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that many companies
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Will we really know whether NAFTA is a achieve a significant wage differential for an
good idea until 25 years down the line? Is educated and efficient work force. The worldthe current monetary approach good or bad? wide trends are unstoppable.
p ower i s
rar e l y
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Can any Western government really effectively create new jobs in a slow world economy? How can Canada have full employment
(according toMaclean'smagazine there are
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Even with its massive spending and debt,
the government is only a very small part of
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becoming more evident that the new jobs are

So What Do We Do?
You think I have an answer when all those

politicians can't come up with one? Beserious. Some generalized notions to keep you
going, though. Hang in there. Get educated,

keep learning new and valuable skills. Be

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are no safe jobs, but there are some big
trends and opportunities. Even if you have a
job now, look for ways to make yourself
invaluable to your company. Or, in the event
going to have to come from the private sec- that your company goes bankrupt, make sure
tor.
that your skill set will be so desirable that
someone else will want to hire you. Try to
Computers A Net Zero To prosluctlvlty? use computers and technology to your own
Why is it taking such a long time for the jobs advantage. Keep moving. Keep learning. Stay
to come back after thiI latest recession?One alert to changes that will affect you.

answer, I believe, istechnology.Foryears, the

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One of the most important components of your computer is its display. When making a purchase or
upgrade decision, there are several important factors to consider. This guide will help you understand some
a not-so-good one.
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graphics card for all IBM compatibles. Most
SVGA and other graphics cards also offer a

main motherboard of the computer. Amiga

VGA compatibility mode,

There are several other less common

have third-party display card options available for those who want higher resolutions
or more colors.
Resolution, of course, refers to the number of addressable picture elements (" pixels" )

video standards. At the end of this article, I' ll

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list some other artides on the topics of monitors and graphics adapters.
Although you don't often hear it said, a
VGA- or SVGA-compatible monitor is said to
be an analog display. This means that it can

display a full range of colors (or shades of

gray, in the case of a gray-scale display)essentially, as many as the video card can
deliver. In other words, it is a meaningless

question to ask how many colors a monitor

has. It depends on the graphics adapter.
One factor which will affect the number
of colors available on a system is the amount

of video memory. In most cases, this VRAM

(video random access memory) is mounted
right on the video card. Sometimes, addi-

tional VRAM can be purchased and added to

the video card, increasing the number of
available colors and/or the maximum resolu-

Types of Displays
If you have been familiar with the world of

computers. for more than a few years, you

may have heard that there are various kinds
of display systems. Many of the older types,
such as CGA, EGA, and Hercules monochrome are now effectively obsolete and
aren't worth discussing here. Only a year or
two ago, the nunimum display system most
users might have considered was VGA.
Today, the majority of PC users go a step
higher and choose a "Super VGA" (sometimes called SVGA) system, which offers
higher resolution.
Because we' re stepping into the murky

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world of terminology, let's stop and cover a

few definitions.
First, it is important to note that a "dis-

play system" is a combination of items: a

graphics adapter (and its software drivers),
appropriate cabling and a compatible monitor. Let's clear up some details about the

graphical user interfaces popularized the use

of bitmapped graphics displays, a typical

DOS screen would only have 80 columns by
25 rows of characters to display. As you can
imagine it is a lot quicker to move 2000
characters (a mere 2K of data) on a screen
than it is to move these multi-megabyte

screen images around. This is the main reason that bit-mapped,

pixel-oriented graphical displays arealwaysslower than characterbased displays.
For this reason, it is very important that

with higher maximum resolutions and

greater numbers of colors will require more
VRAM,

cal applications. The standard VGA and

SVGA cards that most PC manufacturers sell

In some cases, a computer may have

"built-in" video. This is the case with current
Macintosh, Arniga and Atari models. With

mean the same thing.

the number of displayable colors on a Mac

LC, Centris or Quadra series computer by

of computers, it is now a common type of

days before Microsoft Windows and other

you have a fast video card if you are planning on using Windows or any other graphi-

these computers, you do not have to open

array. Launched in 1987 with IBM's PS/2 line

on the screen. A display card with 1024x768

resolution with 24-bit color (explained later)
has to move 2.36 megabytes of data around
just to redraw the screen! By contrast, in the

tion. The amount of VRAM a bcerd ran support depends on its design, of course. Boards

graphics adapter that drives our display.

By the way, the terms "graphics adapter,"
"graphics card," "video card," and "display
card" are used interchangeably. They all
VGA is an acronym for video graphics

(and, to a lesser extent, Atari) computers

them up and install a video card a connector for a VGA or similar monitor is right
on the back You or your dealer can increase

installing additional VRAM into a slot on the

as part of their "bargain-priced" systems usually offer poor performance. As with other
aspects of computer systems,you get what
you pay for. If you base your purchase decision on the lowest price, you will probably
get asystem with poor performance. In other words, if your graphics card costs around
$75, it's going to be a slow one.
Remember that it is not just the speed of
the CPU that determines the overall performance of a computer. It's the "weakest link"
Continued on page11

lexmerlrs sets the record straight

In your article "HP Leads Bumper Crop of
Laser Printers" in the October, 1993 issue

mentioned in Mr. Horne's letter. Thanks for

bnnging this error of ona'ssion to our attention.

interuptions in the summer, mostly due to

lightning, often no more than a second, but

you mentionthe Lexmark 4029 6P and 10P

which were both discontinued by us in April,
1993 and were replaced by the Lexmark 4039
series (which supports automatic emulation

(The latest Lcm~ark printers will print at resolu-

just long enough to clean out the RAM...and

make my day.

switching).

tions of up to600 dpi. They support both Post-

Wouldn't it be possible to have a parallel

Script and PCL5 printer languages, and a

5martSwitch feature automatically adjusts
to the

battery DC supply behind the main power

supply, and of equal voltage so when the

is enough to keep a small system (say a386,

main rectifier shuts down it would keep the

RAM from losing all the info in it.

fiveor 10 minutesafterthepowergoes out,

Tripp Lite also makes similarly priced and fea-

appropriate language.

The printers are powered by an AMD RISC

Darren Horne,
Region Manager,Lexmark Canada inc.

CI's reply:
The statements I made in the printers article
regarding the lexmark models 1 mentioned are
100% trueas printed. H owever, 1 should have
also added that Lexnrnrk has discontinued the
6P and 10P models in favor of the new ntodels

AC line power has been internipted and switches

to the backup po~er system within a few milliseconds.A basic unit the AP250 from American Power Conversion for example costs
about $150 and provides 250 voltwrnps, which

processor operating at16 MHz. The IOR comes

with 2MB of memory and the 12R and 12L
come with 4MB. They can beexpanded to
16M8.)
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3. S. Eiriksson,
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sensing-switching devices which detect when the

hard drive and color monitor) going for about

tured units. Both brands are available in Canada.

Some people confuse UPSsystems

with surge
suppressors or voltage regdators, which protect
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EDITORIAL

PUBUSHER /EDITOR Douglas Alder

MANAGING EDITOR Graeme Bennett

NEWS EDITOR David Tanaka

CONTRIBUTINGEDITOR Geof Wheelwright
CONTRIBUTINGWRITERS Graeme Bennett
Frank Hilliard
James MacFarlane
Keith Schengili-Roberts
Joe Wheeler

INonitors 8 Display Cards

Continuedfrom page 9
mance of a computer. It's the "weakest link"
principle: a fast computer with a slow video
display card will appear slow. As I have writ-

ten before, a balanced mid-range system

with a good fast (12 ms or so) hard drive and
a fast video subsystem will provide much
better performance, overall, than a faster
computer with a bottom-of-the line video

card and a sluggish hard drive. Try to avoid

bottlenecks when you are putting a system
together.

Interlaced Video and Flicker

There is a trade-off between colors and resolution. Many video cards have more than

pass, and rapidly alternating the two, interlacing relies on the phenomenon called persistence of vision to allow us to view the two

one resolution available. Common ones are

640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 and, less commonly, 1280x1024.
Sometimes, the highest resolution(s) is

sets of images as one. The trouble is, there is

only available in a mode known as interlaced

usually a fairly obvious flicker. Most people

find it objectionable.

(Interlaced video does have its place,

though. Every Amiga computer has an

video. This interlaced mode is essentially a

trick which allows monitors to display double the resolution they would normally be

optional interlaced video IIIode which provides it with NTSC video compatibility. Oth-

capable of. By displaying even scan lines during one pass and odd scan lines on another

such as the Aver AverKey or ConsumerTech-

er computers usually require an adapter box

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Monitors Sc Display Cards

The number of frames the monitor draws

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Devices that can overlay computer graphics

most monitors will also refer to the horizon-

on live video are available at higher prices.)

Computer advertisements sometimes
refer to "non-int." monitors. This means the

monitor does not rely on interlaced video to

achieve its stated resolution. When choosing

a monitor and display card, be sure to base

your final decision on what you see, not

or vertical scanning frequency. This value is

expressed in hertz (Hz). The spec sheets for
tal frequency. This number is expressed in
kilohertz (KHz).
The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA, the same folks who brought us

the minimum for 640x480 and 800x600 dis-

plays, while 1024x768 displays should provide a 70 Hz refresh rate. Higher rates are
better.
When a display card claims to be "VESA

compatible" or "VESA compliant," it means

that the card, either through software

("TSR") or hardware (" BIOS" ), is said to be

register-compatible with the VESA specifica-

VL-Bus and Super VGA) have come up with

tion. Some software programs require VESA-

some recommended monitor refresh rates.

compliancy.

According to VESA, a refresh rate of 72 Hz is

what the spec sheet says.

Different Cards for Different Tasks
There are different types of video cards available. Most tend to be optimized for a particular kind of display task. For DOS applications, a type of card known as a frame buffer
provides good performance at a low price.
Cards based on the Cirrus Logic GD5422 or
the Tseng ET4000 chipsets are top performers in DOS applications, according to a Jan.
12, 1993 PC Magazinesurvey. Basically, this

survey concluded that accelerator cards have

the fastest overall Windows performance,

while cards based on the Tl TMS34020

coprocessor are the fastest under AutoCAD,

Typically, coprocessor cards are more costly,

but can be programmed to squeeze extra performance gains from specific applications.

Such cards are worth the extra money to

AutoCAD users.

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One of the most important considerations

when choosing a video card is its software. It

should provide bug-free support for your

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favorite applications. You might think that

most video cards ship with bug-free software.
Unfortunately, this is all too often not the

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at the sorry state of most video drivers,
Because there are so many poor performers,
I' ll mention some of the best Windows accelerators instead. Canadian manufacturer ATI's
Graphics -Ultra Plus (US$499), NDI's Volante
AT600 Plus (US$395) and Metheus Premier

1280 NI (US$399) all offer excellent performance. The ATI offering is a 24-bit card; the

others provide 15-bit color (32,768 hues).

In living Color

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The number of colors available may vary

depending on the resolution the card is displaying. Although the 256 colors available
on a typical VGA system may seem like a lot,
many users find that systems offering thou-sands or even millions of colors are only
marginally more expensive. A system with
256 available colors is said to have an 8-bit
display; 15- and 16-bit displays provide

32,768 and 65,536 colors respectively.

Graphics professionals might want a "24-bit"
display system with a whopping 16.7 million
colors.

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Note that these numbers have nothing to

do with the number of bits your computer's
CPU (central processing unit) has. In other
words, your 32-bit computer might have a
24-bit graphics card while someone else' s
486 might contain an 8-bit one. The number
of colors available doesn't relate to the CPU
at all.
As with everything to do with computers,
there's a good mathematical reason for these
numbers. If you know a little about how
"powers of two" work, you' ll have no trouble. For example, two to the power of two
(shown as 2"2) equals four and 2"4 =16
(Zx2x2x2). As you may know, computers use

a binary (base 2) number system for all com-

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there's a good mathematical reason for these
numbers. If you know a little about how
"powers of two" work, you' ll have no trouble. For example, two to the power of two
(shown as 2"2) equals four and 2"4 =16

open the Monitors control panel to change

the number of display colors. On the Amiga,
this is accomplished through a Preferences
option.)

(2x2x2x2). As you may know, computers use

a binary (base 2) number system for all computation. Hopefully, you can see how the
larger numbers are calculated.

You SayYou Want a Resolution

24-bit displays are pretty much de rigeur

for graphic artists and users performing professional-level image editing, photo-retouch-

processor, graphics program or desktop pub-

lution will probably be something in the

lishing application will be about half the size

it should be.

neighborhood of 108-dpi. Hence, an onscreen inch looks about 5/8ths of a "real"

In case you don't know what those numbers are in the Font menu of your favorite

Another resolution-related topic is having a

WYSIWYG display. Many users with SVGA

true WYSIWYG display should show 72 dots

4FGe monitors and are running in 640-by480 mode, you can obtain quite a precise

cards feel, well, obligated to run the card at

its maximum resolution. The trouble with
having 1280x1024 on a 13- or 14-inch monitor is that the ruler in your favorite word

per inch on the screen.

WYSIWYG display, especially if you adjust

If your display card's resolution is 1024

by 768 and your screen is a typical 13-inch

the horizontal and vertical controls while

comparing an on-screen ruler against a "real"

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menus and windows all over the place, you
soon feel that you hardly have any room to
work in.
A larger screen is clearly an advantage. If
you are a devoted Windows buff, I recommend a 17-inch screen. This size offers 45 to

60 percent more viewing area than a typical

14-inch monitor, but does not cost an unreasonable amount more.
(This is less of a problem for Macintosh
users. Most PC owners don't realize the Mac
can support more than one monitor/display
card and move windows and other items
between screens as if they were "portholes"
looking into a single, larger "desktop.")
CAD and DTP aficionados may want to
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to view an 8.5xll-inch page at actual size.
These monitors are available from several

manufacturers in gray-scale or color. Radius

even manufactures a model called the Pivot
that can swivel between landscape mode and
portrait mode for extra versatility.
It is important to remember that the
more colors and/or pixels you have on
screen, the slower your video performance is
going to be. Hence, it becomes essential to
have "accelerated video" when you are deal-

ing with many colors or high resolutions.

Many Windows users are surprised when
they discover that simply reconfiguring their
existing video card to display at a lower resolution or with fewer colors can provide a significant performance boost. You may want
to try manually installing several different

display drivers, so that you quickly switch

modes with the Windows Setup function.
(Mac and Amiga users, as usual, have an easier time of things. On any color Mac, just

display such as NEC's excellent MultiSync

(measured diagonally) size, your display reso-

less expensive gray-scale monitor, an 8-bit

display card is all you need. It will display a
full "photo-realistic" range of 256 grays. A
24-bit display is simply 8 bits worth of red, 8
bits worth of blue and 8 bits worth of green.
A 24-bit display is said to be "true color,"
meaning that there are enough colors that
the human eye cannot distinguish between
adjacent hues in the 16.7-million color

display. shades of gray.) We suspect few users

If, on the other hand, you have a 15-inch

applications, they are point sizes. There are

72 points to an inch (72.27 precisely); thus, a

ing, or color pre-press work. If you prefer a

the last Seybold Publishing conference that

suggested that perhaps 24-bit color isn't really enough; that perhaps we ought to have
48-bit color. (I' ll leave it as an exercise for
the reader to figure out how many colors
that would be!) Nevertheless, 24-bit color
provides a practically unlimited tonal range.
(Of course, a color display can also be set to

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deep pockets, you can get a 21-inch display

for your display card's 1280x1024 mode. But
be sure you are sitting down when you check

bit bus. As you might guess, it could transmit

16 bits (two characters) at a time over its

puter is equipped

connector. Today, most IBM-compatible PCs

out the price for a good-quality color display

have this AT type of bus, which is now

of that size the video card alone can cost

more than a few thousand dollars!

referred to as ISA (industry standard architecture). Modern-day ISA machines have both

There are a couple of competing

local-bus specifica-

Before we leave the topic of resolution, it

is worth noting that all "compact" (mono-

8- and 16-bit slots, for backward compatibility with older cards. However, if you use a

chrome) Macs, including the very first model

released in 1984, have had 72-dpi screen dis-

card with an 8-bit connector, it is going to

communicate with your computer more

and Intel's PCI

(Peripheral Component Interconnect).
Computers equipped

plays. This was one reason the Mac was-

slowly than a 16-bit connector would. While

this might not matter in the case of an inter-

with t h e V L - B us
local bus (sometimes

nal 2400-bps modem, a graphics adapter

refered to as VESA
Local Bus or simply
VLB) have been

and continues to be so popular for DTP

applications.
Although VGA and its relatives are dis-

with an 8-bit connector can seriously affect

plays for IBM-compatible PCs, Macintosh,

video performance.

