans
When Portfoliowas announced a year ago
and viruses have wreaked havoc with the
in the UK, Newsbytca noted that the maFinder or caused applications to crash, but
chine's designers, DIP, said that future verthis one actually destroys data.
sions of the Portfolio were in the pipeline.
There are vaxiousways in which the Trojan
Horse program can be fought. One is with Atari, meanwhile, was licensed to produce
the standaxti Portfolio. It seems logical ao
VirusDetecuve, version 5.01 or later, a shareassume that Atari would also be able ao liware pmgxam which requires this string ao
cense future editions of the machine as welL
detect the current menace: Resouxce CODE
Sources close to Ataxi UKsuggest that such
and ID = 1 Sc Data 44656174685472616B.
a dealisin the ong, with a Portfolio II being
The Intercept pmgnun of Syxxlntec's SAM
virus-Sghting application ia also capable of readied for launch this Spring. The CPU
newswixe newsletter has the last word: "The
detecting the Trojan during a disk scan butit
answer is yeL Watch all the denials Sy until,
will not destmy it. A user will be prompted
that is, the actual deals hit the streets." Conwith a question as ao whether the pmgram
tacu R F Maxiano, Tel: 904-788-8819.
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to asysaexn;ayes will
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April, Shandxick added.
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operaung systexxNsupported to commum
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mail systems such as Professional OI6ce Sys.

each loan.
Fxuji Butt, president of the Canadian Asso.
elation of Data, Professional Services and
Software Oqlanizations (CADAPSO) in Ottawa,said much would depend on the government, the banks and the software mdustry. But, she saidwe*re always for anything
that might improve the 6nancing situation
for small software 6rms in Canada.... We
think it's fantastic that [Singham] has taken
the initiative to put something together."
Gxaeme Hughes, president of the Information Technology Association of Canada
(1TAC) in Toronto, also commended the
initiative, saying itdesetves sexious auention.

white or Jennifer Pouhen, Coxel Systems,

615-72$8200.

I8686FQI
MOrrIS Feund Gmlty
In Worm Trial
SYRACUSE NEW YORK U S~ 1990 JAN
22 (NB) Afteronlyafewhoursofde6tberation, the jury in the warm trip of Robert
Tappan Morri, a 24.yearold foxmer Coxnell
gxaduate sxudent, found Mr. Moxrisguiltyof'

He said any such program would need preMany

of these 6rmsdo go bankrupt for vaxiousrea-

computer tampexing in the Internet computer networkcrash of November 1988.Mr.

Morri, who has admitted creating and xeleasing thewoxmbutdenied thathe intended
any harm, will return to couxt at anas yet
unspeci6ed date to face sentencing.
Having been convictedof a felony under
the 1986 federal computer Raud and abuse
law, Robert Mortis, who continued worhng
m the computer industxy hit w a iung tus
trial,facesamaximumof6veyearsinjailand
a$250,0006ne. He could also be ordered to

Pay resumuon.

cauu
onstoensuremoneywaswellusecL "

tern (PROFS) on an IBM maixiRsme.

The software for OS/2, Macmtosh and
Windows will cost about US$595, Shandrick

sces," he said. But he suggested a pilot project xnight help detexmine the plan's viability.
Brian Farimg, chief of commerdal a6airs
for the Canadian Bankers' Association, said
his group hasreceived the proposal and is
circulating it among its independent business committee. "It merits study," he said,
"and it's on our agenda for early February."
Contacts: CADAPSO, 615-25IM524; ITAC,
41M98871Q;Canadian Bankers'~
tion ,
4168624092; Stephen Binghaxn, Alias Research, 416-5624181.

said. The OS/2 version does not support

Presentation Manager at present, he added,
but PM support is planned.
Contact: Michael Shandrick, Consumers
S oftware, 6041 4 5 4 8 .

