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How to break through the jargon to find deals

That's why they call it a personal computer

72 Real DVD titles, applications a year away

Thinking small

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Making your first computer a portable

80 I BM demos data transmission through humans

51 Setting up a comfortable workspace

84 I rDA products beaming at Comdex

Some simple steps to safe computing

85 DEC's Quinn talks PCstrategy

56 Your first peripherals

86 Canadian firms out in force

Separating the toys from the tools

58 First software for your home office

88 Corel Ventura 7, new multimedia titles launched

Knowing what you need before you buy

59 Your first monitor

90 M ultilingual tools for software's Tower of Babel

92 Gates says no to PCnaysayers
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and Diba were two popular brands around the
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consumer electronics field, this year's hot
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who dreamed up that strategy, but it does not
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Internet for Grarulrna

One cool device that I saw at Comdex that
did seem worth c onsidering was from

Uniden, a telephone manufacturer based in

the United States. I liked these units, because
simple e-mail is fairly standard. Text-based
messages can do the job for most people right
now. Unidenused 059 to create a POP compliant e-mail phone. This striking looking
unit is predicted to be available early in 1997
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phone version.
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but it is always on (np boot up time) and can
be set to poll your mail server at whatever
interval you set it to. I think I have finally
spotted a way to get my computer-reluctant
mother on e-mail. Three numbers to program
and five bucks a month for an e-mail-only
account this seems like a dream unit.
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and getting up to speed on a new computer. If
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I recently tried to upgrade the RAM (from 8

SIMMs myself
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found 104 people having the sameproblem you' re

MB to 16 MB) on my tour-year-old 486-33

and discovered I had 32-pin, 1 MB SIMMs.

The stores I have checked with only carry 30pin or 72-pin SIMMs. Do you know of anywhere I might obtain 4 MB, 32-pin SIMMs?
Also, I have heard rumors that I would be

able to use 30-pin SIMMs in place of (or in

tandem with) my old 32-pin SIMMs. Can you
either substantiate this claim or refute it?

Jeff Wood, via Internet

experiencing. The closest to a definitive answer

seems to be that IBM on some PS/2 models and

Pleasetest motherboards
I really wish The Computer Paperwould test
out the wide range of Pentium motherboards
that are available on the market.

EddyLau,via Internet

AST on some modelsusedpropnetary 32-pin

SIMMs, which cannot be interchanged with standard 30-pin SIMMs.
Your options seem to be limited to contacting
the manufacturer to see if it still carries the kind

ofSIMMs youneed,orscoursourcesforused computer parts.

CF replies: Testing motherboardsis something we

have been considering for quite some time.,We
have at various times planned to do this and then
put the project on the shel f. Testing motherboards
is an extremely labor-intensive undertaking,as
there are a Iot of different brands and each moth-

erboard needs to be setup with identical componentsbefore itcan be benchmarked. Isuspectthat

we will get to it in the future, but not in tire next

few months.
And lf not snotherboards,
then honkln'fast systems
I think that you should do ratings on some
high-end Pentium or Pentium Pro 200 sys-

tems. Right now, I'm looking for a really highend system, and I want to know what would
be the best configuration and when would be
the right time to buy.

SeanFraser,via Internet
SH replies: The Test Lab in our February 97issue

will feature highland systems of the Pentium 200

MHz variety. Keep an eye out.

OS/2 did It first

I do hope Ross Macdonald was pressed for
time on his "Looking forward to backing up"
article in the November TCP,because otherwise I'd have to attribute this to either shoddy research, or the all-too-common Ioumalistic i n ability t o s e e a n y thing o u tside
Microsoft's little realm.
Mr. Macdonald, in writing about using

large-capacity flopticals for backup targets,

states that "there's no software yet to allow a
backup to a PD in the sense that we normally
think of a backup;... the PD won't recognize
any existing back-up utilities that compress or

automatically schedule or incrementally save,

or any of that other neat backup stuff."
Maybe not in the DOS/Windows world,
Symmantec Fastback Plus for OS/2, on the
other hand, has a few unique abilities.
Besides the usual compression, scheduling
and incremental backup functions, it supports four types of backup devices: standard

floppy disks, floppyeonnected QIC tape drives, SCSI tapes drives, and a little thing called

"system devices."
A system device in Fastback/2 can be any
drive with a recognizable drive letter, removable or fixed: local disks, network drives, ZIP

and JAZ disks... and, as iong as a PD

drive can

Designed for the new user

be given a drive letter under OS/2, Fastback/2

should be able to nicely back up to that as
well (if someone would be kind enough to

' Free Setup

send me a PD machine and disc, I' ll be happy

' Free Web Page

MacoS

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' Free New Users Manual

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on the"PM" notebook page,and you're off

to the proverbial races. Works like a charm
with my ZIP drive, and if I'm really in a weird

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to put this to the iron test), Just peel off a

new system device template, open the
Settings/Properties, select the PD's drive letter

mood, I can even create a system device for

4 Ge orgetown

sliced 8-inch floppies...

Inelud

Microsoft'
Internet
Explorer

ZVCQ'%S Internet Applications Free

my RAM disk.
Just for the record, BTW... Fastback/2 has
had this ability for a couple years now. Of
course, I expect no one will care until
Microsoft comes out with something similar
for Windows cimert year>, at which point it
wifl be touted as the greatest thing since

Avai7able on CD only

And while we' re on the subJect of

O S/2.. .
I flnd it very disturbing the type of coverage
you gave OS/2 Warp 4.0 in your October issue
of The Computer Paper.There were only two
half-page columns pertaining to it's release,
whereas, one year ago, when Windows 95 was

released (August '95), the front page of your

paper was a full-page Windows 95 logo. And
therewere fourto five pagesofcolumns pertaining to it's release.

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Also, I would even be surprised to find a col-

umn about the widely anticipated

amongst
expert cotnputer users and ISPs
release of
Unux 2.0 (aka Linux 96). What has happened
to one greatest computer papers'? Has the
media taken it over? Appears so.

MichaelThomdyke
To thine own eyes be true
In TCP'sNovember Lab Test on color inkjet
printers, you rate the Canon BJC 4100. Since
then theCanon BJC 4200 has come on the

Ple
errors on our part: the watTanties on the Canon 240 and 4550 mod-.;,:.j y
els are for one year ottly, and the correct toll-free number for Canada- e+4". We extend- our-"apologies' to AK Microsystems for any Inconve-~r

market and I was wondering how you rated it.

I went to a retail store to check out their print-

ers and compared theEpson Stylus Color 500,

Canon BJC 4200, and the HP 680c. They had

samples on the same paper, same resolution,

and same picture. To my eyes, the Canon BJC
4200 was the winner. Please let me know your
comments.
Arthur Owen
DT replies: We have yet totest this new Canon
model.Ho~ever, each one of these brands has
a good share of the market and many satisfied
Itsers. Sometimes, after a/I the fneasurement
are takenand the tests run, subjective experienceis the deciding factor, so if it looks the best
to you, that should be a factor in your buying
decisionas much as theperform ance figures.

Where's the one-line, many-devices

piece?
In your November '96 issue a letter from

Glenn McCauley refers to an article "One

phone line, so many devices" in TCP,
November 1996. I have been trying to find
this article in online past issues (I assumed the
above reference is incorrect, since the letter

' itslows tlown

is to takeimportant calls.

was in fact in the November '96 issue) and

have been unsuccessful.
Please let me know where I can find this
article if it is available.
Al Mallory
DT rephes:We received a lotofcomments on this
article, which unfortunately, did not makeit into
the Prairie and Eastern editions because of space
limitations.
Thearticle date cited in the Novemberletter is

A speakerphone. A voicemail system. A fax machine.

Combine them all with a fast,
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The Spottstef Voice a8.8/
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the information you want, when

wrong, as youcorrectly presumed.In fact, the artie(e appeared in the October 1996 edition. An
online version is available at our Web site at
httP Jh/tftw tcP.ca.

Oon't pun-lsh nte with your heads,

or cognplalnt letter N$3
If most of your readers are like me, we' re quite

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pers, magazines, computer papers, etc.

Putting an end to these titles would save

your writers/editors the time of dreaming up

the literary gems, and it would spare your
readers the time to figure out what they
mean.
From your Nov. issue:
s s anted
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Sc a nners
The virtual paper chase Document imaging
Computer:
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Plus, unlike other modems,

the Sportster Voice gives you the
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What's more, the exdusive
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In most cases, simply reversing your first

bolded title with your second line of description would make a world of a difference. Be as

cute as you want in the second line, but not

the first please.

By the way, you have a great computer

paper going for you apart from this. Keep up

the good work!

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Kodak launches neer digital camera In the

continuing fight for supremacy in the digital
camera wars, Kodak has launched another salvo
against the competition with the introduction of
its DC25 Digital Camera. A camera aimed primarily at the homeuser, this lowcost successor to
the DC20 digital
camera contains
more f e atures

that both Macintosh and PC owners can use.

Digital cameras snap pictures without filmthe image is captured on a digital microchip,
which can then be downloaded to a computer,
Once transferred, the image can be edited, and
then used in such things as presentations, e-mail,
and Web pages.
This 13x4x7 cm (S.lxi.6x2.8 in.), 270 g (9.5
oz.) camera can shoot pictures in two resolution
modes
high (493x373 pixels) and standard
(320x240 pixels) in 24-bit true color. The DC25

is the first Kodak camera to feature an LCD

viewfinder. Its 4 cm (1.6 in.) color screen allows
the user to see exactly what the camera sees
before taking the picture. It comes with 2 MB of
internal memory, which can store up to 14 highresolution or 29 standard-resolution pictures. The
camera also supports Kodak Compactflash memory cards, so once the camera is "full," you can
replace the current memory module with another
to keep on shooting.
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software is included with the camera. The suggested list price for the DC25 is $695.KS-R
Contact; Kodak Canada,Tel: 800-465-6325.
Web site: http: //www.kodak.corn/
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that contains its own content and identity, yet
incorporates the science programming themes of
Discovery Channel Canada. The goal of EXN is to
provide viewers with a way of getting another
dimension and more information on topics covered in the programming contained on the channel. EXN's focus includes scientific innovation,

educational content and technological magic,

and will feature daily science news, features and
an "Amazement Park."
EXN News presents short science news stories
of the day, designed to complement the stories
covered on the channel's flagship daily science
show Ca'discovery.ca. Feature stories by the EXN
news organization offer a more comprehensive
look at some of the most intriguing science issues,
and the "Amazement Park" is EXN's experimental
section, where the leading edge interactive com-

ponents can be found. The Discovery Channel

has entered into partnerships with Environment
Canada, the Canadian Space Agency and The
National Research Council, to showcase the latest
in multimedia Web technologies.
EXN is a major investment for The Discovery
Channel, which plans to spend $5 million on its
development over the next five years, as part of
its commitment to the Canadian Radio-television
and Telecommunications Commission to develop
Canadian media. The site has already passed the

one million hit mark, and lays claim to being

Canada's foremost science resource centre, offering television viewers and Internet users alike a
means to learn about science. Interesting developments in the world of science and of the World
Wide Web are taking place at EXN
stay tuned!KS-R
Contact: EXN,Website: http: //www.exn.net/
Discovery Channel, Website: http: //www.discovery.ca
Matsssshlta to ship DVD tlrlvas Spokesmen
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in volume early next year, DVD-ROM drives are
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under its brand names, like Panasonic, Technics
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other providers of digital media (such as the
sound recording and software industries) will be
won over by their new DVD encryption scheme,
which will prevent users from easily making
copies of DVD discs. Matsushita also has plans to
start mass production of recordable DVD drives
(called the DVD-RAM), sometime late next year.
Matsushita expects to sell more than one million DVD drives within a year of their launch,
and expects stiff competition in the marketplace
for such devices. Mass production will likely see
DVD drive prices in the $250 to $350 range for
OEM vendors, and somewhat higher for endusers.
As a prelude to the introduction of DVD for
use in the home, Matsushita announced the
development of the world's first DVD Internet
Linkage System for the World Wide Web, which
can play high-quality MPEG2 video through a
Web page. The Web client setup consists of a
DVD-ROM drive, an MPEG2 decoder board, an
HTTP Request Conversion Program, and software
to combine motion pictures within Web pages,
With this setup, Webmasters can deliver large
quantities of MPEG2 motion pictures which are
played directly from the DVD-ROM to the Web
page when requested. A disc identification number keeps track of the items requested, so it can
used for a wide variety of services, such as Webbased catalog shopping, publishing, travel, and
educational purposes
KS-R
Contact: Mateushita, Tel: 905-624-5010
vlsloss.ctsm cable consortium offers ssatlonal high-slseed Internet access The cable
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WAVE is vision,corn's first collaborative effort,
(vision.corn consists o f
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subscribers in Canada.)
WAVE does not require a dedicated phone
line or dialup modem instead users are always
connected to the Internet via cablemuch as their
television is. "The cable industry will now offer
Canadians the fastest, most convenient access to
the Internet," said Richard Stursberg, president of
vision.corn. "Internet users will find we have the
best technology and the most responsive service
available. The Internet is an amazing place. WAVE
turns it into a faster, amazing place unleashing
the potential of the Internet by bringing highspeed, affordable bandwidth to the home,
WhereverWAVEhas been offered it has had far
higher penetration than telephone offerings."
Only about 200,000 current cable subscribers
servicedby the vision.corn consortium are ready
for WAVE, but by the end of 1997, this number is
expected to rise to over two million Canadian
homes. Until they become commercially available, cable modems are rented from a cable company and virtually unlimited access to the
Internet is included for onemonthlyf
eeof$55.A
subscription to WAVE also includes up to five email addresses and 5 MB of Web space dedicated
to home pages.KS-R
Contact: WAVE,Website: hitp://www.wave.ca/
For more information, call your local cable company.
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TORONTO (NB)
Two Canadian companies and
a number of Canadian educators are working in
their own ways on the problem of keeping children away from inappropriate Internet content.
Calgary-based Net Shepherd Inc. has announced
a content-rating program called the StartSafe
Challenge in co-operation with the federal govemment's SchoolNet, while Vancouver-based Net
Nanny Ltd. has Iust announced a new release of
its namesake access-control software.

sites that needed blocking.