Amiga and Atari computers use similar technology,too. You can connect a VGA monitor up to most of today's computers. All
monitors have one or moie "scanning frequencies," which determine the video modes
it will be compatible with. If the monitor has
a fixed number of available frequencies, it is

Further complicating the issue is the fact

that, even though current CPUs are much
faster than they were in the AT's heyday, the
modern PC's ISA bus still operates at the
original's speed of 8 megahertz (MHz), On
today's fast 32-bit computers (say, a 33 MHz
386 or a 25 MHz 486), this 8 MHz ISA bus
acts like a bottleneck. Other bus types, such

said to be a "fixed frequency multiscan dis-

with a local bus.

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year. As you might
expect, there are a
fair number of VLB us vi deo c a r d s

available by now.
The main limitation
of VL-Bus is..that
only two or t h ree
devices (e.g., a video
card and a hard disk

play." The best monitors have a variable

number of frequencies. They can adapt to
the widest number of video signals. For best
results and support for the widest range of
resolutions, look for a monitor that offers

as IBM's MCA (microchannel architecture)

variable frequency multiscanning, not fixed

by improving the speed at which the video

card (or other device) can communicate with
the computer's CPU. As Roedy Green
explained in his excellent article on the subject in the April 1993 issue of The Computer

nected at once.
PCI, on the other hand, supports up to
ten devices on the bus at once. PCI has other
technical advantages, too. Dell, which just

announced its first PCI-equipped PC, claims

tiple peripherals to operate independently,"

Dell's chief Technology Officer Glenn Henry

frequency multiscanning.

What lsa local Busl

In a nutshell, a "bus" is a connector. Typically, a computer's motherboard has expansion

and EISA (extended industry standard architecture) provide a 32-bit bus, eliminating this
bottleneck

A so-called local bus goes one step further

or multi I/O controller) can be congies only allow one peripheral to operate at a
time, PCI has the advantage of allowing mul-

Paper(back issuesmay still be available), the

that because PCI bus devices are not directly

said at the introduction.

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local bus attaches almost directly to the CPU

XT-type PCs had what was known as an 8-bit

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and operates at the speed of the CPU. Hence,

attached to the processor bus, the processor

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peripheral is accessing information from the
system's main memory.
"While many other local bus techno1o-

Intel says that PCI technology will enable

vendors to offer what it calls "auto-configuration." The system can automatically recognize when a PCI-compatible add-in board

the bottleneck is eliminated. Local-bus video

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There is some concern regarding the lowlevel radiation and electromagnetic fields
emitted by monitors and other electronic
clusive evidence of any harmful effects, you
might want to consider a monitor that
promises compliance with the so-called
SWEDAC (Swedish Board for Measurement

and Testing) guidelines (advertisements

sometimes simply refer to these as "'Swedish
emission standards") if you are concerned
about the risk.
Glare and radiation filters for video display terminals are available from several
manufacturers, including No-Rad, Sun Flex
Some black area around a monitor's display area is
normal, but the image should not have any appreciable
concaveorconvex "pincushioning"distort
ion,asshown
here. Also, check that the display is not crooked,
unevenly colored or blurry at the corners.

What's DotPltchl

and OCLI. For more information on VDTs

and radiation risk, refer to the articles on the
subject mentioned at the end of this article.

The term "dot pitch" refers to the size of the

individual dots of light that make up the dis-.

Finally, you may wish to look for a moni-

equipment. While there is virtually no con-

play. Different types of monitors use differ-

tor that meets the new (U.S.) government

standards for energy efficiency set forth in
the Energy Star program.

ent technologies to put the dots on-screen.

Some use what is known as a "shadow
mask," while Sony uses a sort of grill in its
Trinitron picture tubes. (Technically, a Trinitron tube doesn't have a "dot pitch," it has

With appropriate software (typically

included with the displays), an Energy Starcompliant monitor or other device can automatically power-down when not in use to

an "aperture grill pitch." Now you know.) I

prefer the razor-sharp image quality of Trini-

save energy. Besides energy savings, these

tron tubes to any other technology, even

monitors are claimed to have the added benefit of a longer lifespan.

though all Trinitrons have a faint horizontal

line (it's actually a wire) visible about twothirds o f t h e w a y
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advances in the Pentium architecture. Digital

Equipment Corp. has also declared that its

next generation of Alpha PCs will support
the PCI standard.
Although PCI is technically a superior
spec, it is newer and, as such, has fewer PCI-

bus video cards (etc.) available. (In July, 1993;

Montreal-based Matrox shipped what it
claimed was the first 64-bit graphics accelerator for PCI.) It is probable that you will not

be able to use local-bus cards designed for

VL-Bus in a machine equipped with a PCI
local bus, or vice-versa.

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1. Can your PC run DOS, IFindows

and OS/2' programs at the same time?

2. Can your PC simultaneouslyformat'

diskettes, connect to an online service kke
CompuServe and print a documenty

Note that just because a computer has a

local bus doesn't necessarily mean that the
video performance will be better. If you put

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an old, non-local bus video card in a localbus PC, you would not obtain any benefit.
Incidentally, you cannot use a local-bus

video card in a standard (non-local-bus) PC.

Thus, if you have a local bus system, you
must use a card desrgned for the local bus.
When you do, thouz ., the improvement in
video performance can be dramatic. For
example, asPC Magazine reported in its Jan.
12, 1993 article on graphics adapters, cards
based on the Mach 32 accelerator show the
VL-Bus version to be nearly three times as

fast as the ISA version of the same card.

Choosing a Monitor
When you are choosing a monitor, here are
the most important things you need to know.
Red, green and blue light combine to produce white light. This, of course, is where the
term "RGB monitor" comes from. An RGB
monitor's ability to place dots of light precisely on top of each other is essential for a

sharp image. This is called convergence. The

best way to check for misconvergence is to
look in the very corners of the screen while it
is displaying text or another sharp-edged,
steady image. You should not see color

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your computer'? Can you run the new generation of 32-bit

lets you choose from the broadest range of PC programs

cave or convex "pincushioning" distortion.

Also, try adjusting the brightness. Some mon-

programs? If you answered no, it's time to say yes to a

higher grade of PC performance.

itors are unduly blurry at highef brightness

or contrast settings.
If you are going to be doing any color
desktop publishing, you might want to get a

With OS/2 2.1 in your PC, you can get a lot more out of
your PC. It's simply a question of multiple choice. OS/2 2.1

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available to other Toaster

The US$2,395 Video

Toaster is one of those
widely used types 'of
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pie buy a full-blown computer system just to
product, but is used to work out ideas.
beabletouseit. Becauseoftherelativelylow
Sometimes though the Amiga output
cost
of a Toaster system (at about $10,000 for
makes it all the way to the screen. For exama typical setup, it's not that lowl), a virtual
pie, many of the effects on the new underwater sci-fl television series SeaQuest DSV are cottage industry has sPrung uP for Toaster~elated Products
created using Amiga computers at Amblin
With optional software called ToasterEntertainment's production facility.
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Ten artists there each have two Newtek
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images and other data over a high-speed
ers networked together that do nothmg but
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Video Toaster-equipped Amigas also created the spectacular spaceships seen in last
year's Babylon 5 TV movie. Reportedly, a

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19

itizer and true-color paint system, is a good

ry readouts, temporal distortion field calcula-

engineering and development" in recogni-

makes a better work area than the 12-bit

(4,096-color) color displays of older Amiga

choice for Amiga users looking for an inexpensive way to output images and anima-

tions and the like that you see on the show

are produced on a Macintosh by technical

tion of its Mac-based video production system, the Avid Media Composer. The compa-

2000 or 3000 models.

The new Toaster 4000 and the Amiga
4000's AGA chip set support high-resolution,

tions created with Amiga 3-D packages.

consultant Michael Okuda using SuperMac's

PixelPaint Professional, Macromind Director

ny claims the Media Composer is the most

popular digital, non-linear editing system in

Macs in Hoiiywood

and Swivel 3D software.

Rick Sternbach, credited as "technical
advisor" on the series, uses a Macintosh and
3-D software, too. Sternbach and Okuda coauthored Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual.

the world. Systems range from US$15,000 to

almost US$90,000.

Clearly, the 24-bit display of a Macintosh

256,000-color screen images instead of the

zoomed-in, low-resolution, 4,096-color display of the original Amigas. It's no wonder
many users called earlier versions of Toaster
Paint "the weakest module of the system 2.0
software."
A PC version of ToasterLink was planned,
but sales of the Mac version have been so
flat, it has been cancelled.
Refer to The Computer Paper'sJune '93
issue for more info on the Toaster.
The Video Toaster is by no means the
only professional-level movie-making tool
available for the Amiga. Sylvie Fefer, a Canadian animator nominated for a Genie award
for the animated short film "Brush Strokes,"
recently bought an Amiga 4000 system so

The Macintosh also figures prominently

in Hollywood. Aside from some major onscreen visibility in the movie Jurassic Park
(which, judging by the sales figures, everybody has seen by now), the Mac also figures
in such well-known series as Star Trek: The
Next Generation. No, that's not a PowerBook
on Captain Picard's desk, but most of the
animated computer displays, course trajecto-

Media Suite
Avid Technology, Inc. recently received
an Emmy for "outstanding achievement in

Avid has announced an upgrade to the

Composer series of products it calls Media
Suite Pro 2.0. According to the company, it is
the only all-digital, complete desktop video
production system on the market that lets
users produce finished videotapes with professional-quality images directly from their
Macintosh systems. Co n tinued on page 20

she coulduse a $100 pieceofsoftware called

Take 2.
According to Fefer, Take 2 and the digitizer it uses to capture images is without peer
when it comes to computerizing the arduous
task of line tests (also known as "pencil

tests").
According to Fefer, Take 2 can switch
between 24 fps (frames per second) for film
and 30 fps for video output tests. There is,

she says, no other program with its capabilities. "Another great thing," she says, "is that
it can print out an exposure sheet to guide

you when you' re actually shooting your

fiim Il
Take 2 is not without its drawbacks. The
program only works with the Vidi-Amiga

digitizer made by Scotland's ROMBO. Users

of DCTV, Digiview and other popular Amiga

on

digitizers are out of luck. Although the pro-

gram generously allows users to work in different bit-depths (2-bit, 4-bit, etc. up to 16bit), two files with different bit depths cannot be easily merged.
The nearest thing to Take 2 is another
Amiga program, Animation Stand, from
Irvine, CA-based Linkers System, Fefer
objected more strongly to the fact that the

company insisted on a per-cell royalty for

animations created with the program than
she did to its $3,000 price tag.

There are literally dozens of 3-D modelers

for the Amiga. The current leaders, though,
are LightWave, which ships with the Video
Toaster, and a sort-of-new entry into the
market, Real 3-D.
Real 3-D is the third generation of a program that, long-time users admit, didn't used
to be very good. Now, it's the most full-featured 3-D program for the Amiga, according
to VFX Video's Coniah Chuang. Particle animation, hierarchical movement, and the
ability to "shatter" or scatter objects are only
a few of Real 3-D's unique capabilities.

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3D Software
Continued from page18
Media Suite Pro 2.0 includes motion control and user-definable picture-in-picture

effects. Finished programs can be printed

directly from the computer to videotape, in
real time. The new release also includes a 60field option for improved image quality.
Media Suite Pro 2.0 offers users the
option of outputting an edit decision list

(EDL), expanding the system's functionality

for customers that wish to bring their programs to an online suite for finishing.
Media Suite Pro supports the European

PAL standard, and is available in English,

French, German, Italian and Kanji versions.
The package includes the Media Suite Pro

Photoshop can be used to create some

pseudo-3-D effects. The package comes with

application; video, JPEG compression and

as though they are seen through a bubble.

a spherize command that makes images look

audio boards; a SCSI-2 disk controller; cables;

user documentation; and a tutorial. The

Perspective, Skew, Extrude and Polar Co-

US$9,995 package runs on a Macintosh

Quadra 900, 950 or Ilfx with 16 MB of RAM
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storage and a color multisync monitor.

bag of pseudo-3-D tricks.

Kai's Power Tools, a $199 add-on package
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ordinates commands round out Photoshop's

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You can see Mac-based animation work

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and Kai's Power Tools) in the wild new

(Fall '93) title sequence for the comedy show

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There are numerous 3-D packages for the
Mac, with prices ranging from a few hundred
dollars at the low end {Adobe Dimensions,
Ray Dream AddDepth, Pixar Typestry, etc.)
to over $8000 at the top. Of course, the
majority of packages fall into the middle
ground between these extremes. Ray Dream

Designer (C$288 street), Aldus Super 3D 2.5

(C$429 street), Swivel 3D Pro 2.0 (C$669

street), Modelshop 1,2 (C$879 street), Alias

Sketch 1.5 (C$889 street), StrataVision 3d 2.6
(C$999 street) and Macromind Three-D 1.2
. ~ Stereagrem.Delccue your eyes slightly eird iry
ic meke the two dots at the idp of the image merge
iirtc one. (Note: some people can't seem to dc this.)

RerMIerlan
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anti-abasing, texture mapping, motion blur
depth-of-field, transparency and other
effects the company claims make it ideally

DOS PCs, Macintosh, and a variety of Unixbased systems, including Sun4/SPARC,Silicon Graphics IRIS-4D/Indigo, DECstation,
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suited to the challenges of creating special

effects for film.
PhotoRealistic RenderMan was used to
create award-winning effects in films such as
The Abyss, Termjnator 2 and Beauty and the
Beast.

Pixar has several Mac titles, most notably

MacRenderMan (a Macintosh implementation of its RenderMan rendering engine) and

RenderMan software was also used to create the imagery in John Lasseter's Academy
Award-winning short film, Tin Toy.
RenderMan products are available for

(C$1449 street) are only a few of the most

popular titles.

ShowPlace (essentially, a graphical "photo

studio" enviromnent in which to set up RIB

files for rendering with MacRenderMan).

ShowPlace/MacRenderMan is $695 ($495
for the CD-ROM version); a network version
called NetRenderMan allows users to design
Continued on page 22

called 3-D Stereogram. This filter, based on a

technique discovered by a Bell Labs
researcher, takes an image and produces a
pattern of seemingly random dots that

become a 3-D i mage

when you cross your
eyes slightly. No word yet on whether this
one might be harmful to your vision, but it
certainly is interesting.
These and other Photoshop-compatible
plug-ins from Aldus, Xaos Tools and other

suppliers can also be used with a variety of

other Mac applications, including Fractal
Design Painter, Adobe Premiere and the 3-D
application StrataVision 3d 2.6 from St.

George, Utah-based Strata Inc.