Promise Seen In Canadian

Sof&rare Funchng Mea
TORONTO, ONT. 1990 JAN 24 (NB)Cauadian computer industty and banking
groups have reacted with cautious approval
to a proposal for 6naucmg software reseaxch
and development in this country.
The Phoenix progxaxn, laid out by Stephen
Bingham, president of Toronto software

Corel Income Jumps

OTIAWA, ONT. 1990 FEB 9 (NB) Net
mcome at Corel Systems, developer of the
awaxkvvinningCoxeIDxawsotbvam,increased

by a abactor of 17 in 1989.
Corel has reported net income of C$2.9
million for the year ended Nov. SQ, 1989, up
Rom C$169,401 in the previous year. Revenue, as previously reported in Newsbytes,
dhnbed hxmn C$6.6 xnilhon to C$21.7 million.

developer Ahas Reseaxch, calls for govexnm ent~

tee d hank loans
forstsxtup
software developers. Sofuvare companies with

sales between C$5 million and C$50 million

would subiit strategic business plsxl d~
signed to achieve "acceptable rates of return
over 6ve yearn."Bsxtks would lend 80 percent
of the money needed, and the Canadian
government would guarantee85 percent of

In a prepared statement, Chief Fmancial

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'WASHINGTON, D.C., USGA., 1990JAN RS

(NB) 'IheU8. Envircmmentalpmtecuon
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TOERO, JAPAN, 1990 JAN %9 (NB) To

Snance and hasten developmeat of highly
integratedcomputer memoxychips, collabo.
rative ventuxes among American, European
andJapanesemakensxepoppingupamtmd

chemical used to dean computer

but

'sozone
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layer.
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International Alliances
Forming Chip Ventures

the warld.

ThehngofonecmegabktDRAMs Toshiba

nia, to resell the NMBS-made memory chips

under the name Intel. NMBS is repcutedly

going to pxuside all its output to Intel rather

than its mother Snn h6nebea
To create neat generatian 16.megabit and

fuuue 64.megabit
general puxpae memory

chips, the mdustxy is eqiected to continue

the collabarszion. The couples in the DRAM

race are naw Hitachi andTexasInstruments,

IBM and Siemens ofWestGermany, andMitsublsbi Electric which is eqiected to tie up

with AT&T.

and U ci;based Motomht will start the

pmduction of Qurmegabit DRAMs at their

venuue,Tohoku Semiconductor,in 1991.
Meanwbile, Intel has ensured its awn supply of memoxy chips by coopcuating wiih
NMBSemiconductar. The Sxmshaveagreed
toestabhshajoint~mrecalledintei/NhiBS
DRAM Fabncatians, m Santa Clara, Cahfor-

ComputerCompany
Pro6ts &at In Half
STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT, UAJL,
1990 FKB 5 (NB) The Gartner Gmup
research companysays computer mskexs'

pxoStswnecutinhalf for 1989,Sam 8.8% of

sales to 8.9%.

Senior Reset Analyst Randall Bmphy

predicted the computer makns would have
to aim overseas for higher pmSts in 1990, as

US. demand conunues to slacken. The slawdawn trend was more pmnounced at big .
cam

e ssuch as NCR and Unisys than at

companies such asSun and Tandem.

But there were success stories, including

Cannerpexipherals,HamsCorp.,and Northern Telecam. Cantact: Gartner Gmup, %89644096.

Unix
Wings Files For NeXT
MENLOPARK,CALIFORNIA,U.SA.,1990
JAN 19 (NB) Infonnix Sahware Inc. has
released Wmgz, a graphic spreadslmet de
signed to access data Sam lnf'onmx's OnLine database awhile using NeXT computer
systemL

The pmduct enables uses to access data

diectly into Wmgz worksheet or InSMxnix's
HyIinscript pmgnunming language; both
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castoniized graphical database applicatian.

Asbrmk~ppedvnaionofWmgzonNeXT
indudmg NeXT read/write opucal disk is

i I i

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Near Upgrade Strategy

NEW%ORE, NEW YORK, UBA., 1990JAN
28 (NB) Unix Intnnauonal, Oigpnaxketing ann for AT&T's version of Unht, caHed
Systnn V, unveiled its strategy for future

upgrades of the System V sofhvare. Unix

SystemVRoschnapwassimultaneouslymtmduced in Washingum, D.C., New York, Brussels, Belgium, and Tokyo, for Unix users in
North Autnica, Eumpe and Asia
One icy feature is ahigher security aptio,
against unauthorized
including
accew, data
tio n snd viruses. Usns.
parucularlygasexnnientagencies, have been
inctessingiy concerned about such poscalile
mtrusiatis. Another feauue of the Roadmap
is a multipmcesslng architecture that will
aihxw users toexpand the managnxtent Sle's
structme aud mcxeaseaccessto a wide xange
of data. The more Sexible computer axchitectuxeistaxgetedatlargeecaledatamanageansment,
actionsprocessing. The featutewillalsoamaw
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eve
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expanding their foreign operationa
The mulu-procewang architecturecan