Jickling said businesses are also showing
interest in Net Nanny because it allows them to
control time-wasting use of the internet at work
without blocking employees' access altogether.
The suggested retail price for Net Nanny 3.0 is
$39.95.
Contact: Net Nanny,Website:
http: //www.nstnan
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Nat Shepherd. Website: http: //www.shepherd.nei/

Canadian ISp greup announces cede ef cenduct TORONTO (NB)

The Canadian Assodation of Internet Providers (CAIP) has
created a voluntary code of conduct that it hopes its members and
other internet service providers (ISPs)
will follow
The code pledges compliance with all applicable laws, and in particular coinmits ISPs not to
knowingly host illegal materials on their systems.
It also promises respect and protection for users'
privacy, and a commitment to public education
about Internet issues and technology.

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million documents available on the World Wide
Web. Through a collaborative rating system using
Net Shepherd's DAX Hound software, partidpants will assign ratings ranging from general
through objectionable documents, and also by
quality using a five-star system. These ratings will
be placed in a database for future reference.
SchoolNet, the network the Canadian govemment set up to link Canadian schools, is supporting the project, and Net Shepherd issued a
chal)enge to schools m the United Stam to participate as well. MacDonald said his company
plans a major promotion of the project in the
United States later this year.
Les Jickling, marketing coordinator at Net
Nanny, said schools are showing a growing interest in his company's software, which allows parents or teachers to limit access to Web sites. This
is partly because the issue is getting a lot of public attention lately and partly because schools are
using the Internet more and more, he said.
Net Nanny has just released Version 3.0 of
the software. One new feature is the option of
creating a "Can Go" list, so that only listed sites
are accessible, as an alternative to the earlier version's "Can't Go" approach, which required
updating to keep up with the discovery of new

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policing mechanism at the moment, but CAIP
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with the code a condition of CAIP membership.
The organization currently has about 40
members, or about 10 percent of Canada's ISPs,
Langford said. However, those ISPs serve somewhat more than 10 percent of Canadian Internet
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and several other sizable ISPs are also CAIP members.
Langford said the code's commitment to not
knowingly host illegal material means ISPs will
remove material that is illegal such as child
pornograph
y- if it is brought to their attention.
Clauses in the code also commit ISPs to make a
reasonable effort to investigate legitimate complaints about content they host, and to notify the
content provider or abuser of the complaint
before taking action.
On the privacy front, the code states that ISPs
will provide private information to law enforce
ment authorities only as required by law.
Contact
:Ron Kawchuk,atCAIP,Tel:905-279-6417.
Fax 905-2799418.E-mail:kawchuk@io.org
New Acrobat 3.0 ls mora Web friendly
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processing and desktop pubBshing programs that
can be read using Acrobat Reader. Like hypertext
markup language (HTML), it is also possible to
embed hyperlinks into other parts of the document, or other places on the Web, but unlike
HTML, all of the font and formatting information
of the original document is retained. Another
advantage of this format is due to the fact that
Acrobat Reader is available for most computing
platforms, so the resulting PDE image
file can be
read by almost anybody with a computer,
The new version of Acrobat offers integrated
viewing of PDF documents directly through Web
browsers that support the full Netscape Navigator
API architecture. Files can also be created to optimize the resulting PDF files for online delivery, so
duplicate background objects, such as text, line
art and images, are combined to reduce file size.
The PDF format now provides page-on-demand
access, displaying each page of the PDF document
as requested, whereas previously the entire document ffie had to be downloaded first.
PDF files can also be embedded directly within an HTML page using the HTML <ENisEri> tag,
In addition to these Web enhancements,
macros have been included to enable Microsoft
Word and Microsoft Excel for Windows 95 users
io create Acrobat files directly from either program. hnage files can now be directly scanned
into the PDF format, and touch-up text editing
tools are now includedfor making quick changes
to an Acrobat document. Adobe Acrobat 3.0 has
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CoolWomen surf th e W a b A new

CoolWomen Web site is online "to teli the stories
of the lives of women in Canada in a down-toearth style which highlights their dreams and
their goals, and what their stories mean to other
girls and women." According to Nancy Ruth, one
of the IZ people who developed the site, "the
story of women in Canada is now online across
time in a format that is fun and appealing for all
generations. The Web site creates a comfortable
place where girls and women can experience the
lives of others in Canada, from many different
times and backgrounds, and explore their passions, perspectives and legacies."

The CoolWomen site features a virtual cafe

where discussion takes place, a bulletin board for
upcoming events and other information.fE
Contact: CoolWorns, Tsl: 416-924-6961.
Web site: http//www.coolwornsn.org
Halifax company wins 19C research grant
NB Srooklyn North SoftwareWorks, a twoyear-old developer of hypertext toois for the
World Wide Web based in Halifax, N.S., has won
the first annual Software Market Research Grant
from the federal governm
nt.e The Industry
Canada grant provides Brooklyn North with

$20,000 worth of market information and analyst services from Toronto's International Data
Corp. Inc, To qualify for the grant, which will be
offered again next year, a software company
must have a head office and development facilities in Canada, a product on the marketand
annual revenues between $200,000 and $5 million.
Pink Panther's passport to peril A new
CD-ROM title from New York-based Wanderlust
International features the animated adventure
of the popular cartoon cat, offering a mix of
humor, problem solving and action. The Pink
Panther character, originally introduced in the
Inspector Clouseau live-action comedies in the
1960s, has been licensed from its copyright
holder, MGM/UA Family Entertainment, to star
as an international agent seeking to protect
international travellers from a variety of dangers. Like Corel's new Wild World of Madison
Jaxx game, the Pink Panther's Passport to Peril
offers an element of learning, with a cultural
database of over 250 pages of info and pictures
on food, peoples and languages, nature and history.fE
Contact: Wanderlust. Tel: 212-966-8887.
PageMart Canada Introducesnarrowband
personal communlcatlons service Industry
Canada has awarded a licence to provide two-way
wireless messaging services to Toronto-based
PageMart Canada. The new Rcence will permit
PageMart to establish two-way messaging and
data communications, including wireless
modern, information on demand, telemetry, and
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WHAT IS PD>

Today's PD users are the first io tap into

DVD and the PD cartndge you use to save

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interchanged with other PD systems.

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manufacture+ to promote and use PD.

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service, yet it really represents a shift in the entire
concept of wireless messaging. The common
name for this emerging technology is two-way
paging, but because it encompasses so many
advanced messaging services, including voice
messaging,N-PCS more accurately deAnes the
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departments that offer services of interest to

information technology companies, a link to
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events, and a listing of meetings of standards
organizations, along with other material.
Those who want to check industry news will
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Contact: PageMart Canada,Tel: 416-423-6605.

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writings. He is also the patron saint of Wiredmagazine in its mission to make the computer revolution hip.
Now, the latest in McLuhan-mania comes to
you via the World Wide Web, with the launch of
Messenger
the Marshall Mcf.trhail Movie, a virtual
film production studio that will allow subscribers
to participate in every facet of the production of a
real life documentary film on McLuhan, "from
location scouting to camera reports to screening
dailies to the number of sticky buns eaten (by the
crew) each day. Other benefits include a ticket to
opening night, and later, a VHS cassette of the
film with the subscribers' screen film credit as an
associate producer."
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couple of years ago I wrote a guide to
Here, then, is the new rough guide to
reading computer ads that generated a reading computer ads, updated for the late
ot of a ppreciative feedback from

legions of shoppers mired in the maze of

choice and lingo that permeated every computer ad and sales pitch,
To no one's surprise, the syndrome continues today. Now, however, quite a bit of the
machinery has changed to the point where
there's a whole new set of things to leam

before venturing forth to buy a computer.

Gone, for example, is the confusion
engendered by trying to grasp the differences
between five or six kinds of 486 chips. And, if
you recall hearing something about a Vesa
local Bus, you can forget that too, because
the prominence of the Pentium has introduced at least some kind of standard, chip
wise, and similarly dictated the use of the PCI

bus on all consumer-oriented computers.

However, the function and number of

components required to make a personal

computer have remained more or less the
same, and even increased to some degree as
multimedia capability has become an expected feature.

1990s.

The Chip:
pentlum, AMD KS, Cyrls6$86, etc.
This is usually the first thing listed in any
computer ad. It tells you what kind of chip-

or central processing unit (CPU)

functions
as the actual brain of the computer.

involved a company like Intel releasing a code

Knight says not all CPUs have a write-

set for a new chip. say, the Pentium. prior to

the chip's introduction because motherboard

back cache at this point "because that tech-

manufacturers and software developers need

and the firmware and the BIOS [binary

to know how to address the chip when it

becomes available. That way you can buy software for a new chip on the same day the CPU

sion despite the fact that there's no genuine

need for it. In simplest terms, it can be safely
said that all three of these major brands of

comp
etitors

CPU are compatible, the two

being more or less Pentium clones,
Any differences lie in the subtle technological tricks each manufacturer employs to try
and grab some segment of the market in terms

of increased performance, lower price or both.

It all boils down to technological tricks,

input/output system]. So it's just not possible

for a chip maker to call up the motherboard

makers and say they' re going to switch to a

is released because software makers have had write-back cache, because that would mean a
the code for some time prior.
whole new program of research and develop"All the CPU makers have to adhere to

But, where everyone's familiar

or at least
thinks they are
with' Intel's Pentium brand
of chips, the AMD and Cyrix brands often
engender some degree of mistrust or confu-

nology has to be supported by the hardware

[an] established code in order to ensure compatibility. But then they begin exercising little
tricks to try and gain some competitive edge
[and] most of the performance tweaks used
by the various manufacturers are applied to
the internal cache," explains Scott Knight,
president of Vancouver-based Platinum
Upgrades."A cache is essentially a guessing
game. When you' re trying to implement a
cache you' re trying to guess what the next
instruction to the chip is going to be, based
on all the previous instructions. A write-back

cache, for example

which is faster than a
write-through cache is quite. simply a better

ment for the motherboard makers to be able

'to support lt.

Cache itself is a complicated business
because there are so many different types
(write-through, write-back, pipeline burst,
etc.) and, as we' ve just seen, each competing
chip maker applies its own technology to
designing it. In other words, there's no point
in trying to explain them aH here. Just
remember that "write back" is better than

"write through" and "pipeline burst" is better

than "write back"... the term "better" is used
loosely here to indicate faster when all other
factors remain the same.
And a last word about cache. Those

apparently, because the basic process of CPU guesser because there are more hits based on described so far are "internal," meaning they' re
manufacture for the PC market has generally the algorithm it uses."
built into the CPU itself, which also means

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they are very small

generally about 16K.
But you' ll often see another specification
in a computer ad specifying Level 2 (or L2, or

secondary) cache, which is an external set of

chips built onto the motherboard to work
with the CPU in maximizing performance.
When L2 cacheismentioned in an ad, you
can expect to find either 256K or 512K in a
normal consumer-level rnachine. As with
most things computer, bigger is better.
But back to the actual CPU, which is what

RAIN
Things get a lot easier at this point, RAM
stands for random access memory and, just as
with most computer stuff, the more the better. Explaining how memory works would
take volumes but all you need to know is that
eight megabytes or MB
of RAM is absotive-

find that many things run at a pace that' s

ly posilutely unequivocally the smallest

amount you ran have in a computer if you' re

(how to make italics, for example), read the

going to run today's software with any efficiency, But, with only 8 MB of RAM, you' ll

hair-pullingly slow.

on the screen. In most cases, though, the delay

is more like seconds. But, when you' re trying
to work or play a game or watch a CD-ROM,
delay after delay will drive you nuts!
Just to mix things up a little, we' re now
presented with the option of something called

That's becauseRAM is where a lot of software information is stored for quick retrieval
by the computer. When your RAM is full up,
the computer has to go back to the hard drive,
search for the information it's looking for
instructions, then actually do it. In many
cases, this can mean waiting several minutes
between pushing the mouse button and seeing

we' re supposed to be talking about here.

what you wanted to happen actually appear

extended data out (EDO) RAM. This is a quicker type of RAM than the regular old dynamic
RAM (DttAM) for highly technical reasons and
can, according to some estimates, boost

Whichever brand of CPU is in the machine,

the name will be followed by a number which

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pages. Sounds like a lot. But not a lot of computer stuff consists of simple text. It might take
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bunch of wires that carry the electrical infor-

mation back and forth between the chip and

the rest of the stuff in the computer. And bus

speed, like most things computer, makes a big

difference when it comes to performance. You
don't really have to know the following information, but I' ll throw it in for those who are
interested (everybody else can skip a few para-

graphs):
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computer through the bus. And, just as with

CPUs, bus speeds are measured in MHz.