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The Feather Edges command inFreciel Pelnter 2.0
makespseudo 3-D effectssuch as thisone easy.

Because of its popularity, Photoshop can

be exploited in other ways, too. CyberSave is
a Photoshop plug-in that ships with the
highly regarded Electriclmage Animation

System. CyberSave takes a 2-D grayscale

image and exports it as an Electriclinagecompafible vector file. It works by displaying
light-colored vertices as closer and darker

shades receding.
It does three types of geometry: surface
mesh, cylindrical and spherical. CyberSave
was written by John Knoll, one of the primary architects of Photoshop.

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In the INevles
The Electriclmage Animation System
(US$7495) was used to create the nuclear
destruction scene in the motion picture Terminator 2: judgement Day.It was also used to

create the control room screen elements in

jlirassic Park and the "double-take" sequence
in the film Drop Dead Fred.The titles and
theatrical trailers for Encino Man and Last of

the Mohicansalso featured Bectriclmage animation.

Electriclmage animation can also be seen

in a wide range of TV promo spots, including

those for Top Cops, The Young Indiana jones

Chronicles, Burden of Proof, Daddy and Palomino, as well as the main title sequences for
Datejine NBC, Knight Rider 2000, Stunt
Masters, and The Heroes of Desert Storm. It is

used to create the special effects for the series

Space Rangers,and was used in the Miller beer

"Exploding Grandstands" ad (directed by

none other than Ridley Scott, of B!adenmner

fame).
One of the system's greatest benefits is its
rendering speed. In a June 1992 review, MacWorld magazine named it as the rendering
program with the best overall performance.

According to John Knoll of Industrial Light

R Magic, Electridmage renders faster on a
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3-D Software
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US$1495 3-D CAD package for the Mac

comes from Columbus, Ohio-based

models on a Mac and render them on a net-

autoadesasys Inc. MacWeekmagazine recently called it "the best, though not quite the

work of Macs oi Unix machines. Speed

improvements vary, but range between 5

and 50 times faster.
Typestry is Pixar's low-end type-rendering utility. It sells for US$299.
RenderMan developer's tools and books
are also available.

fornteZ for the Nec

Oriented towards architectural design, this

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fastest, solid-and-surface modeler on the

market."
formaZ comes with a full featured drafting module, with extensive and powerful
import and export options. It permits a number of sophisticated "Boolean" operations to
combine surfaces and solids. It is a NURBSbased surface modeler with an unlimite
d
number of drawing planes.
One of the greatest benefits of creadng models in a 3-0 program is that it is easy to view a scene from a different
angle. The illustrations above are two views of the same room. The models were created and rendered by Ladislev
KonopnusingAutodeak's30 Studio.

PresenterProfessional for the Ilec

With strong spline-based modeling capabilities and very easy to use, Presenter Professional is thought by many users to have the
best interface of any modeling program
today. It has extensive import and export
options and a spline (smooth curves) design
feature It's modeler provides extremely fast

or s
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Phong shading and ray tracing for realistic

renderings. Presenter Professional supports
MacRenderman more elegantly than most of
its comnpetitors, with graphical shader editing and assignment from within the prograin. It also supports an optional Varc board
acceleration for speeds of 10 times that of a
Quadra. Presenter Professional comes with a
number of built-in textures and very powerful image-mapping capabilities. For animators, it offers keyframe animation and QuickTime support.

Or

Introducing ClarisWorks forWindows.

All works software claims to be integrated.

an integrated Windows program this is it...all the

But just try working with one. You' ll find your-

features of other integrated packages such as

self switching back and forth from module to

Microsoft Works for Windows...built around the

module. Cutting and

bestand most advanced user interface we've seen

pasting as you go.

in this class of program". ClarisWorks requires a

It feels anything

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we

advantage of our special $155 promotional

designed ClarisWorks

offer. Do it now. And put the best integrated

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Situs peerful softwate-.

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tools to another. Without cutting and pasting

back and forth from one screen to another.

moniker of "Sculpt 3D" into a family of

products. On the Amiga, there's Sculpt Animate 4D. For the Mac, Byte by Byte offers a

range of products. Its lowest-price. modeling/rendering package is a US$1500 package

called Sculptor. It offers Phong shading and
anti-aliasing features. If you require raytraced output, there's the US$2500 Sculpt
3D. For US$3500, Sculpt 4D adds animation

demob@.

Versions of the 3D and 4D programs that

run on a high performance RISC hardware
accelerator board are also available, at prices
rangingfrom US$3750 to US$9,000. According to the company, all Byte by Byteproducts carry a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Also, any Sculpt package may be upgraded to
a more advanced Sculpt product by paying

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suggestsa new class of 'multifunctional * software".

PC Computing advised "If you' re considering

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and single-frame device-control features.

To order your ClarisWorks

So you can move effortlessly from one set of

Stewart Alsop's P.C. Letter said "If you want a

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graphics tools all easily at hand.

theless, the "Introductory version" of Presenter Professional is a useful and affordable

tool for trainers,

First released for the Amiga several years ago,

Call for a free demo disk today. Or take

That's w h y

or smaller, has a maxitnum rendering window of 320x240 pixels, and has limited
import/export and printing options. Never-

Sculpt

mere ZMB of RAM andSMB of hard disk.

but integrated.

A special US$95 version may be of particular interest to educators. It comes with a

manual, videotape, and a "limited" version
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is a capable modeler, ray-tracing renderer
and animation package for the Macintosh.
One of Infini-D's unique features is its ability
to "morph' any 3-D object. Now at version
2.5, it is priced under US$1000. A companion product, called BackBurner, allows rendering tasks to be shared by all available
Macs on a network, Ray Dream Inc. offers a
similar product for its Ray Draam Designer

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AddDepth(below) resemble illustrator and
FreeHand, respectively. Note the style sheets"
at the right of the AddDepth display. Although
not shown here, both programs allow the edges
of objects to be beveled.

media. Brush strokes in the RayPainter fol-

ters, was modeled in StrataVision 3d and

and a powerful event-based animation system.

Photoshop. It was rendered in StrataVision

3d using raydiosity with the highest level of
anti-aliasing. It took approximatelytwo weeks

StudioPro's 3D Sculptor modeling tool

creates workable surfaces. The spline/vertex
editor makes shapessoft and pliable like vir-

low the surface of each object, unlike static

two-dimensional filtering. Users can apply
different media effects with RayPainter,
including Chalk, Watercolor and Drybrush.

to render on one Quadra 950 (one of the

fastest Macintosh models).
Strata, Inc. also offers Strata StudioPro, an
expert-level 3-D program for the Macintosh.
Created for 3-D design and animation
professionals, StudioPro retails for US$1,495
and offers sophisticated tools not previously
available on desktop systems, claims Strata.
StudioPro includes a spline-based 3-D
sculptor, oRayPaintero rendering technology

tual clay. Its real-time smooth shaded feedbackoffers quick and intuitive modeling.

Users can also create custom RayPainter

effects.

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Also included is a 2D sculpting tool that

With StudioPro's special-effects exten-

allows spline/vertex reshaping of any outline

or profile created in the program or imported

sions, users can Explode, Shatter and Atomize their animations.

from draw programslike Adobe Illustrator or

The program writes PICT, TIFF, PICS,

QuickTime, DXF and EPS files. Image and

Aldus SuperPaint.
StudioPro includes RayPainter, a unique
feature that creates images that look as if
they were hand-rendered using traditional

animation files support alpha-channels making photo and video compositing possible in
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software.
Unfortunately, there isn't room here to
discuss the wide range of features of all of
these packages here. It is worth noting, however, that only two of these packages-

Adobe Dimensions and Ray Dream's

AddDepth produce vector-oriented (i.e.,

non-bitmapped) output. These programs

construct and output 3-D objects as PostScript files. While this means that they cannot have the realistic texture-mapping that is
possible with bitmapped renderings, it allows

them to produce images that are resolutionindependent and, thus, scalable in a way

and recommends how to fix them. If you' re not at your desk,

it will even call your beeper f LAN NetView Monitor lets you

stop problems
like dangerously full disks before
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selectively link to your host system.
LAN NetView even lets you track
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that bitmapped images are not (at least without re-rendering a saved 3-D object model at
a higher resolution, which can take several

hours or more).
Both Dimensions and AddDepth allow 3D objects to be illu m inated with l i g h t

sources,producing shadows and highlights

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AddDepth can, as the latter lacks a Revolve
command. AddDepth, on the other hand, is
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Either package is a good choice for Mac
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This ultra-realistic image, which is in the

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LAN NetView is based on open industry-standard

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Photoshop and other professional applications.

StrataVision 3D users can trade up to Stu-

dioPro for US$599.

Sketching in 3-D
Another popular choice (and no slouch in
the rendering department, either) is Alias

Sketch, from Toronto's Alias Research.

Alias has announced a promotion for its
Sketch package where customers purchasing

Sketch1.5 forUS$995 receive a free copy of

Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.
If a person already owns Photoshop or
IHustrator, they can purchase Sketch for only
US$395.
Readers who recall our December, 1992

review of Alias Sketch 1.5 may recall that we

termed it "a breakthrough application" for 3D drawing and rendering. The Alias/Adobe
deal expires Oct. 29th.

research for the 3-D feature in this issue. It

seems that the company did not notice that

the compression utility it used to compress
the data on the release disks would expire
after one year. When we tried to install
Sketch a year and a day after the initial
release of Sketch 1.5, we received an error

3 D programs ere olten

used for product design.
This image demonstrates
ths realistic shading and
retractions ptsmible with
Alias utstch.

message that the "decompression atom had

expired." Oops.
Fortunately the problem was easy to
solve. Simply setting the system clock back
allowed the installation to succeed. A toll-

Bach from The Future

The Computer Paper noticed an interesting
problem with Alias Sketch 1.5 during our

. free call to the company's tech-support line

verified that this was the recommended fix,

although an Alias spokesperson said that registered owners wishing a new disk set that
solves this problem will be sent one.
Also new from Alias is version 2.0 of its
Upfront 3-D application, a low-end utility
intended for architectural design and other
3-D applications that do not require sophisticated rendering. Although Upfront lacks the
ray-tracing capabilities of Sketch, it provides

solid modeling features for $295.

Alias' Mac packages are actually froma

separate division of the company known as

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At B.C. Hydro's Environmental Resources
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Photoshop 2.5 for Windows and 3-D models
created in Intergraph's Microstation CAD
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studies, proof-of-concept renderings and other architectural simulations. Images are
scanned on a drum scanner and saved as
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isCs popular
Perhaps the most popular 3-D application of
all is Autodesk's 3D-Studio for the PC.
Autodesk, best-known for its highly regarded
drafting and computer-aided design application, AutoCAD, has made impressive inroads
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You can, for example,
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latitude and time of day
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from any light source to
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into the corporate market. Release 3, introduced at SIGGRAPH '93, improves the

C$3,500 program's anti-aliasing and rendering capabilities.

A Vancouver, B.C.-based company,

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the OTwo Views of a Room" image on the

preceding page, and the castle and desktop

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for high-quality output to video and print.

Hurric'arreS stem 1

the RenderMan RIB output format.

A version without. VTR support is called

C$500. This price

sequences, using splines for special effects. It

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and polygon capacity.) TOPAS also supports

say an image like the

One of 3D Studio's primary competitors in

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many feel is the the strongest keyframe animator available, with time-graph and curve
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TOPAS Desktop Animator. It sells for C$2495

for DOS and C$3500 for Mac. An even more
slimmed-down version without animation is
called Crystal 3D Designer. It sells for

US$995.
CrystalGraphics also offers a US$295
package called Crystal Flying fonts, intended

for users who simply want to produce "flying

3-D logo" animations,

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Autodesk, 415-332-2344
Avid, 800-949-AVID or 508-640-6789
Adobe Systems, 41 5-961 4400
Alias Research, 800447-ALIAS
Auto~des>sys Inc., 61 4488-9777
Byte by Byte Corp., 512-795-01 50
CADD Solutions, 604-681 -4686
CrystaIGraphics, 408496-61 75
Electriclmage Inc., 81 8-577-1 627
FoundationImaging, 805-2574292
Hewlett-Packard Co., 508436-5049
Macromedia, 41 5442-0200
Midmar Images, Inc., 800-245-6472
Newtek, 1-800-847-6111
Octree Software Inc., 41 5-390-9600
Pixar, 51 0-236-4000

here. One good source of product listings

and contact numbers is the RenderMan Partners Catalog, available by contacting Pixar.
Also, try calling the companies listed below.
Many offer demo disks for a nominal fee.

for furtherreading:

Strata Studlopro shows otf the

realistic shading possible with raydiosity.

outset of this article, Silicon Graphics workstations are a popular choice, with a good
range of powerful and sometimes incredibly expensive 3-D software.
Machines from SUN, DEC, NeXT, IBM
and and Hewlett-Packard, which claims to
have provided the first workstation to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology's
(MIT) Media Lab in 1985, recently donated
$2.65 million in computer equipment and
funds to support research projects at the
Media Lab.
Hewlett-Packard and MIT researchers are
collaborating in what they call The Texture '
and Pattern-Modeling Project. The goal is to
pursue "new ways of accessing information
in multimedia databases, with the results to
be used in medical and engineering applications."

Most serious graphics production houses

use workstations for rendering and other

Ray Dream, 800-846-0111 or 41 5-960-0768.

Contacts:

and products I didn't have room to mention

Teichroeb, E. RenderMan and 3D-Studio. The

Computer Paper (B.C. Edition), Oct. 1992
G. Bennett.Beyond The Mind's EyeComputer Animation on Videotape. The
Computer Paper(B.C. Edition), Dec. 1992
G. Bennett. Sketching in 3-D review of
Alias Sketch 1.5. The Computer Paper(B.C.
Edition), Dec. 1992

Specuiar international, 413-549-7600

Spherical Design, 604-583-1267

Strata Inc., 800-869-6855 or 801-628-5218

VersaCAD Corp., 61 7-275-1 800
Visual Information Development, Inc., 81
8-91 88834
VFX Video, 604451-01 37
Thanks to Alias Research, CADD Solutions
and VFX Video for providing information on
programs and terms described in this article.

It's PC DOS 63 from IBM.

And it one-ups MSDOS'6
for a lot of reasons.
For one, it's got improved memory
The Memory Optimizcr not only gives users morc
memory, but also a configuration watcher to run
the system more efficiently.
It's got utilities you don t get with MS-DOS.
For instance,you get a Program Scheduler

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anagement.

high<nd graphics tasks. Universities, which

almost always utilize workstations in the sci-

ence and math departments, usually have

scientific visualization and other graphics
projects underway. In nearly every dty, you
ran fmd user groups of CAD; 3-D or graphics
enthusiasts who get together to share info
about the latest and greatest.
Every year, many of these users make a
sojourn to SIGGRAPH (a yearly show held by
members of the international graphics spe-

cial interest group). There are many videotapes of SIGGRAPH highlights available, and
some of the better pieces show up later on
commercial releases such as the Mind's Eye
and Beyond the Mind's Eyevideos published
by Mirimar Images, Inc. (800-245-6472). I
reviewed the latter in the Dec. 1992 issue of
The Computer Paper.

Conclusion
Computer graphics technologies and techniques are now quite commonplace in cartoons and other animation sequences. Major
Disney successes such as Aladdin and Beauty
and the Beastare prime examples. If you' ve

ever seen the famous ballroom sequence in

Beauty and the Beast,you' ll understand why

the techniques have so many animation professionals excited and worried.