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FEB R (NB) Santa Cruz Operauon hsi
announced that Open Dektop, the gxaphicsl user interihce for Umx4ased 80886 and
804864esedPCswitheither an indusuystandaxd,extended indusuysumdaxd (EISA), or
hScmChannelAxchitectuxebus,isshipping.
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The singlouser listprlce is$995. The Open
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SCO says aver 1100 sofhvaxe developns
nationwide are creating softwaxe pmducts
that will run in the Open Dektop nvhonment, meaning they will oSer a consistent
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for infoxmatiou technology at Georgia Tech,
added, "This machine is RX umes faster than
anything in the market. That tells us IBM is
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The reduced instruction set computer, or

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predicted that many impxtnrements in the
machines will be announced oner the next
IBM's Mine Channel Architecture for pluqin cards, and anew version 2.0of AIX, IBM s

Vernon of Unix. AIX also runs on the high

end of the company's PS/2 line. In addition,
the workstations are run on lour. power complimentaxy metal oxide semiconductor, or
CMOS, chips the same hndsof chips used
in laptop computen. Two user interSLces
were announced for the machine: AIXwindows Envlxtmment/6000, which is based on
the Open SoSnraxe Foundation's Motif standard,andAIXNextstep Environment/6000,

II

which mdudesAdobe's Display PosrScript a

the underlying imaging modeL
IBM's goal is to get a dominant position in
the engmeering workstauon market by1992,
Som a standing start "We' re launching a
near business, in a $10 billion marketpLsce,

where we have demonstrated negligible

xnarket share," admitted Smith. "This Sile a
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WASHINGTON, DC, USA., 1990 FEB 16

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announced for IBM's RISC System/6000

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Sunily. probably the most important of these
CASE tools for federal contraaem is the Ada

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Age may be the world*s leading hot
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The air samples were taken near severalelectronics firm sand analyzed by F.
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txy began umxg them.
8) US. electronics invited widespread
R) Far from dabbling in CFCsU.S.
u s e ofan ozonekillermorelethal than
electronicsSrms soon became leadmg
CFCs: halons. The spread of computer
consumers (the biggest, after the coolequipmentaccelexated themove toward
ant and foanHxse industries), designing
halon-based Sre ex6nguishing systems.
an estimated 58 processing technolo- Unlike water, halon puts out Sres withgies around exclusive use of CFC Dux
ou t d amagingcomputerequipmentThe
ing the 1980s, via the Pentagon's "vixgm EPA
baton an ozonMeple6on
CFC" military speciScation, US. elecp o t en6al up to ten times that of CFCs.
tronics encouraged microchip, corn- T h e m i litary and computer Srms still
puter, and telecommunications Grms s p ecify halon to protect electronics in
from Milan to Seoul to embark upon a
t a n ks and jets as well as in dvilian com-

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I'renzied CFC consumpdon and to dis- puter rooms. Itis recommended procepose of it in ways that maximize ozone dureto "test"halonSreextinguishersby
damage. In efFect, US. electronics engi- e x pelling their contents into the atmco.

neexswxoaeCFCmdmethylchloxoform phere. (ThePenxagonadmitslhatonly5

percent of the tens of millions of pounds

of halons it expels into the atmosphere
each year are for extinguislung Sres.)
4) Computer keyboard and Pchoard
aerosol demers that spxay CFCs are sold
over thecountn for use by computer

workersevery 'day.

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the U.S. electronics lobby has dealt a
cripp5ng blow to legislation that would
phase out CPCs. The legislation is a Clean
Air Act amendment reflecting the latest
Montreal Protocol agreement (the May
1989 Helsinki accord). The AKA daims
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exxvironmental (and safety) problems: as
publicrela6onsproblemswithoutworldly
consequence. {The Clem Air Act is now
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control of technology production.
As it is, the industry could phase out
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before the the move to CFCs) and ormge-pee~ d ~ o o d~ulp cleaners have
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few exceptions, the industry is stalling,
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We need, desperately, to stop using
CFCs, methyl chloroform, and halons. A
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CFCs aud methyl chloroform with tech.
nology transfer to developing countries
is a good place to start. Skeptics should
recall the overnight retooling af U.S. industry at the onset of World War II as
well as the twtpyear CFC propellent
phaseout in 19'% (most aerosol Srms
beat this deadlmewithmonths to spare).
The ban also could serve as a corrective
toashallowanddangerousconven6onal
wisdom: our presumed need foreverfaster processing technology. It' s time to
ask ourselves which new secuxi6es tradingprograxn, whatenhancedmissileguidance system, and how many new automatic tellexsjus6fy our courtship ofNew
Climate.
Such a ban would not go Su enough,
though, because it would not alter the
electronics industry's historic course of
replacingbad substances (e.g.,carcinogenic TCE) with bad, or worse, ones
(e.gCFCs). When our top scientists and
engineers consistently choose technologies that we know to be dangerous in
favor ofthose we know to be both safe