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newer motherboards have jumpers that
allow you to set the bus speed at 25 MHz, 30

MHz or 33 MHz. And when you buy your

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whichever speed of CPU you' re getting (100

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If your motherboard has a 3x multiplier,

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speeds isn't linear. Put more simply: when all

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Pentium 100 because it has the benefit of
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it's gradually disappearing to the point where
you likely won't be offered anything other
than SVGA on a new system.

A more important question to ask is how

it's measured diagonally. But manufacturers

got together somewhere and agreed to measure the entire picture tube sizenot the size
of the picture. Good monitors disguise this by
putting a mask over the front of the tube so
your image seems to fill the screen edge to

Again here, th e b i gger th e b e tter.

Fourteen-inch monitors are really cheap now,
even good quality ones, because it's generally.
accepted that 15 inches is the minimum size
for reasonable computing comfort. Of course,
bigger is better, but the price curiously rises

edge. But if you measure what you see, you' ll

find that your 17-inch monitor is only about

exponentially in relation to screen size. A.

really good 15-inch monitor might set you
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15.5 inches across, your 15-incher is about 14

inches and your 14-inch monitor is closer to

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lNulttmedla, CD-ROM ready, MM package (or sometlring)
Just about all computers for sale these days
are multimedia ready and most of the components used are of a quality good enough for
general consumer applications. Generally
that meansyou get a 6x oreven Bx CD-ROM

Software prices haven't followed their

hardware counterparts and remain relativeiy
expensive, so you might carefully consider
what you want to use your computer for and
look for a system with a bundle that best
accommodates that. I wouldn't make a deci-

sion to purchase a system based on the software bundle, but there's enough variation out
there that you should be able to get a system
that suits your needs with an equally accom-

modating parcel of goodies.

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being offered. And makesureyou get aNthe manuals, packaging and registration cards.'. >.
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card, video card, etc.). Alsoc somecomputer companiesnow pre'load aNthe software and n.,
provide a backup on asingle CD-IIGktLThat"i okayoThe CD-Rorl wihave an offlcfaI reg.gt+
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drive these days (that's good), a sound card of

some sort (hopefully a 16-bit SoundBlaster

compatible) and a couple of really crappy

speakers
all installed and ready to go.
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IV

though, is something you may see in an ad

that refers to MPEG. This is a video accelera-

tion technology that can be implemented

either as hardware (chips on the video card)
or software (not as good). Essentially, MPEG is
a technology that helps eliminate any jerkiness in your computer video. When configured properly with MPEG, your CD-ROM

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card mentions WaveTable synthesis, that' s
good: lt means there are digital samplesof
real soundsbuilt into the card (as opposed
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us. Though not in every new computer, a faxmodem is included with so many you might
as well get one in your package too. A faxmodem allows you to plug your computer into
the telephone line and send and receive faxes,
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second) or the newest H.6Kbps speed,
Some of the current luxury models indudet
voicefunctions (maN boxes, telephone
answering machine capability, etc.) and
other telephony features. Those are nice
things to have but they' ll likely be a bonus
found only In higher end systems. Most
people don't need or use most telephony
features anyway because they mean leaving your computer on 24 hours a day.

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When we last went through this exerdse,

software bundles were highly variable and

equally negotiable to some degree. These
days, however, with the pre-installation of
most or alI of what you' re going to get, there' s
little room for barter.

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with something, you' re going to fmd there's a big

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can drive you nuts.
Don't expect the salesman at "Mega
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He' ll just tell you to bring your machine back
so he can send it on an all<xpenses-paid, 12week vacation to Siliconia.
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stuff. You'd be surprised how many problems
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computer that way. The latest and greatest is already in the final stages of developrnent when the newest machines hit
the shelves.
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t o n e g o t i ate . 5 p e rcent

Monthly Special

This is the sales fee imposed at the

time the mutual fund shares are purchased. It is called an acquisition fee
or front-end load charge. Fees could
range from on e t o e i gh t p e rcent
(although one to five percent is the
average range) and are a negotiable
charge. It depends on th e amount

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and other variables. You want to discuss this openly w it h t h e p erson

c ircumstances. Wh ether y o u a r e involved and do yo ur co mparative
counting on one or both forms of pen- research to determine your i nvests ion fo r r e t i r ement i n c o me , i t w i l l ment fee comfort zone. Naturally, the

the lifestyle and quality of l ife that

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penalty. You want to check on all the

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Rememberno matter how much you spend,

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the raw power of a desktop computer for the

portability of a notebook? Depending on

your computing needs, the question can be a

no-brainer. For many of us the lower cost

and greater performance of a full-size desktop
computer far outweigh the benefits of porta-

bility. However, for people who need instant

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level.

AST Ascentia PSO

touchpads are far and away the most widely

used mechanism, they are not necessarily the
best for each individual. Luckily, we still have

some choice in this area with a couple of vendors offering trackballs and eraser-head type
devices, which many people prefer. Some
notebooks have unique options, like an
infrared remote control mouse (which we"ve
been referring to lately as the "IR wand" ).

Still, the notebook market has seen sever-

al incremental improvements over the last

several months. Vendors are offering and
shipping them with faster processors, larger
screens and hard drives and faster CD-ROM
drives.
Within the category of desktop replacements, there is still a great amount of diversity to be considered. Notebooks exist to fit a

number of needs. For example, in this survey

we have the ultra slim and lightweight
ThinkPad 560 fram IBM alongside the battle-

proof Panasonic CF-25 and Dell's souped-up

There are two popular types of display

screens for notebooks today DSTN and TFF.

DSTN is the cost-effective option, but it daes

not offer the clarity or brightness of TFT.

DSTN displays are back-Bt and cannot be

viewed at an angle very well, whereas TFTdisplays produce brighter, sharper images viewable from several angles.

AST's new line of notebooks includes this

model PSO. A fu/I-featured unit, it comes with

a Pentium 133 MHz processor and 256K of

Level-2 cache. Our test unit came with 16 MB

The tests
We used BAPCo Sysmark/32 running under
Windows 95 to benchmark the notebooks.
This is a grueling test and invariably, some
computers fail to make it clean through the
benchmark, Notebooks in particular have a
hard time with the benchmark as they use

of RAM and a large 2.1 GB hard drive. The

P50's 12.1-inch active matrix screen produces
sharp images at resolutions up to 800x600
with 2 MB of video RAM. The CD-

intre
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more proprietary schemes than desktops.

ROM and floppy drives are interchangeable,

meaning you can use them both i
but only one at any given time.
As part of the complete multimedia expe-

work in an industrial environment.

Expandability and built-in functionality
are a consideration when choosing a new

This isn't to say that a computer that can' t

clear the benchmark is no good, but it is
indicative o f p o ssible i ncompatibilities
between the hardware and certain software.

rience, the system comes with built-in, 16-bit

sound support and a 28.8Kbps faxmodem. It' s
becoming quite common for manufacturers
to integrate modems into the notebook itself,

ments for the desktop PC, and we received

notebook Many notebooks sacrifice internal

floppy and CD-ROM drives in the interest of

Making sense of the benchmark results is

quite easy. The higher the Sysmark32 score,

thereby freeing up one PC card slot, which

can be used for other devices. The PSOalso

many that At the bill in terms of specifica-

downsizing. The reduced size of these gems

the faster the system. The reference system, as

tions. The mainstay of our survey this month

are powerful 133 MHz machines configured

can be beneficial to the commuting profes- mentioned earlier, is a Pentium 100 MHz syssional but the lack of removable storage can tem, which is equal to a score of 100. A sysbe an equal menace, The docking station tem that scores 200 is twice as fast.

has infrared (IR) capabilities, which will allow

you to communicate with other notebooks or
IR-capable devices without the need for
cables. At $6,490, this machine is very capa-

sity. Preferably, the machine should be able

Latitude XPi 150. The ThinkPad is designed

for the traveling executive, the Latitude XPi
1SO
with all its bells and whistles is suited

to handle all the tasks demanded of the desktop computer, matching as closely as possible

for the contemporary office, and the

Panasonic is designed for heavy-duty field-

the specifications and performance of the latter.

This month w e asked for n otebook
machines that can be considered replace-

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allow us to consider it a desktop replacement.
Performance, for the most part, was on
par with other notebooks in our survey, but
there was a problem with one of the benchmarks as can be noted on the chart. In all likelihood, this is an incompatibility that exists
somewhere between that piece of software
and the computer, or a simple bug. When we
encounter such a problem, we do whatever
possible to overcome it b y m eans of a
workaround, however, sometimes despite our
best efforts, we are still unable to get things to
work 100 percent. The biggest problem when
this occurs is that we aren't able to obtain an
overall Sysmark for the machine. What readers should do in these cases is to look at the
individual numbers and estimate what the
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would be neither fair nor wise to discount a

than we had asked for, at 24 MB instead of 16

MB. The 12.1-inch active matrix screen is
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of storage for most portables. Both the CD-

Dell latitude LIN p133ST

Never one to break with tradition, Dell has

once again provided us with two machines
that are not only complete, but are extremely
well priced. The LM 133 runs on a 133 MHz
Pentium processor with 2S6K of level-2 cache,
16 MB of RAM, an 810 MB hard drive and has
16-bit sound capabilities. The 6x CD-ROM

ROM and floppy drives are internal, saving

drive and floppy drive are interchangeable.

you from having to swap back and forth,

While this may be extremely convenient, the

The unit has a touchpad as its pointing

device, two PCMCIA slots, and IR capabilities.

tradeoff comes in the form of extra carrying

weight. The price tag on the unit is $5,199.

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glitch with the benchmark suite,

Compucon

Compucon systems of the desktop variety are

well known to our Test Lab. This time, however, we were sent a notebook bearing the
Compucon name. At first glance, it appeared
to be a good all-in-one unit. The system is
powered by a 133 MHz Pentium processor
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12.1-inch active matrix screen. The lowestpriced notebook in our survey, this Latitude
LM 133 is yours for $4,099 with a one-year
warranty.

The notebook also gives you the capability of outputting your video to a television set.
A port on the back of the unit makes it very
easy to accomplish this particularly useful if
you' re in the mood to take out your frustrations on your friends over a friendly game of
Quake on your 30-inch TV. Now that's fun.
Priced at $5,299, the system comes with a
one-year warranty, with the option'of extending to two or three years,

Dell Latitude XPI 1SOST

Hewlett-Packard Omnilook SOOCf

Desktop replacement notebooks

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With 1 MB of video RAM, video resolutions

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Dell's latest creation is the XPi 150ST. It's the

very first notebook with a 150 MHz processor
to have come through our Test Lab. It ~asted

Hewlett-Packard's latest in its OmniBook lineup is the 800 series. Our test model was an
800CT, which managed to throw a few sur-

no time making a good impression on us. Our

prises our way. When you first look at an

OmniBook, you see an ultra-slim, very light-

test unit was equipped with the standard

complement of 16 MB RAM, and 256K of
pipelined cache. This particular model uses a
trackball as its primary pointing device as

opposed to the ever-popular touchpad found

among many of the notebooks we' ve tested.
The 150ST features a built-in 6x CD-ROM
drive and a built-in floppy drive, housed one
on top of the other. The hard drive in this
unit is larger than its cousin, the LM 133. At
1.3 GB, it' ll provide you with plenty of storage while you' re on the road. It's also the first
notebook we' ve seen to come with a PCI 128-

bit video controller. If graphics-related applications are your thing, then this notebook
was designed for you. And it can be yours for
$S,499 with a three-year limited warranty.

Eurocom 6200T

weight notebook. It's hard to imagine the

power that lurks behind that gentle exterior.
The 800CT is powered by a Pentium 133 MHz

processor with 256K of external cache on

board.
Our test unit was configured with 16 MB
of EDO RAM, which is expandable to 48 MB,
and a 1.4 GB hard drive. With a 10.4-inch
active matrix screen, graphics quality was
superb. Video consists of a 32-bit PCI chip
with a 128-bit graphics controller from
NeoMagic, With I MB of video RAM, resolu-

tions of 1024x768 are possible when an external monitor is used.

As is common with HP OmniBooks, you
get a built-in two-button mouse which pops
out at the right side of the computer at the
press of a button. Certainly different from
touchpad devices, but very similar to a desk-

top mouse, except for the range of motion

allowed, The mouse connects to the computer with a cord that is 9 cm (3.5 in.) long. If

you happen to pull too far, don't worry the

device is completely removable.

The 800 series also features a docking sta-

Another all-in-one system, the 6200T from

Eurocom has everything you need all under
one roof. At the heart of the machine is a
Pentium 133 MHz processor and 256K of secondary cache, 16 MB of RAM and a 1.2 GB
hard drive. Your multimedia needs are met
with a built-in Bx CD-ROM drive and 16-bit
sound capabilities. The floppy drive on this
model is also built in for your convenience.
The 12.1-inch active matrix screen can produce impressive looking images at 800x600
resolution, with 2 MB of video RAM. Whereas
most notebooks give you two PCMCIA slots,
Eurocom's 6200T goes a step further, offering
you three. With this configuration, it's possible to have two type-II cards, and one type-ill
in the notebook at the same time. With standard configurations on most notebooks,

you' re allowed to use two type-H cards, or one

type-III at the same time.
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tion where you will find a port replicator,

including SCSI-2 and SVGA-out ports, support for an industry-standard half-length 16bit ISA card or a 32-bit PCI card. The docking
system supports what is commonly referred
to as "hot docking" which means that you
can dock and undock the system while under
power in an operating system enviroment.
Due to dock's slim nature, the 4x SCSI CDROM and floppy drives are external.
Performance on the OmniBook was on
the higher end of the scale, with an overall
Sysmark of 92. The 800CT sells for $6,490 as
configured, and comes with a three-year warranty.