Now that systems are starting to appear
with the storage capacity and bandwith to be
able to produce professional-level output, we
may expect to see rapid acceptance of nonlinear digital film, video and audio editing
systems in the professional, corporate, education and when the prices hit mainstream
levels consumer markets. In much the

same way that digital typography and prepress techniques have demonstrated their
advantages over traditional processes, digital
video solutions will soon be common in
past-production facilities, production companies, television stations, advertising agencies and corporate film and video departments worldwide.

from any program or DOS command, and a new editor that allows
you to edit files at the same time.
It's got features you don't gct with MS-DOS. Such as support

for PCMCIA Card Services(i.c., hot plugability for portable users),

and the industry's leading Pen
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Features and Functions
Backup Tape Support
High-speed
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Approximate number ot
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magazines on the planet. It investigates

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virtual reality, online lifestyles and the notorious C-word {cyberpunk).

important to both BBS users and sysops. The

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PHONENUMgiven. 4: Four BBS lines. 1+: More then one
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converted dialing directory list ot you own communications
software, NOT in a list to distributed or posted anywhere.

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written to your communications software dialing directory

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yourself. Accidentally dialing a 999-9999 number will result
in a "We are sorry, your call cannot be completed as
dialed...." message from BELL.
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question. $00: Free Board - No Charge. $$$: Cost
Unknown or Fee Optional.$95: Yearly Membership.
NOTE: on yearly membership fees. All user fees were
given to us by the boards. The Guild is nol responsible tor
their correctness. Usually there are additional initiatipn
fees, but these initiation fees, if any, are NOT included in
the FEEs as indicated in the BBS/f database shown above.

7% G.S.T. may or maynot be added ontop of that fee.

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Games are supported. M-G Messages and Games
supported (No Files). M Only local Message bases
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node 8"........ ...."means thatthe Sysop did nolconvey
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specified that no features should be mentioned. "Private
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the owner. "neseLocation"Shows that this BBS is also a
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The totally integrated software

package with an open door policy
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Mississauga. "1.Voice SS5-1212" means the Sysop
requires you to call him/her first at the voice phone number
given, then they will give you access. Such private BBSes
usually also have the 999-9999 number in the BBS dateline
PHONENUM field which you may then edit when you
receive the real BBS number from the Sysop.
"Tpmporsrtly Down" the Sysop instructed us to indicate to
the users that his/her BBS is temporarily oul of commission
due to major repairs, maintenance, rebuilding or
renovations. "Couldn't Connect" means that the Guild could
not verify the BBS as operational this month. If unable to
verify for three consecutive months the BBSwill be deleted
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month that NO connection could bs established. "BBS
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third month that NO connection could be established. This
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line is ready to be deleted at the next issue of the BBS//
listing. "Recently Revived"indicates that last month this
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BI% Populi
Continued from page28
ignore the fact that Canada and every other
modem-capable country exist even though
most of the services in both its editorial and
advertisingare accessible from almost anywhere in the world.
The magazine seems aimed more towards
the online giants like GEnie, CompuServe,
Delphi and Prodigy than the BBS scene,
which is great if you' re considering joining a
large online service and happen to live in the
continental U.S.
Online Access may be good at delivering
some basic information to the beginner but
the publication's narrow focus makes the
whole thing feel like it's simply an advertising vehicle for the big commercial systems.

through the Internet, but you' re unsure of

how both of you can get access to the Inter-

net. This books gives listings of every country and region and which organization is
responsible for public Internet access in that

region.
A Directory Of Electronic INall
Addressing 4r Networigs
The Internet is not a single worldwide
network, it's a network of networks. Networks that are internal to a company, institution, government or region are all patched
together into a larger umbrella network

called the Internet,

The book is aimed at the avid Internet

user or administrator as a guide to navigating
some of these sub-networks. This is a handy

The book has some handy appendices,

such as a listing of international subdomains
categorized by region. This allows you to
find the E-mail addresses of many compa-

resource because not all networks use the

same electronic mail-routing schemes, sometimes causing your mail to be returned or
"bounced."
Another use for the book is simply making people aware of the organizations that
comprise these networks and what types of
service they offer. For example, I found
something called Giant Toad Systems, which
is a free public-access USENET news access
point in Toronto.

nies, institutions and organizations, such as

Air Canada, Alberta Packet Radio Network,
Calgary Board of Education, City of Toronto,
NeXt User Group Yukon, and of course Mind
Link, where The Computer Paper'smailbox
resides.
If you have a friend who resides at one of
the sites listed in the book you might want
to let them know they probably have
Internet access and don't even know it. Try
sending them mail and see if it works.

Connect
$5.25, Bimonthly
Connect is new, only in its third issue, but it
looks to be a promising magazine for people

who have a modem and are looking for

interesting services to call. It strikes a good
balance between news, issues, large systems
and BBSes. It's aimed at the average modem

user.
It contains some very handy advice for
both the user and sysop and does a good job
of explaining technical topics. It looks at
places to explore via the Internet, on CompuServe, GEnie, America Online, Pelphi and
BIX and it investigates the BBS scene from
new software to legal issues. Issue 3 contains a look at investing online how to do
it, where to get stock information and other
online services like stock pricing history

databases.
Connect is worth picking up if you can
manage to find a copy. It took me a week of
hopping from one bookstore to another to
find mine. You' re better of subscribing.

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The layout and design is amateurish, the
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nothing about the stories that follow.
There's nothing really redeeming about BBS
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directly from the publisher, O'Reilly and

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mailing.It can be ordered by calling 800998-9938.
Since the review of the Internet Guide,

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Connecting To the Internet
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by the end of September, from UI or the OSF,
and is to be submitted to X / Open for

Common APls

approval through that organization's fasttrack process in November. After that, test

suites for verification and X/Open branding

To Uni Unix At Last

NEW YORK (NB) In a move that may well
turn out to be the real end of the "Unix
wars," the two major Unix camps X/Open
and a long list of hardware and software vendors have announced plans for a set of
common application programming interfaces (APls) that they claim will make Unix
applications fully portable.
Unix International (UI) and the Open
Software Foundation (OSF), which for several
years have backed similar but competing versions of Unix, have joined X/Open in backing a comprehensive Unix specification.
They said any Unix application that complies with the APIs would be able to run on
any implementation of the operating system
that does so, with only recompiling needed.
Geoff Morris, president and chief executive of X/Open, told Newsbytes that the
announcement ends the fragmentation of
Unix that has been seen as a key weakness

tern V Interface Definition (SVID) and Application Environment Specification (AES).

A working group of Unix system vendors,
Unix International, and the OSF has put
together an initial draft specification, and

will work with X/Open to finalize it. Member

companies of both Ul and the OSF will
review the final document, which X/Open
will add to its Portability Guide.
The draft was to be available for review

will be developed. Standardized documentation should be available by the middle of

1994. Products supporting the specifications
can be expected by late 1994 or early 1995,
Morris said.
The final specifications will be available
to all organizations, the standards-makers
said.

rrftel

fry/ s

for many years. The only way Unix could

become more standardized, he said, would
be if there were a single source of the system,
which would not necessarily be desirable.
Industry analyst Norton Greenfeld, director of Unix systems and applications at Infocorp, agreed. "I think it finally means that
Unix as viewed by application builders is
really one system," he told Newsbytes.
The list of vendors backing the initiative
is a virtual census of the Unix business,
including ATILT, which developed Unix in
the 1970s, IBM, Digital Equipment, Sun
Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, Unix International, Santa Cruz Operation, and a variety of major applications software vendors
such as Computer Associates International,
Lotus Development, and WordPerfect.
The biggest name missing from the list is
that of Microsoft, whose Windows NT operating system is considered something of a
threat to Unix and may have helped concentrate the minds of Unix vendors on the need

for a true standard.

Morris admitted the NT threat played a
role, saying "competitive claims from the
Microsoft NT community that the Unix
community is fragmented'" helped push
Unix vendors toward a common standard.
So did a growing user interest in open systems, he said.
The efforts of the Common Open Software Environment (COSE) initiative, in
which a group of v e ndors last spring
announced agreement on several vital Unix
specifications, also helped lay the groundwork for the latest announcement, Morris
said.
Greenfeld said the move "takes a little bit
of the wind out of the NT marketing," but he
believes that user demand was a bigger factor
in forcing the standards move than the NT
threat was. Unix vendors have finally realized that they can differentiate their products in other ways that do not require making them mutually incompatible, Greenfeld
observed, and the move is "long overdue."
The effort's backers said that APIs were

chosen based on formal industry standards,

including X/Open's Portability Guide, and
widely used specifications, such as the Sys-

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Unix comes in many flavors, most

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KE N CL A R K

After reigning for a decade in engineering and businessc-ritical computing, workstation vendors
brace themselves for a nevjf rival the personal computer.
Worirstatlon Computing
Workstations are computers designed for
intensive data processing needs. During the

Apple Macintosh or IBM PC. The terms

Workstation and RISC Workstation are usually synonymous,

1980s, workstations took over the roles traditionally held by mainframes and minicom-

Workstation applications are usually categorized as "vertical." That is, they have a

puters in business, governmen, and academ-

narrow audience of interest; a typical vertical

application might be an airline flight reservation system. Conversely, horizontal applications are programs with widespread use, such
as wordprocessorsand spreadsheets.

ic computing; they also invented a few new

roles for computers: scientific engineering

and research, departmental database servers,
terminal servers, network servers and high-

performance graphics..
There are a number of major players in
the workstation industry, including Sun
Microsystems (the current market leader),
Hewlett-Packard (HP), Digital Equipment
(DEC), IBM and Silicon Graphics (SGI).
Modem workstations are built on top of
Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC)
microprocessors. RISC processors employ a
limited and simple instruction set, a large

number of general-purpose registers, optimized instruction pipelining, multilayer

cache memories, and even multiprocessor
capability to gain performance over traditional Complex Instruction Set (CISC)-based
microprocessors, such as those found in an

Workstation applications frequently have

many simultaneous users, such as our airline

example, hence workstations are always multi-user and multitasking systems. Workstations are often connected to many "dumb"
text-only terminals, or sometimes over widearea networks to thousands of other worksta-

tions. The Internet is an international network of computers comprised almost entirely

of Unix workstations.
Graphical workstations are used exten-

sively rn computer-aided design (CAD), as

well as in scientific, engineering, and architectual modeling. They are also used in a
wide range of visual applications including
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Unhr Worirstations
The Unix operating system was born on a
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in 1969 at ATILT Bell Labs. Unix is by far the

most common operating system running on
modern workstations. In many respects,
Unix defmes what a workstation is, much in

the same way that DOS defines a personal

computer, and the name "workstation" often

implies "Unix workshgion.'

There are a number of reasons for Unix's
popularity on workstation hardware. Unix is
mostly written in C, a systems programming
language, and was one of the first operating
systems written in a high-level language
rather than coded in assembler. C enabled
Unix to be quickly ported to new workstation architectures by hiding much of the
underlying hardware behind the C compiler.
Unix provides a large virtual memory
model, multitasking, security, and networking fadlities suitable for scientific and busi-

ness applications, and therefore made an ideal operating environment for workstations.

derived from either Unix System V from

ATRT, or Berkeley Unix, developed at the

Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG)

at the University of California. Many workstation vendors have combined, modified,

and enhanced Unix to position themselves

apart from the competition, leaving the
industry full of non-standard Unix operating
systems.
Multiple nonstandard Unix variants pose
a serious problem for software developers, as
applications written for one Unix platform
will not necessarily run, or even compile, on
another. This translates into making an
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as application software will often run only
on one particular workstation. Softw'are
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required to write multiple versions of the
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Users and system administrators are also

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There are a number of competing graphical
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workstations, and few generally accepted

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ty, and internationalization is also often very
different across platforms, making life difficult for system administrators. Finding
someone to help administer or support your

system can also be difficult, as personnel

fear of losing sales to the competition, and

businesses began to question the wisdom of

investing in computer solutions with such a

narrow range of application.
However, if there is anything that can

trained on one particular Unix workstation

will not necessarily be familiar with your system.
It is common marketing practice for
workstation companies to design propriety
features into their systems that are different
or unavailable on other machines. This
enables them to differentiate their product
from the competition, and also locks users
into their products.
After a company has signed on to a particular workstation vendor, when it comes
time to upgrade or buy new inachines, this

unite a group of adversaries, it is a common

company is unlikely to invest the time and

money involved in purchasing new applica-

Commonly, Open can be thought of as the

enemy. Recognizing that divided they could

not expect to compete with the mass PC

market, workstation vendors have hopped
on the "Open Systems" bandwagon, with
the hopes of attracting more mainstream
applications and building a larger commercial desktop market.
The term "Open" is used to describe a
standard interface, the details of which are
published and available to any vendor to
implement, be it a graphical interface, hardware interface, or Unix system interface.

tion software, or retraining users and system

administrators. They are much more likely to

opposite of proprietary.
The term Open is currently the buzz
word of choice in workstation marketing.

continue buying products from the same

DEC has even named the revised version of

vendor, even if better products from other

workstation companies are available.

its VMS operating system "OpenVMS" (this

Open Systems
The proprietary and nonstandard nature of

proprietary systems).

the workstation industry divided the already

small market and minimized the number of
software applications available to customers.

System Interface for unIX) was published as

At the same time, and with the acceptance of

clone hardware by the business community,
personal computers became a commodity
item, available and supported by thousands
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interface, but even Sun now provides Motif

three times the going rate for RAM or hard

with its Solaris operating system. UnixWare

from Novell comes with both Motif and

drives in the personal computer market.

Open Look GUIs.

Big Changes

Recently, Sun, HP, and IBM agreed to

tions are more expensive, have more powerful RISC-based hardware, and run a true vir-

tual memory/multitasking operating system

with some vertical but few mainstream

It is unclear whether the shift towards Open

applications. PCs are less expensive, have

less-powerful Intel CISC-based hardware, and

develop a Common Open Software Environment (COSE).

COSE will be a set of Open standards by
which all vendors agree to comply, unifying

Jittle too late, or exactly what is needed for

them to remain a large part of the business

the Unix industry. A first useful draft of

COSE can beexpected by mid-1994.
Some workstation companies have even

personal computer and workstation industries are on a collision course. In fact, with
the recent release of Windows NT by

migration of Unix-based workstation operat-

adopted some Open hardware standards.

Microsoft and the release of the Pentium

processor by Intel, they may have already

time (SCO Unix, for example). This year saw

the release of Sun's flagship operating sys-

collided, and probably only after some settling of the dust will things become clear
again,
Unix/RISC workstations have historicaHy
had three undeniable things differentiating
them from personal computers. Worksta-

tem, Solaris 2.1, to the Intel 486. NeXT Computer went one step further this year and left
the workstation hardware industry altogether, becoming a software-only company
d ependent entirely on it s port o f t h e
NextStep operating system to the 486.
Then there is Pentium, the 486's successor. Pentium
many RISC techniques
in its architecture, while maintaining compatibility with the 486's complex instruction
set. The Pentium processor, combined with a

SCSI-2 disks, tapes, and CD-ROMs can often

be swapped between different workstations.
Some workstations now accept standard
memory modules (SIMMS), and several vendors have promised to support Intel's PCI
bus. Until these standards were adopted,
workstation users often had to pay two to

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First to confuse this harmony is the

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range of hardware for which to offer their

software, Workstation vendors are also offering DOS emulators such as SoftPC in record

which will allow users to run NT applications on Sun hardware without any help
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on the RISC market. NT will also need some

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tion developers have chosen Unix in the past

mance better that that on a PC.

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as Microsoft, Apple, SCO and
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the way "black hardware" NeXTstations (and

Macintoshes) do.
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chip that was an integral feature in all NeXT
hardware (and again, recent Madntoshesdo I sense a pattern here?), there is no DSP
support in NEXTSTEP/Intel, although the

lowly SoundBlaster is supported.