and technically comparable, it is time to

c9utnfp: the way we choose.
We must Snd ways to incorporate ecology and workplace safety into our technology decision making. This requires,
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Standards Committee but is more commonlyiaxoxxsxasNever The same Colour.
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images sxntabie only for games.
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Dot Pitch

If you look at the surlaceof a colour

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phosphorL These dots are much smaSer display only 16 cQFerent colours and
than the pixels. It takes at least three
again are used mainly &r games,
phosphor dots to make up each pixel.If
TTL monitors are mexpensive, but
the specilcation says that the dot pitch is
produce
very sharp dear text, usually
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might have a dot pitch as coarse s .41.
FxxedSrequency and multi4'
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Cheap, unusable monitors can he as
VGA (Video Graphics Array) monitors
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This was the original graphics caid, but
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textandgxaphics (g5). Thisis the card

most commonly used for word process-

mg.

S. Hexcules Plus card ($RSO). The

card can paint fimcy fonts (e.g., Italic

bold) vexy quicmy. Used mainly with

Microsoft Word 5 word processor.

4. VGA (@50) fer hxgh resolutieax,

colour or grayscale, text and graphics.

u ltra-high resolution, colour o r

gxayscale, tiext and graphicL
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$500) pxetend to be one kind of caxd

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graphics, was the cxriginal adapter card
for the IBM PC The Hercules Incolor
Card isalcxapcostaltexnatxve to the VGA
card thatnever caught on. The EGA
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first attempt at the VGA card.

CGA Colour Graphics

Adapter Card

screen without using the painfully slew

dot-byMot paint method.
It is the ideal card for uae with Micro.
soft Word. Unfortunately, ne inexpensive Taiwanese copies exist This is the
card I use myseK

VGA

The VGA offers high-resolution

grayscale or colour gxaphica If you go

paints plain text very rapidly. It can also

paint'7ROx$48pixelmonochmmegraphics. Lotus 145 does beautiful cmcreen
graphs and Microsoft Word 5 uses the
graphics to show bold, underlining,
superscripts etc. on the screen. The
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chaxacters are painted dot by dot a
painfixlly sieur procesL
Thexearemanymexlmnsive Taiwanese

into a store, ask for "VGA" not "Video

Gmphics Arxay." Almost no one knows
the long name. Most new softwaxe coming out is written for the VGA card.
IBM xnade the fixst VGA card, and
others such as the Hercules campany
made precise donee of it. There are
some Taiwanese donee as lew as $1RS
beIpnning tie appear. The better quality
Taxwaneue donee use the Tseng chip set.
I have notyethad experience with these
inexpensive donee, so I will not recom-

copiesofthe H erculescarcL However, if

yeu use them with Microsoft Word 5, a
large percentage ofihem do not work

against them.
The VGA card is very versatile. It can
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% lines of 80 characters using 16 diFerent celours. In another mode the card

does work reliably is the $75 Diamond

Flower. Hercules themselves no longer
manufacture the Hercules card. They
have replaced it with the cheaper and
better Hercules Plus card.
The Hercules graphics card will only
work with TTL monochrome monitors.

In another it can display $8h200 m 256

colours.
The card has palette registers. This
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The card conrnins 256K of its own
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Higher resolutions would require even
more RAM. There is noway to add more
RAM to a plain VGA card.
This card will only work with fixed &equency VGA or multiscan monitorsgrayscaleor colour, for example the$160
Samsung SM440 14e grayscale monitor
or the $8'l5 Zenith ZCM-1490 colour flat
screen monitor.
The Zenith flat screen monitor took
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and sharp itlooks like a Cineplex Odeon
movie theatre screen. However,the
monitor can handle only VGA, not
SUPER VGA. Don't look at one unless
you can afford it You will be hooked.