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and will allow resolutions of 800x600 internally or up to 1,280x1,024 when used on an

external monitor. If your memory requirements should increase, the notebook will
accommodate you with up to 64 MB of EDO

group presentations. The same notebook will

have a 10x CD-ROM drive available by the
time you read this article. Priced competitively at $4,264, the unit comes with a three-year
warranty.

RAM using four DIMM (dual inline memory

module) sockets. The keyboard makes use of
the popular Windows 95 keys and uses a

IBIH ThlttkPttd $60

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touchpad for |ts pnmary pornttng devtce.

A unique option on this notebook is the
ability to use an IR (infrared) remote control

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560 comes in at a mere 1.86 kg (4.1 Ibs) and

is only 3 cm (1.2 in.) thick. It may be light

and portable, but it still packs a punch with a

mouse. This comes in real handy during

133 MHz Pentium processor and 16 MB of

RAM. The hard drive is 1.08 GB, the floppy is
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only sharp and vibrant, but thanks to a welldesigned graphics engine, the 760ED can produce images of up to 1,024x768 internally
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and 16-bit sound system, The first thing that
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you' re wondering, that means you can be budget? Take a look at this new Duonote

Duonote has it all. How about built-in,

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this notebook, it's because we do. This unit

is probably the closest thing you' ll get to a

true desktop replacement with all the bells

and whistles to go along with it. Driven by a
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wasted no time soaring through our grueling

benchmark suite. The main unit can be
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Toshiba model. As notebooks became more
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obtain a 133 MHz model, so we went with the

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matrix, with resolutions up to 800x600, using
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on your screen while you' re working.

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general, you want to make sure your desk and
chair are going to meet two criteria: they need
to be comfortably arranged, since you' ll be
sittingthere for extended periods of time, and
everything on, in, or around the desk needs
to be reasonably accessible.
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able to sit comfortably and safely. Your chair
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avoided a yawn and stretch at the end of a
long day in such a chair can easily lead to its
tilting backwards and falling over.
You want to sit in such a way that your
hands and arms are in a "neutral" position;
that is, your forearms should be parallel to the
desk's surface, and your hands should not
have to tilt up or down to reach the keyboard.
Your feet should also be able to comfortably
rest on the floor or, preferably, on a footrest.

Choosing the right chair and desk combination can be tricky, since it depends on how
your body is put together. Sometimes, finding
just the right combination can require many
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Now we can worry about the computer itself,
which can be broken down into four main

segments: the monitor, the computer enclosure that holds the central processing unit

(CPU) and power supply, the keyboard, and

the mouse.
The monitor should have two crucial
components: some provision for reducing
glare, and a built-in tilt/swivel stand. It
should also be elevated in such a way that
you can look straight ahead and see the top
half of the screen. (If you can afford it, get a
monitor that's at least 15 inches in size; while
it's a bit more expensive than a 14-inch mon-

itor, it can be much easier on the eyes.)

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tendency to put them on the floor, freeing up
valuable desktop space. Unfortunately, this
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when you' re trying to reach for the power
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minor nuisance at best, but when you have to
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diskettes. IBM had the right idea when it
designed the new Aptiva model, which separates the drive bays from the CPU.
I generally recommend split keyboards
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they' re designed to alleviate stress on the
wrists by allowing you to position your hands
more naturally, and have built-in wrist rests.
But keep in mind that some people dislike

this style of keyboard, so the best advice here

is try before you buy. A decent wrist rest a
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keyboard
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mouse (and of course, you' ll need a mouse
with a Macintosh). Like keyboards, mouse
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you quickly realize how much wear and tear
your arm, wrist, and fingers are experiencing.
Manyneck, shoulder, ann and wrist pains
can be attributed to poor mouse placement;
You shouldn't have to reach for it every time
you need to use it. Mice should be on about the
same level as th'e keyboard. There should also

be ample spacefor the mouse; too many people

should sit alongside your monitor, so that

ergonomicsa good resource is Cornell

your head to switch your gaze from the mon-

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room on the desk to the side of your monitor,
get a document holder that attaches directly

lady updated, and provides the texts of several studies in the field.
Achieving the perfect computer environ-

to the monitor.
Your printer should have space dear to

ment is hard work, but hear in mind that it' s

easily feedpaper, read the display panel, and

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still squeeze it in between the keyieard and

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and the mouse. If desk space is reaUy at a premium, consider an attachment for the side of
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nightmare setting up a single workspace for

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a cominon situation with
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work area that will bg used by three or more
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A variation of the mouse is the trackball,

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If there is one universal rule to follow, it' s

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that the safest computing is to occasionally
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not compute. No project is so important that
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the general rule can be summed up in one all day in front of a computer at home or at
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even as short as five minutesswitches, eject buttons, and the like without rest breaks
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things you could do if you only had a scanner, or a fancy printer. You are perfectly
happy with your rnachine but if you only had
a businessxard reader, or a joystick, or that
neat little optical character recognitlon (OCR)
pen.... Well, my friendyou are thinking
about peripherals.
You are thinldng about what you need,
what you could use, and what you want. As a
long time<omputer lover
and I say this
with a tinge of embarrassment
I have been
bitten by the every-little-gadget bug. And
after all the fun and bother of getting the
thing home, it is sometimes the case that you
bought yourself an expensive toy, not a useful tool. Read on and I will dispense a little
advice purchasedover the years through sad
experience.

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There is the ability to auto-stitch two

scans together but it works poorly at best

Now, there is nothing wrong with the product and for someone with a laptop who needs
to capture dipart on the go, it would be perfect, but it was bad way to spend $300. (I have
never admitted this to my wife or family, and
if they read this I will add that it was one of
the best birthdays I ever had). I' ve told this
sad tale to make an important point. It takes
a lot of thought to understand the difference
between something we want and something
we will use.
The useful and the alluring
And so, what things are useful out there? I
would recommend that if you don't have a
modem, a CD-ROM drive or a printer, that is
whereyou should start. As for the type of
modem, CD-ROM drive or printer, that is
another article, but suffice to say my personal preferences run toward U5 Robotics for the

tained money from her and both our fami-

modem (the faster the better), a 4r or faster

lies. Rather than give small presents, that day

I was to take the money and buy whatever
computer thingy I wanted. By "thingy" my
beautiful betrothed meant peripheral and the
envelope contained $300. Talk about
technophile heaven
breakfast lay forgotten
as we sped off.
In the end, I brought home a hand scanner which, at that time, cost $325. It sits here

CD-ROM drive, and a color inkjet from

Kpson, Hewlett-Packard or Canon (and don' t
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do your
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But after those essentials, which probably
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would go with a sheet-fed personal scanner.
These babies are hot. They are small, one

now. I never use it. It will scan a small image

sheet at a time, scanners. When you stick a

but only in 256 grayscale or black and white.

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first computer

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system, a Zip system, a portable hard4rive, a
WORM CD-ROM drive, and many more.
If you have reams of data to secure, then

business cards. You drop in a few cards and

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They run from $400 to $600.
If you are a gamer, or have kids around,
then a joystick can be a good choice. There
are dozens of them on the market. It is probably best if you get one made by a big player
such as Gravis or CH Products. You can buy

little joysticks and big joysticks; they have

large game panels and foot pedals for car racing and/or plane flying. You can buy a steering wheel if you are serious enough about
your games. There are even body vests which

There is a little pen that can scan and OCR

text one line at a time. The ads suggest that
we might all benefit from being able to grab a

features,

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And that is about it. There are small OCR
machines that are made solely for reading

sentence or two out of the encyclopedia.

Perhaps.

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I have long been a Sound81aster customer and

the products have been good to me, so I don' t

mind recommending these cards.

A few things about sound cards; If you are
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Video, the coming thing
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First software for your home office

Knowing what you need before you buy
B Y CEO F W H E E L W R I G HT
hen you think about buying software for your home office or small
business, you should probably start
with the simplest and oldest technology you
can find: a pencil and a piece of paper.

decide to go it alone and start your own home

to tell a customer
while you are on a phone

ACCPAC and the recently revised Intuit

inspection businm.
In order to run this new business, you' ll
need some basics: a phone number, a fax (to

call with them that it has been five years

since their last home inspection and that it

send off urgent reports to clients), a way of

have links within the contact manager to

Begin by listing all the activities you are

likely to be undertaking in the office

and try

professionally generating reports for your

clients, a good record-keeping system to file

word-processed copies of the report resulting

from the previous inspection, the invoice

QuickBooks and M.Y.O.B. (Mind Your Own

Business) from BestWare. The size of your
business will have a lot to do with your
choice
and most small operations will probably find that something like QuickBooks or

to be as comprehensive as you can about it.

Even if you think of something that you

all previous house reports, a reliable way to

keep accounts and some method for invoic-

records in your accounting system and even

digitally stored pictures of the customer' s

couldn't possibly imagine would have any

relevance to the use of computers, put it on
the list anyway, as you may fmd out differ-

ing and planning cash flow.

home.
These are all very basic requirements and
For doing business correspondence and
~ould be common to dozens of businesses day-today reports, you will almost certainly

ently. The strategy is that you will then take

this activities list and map it against the capa-

that you might consider running from your

want to use word-processing software. Many

bilities of the personal computer system, and

software (as well as addwn extras and ser-

home. Here's how you might go about using

personal computer technology to meet the
needs of this small business.

quite acceptable packages are available, bui

you may find that it makes sense to buy this

vices) that you can afford.

This process is know as "activities-based

Start with the simple matter of how you

want to store the names, addresses and other

planning" and is designed to let you underto accomplish before you set about the tricky
task of enlisting a personal computer and
some software to help realize the accomplish-

business details of your customers, suppliers ning and statistical analysis and a database
and other vital contacts.
for keeping detailed records of all kinds.
One of the strongest candidates for this There are excellent examples of such applicamight be a "contact management" applica- tions currently available from Microsoft,

issue of electronic communication can also

not be ignored. For a lot of small businesses,
one good option is electronic mail (e-mail)
via an Internet service provider (ISP). There
are lots of good ISPs around (including
national services such as Sympatico, IBM
Advantis and iSTAR as well as access from
online service
like CompuServe,
America Online and Microsoft's MSN) who
can set you up with e-mail.
If, however, you want to really move into
the age of electronic commerce, you' ll want
to consider having your own World Wide

tion (such as Maximizer, Goldmine or

Symantec ACT!), which not only lets you

Corel andI the Lotus Development division of

IBM.
To round out this selection of basic soft-

Web site as part of this effort. To do that,

ment.

ware, you should consider some form of specialist bookkeeping application. Among the
popular choices are Computer Assodates'

your own Web pages from its site.

Have a good time setting up your business

stand exactly what it is that you really want

To get some idea of how this might work, enter all the basic information about contacts
it's worth tahng a look at an example. Let' s that you would typically'expect, but helps
say, for instance, that after a number of years you in building detailed contact records.
of working for a house inspection agency, you
Such records will allow you, for example,

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might be time for another. You might also

as part of a "software suite" that would also

typically include presentation graphics soft-

ware, a spreadsheet for doing fmancial plan-

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M.Y.O.B. should more than adequately meet

their needs.
In the modem business environment, the

comp
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undermined. The image may flicker, causing

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While computers are superseded by

newer, faster models every six months, a
monitor will last for years. Therefore, it will

tion. This describes the method of separating

and aligning the red, blue and green phosphors that are used to compose the image on
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you made an informed choice today.

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Dot Pitch
Dot pitch is a measure of the fineness of the

image. The most common design today is

0.28 mm, or what's sometimes referred to as a
"two-eight dot pitch." Trinitron monitors

Virtually all monitors today conform the the

MPR II emission standard. The newer TCO
1992 is a Swedish standard that was developed in conjunction with workers unions in
that country. In order to meet this standard,
monitors must be well shielded for electro-

don't use "dots," but the comparable specification for these will be approximately 0.26
mm.
Generally speaking, the lower the number, the better. If you come across a bargain
monitor with a dot pitch of 0.38, you should

magnetic (EM) and radio frequency (RF)

emissions. This is accomplished by including
more metal shielding inside the monitor
case, or by spraying parts with metallic coat-

pass it by,

Anti-glare coatings
If you see a monitor advertised as having
ARAG, it means that the screen has some
kind of anti-reflection (AR) and anti-glare
(AG) coating. Most monitors have this feature, but be sure to check, because, like a TV
set that has bad glare, a monitor that reflects
back the room lighting will annoy you to no

end.
Energystarcompliant
This is a set of broad standards established in
the United States to reduce the energy consumption of consumer products, Monitors
that bear this sticker must consume no more
than 30 watts when in suspend mode. Most
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ApertureCrlllvs.Shadow Mask
Thereare basically two designs that monitors
fall into: those that use the Sony Trinitron

tube (either purchased from Sony or made

from design specs licensed from Sony) and
those that don' t.

Trinitron-based monitors usually have

some variation of "tron" in the name. You
can also tell its a Trinitron-based monitor if it
lists the term "aperture grill" in the descrip-

a monitor is able to redraw the screen. You

will want to make sure the monitor you

choose hasa refresh rate of at least 72 Hz at
the resolution you want to use. Most monitors will be able to support this at basic VGA
(640x480 pixel resolution), but lower-quality
ones will drop to lower refresh rates as you
increase the screen resolution to SVGA
(800x600 pixel resolution) or higher.
At lower refresh rates and under some
lighting conditions, you will detect a flicker
in the image that will drive you and your eyes
to distraction over time.