Other features that were present in last
year's NEXTSTEP 3.0 release for "black hardware" are missing in NEXTSTEP 3.1 for Intel
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heavy hitter (it outperformed most, if not
all, of its competition in our May '93 OS sur-

vey.) As such, it carries some pretty hefty

hardware requirements. The test machine-

a 66MHz Dell 486 was equipped with

40MB of RAM (a minimum of 16MB is
required). The NeXT OS and support files
occupied a whopping 120MB of our test sys-

hardware model, the NeXTstation Turbo.

And, in what seems a bizarre twist, it's no

longer possible to run DOS or Windows programs under NEXTSTEP at least until version 3.2. More on this later.
Because NeXT has long touted its sys-

tem's Display PostScript features, we were

surprised that 3.1 only supports PostScript
printers especially since release 3.0 on
black hardware supported Epson and IBM
dot-matrix printers. Also, it is unfortunate
that the only way to run DOS or Windows
programs at the moment is to partition the
system's hard drive and install DOS on the
other partition. Version 3.2 is expected to
address this and other shortcomings of the
initial Intel release.

Best of all, a comparably configured Dell

machine costs over a thousand dollars less
than the NeXT hardware did. It's no wonder

The Comfort Zone

the company pulled out of the hardware

game.

tem. It comes with the necessary IPX software to connect to a NetWare LAN and
mount remote drives, use network printers

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wonderful. This is an operating system so

Translating NEXTSTEP to run on "industry

standard" hardware necessitated a few compromises. Due to the limitations of its PC
floppy drive, inserting a disk into the drive
does not automatically mount the volume

NEXTSTEP, with its Mach underpinnings, is

very much a network-aware operating sys-

(including AppleTalk printers connected via

Novell) and share files. With a third-party
product called IPT, a NEXTSTEP PC can also
act as an AppleShare server, print server and
mail services server.

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N O VEMBER '93 THE COMPUTER PAPER ONTARIO EDITION

At no time during our lengthy test drive ty/refractivity, atmospheric conditions, and
did I have to leave the comfort zone of more. RIB flies can be created with a variety
NeXT's graphical user interface, although of programs on PCs, Macs, and other platUnix hackers may enjoy the fact that there's forms.
a full Mach kernel lurking under the stairs.
NeXT's RenderMan Viewer allows Ren-

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users, the setting up of a dial-up service

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tage of the servicesof a local NeXT user this means that a number of machines will
group.
work together, combining their processing
In Vancouver, VNUS (Vancouver NeXT power to complete CPU-intensive tasks by
User Society) offers UUCP (" Unix-to-Unix
"sharing the load." Multiple CPU support has
Copy" ) service to VNUS members, through a b een touted as a feature of Mach since the
dial-up service called WIMSEY. VNUS will
d e but of the original NeXT cube in 1988, but
help users get UUCP set up and running.
i t s eems that, with the release of 3,2 just
Membership in VNUS is $55/year.
around the corner, it is finally about to
According to VNUS' Bob Bajwa, $10 per e m erge from the vapor. RenderMan should
month will get VNUS members access to p r ovide a valuable "real world" application of
Internet E-mail. For other users, WIMSEY t h is powerful "distributed object" capability.

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for downloads. It is one of several regional Compelling Software
and nationalservicesproviding accessto the An often-touted feature of NKXTSTKP is its
Internet. For details, see the article "Enter inter-application conununication. Although
the InterNet' in the Sept '93 issue ofThe th e term is in danger of falling into
meanComputerPaper.
inglessness, NEXTSTEP is "object oriented"
Once on the "net," NeXT users will dis- to the extreme. NeXT objects talk to other
cover some of the appeal of Unix, as so- apps, other objects and, if you believe in
called daemons work in the background to

$159.

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s ays, by the end of the year you will be able

account. is still appallingly complex. To ease to set up a network of NEXTSTEPcomputers

Com e With:

ti m e. Of course, the real-time view doesn' t

d i splay all the, detail that RenderMan's "pro-

"multimedia mail," complete with sound cedural shaders" are capable of rendering,
and/or image enclosures from other NeXT but it's a great feature. Better still, Bajwa

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If you' ve seen the Tin Toy or Knick Knack 3-

NeXTmail, t h e y

a ssert, p r ovides

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$S69S.

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f a cilities.

theaters in an Asuna promotion), you may

Be c ause NEXTSTEP
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u n r eleased products, distributed objects.

send and deaver mail and Mes automatically

Few people will argue with the assertion
as you work. One, called SendMail, delivers that NKXTSTEP is a great operating system.
E-mail. After you haveproperly configured Most will even go so far as to admit that the
your system, UUCP wakes up at a pre-deter- NEXTSTEP GUI is the best, bar none. But a
mined time, logs in to the net and delivers great operating system is not enough for the
Usenet news, which you may then read at majority of users. They buy computers to run
your leisure with a program called News- applications and this, unfortunately, is
Grazer. This free utility, Bajwa notes, was where NeXT is a little shaky.
written by an ex-NeXT employee.
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cidentally, NKXTSTEP includes built-in sup-

t h an their DOS or Windows cousins.

port for Pixar's 3-D graphics language, Ren-

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from any application and the fax is imaged
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choose from, including Adobe Illustrator and
a new program from Altsys, the developers of
FreeHand. Altsys' Virtuoso can best be

recently a special Evaluation Kit containing

US$299. However, be forewarned that the

both the user and developer versions of

NEXTSTEP 3.1 for Intel processors for

Evaluation Kit is not upgradeable to subsequent releases (e.g., the f

3.2

described as FreeHand for t h e N e XT,

although it surpasses the current Aldus
releases for the Mac and Windows in several

US$299. Unfortunately, this special offer

expired at the end of September, although
any distributors, retailers or value-added
resellers that have stock purchased at the

release). For that, NeXT says, you must fork

special price may still be able to offer this

bargain.

ing. Although the company now depends

ways.
After Adobe's rather lackluster support of
its NeXT products, the company signed a letter of agreement allowing RightBrain Software to develop and market its NeXT products Illustrator and TouchType. Other com-

panies, too, have stepped back from early

commitments to the platform. Users of the
NeXT release of Lotus Improv 1.0, for example, have to "upgrade" to Windows in order
to get Improv 2.0.

The Evaluation Kit consists of the user

and developer releases on CD-ROM, a user's

guide, "The NEXTSTEP Advantage Kit" promotional booklet, diskette and video, a programming guide and a half-price coupon for
technical documentaion. This "tryout" version is a bargain at the special price of

386DXQO

Software Shortcomings
Currently, the only way to run DOS and/or
Windows on a NEXTSTEP-equipped PC is to
install one or both in a separate hard disk
partition. This, according to NeXT, is a tem-

porary problem only. NeXT software engineers are said to be currently preparing a
release of the software that will work in concert with a special "Intel version" of the SoftPC software emulator by Insignia Solutions.
This version, currently in beta under the
name of "SoftWindows," will be bundled in
a demo version with the 3.2 release. Accord-

ing to a NeXT spokesman, it offers about

8096 of native 486 performance. NEXTSTEP
3.2 is expected to be released in November
'93.
Insignia Solutions' SoftPC DOS emulation software doesn't currently run under
NEXTSTEP but, according to Bajwa, version
3.2 will support it i n n a t iv e mode, as
opposed to releases on the original NeXT

machines (fondly referred to as "black hardware" by NeXT buffs), which have typically
needed to emulate an Intel chip on other
CPUs.
NEXTSTEP supports DOS partitions from
NeXT's Unix file system. It reads DOS disks
and, interestingly, can also read Macintosh
HD disks directly.
One very interesting program we saw
running under NEXTSTEP was called Executor. It is a software program which runs Macintosh applicktions on an Intel-based PC (a
version for "black hardware" is also avail-

able). Although it does not run all Mac applications (PageMaker and HyperCard are two
major apps on the "not yet" list), it does support quite a few, including Microsoft Word,
Excel, Quicken, and other important "prod uctivity" p r o grams. Combined w i t h
NEXTSTEP's innate ability to read Macintosh
HD disks, it provides another solution to the

current and hopefully temporary paucity of native NEXTSTEP/Intel applications.

The future
NeXT says it already has commitments for
25,000 units of NEXTSTEP for Intel Processors. It also has deals with several hardware
manufacturers to bundle the operating system with PCs and even Hewlett-Packard's
Apollo workstations. Some of the PC vendors
include Digital Equipment Corporation

(DEC), Compaq, Epson, and NCR.

NEXTSTEP is currently being ported to
HP's PA/RISC architecture, and is expected to
be released on that platform next year.

w.128KB cache

orthcom
ing

over the big bucks: US$1,995 and US$795 for

the developer and user editions respectively.
I think NeXT should reconsider its pricsolely on tliis one product for all its income

and, as such, shouldn't be expected to price

its software like a loss leader the way IBM has
with OS/2, the inescapable conclusion
remains: if people don't buy NEXTSTEP, the
company's not going to last. A recent estimate suggested that the company needs to
sell 40,000 units per year to be profitable.

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NeXT as an environment that speeds development of custom software applications.

NeXT claims custom applications can be

developed five to ten times faster than on

other operating system platforms.

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PAPER ONTARIO EDITION

The Big Skinny

Lowdown on

What iscompression?
As a computer user you may have come to
the point where you realize you need more

room on your hard drive or you need to

speed up the way you work across networks

type of compression can occur at either the

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Driver-level compression
Driver-level compression makes your operat-

or phone lines. How do you remedy the situation? Well, short of a major investment in
additional hard drives and CPU accelerators,

ing system think your hard drive is twice as

big as it is because it compressesevery Ale on

your system. Your computer must decompress and recompress each file as it is used.
When you create a file, it is compressed
before it is written to disk. As such, all file

compression software is the answer. With a

compression utility you can inaximize your
hard disk space as well as create smaller files
to speed file transfer time.

How does compression work? Just as you

don't have to be a computer engineer to

need more disk space or faster file transfer,

you don't need to be an engineer to understand and use compression software.

In a nutshell, compression makes your

Ales smaller. It works by looking at files and
replacing repetitive chunks of information
with simple codes, thereby reducing the size
of files while retaining their original integrity. Let's use the following sentence as an
example:
That's one small step for man, one giant

leap for mankind.

If we replace words or parts of words
repeated in the sentence with a token, let' s

saving and opening operations are likely to

be slightly slower than they are on an
B Y 6 R A E INE B E N N E T T
uncompressed drive, especially on slower
computers. (Many users report that the slowredundancy can be compressed more than TIFF (tagged image file format) files.Admitone that does not. If every character of a file t e d l y, it all gets to be a bit of an alphabet down is most noticeable when saving.)
DR-DOS 6.0 (which uses compression
technology
from SuperStor version 1.0), MSrence), you would not achieve any compres- most common names you are likely to hear.
sion at all in fact, the "compressed" file
Oth er t e chnologies are best suited for DOS 6.0's DoubleSpace option (reportedly
based on the DoubleDisk product from Vertiwould be larger! Practically speaking, this
co m p ressing the differences
between frames,
means that executable Ales will usually not
a n dare most appropriate for use in anima- soft, which was at best a mediocre percompress as much as text files, images or t i o ns, video games, video playback, etc. former), Golden Triangle's Times Two for the
sounds. "Dithered" black and white bitmaps B r uce Artwick's Flight Simulator (licensed to Mac, and all Stacker products for DOS, OS/2
and compact formats like fax files don't
Su b l ogic and Microsoft) was one of the earli- and Mac perform driver-level compression.
Because of the extra overhead involved,
compress much at all.
est examples of this so-called "delta compresthe use of virtual memory (using a "swap
There are a variety of different compres- s i o n."
file" on your hard disk as a substitute for
sion algorithms. Some are optimized for text,
RAM) is not advisable on a compressed drive.
while others are best suited for compressing Tr a nsparent compression
was unique (admittedly, a very rare occur-

s o u p after a while, but these are some of the

say "" for "one" and "$" for "for man", the graphics images. Many compression proTr a nsparent compression works to compress
sentence becomes:
grams are based on compression algorithms f i les transparently, which means that a comThat's small step $, giant leap $kind.
developed by researchers named Lempel and pressed file has-no outward appearance of
Because the tokens and $ take up less Zif. So-called "Huffman coding" improved be i n g compressed. The only factor that

space than the words they replace, the resulting sentence is smaller. In very much the
same way, compression algorithms work on
the entire contents of a file to make a file
that is smaller and that takes up less disk

compression ratios for text (hence "LZH"),

while a man named Welch was responsible

for the "W" in LZW's graphics optimizations, such as those found in compressed

All of the driver-level products allow an area

of your drive (typically, a "phantom parti-

tion") to remain uncompressed to address

this problem.
Most users agree that Stacker is the best
ch a nges is that the file takes up less storage
of
the
driver-level compressors. Stacker is
space on your hard disk. Transparently comavailable for DOS and Windows, OS/2 and
softp r essed files depend on
w a r e to be decompressed and opened. This DOS, and the Macintosh. We tested all of

comp
ression

these packages and found them to perform

well, We were disappointed that Stacker for

OS/2 and DOS only supports DOS'"FAT"
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available on our 300 MB hard disk before
Stacker and 150 MB afterward with no
perceivable slowdown, As a matter of fact,
on a fast computer, compressed files may
copy to or from standard disks even faster
than uncompressed data, because there is
less information being transferred. For exam-'

space.
Types of compression
There are basically two types of compression:
transparent and archiving. The latter category has several sub-genres, including "lossy"

methods such as JPEG and fractal compression both are methods exclusively used to
compress images. We will not discuss lossy
compression here, as it has been covered in
several previous articles most extensively
in the article entitled PC Image Processing
with Stylein our Jan. '92 issue).
All of the methods used for general-pur-

: IjojI

pose compression are termed "lossless,"

ple, copying 8.5 MB of OS/2 2.1 data from

meaning that they do not throw any data

one disk to another on a 33 MHz 486 with a

14;25 ms hard drive and 16 MB of RAM produced these results:

away during the compression process. Well,

hopefully, anyway. As such, they are appropriate for all types of data.

Continued on page 50

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48

NO V EMBER '93 THE COMPUTER PAPER ONTARIO EDITION

Fontographer 4.0

aeter, which has been improved to provide a

highly sophisticated drawing environment
reminiscent of a combination of the best of

of the program, and editing

FreeHand, IHustrator and Canvas. The Preferences selection has four sub-menus that
allow the user to select the number of

menting with a few of the

variations available in the
Preferences section, I was

"Undos" (up to 101), how far a cursor key

able to modify the drawing

will nudge a control point, size of a grid,

manner of snap-to-grid behavior, what gets
selected when a path is clicked on, how contioI points will be displayed and with what
on-screen labels and co-ordinates, and the
fit and placement of windows and dialog

features to best suit my drawing style and hence get the

most satisfying results. A full
array of 18 drawing tools is
provided in a palette, and a
"Layers" palette is available
to switch between the Out-

Continuedfrom page 45
that relate to theart of type design.
For those who hate reading manus
there is a respectable implementation of Bal-

loon Help for System 7 users, as well as

numerous "hints" and Help entries embed-

ded in the program's many dialog boxes. An

awkward 21"-long three-fold double-sided
Ouick Reference Card contains concise illustrated summaries of the program's main features and the many keyboard shortcuts. Systern 7 users will also find that they can

"drag and drop" any PostScript or TrueType

Actual manipulation of the control

font on the program's icon or alias and the p o i n ts is smoother than in previous versions
Program launches and J , nl r@( (ee,g' r(dade (,@etc. yet(ud '((((ede,s" ((late l s (m
reads in the font. If all
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also supports the use of presRotate
sure-sensitive tablets and calligraphic tools.
If you'd rather draw your
characters the old-fashioned way and scan
the images in for tracing, the auto-tracing
feature is subtle and powerful, on par with
stand-alone tracing programs so good in
fact that only minimal editing of the resulting trace is needed.