SUPER VGA
Itis diflicult to talkabout SUPERVG.
IBM has notyetbuilta SUPERVGA card.
Thus there is nothing to copy. There is
no standard.Every manufacturer went
off in his own direction and built something that was the VGA plus a bit more.
What the bit more is, dMers with each
manufacturer and with each modeli
The programmers of the. world threw
up their hands in disgust and said '%Sow
can we possibly write prograxns that will
workon hundxeds of differentmodelsof
SUPER VGA cards, all with different features?u So they threw the job back into
the laps of the makers of the Super VGA

cards.Thehardware m
anufacturers had

toprovidesoftware called drivers tomake

the progranis work with the cards. So

when you buya high quality SUPER VGA
card itwill come with aboutfive diskettes
full of software drivers. One driver will
make Windows work, another Ventura,
another Autocad, etc.
What do you do if the diskettes that
come with your SUPER VGA card don' t
contain a driver you need? You tell the
program you have a PLAIN VGA card.
You will not need a driver for that. However you wiII feel a little silly for spending
a lot of extra money for SUPER VGA
when plain vanilla VGAwould have done
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How Much Should You

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If you buy a bargain-basement SUPER
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drivexs atalL You guessed it, you will not
be able to tap even one iota of its extra
powerl You might as well have bought
plain VGA.
Much of whatyou buy when you get a
premium brand is the software. Don't be
impressed by a long hst. The drivers for
the proipams you will use are all that
count.

Mor~ xpensive SUPER VGA cards

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If youbuy a premium brand SUPER
VGA caxd, you will get a better guarantee. For example, the Video Seven line
comes with a sevengear guarantee. Not
onlydo theyguarantee the hardware will
function, they guarantee the card will be
compatible with the IBM VGA card.
ThepremiumSUPERVGAcardspaint
the screen faster. {An aside for the purists: The VGAcard ispassive, so itis more
accurate to say your CPU can paint the
RAM.in the VGA card faster. Only very
expensive video cards, beyond the scope
of this article, do any drawing themselves.) You can take speed to silly extremes. If you want the fitstest possible
card the Video Seven V-RAM you
would pay $680. However, if you are
cententwith a caxd just a tiny bit slower,
the Video Seven 1024i, you would pay

only $4RS.

Shouldyou do likewise? First, consider

ibat they are also the most expensive
SUPER VGA cards. The only thing that
counts is how well the card works with
your software, not on some magazine's
benchmark, or mine for that matter.

%VSA
I lied a little when I said SUPER VGA
has no standards. VESA, the Video Eiectronics Standards Association, has definedaSUPKRVGAsiandardfor480x640
with K6 colours and 800x600 with 16
colours.However, for the myriad other
modes, you' re on your own. There are no
ultra-high-resolution modes such as
1024x768. You cannot even count on a
VESA-compliant board having all the
VESA modes, since all the modes are
optionaL

Monitors for Super VGA

resolution modes such as

ultrahigh-

1050x770. You must not use any higher

line at a different speed or frequency-

hence the term multi-frequency. When

the video card switches modes, the
momtor has to quickly get in sync with
the new kequency-hence the synonym
"autosync." You will see various syno-

If your card can creatie modes higher

thanyourmonitorcanhandle,youmust
be careful never to use them. Unbeliev'
able as it sounds, I have only seen one

What hnd ofmonitor do you need for

SUPER VGA? It depends on what type of
Lastsummer one of mycustomers and SUPER VGA card you have.
In theoxy, if you use an ordinary fixedI independenily tested eight difFerent
frequency VGA monitor, it will work.
brand-name SUPER VGA cards for
However youmust be very careful never
compatibility with a nuxnber of software
to invoke any of the SUPER VGA modes
packages induding Microsoft Word,
or you could damage the monitor. In
WordPerfectand some Hewlett-Packard
practice, then, itwould be both wasteful
prelpaxns. We found minor problems
withnearlyevexycard,mostlyin grayscale and potentially dangerous to use this
combination.
handling.
~
Jo ~
and bu y your sojhrrare Fer SUPER VGA you need a multiPat and then text it oathe Super VCR eaxxI frequency monitor. This means a manitorsmartenough tobandle all the differbefoeeyoubuy!
ent SUPER VGA modes. Each mode
The two cards we liked best were the
requires the electron gun to trace each
ATI and Ihe Video Seven. Kent Qairk,
and the author of a suite of VGA testing
programs, told us his favourite card was
the Video SesmaswelL Thatclincbed it.
The custiomer standardized on Video
Seven for bis company.