The second part of this equation is the

video card (sometimes called the graphics
card, video-graphics card orgraphics accelerator card). On the better quality ones, you
can adjust both the screen resolution and ihe
refresh frequency within the limitations of
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"The revolution, started 25 years ago with
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processor, has had a phenomenal impact on

changing the way people work, communicate
and obtain information. I believe that we are
only at the beginning of this revolution in
progress, and the best in personal computing

hew. Well, that's Fall Comdex for

another year. Many people who go
to Se biggest Comdex of them all

is yet to come," he stated.

Groves went on to note that the first Intel

in I.as Vegas complain about the crowds, the

transistors when introduced in 1971, and

endless lineups, traffic congestion and the

obscenity of excess shown by the exhibitors

couM process 60,000 instructions per second.

in their quarter-million dollar pavilions and

extravagant hospitality suites.
An that may be true, but if you want to.get

a idea of the shape of the things to come in

microprocessor, the Intel 4004, had 2,300

The current Pentium Pro chip has 3.5 mililion,

and can perform up to 400 million instructions per second (400 MIPS). Grove claimed
that by 2011, a microprocessor with a bilnon
transistors may exist, with the ability to

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vide a comprehensive report on all that was

our attention during the four days we trolled

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the show floor and conference halls.

As part of th e celebrations of the 25th

new. What follows are the items that caught

Keynote: You ain't seen nothlne yet,

according to intel'sGrove

anniversary of the microprocessor, a temporary museum was erected in the parking lot
next to the Las Uegas Convention Centre. In

it were mare than 40 historic examples of

computer technology.
The museum presented its display in the
form of "The Hacker's Garage," a cluttered

tribute to the fledgling computer culture of

the '70s that encouraged individuals and

small companies to invent Se technology

that changed the world. Examples of pivotal
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of which were literally sold out of a garage by

SteveJobs and Steve Woxniak.

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some cases, the last-known examples of key

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was the BeBox Dual603 from Be Inc. of Menlo

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The Be OS was also running on a.fairly normal single-processor PowerMacintosh. A

spokesman said the Be OS would be available
for the Mac early this year. In a separate
announcement, Power Computing, which
makes PowerMac clones, said it will be shipping BeOS along with the MacOS with its
new systems.
If you want a BeBox, the dual processor
model is available now, and will set you back
about US$3,000. Applications? With such a

gorgeous interface, who neeis 'em (seriously,

porting of Mac applications is anticipated-

Adobe is rumored to be preparing a BeOSver-

Broderbund was promoting a group of wellproduced action adventure titles, aimed at an

older market. The Last Express is a new
"thrilling adventure game from Jordan
Mechner, developer of the award-winning
Prince of Persia and Karateka." In the game,
the player is Robert Cath, an American travelling on the Orient Express from Paris to

and game pads.

Particularly impressive this year was the
Gravis GrIP Game System, "the first multiplayer, multi-button digital game system for
the PC." The GrIP allows up to four players
operate up to eight control buttons each. The
GrIP system comes with a multi-port game
hub, and two GrIP-Pad controllers, with ports

Istanbul in July 1914. The game takes place in

on the game hub for an additional two con-

a 3D space that recreates the interior of the

train, and the player ran move throughout
the train and interact with the other, digital

trollers, Two versions of the system are available, one is bundled with a violent arcadestyle fighting game, and the other with a

System Commanderallows use of mere than

one operating systemonosingle computer.

characters in a very fluid and variable way.

The Tone Rebellion, created by the Logic
Factory (Ascendancy) is a strategy game,

multi-player hockey game.

System Commander prevents "rival"

0/Ses from trying to wipe out each other' s
critical files by taking control of the user's PC

where the player is the leader of one of four

groups of Hoaters, inhabitants of a world of

can run several different language versions of

a single operating system."
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Contact: Be inc., Tel: 415-462-4100.
Web site; http J/www.be.corn

System Commander allours

muitipie 0/Ses on a singie PC
A new version of V Communications System
Commander utility allows users to run multiple operating systems on a single PC. Its mak-

floating Islands. The player has to leam to

before a new 0/S is nm Once multiple 0/Ses cooperate with other Hoater societies, mine a
have been installed, the user is shown a menu resource called Tone, and avoid destruction by
of 0/S choices at startup, and can simply the Leviathan, the common enemy of all the
select the desired operating system to load. V Floaters. The game has amulti-player/Internet
Communications c l aims t h a t S y stem feature that allows multiple users to play
Commander doesn't require partitioning of
simultaneously on several PCs at once.

ers claim that version 3.0 of the program per-

the hard drive, System Commandeer sells for

mits the installation of up to 100 operating

systems, including Windows 95, Windows

a street price of about $12S.

3.1, Windows NT, DOS, OS/, SCO UNIX,

Contact: V Communications, Tel: 800-648-8266.

Last Express,Website: http://www.lastexpress.corn

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pad for the PC, with provision for two players via its Y cable, and programmable but-

tons for transferring keyboard game commands to the pad.

Contact: Gravls, Tel: 604-431-5020.
Web site; http Jtwww.gravle.corn

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Contact: Broderbund,
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line with Last Express, Tone Rebellion
since users can maintain both until they are Broderbund is an entertainment software
ready for a complete transition. Garners can developer that has been widely known in
run their favorite DOS games in their native recent years for producing some of the most .
environment, and then turn to Windows 95 charming and entertaining kids' software on
to access the hottest 3D games on the market. the market (such as the CD-ROM adaptation
Those who want to dabble in a UNIX platof Mercer Mayer's "Grandma and Me," one of
form can do so without investing in a sepa- the best-selling children's CD-ROMs ever).
rate system. The utility is the only way users
At this year's Fall Comdex, however,

Joysticks from Canada's Advanced

brevis rule Comdex
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dynamism to Fall Comdex with its array of

state of the art input devices for computer

games and interactive multimedia software.
At a demonstration for TCP at the Silicon
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Those Legs.like machines were created with

Cameleon's Techno Lab nnd Mini-Control.

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have interfaces designed for them, or will
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area said USB would get a big push with the basic V-Active technology is what the companext version of Windows, which apparently ny calls HyperVideo, which allows you to
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sites on the Interne.

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computer based on Microsoft's new Windows CE
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some which rarely hit the limelight. To give you a
different perspective on one of the largest computer industry annual trade shows, here is a selection
of those aanouacemeats,

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Ever wondered how hot it gets inside a computer?
Although it may seem silly, this is an important issue
as an overheated colnputer can cause the metal legs of some silicon
4'ettlnlp on the Web phone
chips to expand and c)imb out of their sockets
potentially damaging
Software incompatibility has been a big problemfor anyone who has the computer and making it run improperly.
wanted to use the Internet to hold voice conversations inexpensively
A company called Quad-G Electronks in Mount Vernon, NY,
via'products like "WebPhone." Israeli Internet telephony pioneer released the CP-Vue line of personal computer "eddas" designed to
VocaiTec Ltd. has joined with a number of other Internet telephony
monitor and display the temperature within the computer case and
and coaununications companies to solve this problem. The solution central processing unit (CPU), These internal heat monitors claim to be
lies in the foundiag of what is called the Voice Over IP (VoIP) Forum, able to warn users whea their systems are approaching dangerously
a cooperative coalition of Internet, telephony, hardware, software and high heat levels, allowing them to save their Ales and power down
networking industry leaders, whose formation is apparently intended before exteasive heat damage occurs.
to create and drive rapid deployment of a set of standards for the compatibility of Internet telephoay products."
ContactGualFe,Tel:914-668-7688.
In addition to Cisco Systems and VocalTec, which is taking credit
for initiating the VoIP Forum, founding partidpants include a total of Towards a better notebook
40 initial members, They say they have joined forces based on their Notebook computers could soon have displays that look even better
shared interest in accelerating the growth of telephony applications than what you And oa desktop computers. Canadian graphics chip
over the Internet, corporate Iatranets and bridging to the regular or spedalist ATI Technologies has announced what it daims is the induspublic switched telephone network
try's first LCD graphics accelerator for notebook computers.
It apparently integrates high-performance 3D rendering, leading
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who have not previously deployed ISDNbased solutions, but who will embrace this
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Contact: PictureTel. Tel: 508-292-5000

DEC Jumps on NLX definition

recently by Inte!.
The company said that move was "in
keeping with Digital's commitment to provide customers with leading design technology" and cost-effective enterprise solutions.
"We are very pleased to be a driving contributor in Intel's NLX definition," suggested
Howard Elias, Digital's vice-president of

desktop and notebook as the 3D RAGE LT has

features some desktop systems do not."

Digital Equipment Corporation made clear at

Comdex that despite its ongoing offering of
Alpha-based systems, it was supporting a new

Contact: ATI, Tel: 905-882-2600

generation of desktop systems design that

worldwide business segments in the company's personal computer business unit. "Many
of the customer benefits of the new specifica-

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tion including easy access to the mother-

board, disk, and other major system compo-

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today."
Intel recently announced its new motherboard form factor, NLX, that is supposed to

extend ease of serviceability and upgradability to an industry-standard desktop design

"Digital was valuable in helping Intel drive

the new NLX specification," admitted Steve

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Windows CE, adhere to standards created by

the Infrared Data Assodation (IrDA).
Infrared data is transferred by a means
similar to the technology in your TV or stereo
remote control. When two infrared transmitters/receiversare aligned and activated, they
can transfer data between computers or serial

devices such as printers.

The IrDA "Beam It Over IrDA" booth at
Comdex displayed products by more than 20
firms with devices and applications using the
IrDA standard. Clearly, IrDA ports and soft-

ware are becoming a feature routinely included on products. This includes Windows CE
and the new handheld PCs, such as those
recently introduced to the market by Casio
and NEC.
"We' ve moved faster and caused more
products to roll out than any other standards

group," says Brian Inghamof IBM Canada's

infrared market development group. "The
computing and communications industries
have embraced these standards faster than
any other technical standard."
In the coming year, even more printers
and portable peripherals will have IrDA serial

ports, as will an increasing number of pagers

and digital phones.Sony, for example, had a
nifty little digital camera with an IrDA port
on display. With the link between the camera

and another IrDA device, you can, for example, instantly download digital photos to a
laptop or print them without the need for

cables.
Puma Technology and Traveling Software
were among the software developers demonstrating their file transfer application software. And Nokia Mobile Phones and other
cellular devices were on display.
These standards were created by the
industry consortium to assure consumers

shopping for a computer or peripheral that

an item displaying the group's semce mark
works with other IrDA-certified equipment.
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says the trade group's strongest estimates
about the implementation of thistechnology
are in the notebook computer market. He
says about 60 to 70 percent of all notebooks

shipped in 1996 will be IrDA capable, More~

than eight million notebook personal computers with IrDA ports have shipped to date,
according to IrDA.

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going digital. There is no longer a needto
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unit has the technology it needs to do well,

business in the past three years, and has made

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surprised by the reception its NT notebooks
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of strategic marketing and brand management for the company's Personal Computer
Business Unit, DEC has finally elbowed its

way into the top 10 among personal computer makers, and this quarter the PC business
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Windows NT and on target markets where
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vital to the Intel-based PC products as well. In
fact, she said, the PC Business Unit now leads
Digital's NT strategy.
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PC field, given the company's established
customerbase in larger systems, was the fact
that its direct sales force until recently did not
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Toronto firm announced that the 32-bit ver

sion of its Communicate! software is available. Communicate! manages fax, datavoice,

and pagingcommunications through a single
phone line from a personal computer running Windows. The new version supports
Windows 95 and NT and sells for $249. It is

aimed at small office and home office custorners, and includes an integrated contact
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Ianna Systems Inc. Headquartered in

Toronto, Janna sells contact-management software, A newly released package,Janna Contact
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package. Another new release, Janna Contact

the United States market. Nina Reichpresident of Ooriane, also said Canada's Defence

Department has chosen her company's software for use in developing a new personnel
system data warehouse.
Teievitesse Systems Inc. e The Ottawabased maker of "software that watches television for you, e as spokesperson Carol Martin
put it, came to Comdex to launch its AccesTV

video-searching software into the U.S. market. Though Televitesse has a few American
customers, Martin told Newsbytes, it has not
previously done much marketing there. Now

the company is seeking out value-added

resellers (VARs) to help it penetrate the U.S.
market further. Michael Vlugt; channel sales
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Enterprise, combines all the features of the Pro

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drawing attention to Canadian products.
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Oorlane International Montreal-based

Ooriane launched its repository computeraided software engineering (CASE) tool into

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package with links to Oracle and SQL (structured query language) Server databases.Janna

Coral Corp. Kanata, Ontario-based Corel

also announced that both new packages can be

embedded in M i crosoft Corp.'s Internet

applications suite and its new personal digital

showed its much discussed Corel Office for Java

assistant (PDA), along with other products.