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carefully and manually in making these

types of fonts they are so difficult to
make that currently even Adobe has only
three Multiple Master font o f f erings!
Nonetheless I believe this is the future of
computer typefaces, and Fontographer is on
the leading edge in this endeavor.

The Challenge
If there is a drawback to Fontographer 4.0, it
isn't with the program per se, rather that the
creation of professional typefaces from
scratch really requires three to six years of
intensive study and training for a designer
to reach the required skill level. Less experienced users will still find the program helpful for modifying existing fonts (even blending or "morphing" between two different
fonts to produce a completely new font, but
this is a wildly unpredictable process).
Fontographer makes it easy to embed graphics, logos and signatures in a font format
that can then be conveniently accessed via

The Multiple Master Revolution

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ae( r ees

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pitfalls that it falls to the user to proceed

So, included in the program is a full-featured and intuitive bit-map editor for "finetuning." Similarly, for those who want to go
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Compression
Continued from page46
Standard disk to standard disk: 71 seconds
Stacker drive to standard disk: 66 seconds
Standard disk to Stacker drive: 68 seconds
There is a transparent compression
extension for OS/2 that supports HPFS partitions. DCF/2 (DCF stands for disk compres-

sion facility) comes from a small company

based in Ft. Collins, CO called Proportional
Software Corp. It allows the user to create a

compressed HPFSdrive on either an HPFS or

FAT-based drive. However, at least in version

l. Ia, the compressed drive created by DCF/2

can't be accessed under DOS. Also, it's not as

fast as some of the DOS-based products (in
some cases,
Stacker is over ten times as fast),
but at least OS/2 users with HPFS drives now
have a remedy for OS/2's hefty disk requirements.

Flic-level compression
File-level compression works to compress

and verify each file individually, and only

the files you indicate. When you create a
file, it is first written to disk in its original

form and only later compressed. Open a

compressed file and it is decompressed.
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uncompressed. It will be compressed again

either during idle time or manually. This
then brings us to the two types of file-level
compression just mentioned: idle time and
manuaL
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computer is turned on but is not being used,
much like a screen saver does. You indicate

which files to compress for example, files

you haven't used for a long time or don't use
often and the files are compressed in the
background.
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no outward appearance of being compressed,

except for the smaller amount of space it
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Launch the item and it is decompressed into
memory as it is used, so that it appears to

your system just as the uncompressed version would.

The particular compression utility that

created the files must be running on your
system in order for you to use transparently
compressed files. This is perhaps the biggest
hassle with a "background" file-level compressor. If you turn the system extension off,

all your programs and files become inaccessible at least until you decompress the
archives manually or restart with the trans-

parent compression extension re-enabled.

Although there aren't too many compatibility hassles with file-level compressors,
there are a few with each of the leading

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ognize DiskDoubler-compressed files properly, at least in some cases. Because of the way
Now Compress checks the serial port, users
of a serial-port graphics tablet such as the
Wacom SD-420 ~ill find that background
compression never kicks in. Although StuffIt
SpaceSaver appears to be the most troublefree, even it has trouble with Adobe's SuperATM unti l y o u t u r n o f f S paceSaver's

titles. Some programs (PageMaker and Word-

"progress monitor" display.

Although they are somewhat less flexible, driver-level compressors exhibit none of
these problems and are likely to be less trouble overail. Driver-level compression can
cause some incompatibilities with diskrepair, security and anti-virus utilities,
although the newest release of Norton Utilities is compression-savvy. Norton Utilities

7.0 supports drives compressed with DOS 6.0

DoubleSpace, Stacker, SuperStor and SuperStor Pro.
Central Point Anti-virus detects viruses
inside files compressed with PKZip, PKLite,
LZEXE and ARJ.

Stacker for Macintosh claims to work cor-

rectly with disk recovery programs such as

Norton Utilities, Mac Tools and Disk First
Aid; however, it is incompatible with disklevel encryption products.
Interestingly, both Symantec and Central
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technology, for Norton Backup and PC Tools

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will use Stacker LZS data compression in its
next version of DR-DOS. Novell DOS 7,
which is expected to be available by the time

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you read this, will also include a bevy of
advanced features, including pre-emptive
multitasking, peer-to-peer networking, security, backup, anti-virus and, as might be
expected from Novell, Netware client support.

INanualTransparent Compression
Manual compression allows you to create
compressed files immediately where you
require them. If you do not warit to wait for
idle-time compression to compress certain
files or folders, you can select them and compress them manually.
On the Mac, DiskDoubler, Stuffit SpaceSaver and Stuffit Deluxe (which includes
SpaceSaver), Compactor Pro and Now Compress all provide manual file-level compression. As stated earlier, this technology isn' t
relevant to driver-level PC products.
Each of the Mac utilities includes a system extension that allows compressed files
to be transparently decompressed as needed,
so they may be used normally by standard
applications. In all the leading Mac file-compressing utilities, the System Folder (where
all the computer's operating system files are
kept) is never compressed.

What else ls there?

If transparent compression is so great, is
there any reason to use anything else? If you
want to archive information to floppies and
other storage media or send compressed files
via modem, the answer is probably "yes,"
By their very nature, transparent compressors automatically decompress files
whenever they are accessed, This occurs with
both driver-level and file-level compressors.
Thus, if you select a file to send to a remote
computer with your modem, the system
transparently decompresses it before sending

it. The same thing happens when you copy

compressed files to a floppy or other removable backup device they arrive at the destination decompressed (most Mac file-level
utilities can optionally maintain compression during file copies). Other users will need
a manual file compressor to create archives
that can be distributed to others.

On the PC, PKZip is by far the most popu lar manual f i l e-compression ut i l i t y ,
although ARC and a few others are sometimes used. In case you were wondering, the
PK stands for Phil Katz, the developer of
PKZIP and several other compression-related
shareware products. The current version of
PKZip is PKZ204g.EXE.
Because of the ubiquitous nature of the
"ZIP" file format, there are numerous utilities
that can decompress ZIP files the most
popular being PKWare's own PKUNZIP. To
use it, you simply type PKUNZIP <filename>.
It is not necessary to type the ".ZIP" exten-

sion it is assumed. You have to make swe

that PKUNZIP is either in the drive or directory you are working on (i.e., in the same
location as your ZIP archive) or in a location
mentioned in the PATH statement so that
DOS can find it. Also, you need to have extra
room on the disk for the soon-to-be-expanded files. If you want to decompress to another drive, well, it can do that, too. Type

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. 3 Year Partsand

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BY GRA EM E B E N N E 'r T

1 Year On-Site

Warranty

This issue's cover image is an excerpt from a video

presentation created by Animedia Vision Inc.
(604-73L8588p44-3361) for a real~state developer.
Intended to impress prospective tenants, the video features models crfxsted, rendered, and animated with
Autodesk's 3D Studio. It demonstrates human actors
moving around inside a "virtual building and interacting
with ils decor and fixtures.
A post-production facility added the human actors
using the 'blue-screen chroma key technique where
afi areas of a parficular color are replaced with a secondary image in this case, the computergenerated
background.
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IPC System Configuratien

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details that take the most time when modeling 3-D

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objects. For example, Lyons claims that one of the

m ost
complex models inthe whole scene shown on the
cover of this issue is the tiny angel statue below the
painting at the end of the hall.
Lyons says a veritable cottage industry has sprung
up around 3D Studio, and, for his company, selling the
sofiware and supporting hardware is only part of the
picture. Animedia also provides modeling, animation
and producfion services, and gives seminars on 3D
Studio, Autodesk Animator, Targa (a series of high-end
graphics cards) imaging and CorelDRAW.
The scene selected for the cover image was re-rendered in high resolution, yielding a 2K-by-2K Targa
TGA" file. Additional image editing was done in Aldus
PhotoStyler. The file was then compressed with PKZIP
and backed up onto several floppy disks using the
DOS Backup utility and delivered to The Computer
Paper.
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Restore
command) and"unzipped"on a 486.Itw as
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file, which was loaded into FreeHand and added to the
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platter and delivered to our service bureau for output

as film negatives.
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with a 100 lines-per-inch "line screen" on the form we
sent to the service bureau. This form also contains
details about the size of the image,
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program we used to create it, whether the negatives
should be emulsion-up or emulsion-down, and of
course, when we need the work done byl
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Script imagesetter. The final image wasoutput at 1270

dots per inch to a Unotronic imagesetter.
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to these settings as "implode" and "shrink.")

Compression

Some programs, such as Now Compress or

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ry on your drive, and the required subdirectories and files would be constructed relative
to the original. In the case of the latter, the
entire directory "tree" is explicitly specified.

If you are not big on typing obscure commands at a DOS command line prompt, you
might prefer the graphical ease of PC Tools
for Windows. Its version of the Windows File
Manager allows you to ZIP and unZIP files
with.a click of the mouse.
Among its many other talents, Norton
Desktop for DOS allows DOS users to easily
create and extract ZIP files.
UnZIP and unARC utilities (with a variety
of names) are also available on other computers, including Amiga, Atari, and the Mac
primarily to facilitate the decompression
of files created on a PC. You' ll find shareware
compression and/or decompression utilities

on virtually any BBS (bulletin board system).

This cross-platform
compatibility issue

has led to several programs that can decom-

press a wide range of "alien" archives.

For example, Aladdin Systems recently
released a PC version of its UnStuffit utility
to assist PC users in accessing files archived
with Stuffit on the Mac.
Now Compress' freely distributable "Now
Expand" utility handles most of the common Mac file formats. It can decompress and

Stuffit SpaceSaver, allow you to have both

options simuitaneously available.
Norton Desktop for DOS, DiskDoubler

and AutoDoubler can even be configured to

choose the best method for each file automatically.

As you might have guessed, you can' t

compress a file that is already compressed to
make it even smaller. A file can only be compressed once. Most programs will try to compress a file that is already compressed, but
nothing will happen, even if the file was first
compressed at the "Faster" setting and you
change the compression setting to "Smaller."

Executable file Compression

There are several programs that can perform
a different kind of compression. Variously

termed "resource compression," "executable

file compression" and other such terms, the
basic idea is this: after the compression pro-

gram squashes yow program, it appends an

unsquashing routine to the program code,
When you run the program, this code is executed, your program decompresses and
"Bob's your uncle."
For the PC, the shareware title PKLite
offers executable file compression capability
(most Norton products are already compressed, by the way). Although we know of
no shareware titles of this nature for the

tions are included in the file, so the person

receiving it can simply double-click the
archive and it will be decompressed without
having the compression software installed.
On the PC, such executable files may be created with PKWare's SEZIP utility, and necessarily end with ".EXE"; on the Mac, they

sors offer both of these safety features.

often end with ".SEA" (for "self-extracting

archive"). Of course, an installation program
may handle everything for you with a dou-

with driver-level compression is to move cer-

Mow safe ls compression?

press and/or decompress files according to

The concern over file integrity, or guarding

against the loss of data, is sometimes raised
in regard to file compression. Because compression reduces the redundancy of a file and
changes the context of its contents, it is
more difficult to reconstruct a compressed
file that has become corrupted or damaged
than an uncompressed file that is damaged.
The key, therefore, is to reduce the chance of

name, label, location, filetype and a variety

of other criteria. Now's offering, on the other
hand, offers a good balance of features
(induding a number of unique options like
"compress at specified time" or "exclude if
recently modified") and is somewhat easier
to use.
Stuffit Deluxe is the only Mac compression utility currently available that supports

damage.
This can be done in several ways. Files
can be compressed individually, as is done
with file-level compressors. Driver-level com-

Apple Events and user scripting. This means

pression, which compresses all the files on

the hard drive, presents a greater risk of damaging or losing entire files if a single glitch
occurs. Stacker, DiskDoubler and AutoDoubler are the only titles we' ve seen that specifically daim to be "fault tolerant."

Mac, Salient's AutoDoubler 2,0 comes with

such a utility. The Amiga has shareware programs PowerPacker and Turbo Imploder,
while Atari users can look for Pack/Unpack
to serve this purpose.

for the Macintosh, Vertisoft's DoubleDisk

and Microsoft's DOS 6 do not provide an
easy method for removing the compression
and restoring your data, and require that you
reformat the disk. In the worst case, you

Archiving

could lose all the data on your hard disk.

gies elsewhere.

An archived item is a copy of the original

item which has been placed into an archive,
a sort of folder whose purpose is to compress
one or more items to their smallest sizes and
then combine them into a single file to simplify transfer from your computer. Open an
archive and the items it contains are decompressed and copied out of it. In most cases,
an archive is self-extracting, which means it
can be used by people who don't own the
compression application you used to create
the file.

This is another reason why some users do

many others. Its menu implies that it decompresses DiskDoubler files, but actually
requires third-party software to handle this
format. At least the "DDExpand" utility it
requires is freely available.
Indeed, in virtually all cases, companies
release a freely distributable "expand-only"
files. To not do so would be inviting piracy.

Archiving compression allows you to create a collection of compressed files, called an

Speell or Size

archive, which is used to speed up modem

and network transfer time and backups.

utility to allow users to access compressed

Most compression utilities offer a choice of

When you create an archive, a copy of. each

speed or compactness. Files archived using a

file you select to include is compressed into

an archive, while the original file remains
unaltered.
An archive is usually self-extracting,
which means that decompressio'n instruc-

program's "smallest" setting will typically be

substantially smaller than those compressed
with the "fastest" setting. (Norton Desktop
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Typically, a file being compressed is verified using checksums both before and after it
is written to disk in a compressed form. This
process checks for errors and ensures data

integrity. Some programs (SpaceSaver,

AutoDoubler) offer an option to turn off
"write verification" to increase speed. You
should NOT select this option for safety's
sake.
Also, the safest utilities preserve the origi-

nal copy of a file being compressed until

compression is complete. This avoids data
loss in the event of a power failure. Both of
these issues were problems with the 1.0
release of AutoDoubler, but most if not all
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that Stuffit Deluxe can be easily made to

search for and extract all ".ARC" or ".ZIP"
files on a Mac user's desktop. To accomplish
this, you must write a "script," or use
Stufflt's "Watch Me..." feature to create one
automatically. Here's a script to extract ZIP
files; you could change it to work with ARC
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Although scripting has, up to now, been
a relatively foreign concept to most Mac
users, we expect it to grow in popularity as
they realize what PC and Amiga owners have
known for years: batch files are a powerful
way to control your computer, especially
when the syntax is easy enough to understand that you don't have to be a programmer to create one.

Conclusion
The compression utility you choose will nat-

urally depend upon your needs. If you regularly send or receive files with a modem, a
manual archiving/dearchiving utility is

handy. You' ll probably be able to find a

shareware title that serves your needs. A few
of the many titles available include PKZIP for
the PC; Compacter Pro for the Mac, PKAZIP
for the Amiga, and ARC.TTP for the Atari,

Even if you never upload files (shame on

you!), at the very least, you' ll want to track

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hard drive not always a viable option,
Now Compress and Stufflt Deluxe offer
the best features here, with Stufflt Deluxe
being the most advanced overall. It can com-

AutoDoubler, DiskDoubler, Compact Pro,

SpaceSaver and Stuff lt 1.5.1, although,
strangely, it does not support Stufflt Deluxe
files. According to Now, Aladdin already supplied a freely distributable UnStuffit utility,
so Now's programmers devoted their ener-

BinHex, Compactor Pro; SpaceSaver, and

pressed will be left alone.