Ifyou boughta$410 Princeton Max 15

colour monitor,youcouldbandle
es
one sweep, i s
e ano xhkn r e
768
disph!
.
If
u
buy
an
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caxd,
make
sure
you
get a xnoniter
sucking in your breath a little. There are
lowermost monitoxs, for example the
$545 Samsllng Imtek 1455N multisaln
Spht PerSOnahy gag~
colour monitorrated at 800x560. The
If you were a pregraxnmer and your
colours are still rich, but the images are j o b were to write sofbIrare to work on all
not quite as shaxp, especially near tbe
these differ!enf video cards induding
ookat wh ite
ges f the screen'Ify
the obsolete ones and the rare onesI did
letter "A" on a screen you will see a
notevenmention,imaginebowcrowded
ghosting of three images, in red, green
y ~ d~ ) would'be with e~pment to
and blue, slightly misafigned. The conS~c
tb ~
~
~ is ~
Yeumightlongforasinglecardwitha
excellent near the centre, but mushy
spbt Inxsonalp that one xninute could
near the coxnera The letters are still
pr e t end tobean MDAcardand the next
quite legible, butifyou stare at such a
a CCA card and the next a Hercules '
screen forsevens houa4 your eyes may gxaphics card. Such a card is the ATI

CompatibiTity

the former editor ofPC Tech magaime

c a r d (theATI Wonde~ ) w i t h a safety

nyms. Princeton callsit eAutosync."NEC
calls it "MultiSync." Sony and Samsung m e chanism to prevent you from accidentally invohng one of the forbidden
call it "Multiscan."
Whenever you switch modes, the pic- m o des. Ifyou made apxactice of quickly
ture will grow or shrink a little horizont u r n ing your monitor off whenever you
tally or vertically. You can n!eiddle the
in v oked some mode that did not work
controls toadjustitbacktotherightsize.
p r o perly,itisunbkdyyourmonitorwould
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s u f fer pemxanent damage.
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for fl
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Gamee
When you buy a computer game itwill
usually tell you on the box whether it
runs on each of CGA, Hercules, or VGA
and whether it requires a colour manitor. Ifyou are a confirmed games addic,
check outwhich hnd of video card your
fiivourite games require.
I do not hke playing computer gaxnes

myself, but I discovered they haveavery

important purIiose if you have children.

Let me tell you a story.
A few years ago, I was chief instructor
at a computersummer camp for boys
and girls ages V to 15. I intexviewed each
child and asked what he or she most
wanted to learn. Ninety.five percent of
the kids said, "To make my cwn computer game." So I designed a fiveday
cuxricuhun to teach them just that "-:
One little boy wanted to have waves
under a boatas part ofhisgame. I had to
teach him a little trigonometry. Another
wanted a cannon ball to fly realistically
through the air. Ibad tioteachhimalittle
calculus
I was in the lunchroom taihng with a
professional science teacher. A gang of

m
ean
dpleaded "Roedy;

kids came up to

avoid colour, especially CGAl If you buy

a highguality colour monitor, you may
find the image
sharp, but it

accepts'

can never be as sharp as even the cheapest monochxome system.

Avoid any other sort of "enhanced"
videocard I did notmention here. Itmay

well be enhanced, but it will probably

end up confusing some of the pxograxns
yoll buy+

Avoid buying any of the obsolete cards

such as the MDA and EGA. Avoid using
the CGA card except for gamea

%hat to Cheose
Forabasicwordprocessingoraccountingmachine, go for a Hercules graphics

done caid and a plain 14" Hat screen

TTL monitor. If you plan to upgraiie
later to fixnwolour gxaphics, you could
get a SUPER VGA card with grayscale
monitor. Grayscale will give text images
almost as sharp.
If you plan to use your computer pri-

marily to run Microsoft Word 5, get a

Hercules Plus card and a plain 14" fiat
screen TTL monitor.
If you want to play games, ixy one of
these three strategies:
1. Get a
ames computer.
R.Gettaro cards oneHerculesgxaphics donewith aphin 14" fiatscreen ITL
monitor and one Hercules CGA card
with the cheapest used RGB colour
monitor you can find.
S.GetplainVGAandafixed-frequency

separate
g

colour monitor. Choose a lowest

monitor if all you want to do is play
gameL Choose anexpensive one ifyou
want to do word processing as welL