Explorer and Netscape Inc.'s Navigator browser,

as Activex components. At the same time, the
company added data synchronization, which
makes it possible to "check outs a subset of

Enterprise Planning Systems e Based in

OttawaEnterprise Planning formerly sold its
business planning software at high prices,
data for use on a portable computer. Janna said David Flood, the company's director of
Contact Enterprise starts at $699 per seat.
marketing. Now it gives the base model away
for downloading on the interne, and has
Software Solutions The Toronto-based never been more profitable, Flood claimed at
finn's twist on selling World Wide Web page Industry Canada's press conference. The key
creation software is to bundle in Web hosting is in selling add-on modules.
services. Software Solutions will host up to 2
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plus embedded GIF (graphic interchange for- what it said is the first telephone with a unimat) and JPEG Ooint Photographic Experts versal serial bus (USB) interface for computerGroup) graphics files for one year free of telephony integration.
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ness video that Erik Schannen, LaserMedia's
Mark Pellicane, Software Solutions' president.
president, claimed is the first of a new genre.
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period runs out, Software Solutions charges January, ActiveAbs is to sell for $29,9S,
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Merilatrlx Peripherals Inc. Risen from part of Industry Canada's Team Canada prothe ashes of failed Ad Lib Inc., a maker of PC gram. This program may not exist in its presound boards, Mediatrix introduced Internet sent form by next year's show Norman
telephony technology that allows fullLomow, deputy director of the Department of
duplex, high-quality conversations over the Foreign Affairs and International Trade's U.S.
Internet. The company let visitors to its
booth test out the Audiotrix Phone by talking
to a Mediatrix employee at its headquarters in

Sherbrooke, Que.

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budget constraints threaten the program and
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PHOTO-PAINT, Corel Database Publisher, World Is Carmen Sandiego, involves the
Corel CD Creator, and many more.
player assunung the identity of any one of
Existing Ventura users {many of whom nine characters who track down criminals

DEDICATED ACCESS
(RS.SK TO T4 )

T3 CONNECTIQN

publish one document to paper, to a

portable electronic Envoy docu-

halftone type selection, and support for

PostScript Level 2), There's also RGB to
CMYK-TIFF file conversion, and more than 40
other graphic file formats and 50 text file formats supported.

Corel Ventura requires at least a 486 DX2

99 MHz PC with 16 MB of RAM, 256+olor

(416) 95Wl000

VGA display, 120 MB of hard-drive space, a

CD-ROM drive, and Windows 95 or Windows
NT 3,51 or higher. Realistically, a fast PenUium
with 32 MB of RAM, a fast hard drive and a

graphics accelerator with 2 to 6 MB of video

RAM and the ability to display 16 million
color images would be desirable.
Corel says it expects Ventura 7 to be ship-

ISDN Service

ping in quantity by the time you read this.

The list price is US$895, with an upgrade
Same restrictions apply

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price of US$249.

around the world. The sleuths include an

archaeologist, an environmentalist, a film-

maker and a TV journalist.

The title, which comes on five discs,
features digital v i deo sequences, and

adventures that lead the player to learn

about the languages, history, politics, and
cultuie of peoples around the world, as well
as geography. The goal of the game is to
solve cases by discovering information in

the course of a character's travels and conversations.

The game requires a multimedia PC,

with at least Windows 3.1, a 486 DX2/66
MHz, 8 MB of RAM, 23 MB of hard-drive
space, 256-color VGA graphics, 16-bit audio,
and a CD-ROM drive. Its street price is about
$79.
The latest addition to the Corel Medical

series, The Ainputee, began shipping on

Nov. 20. The title, written by members of
the Royal Ottawa Regional Rehabilitation
Centre, is aimed at helping amputees, their
families and the general public to "develop
a better understanding of th e p hysical,

e motional an d p r actical n eeds o f

amputees." The A
is divided into an
Overview section that contains general

mputee

information on the subject, followed .by

three additional sections on types of amputations, prosthetics, and advanced prosthet-

ic device profiles. Q
Contact: Corel, Tel: 613-7284826
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BY P A T R I C K

NB In his Corndex keynote address, Bill

Gates, chief executive officer at Microsoft
Corp. never mentioned Oracle or Sun
Microsystems but coolly stated his support
for the personal computer (PC). In contrast
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I I C K E N III A

"There are some people saying that we

Grove's vision for PC.

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I gave my first Comdex keynote," began
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the PC before examining today's current topics surrounding the personal computer.

with the PC. This PC is the full-scale product."

Regarding the "diskless" computer, he

the PC," said Gates. "The idea of a diskless said manufacturers could save afew hundred
(i,e., no hard disk) PC has its place. We are dollars, but to see the overall cost, one hasto
should throw out what we have done with

going to see a lot of devices which feature the

consider the costs associated with building

Interne, but they will all have compatibility

and maintaining a gigantic server-centric system."You will spend dramatically more to

take care of a server system," he said.
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wIII be defmed by Internet integration into
the PC desktop and all of its applications.
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cessing power, he said the future wiII unveil

integrated speech recognition, visual recogni-

tion, intelligent assistants, greater natural

language usage and more coinputers in
schoolsand libraries.
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ences," clahned Intel cofounder and chief

executive officer, Andrew Grove, as he delivered the opening keynote address at
Comdex/Fall 96.
Not being in the PC businessmeans "we are
in a war for eyeballs, it's TV or the PC," he said.
Grove's keynote addressed the birth of the

first micrprocessor and moved quickly to a

live video visit to a prototype Starbucks cafe
in Seattle.
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transistors that operate at 10 gigahertz.

To do this I n tel has t o c reate a layer

inside a microprocessor .07 microns

thick. Comparatively, a human hair is
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business.
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ac

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and cellular phones. Xerox, meanwhile, is
expected to use the chips in future office
equipment offerings.

to imagine just how its many and varied competitors plan to survive in the desktop PC
business. But surviving is just what they plan

WISIdowg NT ori RISC7

Until the arrival of the Network Computer

to do, with many pinning hopes on new

hardware platforms based on Internet access idea and Sun Microsystems Java technology,
much of the hope for Intel's RISC-based competitors was pinned on the notion that RISC

devices as their potential saviors.

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None has been more vocal recently about Windows NT and run 32-bit Windows applisuch plans than Sun Microsystems with its cations just as happily as Windows 95 or NT
hyping of the Picojava 1 technology. The running on an Intel box.
As it turned out, when Microsoft did
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sx CD-ROM, stereo sound and speakers

and a 15-inch monitor.
And the company suggests that it is starting to get corporate orders for systems using
decreasing demand for MIPS-based systems this technology. "Since its introduction 30
from its customers and original equipment
days ago [when the pricing was announced in

key to the buying decision. For US$2,299,

users can now standardize on a high-performance platform for all PC software, from
Windows 95 to Windows NT to Windows for

od of 1995 amounted toUS$606,953,000, j

which resulted in net income of US$42
million.
According to AMD, however, this is still

Workgroups."

good news. "Overall, bookings improved sig-

manufacturers (OEMs). I n

tuieanwhile at AIND. .

Microsoft announced it was in the process of

phasing out future development and engi. neering efforts for the MIPS platform.
Microsoft said the decision was driven by

p a r ticular, July], the P-200 PC has become our best sell-

Microsoft said its largest OEM for the MIPS

platform NEC Corporation had decided
not to provide the MIPS platform beyond the
Microsoft Windows NT Version 4.0 operating

system.

ing model," said Steve Lapinski, general manager of the Cyrix Systems Group. "We' re seeing strong demand from power users in
Fortune1000 companies, as well as small businesses and home offices where performance is

Things aren't much better at l o ngtime

Intel rival AMD, which in early October
reported a net loss of US$38,362,000 on
sales of US$456,862,000 for its third quarter ending Sept. 29. Sales for the like peri-

nificantly from the levels of the second quarter, but the book-to-bill ratio remained below
1:1," said chairman and chief executive officer, WJ. Sanders III.
Continued onpage 111

The company further boasted that over

the last five years, it had shown a strong
commitment t o
the MI P S p l a t form.
Microsoft has said, however, that it will continue to offer technical support to its customers who use Windows NT 4.0 on the
MIPS platform.

Cyrix recorded
a net loss of
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for the quarter ending
June 30, compared to
net income of U$$7.5
million for the same
period last year
Tough times at Cyrix
The seriousness of the challenge facing Intel's
competitors is easily put in clearer perspective

when you look at a company like Cyrix

Corporation. Over the summer, it reported
revenues for the quartei ending June 30 of

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same period last year. Revenues for the first

six months of 1996 were US$78,7 milliondown from US$135.4 million in the same

period last year.

As might be expected, the company
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quarter ending June 30, compared to net
income of US$7.5 million for the same period
last year.
"Looking beyond the second quarter,
Cyrix's largest challenge is to grow our customer base," said master of understatement
and Cyrix president and chief executive officer, Jerry Rogers, at the time of the fiscal
announcement. "The 6x86 processor is a very
competitive product in today's marketplace,
o utperforming equivalent Pentium a n d
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for Cyrix to survive its current troubles.
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proposition as aggressively as possible in
order to obtain market share for the company, successfor the product line and
value for the shareholder," Rogers suggested. "The survival of competition and
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on Intel chips, In September, NEC Electronics

sion of the Windows operating system that

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handheld devices that were launched by a

and Microsoft announced that NEC's new

number of key consumer eiectronics companies at the annual Comdex computer trade

be able to run Windows CE and was expected

to be used in many CE-based devices.

VR4101 processor
a single-chip, high-speed,
low-power 64-bit MIPS RISC device would

fair in Las Vegas in November, but will also

NEC and Microsoft announced that the

devices that can communicate with each

reference platforms in the development of

find its way into a range of communications, VR4101, the' latest in NEC's MIPS RISC
e ntertainment a n d mobile-computing processor range, was one of Microsoft's key

of domination in the desktop and

notebook computer markets, software giant

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Tsugio Makimoto, executive managing director in charge of electronic components oper-

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have wavered in their decision to buy a handheld system in the pastor allow the chorus of
Windows C&compatible machines to make
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experienced players such as Psion? Only time

will tell, but it is going to be a fascinating battle to watch. 0

Psion ready for the challenge

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to Peter Norman, managing director of Psion UK, the company is not worried about the release of products based on Microsoft's Windows CE operating sys-

tem for handheld computers, even though they will come from major PC market
manufacturers such as NEC, Compaq and Casio.
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in terms of market positioning. They look at it as a PC companion. Theirs is an informa-

tion device that works with other information devices. Ours can be used in an isolated
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te an integrated software suite (Psion Xchange, which included word-processor, spreadsheet and database applications) that was well ahead of its time.
That strength in software development has not been lost. In recognition of the fact that

its greatest strength lay in the software built into its machines, in July Psion announced the
formatien of a new company, Psion Software PLC, to license its operating systems and
applications software. The company says it hopes the move will encourage and assist other
companies in bringing products to market such as palmtops, sub-notebooks, smart phones,
intelligent terminals and mobile Web browsers using Psion's previously proprietary tech-

nologies.
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immediately, be powe~ and memory efficient and never lose the user's data. They have to
be responsive and bug free and offer deep functienality in small code size whilst appearing
intuifiive to novice and power users alike," suggested Psion in its anneuncement of the new

company. "With 13 years experience developing such expertise and with over twe million
units sold, Psion is making its platforms available to licensees."
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established as a handheld software standard.
"One of our strategies is to establish our platform as an open standard. We are already
recognized as the world leader in the palmtop computer market and this sector will
inevitably attract more players as communication and computing technologies continue to

converge," he says.
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will allow us to partidpate in emerging markets without defocusing our existing business."
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indows has come to the palmtop

computer or is it that palmtops

have come to Windows? In a sense,
both are true. Microsoft, with its Windows CE
32-bit operating system, and several manufacturers have joined forces to create the handheld personal computer, or HPC, the latest
variation on computers that fit in your pocket.
What it means is that i f y o u are a
Windows 95 user, you can now buy a palm-

top computer from one of severai manufacturers and be greeted with a graphical interface you' ll immediately recognize and be
comfortable using. If you' re a Microsoft
Word, Excel or Schedule+ user, you' ll also get
a set of applications that will be familiar to
use and compatible with the full-blown versions residing on your Windows 95 desktop

computer. And, if you want to synchronize

your organizer files, or move spreadsheets or
word-processing documents between your
handheld device and your desktop PC, a slick
serial cable-based (or infrared) transfer utility
is included,
The subject of this review is the Cassiopeia
A10 from Casio Canada Ltd., one of the first
companies to bring a Windows CE product to
market.

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uses a graphical interface, which closely

resembles the Windows 95 and NT 4.0 desktop. It uses a subset of the Win32 API, which
means that Windows 95 software developers
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Windows CE devices with tools they are
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You might think of CE functionally as a

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This means that, comparatively those controls are taking up a lot of screen space on the
Cassiopeia, On Windows 95, you can use the
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menus and tool bars, On Windows CE or

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coming with 4 MB of RAM instead of the A-

an application or access a file. It feels kind of

like Windows 95 on a 486 with 8 MB of RAM.
However the instant-an feature means you
don't have to wait while Windows boots up,
and both Word and Excel load much more
quickly than the Windows 95 versions of
those applications. Moreover, you can leave
items like your appointment calendar or contact database running, and they are instantly
available when you turn the machine on.

The keyboard is no worse, but no better,

than ones found on other palmtops, which
means it is awkward, but usable if you master

a two-finger pecking style, For example, I did

manage to work for about an hour on this
report on the flight back from Las Vegas without becoming too frustrated, and I know of

one reporter who regularly composes 1,000word stories on his Psion. The feature I like
most on the Cassiopeia is the backlit screen,
which allowed me to work in the darkened
cabin of the evening flight with the screen
completely visible.