The only option available to PC users

ble-click on an installer or "SETUP" batchfile.

convert files and archives compressed with

Aladdin's Stuffit Deluxe for the Mac handles perhaps the widest range of archive formats, including ZIP, ARC, UUENCODE, TAR,

Finally, you should have final say over

what gets compressed and when. This level
of control provides you the comfort of
knowing that files designated not to be com-

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Stacker for Macintosh 1.0 (US$149 from:

Stac Electronics, 619-431-7474; fax 619-

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Times Two 1,0 (US$149 from Golden Triangle)
eDisk (US$89.95 from Alysis)
(File-level and archival)
Now Compress (US$129 from: Now Software, 1-800-374-4750 or 503-274-2800)
Now Expand (freely distributable)
More Disk Space 1.1 (from Alysis)
StuNt Deluxe 3.06 US$120
SpaceSaver 1.05~ (included with Stuff lt
Deluxe)
StuffIt Classic, Stufflt Lite (shareware)
UnStuffIt (freely distributable) From:

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kTimeCompression

With thehelpofQuickTime,Apple's Macintoshsystemsoftware

provides abasic setofsoftwarecompression/decompression
schemes
that meeta rangeof compressionneedsfor still
images,
animations andvideo.
Photo Compressor
Applewasthefirst personalcomputer companyto implement
the joint PhotographicExpertsGroup(JPEG
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scheme
asastandardpartof systemsofhvare. JPEGis ahighquality.still imagecompressionschemethat offers ratiosranging from 10:1 to 25:1 with no visible picture degradation.

AdobePhotoshopandother programssupport QuickTime

JPEG
compression.

Animation Compressor
Apple'sAnimation Compressor is basedonrun-length encoding principles tocompresscomputer-generatedsequences
from 1to32bits in depth. Thiscompressionschemedisplays
animations-such
asapresentation slideshowor adynamicbar
chart-atacceptablespeedson all color-capableMacintosh
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Video Compressor
Apple'sVideoCompressordevelopedbyAppleallowsdigitizedvideosequencesto playbackfromahard disk or CDROM inreal-timewithnoadditional hardwareonany Macintosh with a68020or higher Motorola processor. TheVideo
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The currentreleaseof QuickTimefor Macintosh is QuickTime
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QuickTimfor
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Applealsosells aQuickTimeSampler set, includingthe
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products. According to Gore, Apple will try

to simplify its product line by doing away
with the Centris name, replacing existing
Centris models with equivalent Quadras.
On October 21, he forecast, Apple would
launch seven new Quadra models using 25

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TORONTO (NB) "Sometimes," MacWeek
Senior Editor Andrew Gore told an audience which he said is hoping to address market
at MacWorld Expo/Canada, "I wish the Mac- confusion over the large number of Macinintosh could be declared a minor so Child tosh models by introducing more models.
But he spent most of his second-day keynote
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known for predicting unannounced Apple

megahertz (MHz), 33MHz, and 40MHz

Motorola 68040 processors. Six of these will
have Ethernet local area network (LAN)

To the user, Gore said, the PowerPC Macs

will look and work just like existing Macs. He
while the machines will
added onewarning:
run existing Mac software, they will not
deliver the hoped-for performance improvements with software written especially for
the PowerPC chip. And when will t h at
appear? Gore said Microsoft Corp., one of
the key Mac application suppliers, is running
behind in its efforts to develop PowerPC ver-

AB thesoftware are upto-date and new

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tions, but should have the Word and Excel

packages ready within 90 days after Apple

launches the PowerPC Macs in March.
The first Duo portable based on PowerPC
technology is expected next fall, he added.
Gore also touched on a rumored new
Mac, called Blackbird, which he said will be a
notebook intended as a response to IBM's
recently launched ThinkPad 750. Expected
in March, he said, it will have an activematrix color screen that will be the largest
on any PowerBook at 9.4 inches, and will use

Electronics (PIE) division, Gore praised the

Newton and dismissed the PowerCD CD-

NoadultGIF's

ROM device, which he said is "a pretty lackluster CD-ROM drive."

Despite complaints about the handwriting recognition in the Newton MessagePad
personal digital assistant, Gore said, Apple is

All the files are compressed (ZIP)

sions of its Microsoft Office suite of applica-

a modular design with two expansion bays.

Turning to Apple's Personal Interactive

No duplicates

"selling every single one they can build."

Ready for use in BBS (" FILES.BBS" support )

Macs based on the PowerPC chips that

Apple, IBM, and Motorola are jointly devel-

said, and there will also be a new Macintosh

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Apple will bring out a 290c, with a 68040.
processor and an active-matrix color screen.
Also in the spring, Gore expects the first
oping. He predicted three initial models,
ranging in price from US$2,000 to US$4,000,
built on PowerPC 601 chips running at
50MHz and 66MHz, and possibly carrying
the Quadra nameplate.

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interfaces and compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) drives built in. One will be an
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A handful of new Macintosh Performa
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Announcing the first ever subscription based

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He said more products in the Newton

line can be expected quite soon, and not just

from Apple other companies, including

Panasonic, Siemens, and Motorola, have
licenses to build products around the tech-

nology.
And the Newton line may use other
processors than that in the initial model.

Soon AMIGA and MAC support

Gore said he expects Apple to launch a New-

Powerful file viewing software included for non-BBS use

ton built on a PowerPC chip before the end

of 1995, and the company may even build

one around the Intel chips used in IBM and
compatible personal computers. "It' ll be ulti-

mately up to folks like yourselves whether

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Commenting on recent corporate developments at Apple, Gore said there is good
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The good news is that it is working: Madntosh unit sales are up and the architecture
holds 16 to 17 percent of the worldwide PC
market today versus about 12 percent three
years ago. The bad news is that, "in order to

be able to pump up the volume, Apple has

had to cut their margins," and that has
meant cuts to research and development and
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"shown a willingness to do what it has to do

to keep the platform viable and also to keep

people developing for it."
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COMPUTER "EXPERTS" AND THE AMIGA

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Despite these larger numbers, the subject of much reporting, research and review
by computer "experts", the fact of the matter is that overall performance of the
hardware/DOS/software combination of IBM coinpatibles hasn't really improved
that much. It remains restricted by the architecture of these computers, a rather
dated and basic design in terms of today's technology.
33Mhz to 66Mhz CPU's are needed to run relatively simple programs under
today's "user-friendly" graphical user interfaces, with nominal multi-tasking
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and load MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows; not to mention the memory inanagers,

After many years as one of the best kept secrets in the computer industry, the

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The computer "experts" who have done their
homework will realize that they are comparing
b ananas to oranges. The power of the AM I G A
originates from it s modern architecture and

sad commentary about the level of computer

literacy amongst many computer professionals.

Too many "experts" in the industry, whether they
be writers for major co m p uter pub l i c at i o ns,
developers, "consultants" or salespeople, appear to
lack an overview of the market. being only familiar

with IBM compatibles or the Macintosh.

Being safely ensconsced within their knowledge

operating system. Yes, it also increases CPU

power, RAM and hard drive capacities. But the
AMIGA does this to permit even more complex
software applications, not to keep breathing new life
into a dated design.

of a single platform. why have they not attempted

to broaden their horizons? Are they so used to the

limitations of one particular computer platform, that
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readers. their clients and customers justice. with

well informed advice? The answer. unfortunately.

is "No!"
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computer industry who have closely examined thc
AMIGA and have reported knowledgeably on its
merits. And fair enough. some have in good
conscience recommended against itsuse;
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the AMIGA. Is this a fair accusation?
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operating system. Indeed, the AMIGA is more
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computer.
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Claris introduced ClarisWorks 1.0 for the

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best-selling integrated product within six

months, unseating Microsoft Works for the

Mac. Earlier this year, the company introduced Version 2.0 for the Mac, and also ClarisWorks 1.0 for Windows, the subject of this
review. Among its stiffest competition will

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Comparisons between the two integrated

With most ClarisWorks modules, one is

These include a set of basic drawing tools

applications are inevitable, and the programs

presented with a screen that looks somewhat

similar to KeMaker Pro. The database module is immediately familiar to anyone who
knows the Claris database application.
An opening menu presents the user with
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communications. When the product was
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users a more natural way of computing." To

The appearance of-the database module

departs from the others. The cluster of but-

do provide similar features: word processing,

spreadsheet, database and charting modules,
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wit, it provided a "seamless" integration of

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of other (nudge, nudge) integrated products.
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had only read or heard about.
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products. At one, a Pre-Press Pavilion, prod-

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who have previously by giving their

phone numbers to the organization doing
the calling indicated an interest in what
that organization has to say.

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the telephone to prospect for new customers.
It will stop charities from using the phone to
prospect for new donors. Fine. They can use
other means the mail, billboards, print
and television advertising that do not
force themselves on us and interrupt what

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lBM Canada Makes PowerPC Modules

BROMONT, PQ (NB) An IBM Canada Ltd.
factory will make electronic modules for all
PowerPC chips used worldwide, the company announced as part of its rollout of the
first IBM PowerPC-based systems in Toronto.
The Bromont plant one of IBM Canada's two manufacturing facilities took part
in the design of the PowerPC packaging, the
company said. The plant will package Power-

PC chips on electronic modules and mount

these on a ceramic base. It is the only supplier of these modules in the industry, and will
provide the modules, not only to IBM, but to
other PowerPC manufacturers, including
Apple Computer and Motorola, officials said.
The Bromont plant exports about C$2
billion worth of products each year.
Contact: lBM Canada, (416) 474-3900

Recall: NEC Notebook Batteries

BOXBOROUGH, MA (NB) NEC Technologies has recalled batteries used in two models
of notebook computers that were sold in the
United States and Canada from December
1988 to April 1990.
In seven reported cases, the batteries
short-circuited while being charged, destroying the computers and sometimes causing
fires. There were no injuries as a result of the
incidents, a spokeswoman for the company
said.
The lithium metal batteries were used in
NEC's PC-17-01 and PC-17-02 notebooks,
which were sold only in the U.S. and Canada, the company said. According to the
spokeswoman, they were not used in any

hydride ones. The company also said owners

of the notebooks can remove the lithium
batteries from their notebooks and run them
safely on AC power until they receive their
replacement batteries. No special precautions
are needed in handling the removed batteries, the spokeswoman said.
Contact: NEC, 800-237-291 3

tions compete with the regional phone com-

their approval, Unitel Communications Inc.

will offer toll-free 800-number service in
competition with the established phone
companies in nine of 10 provinces starting
in January.
The Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)
must approve the service before Unitel can
go ahead. As the CRTC has shown itself in
favor of telephone competition particularly with its decision last year to let Unitel and
a coalition of Toronto-based Lightel Inc., and

panies that approval is likely to be given.

Unitel still faces one obstacle, though.
The Saskatchewan government which
owns the telephone company, Saskatchewan
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telecom legislation that became law earlier
this year will eventually put the province's
telecommunications under federal authority,
but not for another five years.
Contact: Unitel, (514) 395-5259

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video equipment to stage such a monumentous event. However, if they are able to
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and their surroundings, and icons at the

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PASADENA, CA (NB) Commodore has

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tainment with the CD32, a television-based

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INonitors & Display Cards

Continued from page17
down the screen. Sony,.Mitsubishi, Seiko,
Apple, Radius and other less well-known
manufacturers use Trinitron tubes in some
of their monitors.
You should get a monitor with as fine a
dot pitch as possible. This measurement is
expressed in millimeters, as in "0.26 mm" or
".26 dot pitch." Sometimes dot pitch is

abbreviated as "dp". Although monitors

with larger dot pitches (e.g., ".39 dp") are
inexpensive, they are hard on the eyes and

can quickly lead to eyestrain. Do your eyes a

favor and spend a little extra on a betterthan-average monitor.

Hilliard, F. Upgrading to VL-Bus. The Computer Paper, July, 1993

Alfred Poor et al. Graphics Adapters.PC Magazine, Jan.12, 1993
Oliver Rist et al. 17-inch Displays. PC Maga-

zine,June 30, 1992

Color For Less (13- and 14-inch Monitors)
MacUser,Aug. 1993

Big Screens for Small Macs (LC and Ilsi displays),MacUser,Feb. 1993
VDT User's Checklist, The Computer Paper,

Jan. 1992
British Columbia Ministry of Health. Radiation Risk, Ergonomics and Video Display
Terminals. The Computer Paper(B.C. Edition), Feb. 1993.

Contacts:

As we have seen, the world of PC display

options is a complex one. I hope that this
article makes it all a little easier to understand. If you would like more background
information, please refer to the following
articles:
Wheelwright, G. Beyond VGA. The Computer
Paper,Oct. 1992
Green, R. Local Bus Video. The Computer

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even buy digital services under ISDN standards. Most adults still don't know what

people still don't understand those benefits.

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modems are.
This was brought home to me recently

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when I attended my first PTA meeting at my

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see the new jobs, or the new business opportunitiesawaiting them if they use those same
networks to gain new skills and new insights.
It's becoming the new political dividethe computer literate and the computer illiterate. Most of the computer literate like NAFTA,
because they know that their minds can conjure up better jobs than their hands. Most of
the computer literate understand health care

building and serving them, despite all the stories about Internet junkies from the White
House on down, the fact is that if you' re a BBS

user you' re unusual. And you' ll probably

reform and "re-inventing government"they' ve seen how automation can save money.
Most of the computer literate want the "Infor-

mation Superhighway" now, and are willing to

reasons. It means things that seem common-

something about it.

place to you remain mysteries to most of your

neighbors. Politically, it means issues that have
become important to you like what happens
to the Internet, or the fate of the "Information

But the computer illiterate remain the

majority. They have to be educated, with
respect and not put-downs, one-on-one, on
how to use this technology and how to benefit
from it. They' re not dummies, and if they' re
treated like dummies they' ll rebel, slowing the
technical transformation which still must take
place if our government and our other institutions are to become efficient.
There's a danger here. The market's "invisible hand" does not respect national borders, If
this freewheeling democracy rejects efficiency,
and the paternalistic oligarchies to our Far East
embrace it, as they are embracing it, the "invisible hand" will just write.us off and move on.
The future is at stake,

the benefits of the Information Age for your

children and your posterity, you' re going to

have to do some hard work.
When "DOS For Dummies" became a big

computer book sales hit last year, followed by

innumerable copy-cat series, many in the
industry took it as a sign that the mass market
was finally becoming computer-literate. I have
to disagree. A part of the mass market did buy
those books, but it was only that part that feels

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by Jennifer Flynn and illustrated by Hans

and Cassady, Inc., the $22.95 softcover volume uses the premise that it is a "history lesson," and mixes in just enough 24th-century
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breezy just the thing for the Trekker on
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Contact: Alpha Books, a division of PrenticeHall Publishing, (416) 293-3621.

IBM division builds

Inmac's Insignia PC
Mail-order personal computer and accessories supplier, Inmac, has launched a new
line of Insignia personal computers that have
been built for Inmac by IBM Corp.

The Insignia line comprises three models

based on the Intel 486DX CPU running at 33

biographies, many with spoken names and

MHz to 66 MHz, and one model based on

IBM's 486SLC2/50 chip. It is being manufac-

500 glossary terms explained. The total text

comes to more than a million words.
Neil MacGregor, the director of the

tured by the IBM PC Co.'s Austin Industrial

Business Center.
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National Gallery, said that he is very pleased

business supplier of peripheral devices, soft-

to have worked with Microsoft on the disc

project. oNow people all over the world will
be able to have access in their own homes to
the system that has been delighting visitors
to the gallery. This will enhance their enjoyment and appreciation of great painting," he

said.
Microsoft Art Gallery will ship worldwide
at the end of this year with a suggested list
price of US$79.95 or its local equivalent. The
disc needs a multimedia-equipped PC with
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software titles without having to first buy
them.
The company is including a free, encrypted CD-ROM with its High Performance line

North American newsstands later this Fall.