If you want a general-purpose xfxsplay

that will let you dabble with just about

anything thatwillgiveyou f'reedom to try
newprogxxixns, geta plain VGA card and
good~uality fixed-frequency colour
monitor.
If youare buying an 80%6 madnne
and you want the ability to use programs
such as Ventura, Windows, Presentation
Manager, GEM, Autocad or other CAD
progxaais in high resolution, consider
SUPER VGA. Make sure your video card
comes with a driver for the sofnvaxe you
will be using or there is no point in

please, please teach us trigonometry; You

told 'Rockfish' how to do it Pleasel" As
you could imagine, the science teacher' s
mouth dropped open. Here were little
kids BEGGING to learn math.
buying SUPER VGA.
The older kids were somewhat more
If you want to do desktop publishing
subtle, but they dragged out of me the
intimate details of the inner worhngs of sexiously, visit shops that specialize in
the computer so they could do sophisii- desktop publishing and leaxn about the
cated higl~ eed characterwell anima. various special- purpose desktop publishing, large, full-page displays.
fion.
These kids learned more about computers in five days than most univexsity Acknowleelgements
As usual, my friends on the BIX elecstudents absorb in a whole year. Gssisx
tronic
conference Hirvey Fishman,
with colour graphics and animaxion are
John
Downing,
Jeff Kalchik, Mike
what motivate them.
Sargeant, Gene Berkowitz and Tom
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Parting Mvice
screen running the sofbsare you plan to
If you xiemember anything fiam this
use. Trust your osa two eyes to tell you
artide,
let it be thia Buy your sofbsare
which images are acceptable. Use your
first.
Then
test it on the monitior and
own judgement on how much speed is

JudghsgQuanty

necessaxy.Takeyourtime.Agoodmoni-

display adapter befoxe you buy. Trust

tor should be easy to look at for long

your own eyes, not the specificahons.

periods. Other exits who proofread

Reedy Cxiaen is President of Caxiadian

this artide agreed with evcaIlrthing I said

Nxsxpt which monitors produce the best

images. You have to look for yourseK

Also, listen for a high@itched whine.
Some people cannot hear the noise, but
it drives others maxL Make sure the
moxiifor you choose is sufficiently quiet.

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Document management is another
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Ifyou're
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Mouse Support
Acommon complaintaboutWordPerfect was that you couldn't run it with a
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Tables
Tables offer a powerful way of foxxnatting text or aumbers into rows and coluxnnsof information... xoifhostusmg the
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WordPer
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Although no one haswritten adesktop
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Does the bureau accept files by modeme This can save a lot of time calling
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Can thebureau accommodate special
printing needs' Color printers and slide
makers are just some of'the variations of
servicesbeiug offered by local service
bureaus. Free parhng is also nice to
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Tip8
Some tips for using an imagesetting
machine to prepare adocument are:

check for opesuting systemand software

compatibihty; match your fonts; for cost

savings, gang up jobs to take advantage

Our Linotype LZOO Imagesetter prints at '1693 dpi, with

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stations, andfinallyif heyhad anyspecialties

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Service Bureaus

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Logos and grapnIcs can be

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Digitieers, Knrta/Targa16,$75.00Targa
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Lasers:%
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Arkthssiepfcifsatios
WhywouldBeautiful BritishColumbiamagazine,Businessin

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onlyWYSIWYG
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Our staff are themo

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2-RIP3
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imagesetteis.

$15/hr.; Mac 68020 (Mac II) $50/hr.

U c I Type Sexvieess2390Pr'pro St., Vars.
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IBM, Mac. Imagesetter: 1 LSOO $8.42/

page.
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kerning tables. No more tak~ a t ~ uget hser printer kexnmg.
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Place Text Within Geometric Shaptma
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turn fashion, or &om a set point on the

page. Editing rotated text is literally a
snap the text block rotates to the

horizontal, then springs back to it's previous position when you dick outside of
the boundary.
Grid Alignment: This makes for good
tightalignmentofallobjects to the "layout
grid," which means consistent and appealing-looking pages.
Thumbnal Editingt Move pages, singly
or as groups, in the thumbnail mode
(though you lose your Imk" infodumb!)
Keyboard Shortcutsand Macioa: Great

keyboard shortcuts, induding macro-like

capacity with glossaries (a sort of prearranged and auto-formatted dipboard of
text or objects/graphics). You can pop
in text or graphics like your logo or a
standard phrase, et cetera, all in a few
quick keystrokes.
Space Saving Files: Relatively small file
sizes for large documents (154 pages,
with text and graphics, was only '272K)
Multiple Files Open At Oncet Tiled viewing of several concurrently opened files.
"Go To" Commands "Go to Page", or
Kind Text" features take you directly to

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the page or word you want bypass the

mouse. A great shortcut, and a blessing
For those aalictedwithmouseelbow (tendonitis).