Apps you can use

The Casio unit comes with Windows CE,
Pocket Word, Pocket Excel and a personal
information manager in ROM. These are
immediately available for you to use as soon
as you turri on the unit. In the interests of
saving screen space, both Pocket Word and
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and tool bar into a single row.
Pocket Word includes basic text formatting abilities, such as bold, italic, underline,

centering; and the ability to change typefaces

(Ix6.9x3.7 inches) and weighs 380 g (13,4 oz)

and sizes. There are no stylesheets, although

you can toggle between normal and outline
views. Also not included in the Pocket versions are a spell checker and thesaurus. What
I miss most with Pocket Word, however, is a
word counter and you can't use the old trick

with batteries.
The Cassiopeia is powered by an Hitachi
SH-3 RISC processor, which is also being used
by most of the other HPC manufacturers.

Word will do this task, it won't tell you how

many replacements it made.

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out there, normal shoppers from within the

PC camp are most likely to encounter systems
built around a Cyrix, AMD or Intel CPU the
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as well as an unaffiliated computer "expert"

to find out just what the differences between

makes of CPU might be if any and

its new generation (which logically would

have been called the 586) the name Pentium
because a word can be copyrighted.

"As an interesting aside," Knight says,

"there was another prominent chip manufacturer called NextGen which was recently
The Intel Pentium Pro chip is not includ- bought out by AMD and it's from there that
AMD gets their KS it wasactually NextGen
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or compatible chip has yet been made avail- that developed their own Pentium compatible processor and AMD acquired that techable by Intel's competitors that will work with
a Pentium P r o-centered m o therboard. nology whenthey bought the company having only to stamp the AMD name onto the
Pentium Pro purchasers will not be faced with
chip."
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I reland, got started manufacturing the
What our independent expert says
Made famous within these pages not so long "FastMath" co-processor for 386SX and DX
ago in an article discussing CPU upgrades for chips, then gradually began developing its
own CPUs in the 386 and 486 families, impleportable computers (seeTCP, Oct. '96), Scott
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Vancouver, which happens to be in that very and increasing the cache sizes in the chips.
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final cost has on that choice. It's important to

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for less money" do not reflect the overall performance of the computer.
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work, that enhancement might disappear as it

labors alongside system bus restrictions or

software idiosyncrasies or even hardware limitations.
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daily computing experience if a task normal-

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considerably faster than the one in Intel's
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' to call up the motherboard manufacturers

and say they' re going to switch to a write-

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compatibility and performance issues to
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inside.

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Cyrix marketing director, Steve Lapinski, fully
agrees with Knight's opinion that a Cyrix
CPU will equal or better the performance of
an Intel of equivalent speed but, of course,
with an explanation:
uI think another really important point of
differentiation, is that, based on the architectural differences between a Cyrix and a
Pentium, ours will allow you to play 16-bit
and 32-bit software without having to change
the platform. In other words, Intel has the
Pentium and the Pentium Pro, and the
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ably."
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people gradually move more toward 32-bit
applications, they' ll have to change motherboards if they' re depending on an I ntel
Pentium whereas the Cyrix chips will still
optimize the performance of the newer software without requiring significant hardware
modification.
Lapinski explains that Cyrix is able to
accomplish "equal or better for cheaper" due
to the architectural differences between the
company's 686 and the Pentium.
"Both processors are what's called superscalar they contain a floating point unit and
a primary cache andother features. But these
have been optimized in the way we designed
the 686 processor, which, for example, has
the calculation functions like integer and
floating point b u il t i n u s ing a h i g hly
advanced architecture which also makes really basic things like register re-naming, out of
order completion and branch prediction, etc
a lot faster and a lot quicker.
"The bottom line of all that is that our
architecture eliminates many of the data
dependencies and resource conflicts that the
processor has to experience in order to
achieve higher performance. Our processors
are able to eliminate that where a Pentium
processor has some issues as it goes along
with trying to eliminate those dependencies.
Each 686 is optimized for maximum instruction throughput."
Offering a less complex example of what

that means, Lapinski explains that an Intel

processor might experience what are called
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amounts of instructions while a Cyrix 686
chip has two pipes thus eliminating such
stalls. This, according to Lapinski, results in a
five to 10 percent increase in performance
over an equivalently rated Pentium chip.
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are industry compatible with all existing software while still incorporating these kinds of
enhancements.
The cost-saving element in terms of
Cyrix chips being cheaper than Intel chipsis explained in terms of the company's infrastructure.
ul can first say that we' re 400 people versus Intel's thousands, so our cost structure is a
little bit different. Our manufacturing costs
also benefit through having IBM as a partner,
keeping in line with the size of an Intel giant.
Civen that combination of partnerships
between IBM and Cyrix and getting access to
the latest technology processes, we' re able to
offet very competitive prices."
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Dean Whitehair, public relations manager for
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CPUs,
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very little difference between makes of CPUs
in consumer-level computers.
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107

they' re still measuring CPU performance

based on clock speeds. But what we' re seeing,
for example, is that AMD's KS with a P rating
of 133 has a core clock speed of only about
100 MHz but it performs as fast, or faster,
than a Pentium 133," Whitehair says.
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multimedia desktop machine, including
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on a KS with a P rating of 90 is that the cost
of a whole system is kept much lower. Still,
the AMD K5 is totally socket compatible on
the Pentium motherboards so only the CPU
ID in the BIOS would have to be changed if

architecture that reduces the complexity of a

someone actually had a Pentium machine

chip by using simpler instructions] core of the

and wanted to put a KS into the socket,"

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issue between makes. It's in the reduced cost
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with a non-Intel CPU.
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that when IBM approached Intel with the
decision to use DOS on the first PCs, they said
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CPU cost/quality question.
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CPU to purchase.
"We feel quite strongly that the Pentium
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consumer. First, because there's only one
Pentium processor and that has come to
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and though it's difficult to describe all that is
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marketplace, there are incredible resources
and investments that we apply to the development, the validation and the production of

our microprocessors,
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of validation of the microprocessor to ensure
the performance, to ensure the compatibility,
to ensure the functionality. And then the
next step is the whole process of manufacturing technology that goes into building these
very, very reliable parts in very, very high volumes.
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Pentium processor] gets is the benefit of a
processor that has shipped in the tens of millions so it's been proven over an incredible
variety of systems, of user types, of application software, of operating system software,

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to the highest-end workstations and servers."

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millions of dollars on microprocessor validation.
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specific areas of the competitors' chips might
be most tactfully described as "a major disconnect on the part of those particular individuals."
. He points out that there are different ways
to look at performance, "and, in some cases,
others may run a particular benchmark and
claim that that represents the overall performance of the processor. But we don't look at
it that way at all. We actually do performance
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variety of industry-standard benchmarks and
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good about where our processors stand on
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"It's much, much faster than other
devices. Typically things like 3D and graphics
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any floating point-oriented benchmark like
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"Without getting too technical, there are
power consumption differences between
processors too the power consumption is
quite a bit lower on the Pentium processor
than on some of the alternatives and, in
general, the higher volume of motherboards
has been developed around the Pentium
processor," he adds,
Spindler says Intel "always uses the best
technology and techniques as we develop
new generations of our microprocessors,n and
that in some cases the competitors' devices
"employ different techniques that allow them
to make the claim that their product runs
equivalent to a higher-speed Pentium processor, for example, but, again, I think somebody
should look at a broad variety of benchmarks

before making an overall performance comparison because those claims are generally
made on a particular type of a benchmark."
Concluding his remarks by addressing the
cost issue, Spindler says, "you really need to
look at what's out there. There are Pentium
processor-based systems that are selling at all
the way down to entry-level types of prices.
Even at the entry level a computer is a significant investment and I think that the buyers
are looking for something that they know is
proven technology. Proven in terms of compatibility, proven in terms of validation,
proven in terms of performance. And all that

applies to the Pentium processor."

Synthesis
Which sums things up rather neatly if in a
slightly convoluted manner. Where Lapinski,
Whitehair and Spindler have not unexpectedly pitched for each of their respective employers, it seems there's much tacit agreement
that performance and compatibility should
not be a concern for us as we shop for a system, Beyond that, each has expressed a collection of proprietary advantages for their
particular product. As consumers, we seem to
be in a win-only position... for a change,Q

Explorer on the Cassiopeia, and am happy to

report that setting up my Internet service and
Cofftinuetl from page l02
logging on took less than five minutes. I
inserted a Fujitst( 28.8 PC Card modem,
Pocket Excel includes a good set of formu- which the Cassiopeia auto-recognized, and
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dial-up utility (which is similar to the one
ports multi-sheet workbooks. I'm not much
of a spreadsheet user, but I' ve loaded a couple found in Windows 95), it was a simple matter
of small spreadsheets I use regularly into the
of dialing in, and then launching the Web
Cassiopeia, which is very handy to have. On browser.
the downside, the small screen allows only a
However, be warned that the current genlimited number of columns to be shown, so I eration of PC Card devices will tax the handhave to scroll around a lot to find the inforheld device's two AA batteries severely. The
mation I need.
factory installed batteries had only about two
Along with the built-in applications, the
hours' use when I first attempted to use the
Cassiopeia also ships with a Windows CE CD- modem, and within f ive m inutes, were
ROM, which contains the applications you
drained. After loading a fresh set, I managed
load onto your Windows PC to communicate to use the modem for about five minutes, and
with the Cassiopeia. The main application is
the battery meter still read "good."
the HPC Explorer, which recreates the
When you turn the Cassiopeia on after
Cassiopeia's screen on your PC and allows inserting the PC Card modem, you are greetyou to remotely control the Cassiopeia from
ed with a warning dialog, pointing out that
the Windows desktop on your PC, The CD
the device will be hard on your batteries, and
a lso contains a n u p d ated v ersion o f you should use an AC adapter. Unfortunately,
Schedule+ for your desktop, Pocket Internet the AC adapter is an extra-cost option with
Explorer, and an Internet mail application.
the Cassiopeia.
Once you' ve installed HPC Explorer on
However, short battery life is not a probyour personal computer, transferring files lem specific to the Cassiopeia. Other devices
between the Cassiopeia and the PC is a simple ' that accept a PC Card device like the
matter of dragging files in and out of the HPC Hewlett Packard OmniGo have an equally
Explorer window. Because Pocket Word and hard time running these devices with the
Pocket Excel use a different file format than
built-in batteries. Under normal use, the
the full-blown versions, a file conversion
Cassiopeia's batteries are rated to last about 20
piocess occurs automatically during file trans- llours.
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on your PC and the PIM modules in the
Where are the other applications?
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cally done each time you connect the two
section in its pavilion at Fail Comdex, and
units together.
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The synchronization utility also creates an dozen and a half third-party software, peripharchive on your PC, in case calamity befalls eral and accessory vendors to participate.
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floating point intensive, for example, so a
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Sanders claimed PC-based business is
one of the growth areas for AMD and that
the figures reflect this. "Revenues from our
Computation Products Group (CPG), primarily M i c rosoft W i n d ows-compatible
microprocessors, grew from the immediateprior quarter, Shipments of AMD-KS microprocessors more than doubled to 500,000
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70 percent of the desktop market," said
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from the other parts of AMD's business would
not "offset the losses we are incurring in CPG,
where revenues are currently insufficient to
absorb the substantial fixed costs of maintaining our strategic commitment to t he
Microsoft Windows-compatible microprocessor market."
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above,there are those with deep pocketsand
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...IanSC400 microcontroller comply with
impact on the future of chip companies.
industry standards.
(Windows CE is a portable version of 32-bit
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uses a graphical user interface similar to
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has pulled ahead. As well, one of the packages this, then think again. However, these things
from last year, Simply Money, has changed turn out in the long run, it is the consumer
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in 1995. Now tt has increased the feature set
to include Internet sites, and a wizard that
will automaticaIIy translate Quicken files into
Money format, and it has lowered the cost so
that the street price in Canada will be below
$50 at some wholesale-style stores. Tough to
beat.
Microsoft Money 97 is a CD-ROM-based

Windows program for Win 95 or NT 4.0 (it

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hardware for the program is any machine that
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Windows 95, but on anything
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pot a t oes without any fancy

sauce served on a plain plate,

CanPlan 96 Personal Edition

for Windows is for you.

There is insufficient space to detail the

It is surprising that Intuit

n u merous improvements, but the software is Si mply Money

has gone to the trouble of

ri c h i n features. Intuit claims that it has 65 F r om: CD Titles

gram are as one would expect

altering its program to suit the percent of the Canadian personal financial Suggested retail price: under$20

with account ledgers, loan and

mortgage amortizing, printing
of cheques, portfolio manager,

Canadian market as this mar-

asset tracking, financial calendar with drag and drop and an

good to see that the company handsdown thebestprogramin thissurvey. a $ 70 program from Computer Associates.
is truly interested in meeting
The review found the program unique, simple
the needs of its customers and CnnPlan Personal Edition for
and under-powered. Now owned by CD
has taken the advice of The Wi n dows
Titles, the program has found a new life as an

m a r ket that may, or may not, be so. If it

Fr o m th e category of recyde, reduce, reuse

ket is about the same size as isn' t, it soon will be if this release is any indi- comes the second life of Simply Money.
the state of California. It i s

extensive help system with

text-based reference informa::".>4';.4
t ion to help answer many .
financial questions.
As a newer Microsoft program, it uses
IntelliSense technology which is Microsoft's

way of saying the program tries to guess what

you are going to do based on what you have
already done. Thus, things like autofill and
other automated routines work to save you
keystrokes. The basic components are good
and prima
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release.
Money 97 now has a built-in Internet
launch routine that takes you from the program to Web sites, as long as you have your
Internet connection set up. This feature
worked well for us. We liked this feature and
the related feature the Money Zone. The
Money Zone is simply a Web site that the

software will take you to. There, you will find

information about stocks, financial articles,
links to other sites and upgrade or patch
information should Microsoft offer it.
There is a simplified online setup for electronic banking that works by entering the
routing number from the bottom of your
cheque. The software then tries to dial a number that will check to see if your institution
offers online services. We couldn't get the

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om puterPaper's 1994-95 rec- F r om: Springbank Publishing Co.

inexpensive little CD-ROM.

ommendations by removing as Suggested retail price: $50

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much American content and features as pos- Reviewed here last year as the little program he is trying to make "the Simply Money chequesible, (Now if only they could get the spelling that roared, CanPlan 96 Personal Edition for w r iting and personal fmance program as easy
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Too many visitors1

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IMs, or personal information managers,

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increased ease and greater ability to transfer
between different data types.
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any other medium. Thus, your PIM would
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if you decided you wanted the information.
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almost everyone else. A consortium of developers, excluding the software giant, has proposed an electronic business card, but it
seems that the same feature offered in the
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proposal. It is tough to say who will cave in
but, in the meantime, it is we the consumers
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Ease of use: Is the interface easy to learn?
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Features: Will the PIM do all that you
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organizers is a real joy.