Other Good Stuff

Text search and replace (you can even
hold the style information).
Virtual Memory: This capability makes
for faster display of images, since they
are not all competing for RAM.
Macro-like Pasteboard: They call
these "Glossaries" and they allow you to
insert "boiler plate" textor graphics &om
a list of: straight text, graphic files or

even these elements from other Designstudio~ files.

Font and Image Usage: An invaluable
little function that tells you all the fonts
and graphic images you have used in the
document (which you can save and print
out). This saves you time and agony over
missing font drivers or forgotten TIFF
image files when it's time to go to the
service bureau For high-res. output).
To save time when proofing, DesignStudio allows you to suppress printing any
image, such as the complex postscript or
TIFF files that slow down your printer.

Custom Anowheadse Little things like

being able to easily customize arrowheads online ends are wonderful.
Isocking Graphics and Text In Place:
Finally, a means to keep things &om
accidentally being bumped around. You

have the capability tolockindividual elements or groups of elements so they

can't be deleted or altered.
Grouping Objects: Grouping elements
objects together is possible, much as in a
drawingprogram likeFreehand or Illustrator Tkt.

Printing To Dish If you print a PostScript fil to disk, in DesignStudio you

can strip outunnecessary fontheaderinformation, saving yourself lots of disk
space.
Color Supportt Color is supported in
Designstudio~ in quite a bit of depth
(though no +color separations in-pro.
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D and above.
GreySeale Supportt Extraordinarilyfine
Image Studio-like grey map controls for
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With the release of DesignStudio, Letraset has gone beyond the boundaries
of agood software upgrade policy.The
look and feel of DesignStudio is vexy
similar to thatof Ready,Set,Goi (RSG), a
previous Letraset product. Anyone with
aworkingknowledge ofRSGwill see that
DesignStudiohas tobe regarded asamajor upgrade of RSG with an outrageous
price xxlcf ease.
I purchased the original program for
$195. Therebave been atleastfourmajor
upgrades to RSG and each time they
have cost between $100 and $5Nk That
purchase was always motivated by the
promise that at last, RSG would truly be
a professional desktop publishing software package that could not only ccxxnpete with any other desktop publishing
softwaxebuthavedis6nc6vefeatures that
set it apart kom and above itscompetitors.
Because RSG was one of the vexy first
programs purchased
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for myMac, Ihave
held a strange sense of loyalty to it even
though the rest of the Macintosh community felt that it was an inferior package to its coxnpelitors. Since Letraset
took over RSG kom its originator Manhattan Graphics, the program has steadily been getting hetter, though it still
lagged behind in crucial areas. At the
most recent version 4.5, I really an6cxpated therelease of version 5.0 where
RSG would finaHy come to full maturity
and be all that it has promised to be.
Letxasethas instead decided to release

thea5eew StudioLine, anintegrated set

of tools said tobe for professional design

and production for graphic arts professicmala DesignStndio is, of course, the
coxnerstone For the remainder oF the
new Studio Line. This may be a great
marke6ngploy, toleavehehind the atsoran ixuage of RSG, but it also leaves out
thousands of fixithful RSG users. The
plan apparently is to maintain RSG as it
is, byrelegating the marketing of RSG to
businesses and institutions as a sort of
general-purpose publishing program.
Whatever happened to RSG as the "SNtest, easiest to use and most powerful
desktop publishing package for the
Macintosh. ( + cote kom RSG4$'s user
manual)
To be sure,
LetrasetCanada offered a
discount to RSG owners allowing them
to purchase the Studio Line producis at
halF of the introductory price. For DesignStudio thatmeans$595untilJan. Sl,
1990, and after that, $949. (I did not
receive no6fication of this great deal
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for what I feel can best be described as a
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Graphh Design, DTP (IBM 8 Mac);

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$149

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$149
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$80
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$150
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$185
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JUMP SOFTWARE Suite 460450 W. 41st,
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Vancouver 2886867
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