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details for example, each month the calendar displays a small unobtrusive banner that

nicely evokes the feeling of the season. As

well, the default color schemes are aesthetically pleasing as well as perfect for distinguishing various types of information. Daily,
weekly, and monthly views are available as
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drag and drop some items from one area to
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versal as in other programs.

SideKick 95 was one of the few programs

that imported Microsoft card files and

Schedule+ files perfectly. Also nice, SideKick

has a world view that not only lists various,
definable time clocks but also shows which
area of the surface of the globe is currently in
sunlight. This little feature is a nifty way to
see whether the rest of the planet is about to
get up or go to bed.
As one would expect, the program has a
phone dialer, recurring events, support for
Microsoft Exchange, password protection and

a slew of other features. Unfortunately, the

overall effect falls a little short. It is not possible to drag and drop appointments in the

monthly view. The program places icons all

over the desktop, which seems unnecessary.
This is a program that is pretty and easy to
get up and running, but the depth of features
and the ease of navigation are not there as
they are for the other programs. As an introduction to the PIM world, or for a casual user,
this i's a fun little program.

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robust program that will work very well by

itself or a s p a r t o f L o t u s SmartSuite.
Considering the space limitations here, let me
dispense with listing the program's features.
The basic components that are found in most
of these programs are also found here.
The features that set the program above
the rest are as follows:
The great linking ability: As an OLE 2.0,
32-bit program for either Win 3.x or NT, it
is possible to do almost all your work
from inside of the PIM.
True drag and drop: Things that you
would expect to be drag and drop all are.
The interface is good and the navigation
tools are excellent.
Ot h er Organizer 97 features include: A
new daily calendar view with appointments displayed as blocks of time in a
graphical format, rollover of planned calls
until completed, and rich text formatting.
There are other interesting functions such
as launching yoUr Internet browser or email program, but there are two very
exciting things that really presage the

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serious threat to Microsoft's plans to dominate the corporate LANs of the world. Equally
compelling i s t h e n e w W e b C alendar.
Organizer 97 Web Calendar, a Web server
application that enables Organizer 97 files to
be accessed through industry leading Web
browsers, is available as a free download from
Lotus' Web site (see contact).
Organizer 97 Web Calendar will allow
Organizer 97 users to access, share and manage schedules and tasks remotely over the
Internet or on corporate intranets. "Organizer
97 Web Calendar extends the power of the
Organizer 97 PIM, allowing users to remotely

Details:

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Organizer.
Organize~ 97 Web Calendar is a common
gateway interface (CGI) application that is
installed onto a Web server. Once installed,
end users can save their Organizer 97 (.OR3)
files onto a network file server or a Web serv-

er, Using Netscape Navigator 3.0 or Microsoft

Internet Explorer 3.0, end users can then con-

nect to a home page and access their

Organizer information by specifying a file
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Suggested retail price: Part of Microsoft Office 95
The original Schedule+ is a puny little PIM that
I have used since it hit the market at the
release of Windows 95. It is a plain Jane, vanilla program that is functionally prosaic and
visually dull. Microsoft has replaced it. But

"The day after tomorrow," "Two weeks from

t oday" o r e v e n "Three weeks before
Christmas" and the software will enter the
correct date. I'm not kidding, type in "meet
Bob S. for lunch tomorrow," and the luncheon is entered in your calendar!
Another development is the move toward
the Internet Explorer-style interface. The new
Office applications have a cleaner toolbar
look that is consistent with the toolbars in
Internet Explorer 3 and the beta of 4. There
are a number of other new features that take
advantage of Microsoft's knowledge of its
own operating system, but you will have to
wait for another issue for a full evaluation.

they have done more than buiid a new PIM,

Of interest is the degree to which the

they have re-invented the PIM and combined

it with t h eir c o mmunications program
Microsoft Exchange. At the time of writing, I
do not have a copy of the product and therefore there is no review. However, having seen
a detailed demonstration of the product, I will
mention a few of its features and comment on
some of the developments in this area.
Microsoft's new information/communication program is called Outlook and it will be
released in conjunction with Microsoft Office
97 or as a standalone application it should

Internet is built into the product. Microsoft

clearly expects both private, and business,
users to have a continuous online connection.
Along these same lines is the Microsoft
business card protocol. With the new electronic business card, updating and maintaining a database of contacts could be immeasurably easier. As mentioned above the problem lies with finding an industry-wide, open

and displays the information stored in the

Organizer file as a standard Web page. Users
also have the ability to post Organizer files
that can be accessed and shared by multiple
users. Organizer 97 is a great choice, whether
for personal or business use.

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impressive. By combining your e-mail, fax,
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your addresses, phone numbers, calendar
appointments and to-do list, Microsoft has
created a one-stop work centre for the organization and tracking of all communications.
The program is very object-oriented and
will allow for dragging almost any data onto
any other. There are neat little enhancements
such as the ability to schedule a meeting for

format for these cards. On the one hand is a

specification announced by Versit, a subsidiary of IBM, and Siemens, as well as Lucent
Technologies, with the support of some 50
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Oracle, HP, IrDA and Netscape, to name a few.
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WordPerfect since buying the company, the
boost in sales is little more than WordPerfect
has traditionally gained from the issue of a
new release of the product, b u t s i nce
Word Perfect sales are all now in the suite configuration, the sales that typically would have
been spread over the word-processing and
suite sales were all combined into an impressive summer market share for Corel.
Higgins also says Corel hasn't made any
significant dent in corporate sales of suite
products, where Microsoft continues to
dominate with Office for Windows 95 and
has great hopes for its upcoming Office 97.

Corel brews a java version

One of the most exciting developments so

far in Core)'s tenure with WordPerfect has
been the emergence of a plan t o o f f er
WordPerfect Office for use with industry
standard World Wide Web browsers that can
handle Java code, In May, the company
Core) also did not do itse)f any favors unveiled this scheme to create "a suite of
with the p roblems it ha d i n s h i pping integrated office productivity applicanons"
WordPerfect Office. ln mid-September the
written for Java.
company stated that, "as a result of a comCore) promised that the suite would
bination of factors" it h a d experienced include Java versions of applications based
delays in shipping copies of Core) Office
on Core) WordPerfect, Core) Quattro Pro and
Professional 7 ordered in the third quarter of
other productivity applications, all integratfiscal 1996. The amount of product ordered ed within a new graphical user interface
but not shipped (and therefore not included (GUI) framework. lt pledged that this new
in Corel's revenue for the quarter) was
office suite would exploit the technological
approximately $15 million.
experience gained by Core) from Corel
"We focus on shipping the highest qual- WordPerfect Suite, as well as leverage the
ity product with the greatest functionality
advantages of the Java platform, offering
possible. As a result, delays can be encoun- cross-platform functionality based on comtered in engineering as every effort is made ponent architecture that is delivered online.
"Core) has been quick to embrace Java
to include the latest functionality and to
eliminate all significant bugs prior to releas- technology as a key in the company's
internet strategy, and we intend to deliver a
ing a product to manufacturing, As well, the
normal pattern of sales orders in the induscontinuous supply of software products suptry results in a substantial weighting of
porting this language," enthused Cowpland.
"Productivity applications based on Java
orders to the end of a quarter," explained
Core) chief executive officer and president
technology could soon overtake Windows in
Michael Cowpland.
volume."
"Being a multi-product company, it is
The plan was for the Java-based suite to be
frequently difficult to p r oject accurately
s a series of Java classes, which
which particular products will be ordered in
could allow i t t o b e f r eely extensib)e.
any particular quarter where there are no
Additional functionality could then be downnew releases.... All of these factors have an
loaded as required by the user, and modu)ar
impact on the production scheduling. These architecture does account for a small footprint.
Around the same time, Corel also introdifficulties are attributable to our continuing integration of the new products acquired duced Corei Barista, what it called "a core technology" that it promised would allow users of
by the company and all our systems and
Core) Office Professional's WordPerfect 7 and
programs are under ongoing review to
address and correct any deficiencies in these Core) Ventura 7 to create documents based
entirely on the Java platform, without any
areas."
programming requirements.
Cunning for the corporate market
And by mid-October, Corel was making
One thing Core) expects to do more often in
the first public trial of Corel Office for Java by
the near future is attract corporate customers offering it for use at the Core) Web site, makfor its products. In late August, it unveiled a ing it the first major office suite to be written
strategy to give customers the choice between entirely in the Java programming language.
two corporate licensing options.
Dubbed Core) Office for Java, Corel claims
According to C o rel, customers may that it will "let you create spectacular office
documents that are immediately publishable
choose to license the product only, or they
may choose what the company calls the Core) to your local printer, your intranet, or the
Internet" without conversion or reformatting.
Network Soiution (which is basically the
"Thanks to Java's platform independence,
product plus a CroupW)se Client Licence).
Core) says the Network Solution wiil
robust architecture, and object-oriented proenhance its corporate customer's office com- gramming, Core) Office for Java is the first
munications by providing information sharapplication suite that can provide a working, internal/external e-mail and schedu)ing group environment unlike any other," trumcapabilities as well as the ability to assign
peted the company in its announcement.
"No more worrying about formats, standards,
tasks, write notes and keep track of phone
messages.
or operating systems just portable docu"This va)ue-adde4approach provides corments that can be shared across multiple platporate customers with the client licence at a forms in any computing environment."
Well, almost. At least the first beta version
reasonable price and makes it possible for
them to benefit from an increase in produc- of this product is not completely portable,
tivity as they use the scheduling and messag- particularly if you use an older browser. )n the
ing capabilities of G roupW)se in t h eir
preamble to the Carel Office for Java site, the

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offices," says Cowpland.

The Core) Network Solution option
applies to Core)'s business suites, Core)
W ord Perfect Suite a n d Co r e ) O f f i ce
Professional, which are available for purchase
through Core)'s Corporate Licensing Program.
This offer is valid for any number of users in
Core)'s Choice or Universal licensing programs. The CroupW)se 4.1 Client Licence will
no longer be included in retail copies of Core)
Office Professional 7 an d C o re) Office
Professional 3.1 which is probably no great
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company offers some warnings

about what to expect warnings that make it

clear Corel is far from actually finishing this
product.
"This preview provides you with a limited
feature set to give you an idea of what we
envision for the final version. Because you are
previewing a product that is still in its devel-

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ported and healthier option for suite and

w ord-processing users than it was in t he
hands of Novell.
Users can now buy this product, secure in
the knowledge that it not only has a future,
but also one that is being strongly supported
by good research and development and
strong links to the hottest trend on the plan-

become more powerful," Corel warns.

"Microsoft will be releasing an update to
Microsoft Internet Explorer that will fully
support Corel Office for Java. Until then, do
not use MSIE Version 3.0 as it may cause your
s ystem to hang. Similarly, do no t u s e
Netscape Navigator 2.0x. For best results use
Netscape Navigator 3.0 or JavaSoft's HotJava
Browser."
(And indeed our prelinunary tests with
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Bring hack the Mac

Another laudable development during Corel's
time at the WordPerfect helm has been the
release of a long overdue update to the
Macintosh version of WordPerfect, something
longtime Mac WordPerfect users may have
started to give up on during the dying days of
Novell's ownership of the products.
ln August, Corel announced the updated
v ersion of C o rel W o rdPerfect 3.5 f o r
Macintosh and Power Macintosh. Known as
Carel WordPerfect 3.5, it was actually an
updated version of WordPerfect 3,5, previously shipped by Novell.
"Corel is excited about the business

prospects we see for supporting the

Macintosh platform. We think the Mac will
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Cowpland, telling Mac users what they clearly want to hear. "WordPerfect for Macintosh
has traditionally given users greater choice
and flexibility in utilizing new Apple technologies and Corel will continue to be the
industry leader in word processing innovation.
The new Corel package includes a collection of more than 150 TrueType fonts, 5,400
clipart images, 187 textures, 67 sounds and
200 stock photos. For managing new fonts
and sounds, MasterJuggler 2.0 Pro, a font,
sound and desk accessory utility, is also provided. Spanish, French and German language
tools, including a spell checker and thesaurus

(previously sold separately), are now also

included in the new package.
Corel says that for helping 'users put the
Internet to work, it has included Netscape
Navigator version 2.02. Updated hypertext
markup language (HTML) features include an
HTML button bar and macros for creating
custom HTML forms and borders. Also, the
HTML export now converts PICT images to
JPEG format for use on the World Wide Web.
Corel WordPerfect 3.5 easily converts
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