The premier issue will look at the Canadian Internet scene and will feature articles on
the FreeNet movement, SchoolNet and
Canadian politics on the Internet. Therewill
also be regular articles on various Internet
tools, games, and on the general subject of
"Sex, Drugs and E-Mail.e
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Expercomp Services is a subsidiary of IBM
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developed by IBM, Apple and Motorola.

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IBM says the systems offer approximately

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Prices for the PowerPC-based systems,

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that may eventually be available across
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in the world," without having to have a
pocketful of change or credit card, according
to BCTel. BCTel, AGT and Bell, which are
part of the Stentor group of Canadian
telecommunications companies, are market
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1994.
The Hello! card has the same dimensions

as a telephone calling card, but is purchased

in various fixed denominations. During the

test phase, the cards will be available only in

a $20 denomination.
The customer dials 1-800 to reach an
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card, then dials the long-distance number.
The system determines the value remaining on the card and tells the user (in the language he or she selected) how much time
can be spent on the call. The call continues
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tages over other local-bus implementations

or proprietary architectures, including its

ability to work with processors such as 486

and Pentium chips, an open standard that

includes over 120 system manufacturers and

Nintendo 3rd Most

Profitable in Japan

over 3,500 shareware titles for Microsoft

Windows and DOS; Soundsations with over
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computers; and the World Literary Heritage,
containing over 700 classical literary works.

TOKYO (NB) Nintendo was the third most

public-domain software pre-tested by Softbit,

profitable business in Japan last year, following Toyota Motor and NTT.

Fifteen categories are available and the breakdown includes: 900 Windows tools; 220
accounting, spreadsheet, and home manage-

Nintendo exports most of its game

machines to international markets, but due
to the relative strength of the Japanese yen,
has plans to produce more of its hardware
overseas.
Nintendo is currently planning a spacesatellite based game service on which it will
sell game software and hold a variety of
game competitions.
Despite the slump in the Japanese computer industry, Nintendo continues to do
well with a 163.8 billion yen (US$1.64 bil-

lion) profit for fiscal 1992, which ended in

March 1993. Nintendo's profit passed that of
fourth place Matsushita Electric.
Contact: Nintendo, tel 481-75-541-6111, fax
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Shareware, Sounds,
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IRVINE, CA (NB) Softbit has announced
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memory) titles Power Tools, a disk with

The Computer Book

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"Specialists in computer books for beginning

users, consultants and programmers."

The Power Toolsdisc offers shareware and

ment programs; 70 database tools, 200 edurational programs, 350 games, 400 utilities,
and even 170 programming languages. Each
category is broken down into sub<ategories
to help users find what they' re looking for
and there's a graphical user interface with
icons to make access easier, the company
added. An alphabetized index is included
and on-screen installation instructions are
available for both DOS and Windows.
The Soundsations CD offers 1,000 royalty-

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both you and the learners.

form any task using a computer, you are a

trainer. If you' ve been paid for it, you are a
professional trainer.

The Steps:
1. Prepare for the session and deflne the

With so much to learn about computers,

almost everyone who owns or uses one will,
at some time, take on the training role. Infor-

mation Systems professionals are particular

users of sitdown-and-let-me-show-you training sessions. These far outnumber formal
training events and are rarely recorded.
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niques for one-on-one training. The main

reason is our grounding in impersonal lectures and reading assignments.
One-on-one training is highly personal.

It's you and the person beside you. A failed

training session can be the result of a simple
misunderstanding and will reflect poorly on
yoll.

If you become nervous about times when

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your training events fast and painless for

task to be learned.
2. Explain and demonstrate the task.
3. H ave the trainee explain the task steps,
4. H ave the trainee explain and do the
task.
S. Have the trainee perform the task while
you observe.
Each person has their own preferred

learning style. Contrary to popular practice,

few people leam effectively from lectures and
manuals. Visual and interactive "hands-on"

material neededfor the learners before the

right directory and thereare no unexpected

session.

frills on the training machine.

For example, how much of Lotus do they

need to leam? If the trainee is simply going

Preparation Checitllst:

to enter numbers into a spreadsheet, then

teaching macros is pointless. Once you know
what is required from a computer product,
then determine the tasks. Learners' experience and needs tell you what the first task is.
For example, if they' ve never touched a
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advanced subjects. Remember: people are

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success. If there's interest beyond the basics,

that's when you lend out the manuals.
In your preparation, divide the material
into pieces that logically lead from one to

De t ermine the application of the knowi.

edge to be taught.

e Break it into tasks based on the learners'

experience and needs.
Put the tasks into a logical sequence.

Pr epare any visuals, handouts or flie.

Fo r ward your phone or shut off the

ringer.
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are not to be interrupted.
Fi nd a chair for the trainee.
Ha ve manuals and handouts ready.
Te st your hardware and software.
Set up IDs and test them if you are train-

another. Keep them small. Recall that adults

can focus their attention on a topic for
maybe twenty minutes. After that you need
to alter the subject, venue or simply call for a
break. It is utterly pointless to push training

techniques are often faster and more effi-

on someone who is not ready. Postponement

is preferable.

cient. Such material tends to be modular.

This is good because adult learners tend to

During preparation, determine if the

teaching equipment differs from the learn-

ing on a LAN or mainframe.

The second step is to demonstrate and
explain the task, Each should start with a
two minute introduction. For example, if

you were teaching someone how to use cursor keys in a spreadsheet package, you might
say: "In the next couple of minutes I'm
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There are a number of keystrokes that will

Therefore step one is critical for onewn-

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best. Also be sure that sample files are in the

introduction states why you are inflicting

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specialized term, ask the trainees if they
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They may be very knowledgeable about their

(and why) and then let them tell you what

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Daily Office Standards.

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doing each time you press a key, Watch the

student's body language. If they are looking

at this point and they are driving the com-

the learner: "What sort of traps could someone get into wit h th e procedure I just
showed you?" Their answer will let you
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Once they have watched you perform the
task, and have asked all their questions, you
must then ask them to tefl you how to do
the task. In this third step, you speak rarely.
It's up to them to verbally demonstrate their
understanding. They must tell you what to
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brains. After they have tried recalling what
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2720087.
386 DX/33IBMCompatible, 84 Meg HardDrive, 2 high density
floppies, 4MegRam(5 1/4. 31/2) SVGAcolor monitor and512K
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pin Brother M-1324printer. Asking $1050 obo. Call John532966.
486 DX334MB105HD2FOD SVGA, mouse, external modem.
$1400obo. Call803-8532.
486DLC40:128KCache,8 RAM, 212IIIIB HO& 300IIIB SCSIHD,1
8 4 SoppySVGAmonitor & 1MB SVAcard, SBPROwith MIDI,GVCext.14400modem, $3000. Tonsofnewsoftware! Askfor
John. 94IHi683.
486DX-33MHZVesacomp. 245MBHDSVGA monitor, SVGA
card, 101keyboard,mouse,brand new,1year warranty. $1390.
Eve. 651-3081.
4S6DX33Motherboard,64K,OMb,exp.to32Mb;8slots,Landmark CPU+109Mhzll/386DX40
Motherboard, 128K,OMb,exp. to
32Mb, 8 slots, Landmark CPUi65Mhz!! Sacrificing
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thing...Cheap,Call?OS-7214084,
486SLC-2
5Mhz.VGA,Notebook,4MBRAM ,120MBHD,carrying
case$1950,SVGA,.28P,monitor$345.752-9387.
A PERFEC
T graphics printer! Okidata400with 2.5 megmemory
and new
cartridge. Cost $950. Asking$700. Call277-1071.
AMO, 1MBchip + 2MBfast RAM,Ext drive. GVPCttlrv205MB
HD, 100disxs. software, magazines, agfor $650. Bardya4907997.
A500/C128:ForSale. CallKamil at822-496S.
ACEEXFastV.32 BisFaxModem,external. Superbuyat$259
obo. CallOralat502-9397.
AMIGA5001MB 1084SGoldenImagemouseJoystickover$300
in games/utilities/disks/Amigamagazines.$700 oboGlenn4795454.
AMIGA500,greatcond,1MB RAM ,2400baudmodem,ext.3.5,
printer, monitor, joystick and sottware, $1000obo. Call Milan
416-454)865.
AMIGA
20005MB45MBHD. Lots ofs/w, $1200. Call57-2351.
AMIGA
2000: 1Meg,3.5, IBMxtcompat(.5 Meg, EGAcard, 5.2s);
1Q84monitor, IBMprinter, mouse,joysticks, 50~software pkgs,
manydisks,$600. 416-294-6474.
AMIGA2000: A2080 C-Monitor,3DD,PC Bridge board,20MB
HO, software
$950. Bob487)804.
AMIGA
monitor for sale$200obo. 2400bpsmodemfor sale $50
obo. CalMark
l 287-0026.
AMIGAsystem: Amlga 500$150, Amiga 1084monitor $170,
SCSIController (SA500) $100. All in excegentcondition. Call
Yosi after 6
pm. 6304518.
AMIGA: Fusion-forty accelerator4MB,52MBQuantum+ICD2080
controller + megachip. Easylgraphicsboard. $1,780. Call lan
after 7 pm
at 455-9648.
APPLE
11E, 128K.duodrive 280printer card, joystick, numeric
key pad,
software, manuals$450. CallAfan. 926-4518.
APPLE14" monitor .39 dp. New. Asking $100. Call Stephen
754-3'I69.
AST 286-10,1MBRAM,70 HDD,1.271,44 FDD,SVGAcolor, ATI
graphicscard,$650. Steve296-0575x2919.
AST 386/SX16,4MBRAM. 212HD, 2FDO,TapeB/U, SVGA W/ATI
XL24 tMB card, USR14.4/14.4 Data/Fax, Soundblaster, Bus
mouse.Call 236.8195
ATARI 1040ST.color and monomonitors, 60 Megharddrive,
Epson LQ
printer, lots of software.desk,more. $1250obo. Tom
237-9997.
ATARILynxcolor portable videogamesystemwith 1game16bit.
$95. SagaGenesis gamesfor sale or trade. $25. 499ISO?.
ATARIMEG
A-ST: 2MB,monitor, printer, spreadsheet, wordprocessing, database,desk top publishing, 60 floppy disks, $475.
2941828.
ATARI PORTF
OLIO 32K 16 bit computer palmtop type $300
O.B.O.752-6083
BOCARAM
SmegMemoty upgradeexpansion cardwith 4 mega
on it$200 ortradefor 16 bit soundblaster. 101 8 t02 enhanced
keyboards
$15, $20. Call661-9766.
BRANDnew quantum 85MBHDO$170.536-5896,
BUY-SCREEN new/usedforTandy2810HD.Call538-1706.
CI:15t DD,cofor mo
nitor, pdnter, Seiko 1000 plus software
and books,$300obo. After6pm. 881-2965.
CIC: 1541C
Disk Drive, SeikoshaPrinter, Joysticks,Software;
ag perfectcondition: $200. CallAnthonyat245)993.
C64 1541DDPnnter andinterface. Manuals, modem300 baud,
cables,lots ofsofhvare, Steven2994614.
CANON
sheet feederfor BT-10. Neverused. $59.90. PhoneNorrnan 971-7589.
CD ROM
drive 600m
iliseconds 20KBbuffer 150kdatatransfer
rate plusonegameasking$100. Call Mareat624-3941.
CGAVideocard $20, I/OPluscard, $10. Gall441-0744.
CITIZEN200 GXDot Matrix printer. Rarely used,comeswith
manualsandoriginal box, 3print modes. Only$125. Call2753890.
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2.5MBRAM, 2002CommodoreColorMonitor,2400 BPS JVC
modem,software,manuals etc. Asking$1100. CaliGaryat519971-2743,
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Modem14,4bpsbrandnew$210. CallAlexat 8&4444.
EGA car
d$25,Floppy dr.t.2Mb $30,360K $9CGA card $25,
modem14.4bps. Brandnew$210. CallAlex at 8294444.
EGAcolor monitor 14"goodcondition. Asking $60 - Margaret
754-7326.
FOR SALE:Computer386SX2085M HD4M RAM,modem $850.
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FOR SALE: ST251/42 MEG.$100. Miniscribe 3085/6S MEG.
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Gkeyboard new
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FOR SALE;Weitek3167 mathcoprocessor-$99,AMD 386SX25
- $75, calPeterat452-4724.
FULLPageScannerc/w Photoshop $450. CGC BLP EliteLaser
Jet Printer$590. 416-385-8625.
HARDDRIVE: 40MbSeagatemodelST251, MFMtype. With or
without controller. Call416-538-5381.
HEWLETTPackard Laserjet For SaleDemo: I/J IV (600 DPI)w/
toner 8 warranty. Call to scheduledemonstration - $100 discount. Darren519-942-3064.
HP LASER
JET3, 1 year old -990, memoryfor HP,postscript cartridge. 696.6407.
HP Scannerinterfare kit for IBM PS2. Never used$120. 386
SX/16AMIboard new. Neverused. $160. 458-1575.
HP-III Laser printer exc. cond. Only 4350prints. 3M RAM
$1 300. 962I560.
IBM 4019Lasersw/ postscript. 2 to choose,agoptions incl. 500
sheet tray,envfeeder,$1200-1400. Call848-4640.
IBM computer640K2FDmono with software$150. CallTonyeve
or wkh 691-5544.
IBM DisplayWriter system, keyboard,monitor, dual 8" floppies,
manuals andapprox. 50 8" disks. $90. Any relics out there'?
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IBM PS/I386 BX20/38760 MB HD,3.5

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bps, modem.$t000. 749-9056.
IBMPS/1w/40mb1,44color. New. Asking $800.Paul88M796.
IBM PS/2558)L4MB,60MB-HD,internal
modem,8513VGAcolor monitor, DOS,
Stacker,OEMM
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condi
gon.Includesmanuals,books.more
software.$12IL 625-7925.
IBM PS/2al 286/33MB12 fd,manocard
& monitor$425. CallNick43IH307.
IBM P81
SX-38620MIh 40 MBHD4MB
RAM, VGAmonitor, mouse, software:
WP5.1andWindows3.1, 1.44flopp, less
than 1 yearold, $1000 o.n.o. Call 538-

3407.
IBM Ouietwriter111printer. sheetfeeders,
font cartridges. Excellent condition.
$350. CallSenthil at821-1783.
IBM TokenRingadaptor card(ISA) SM0.
Attachmate3270emulation card $150.
Call 946-8398.
IBM Token ring card $550obo. 823.
7317.
LAPTOPNECUltralite. Sell for $600.
Softwareincluded. 416-9274730.
LAPTOP-Zenith 286 supersport-backlit
display, 1.44 fd 640Kexp to 2 MB HD

inte
rnal.Fax modem canyingcase.sleek
design. $850obo.Call650-5708.
lASERPRINTER: NEC 860~.excellent
condio
kn. 8PPM,300x 300 DPI. Cost
$4000 new,asking only $900. Accessoriesalsoavail. CallMark2824I301.
LASERMASTER800 DPIpostscdptlaser
printer, SMmemoryand135 original
fonts, Good
condition. Cag971-7MB.
LOWpricecomputerparts from$25to
$425. CalNhk
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MAC SE
ndHPDeskWriter withtwocartridges. For Sale. incl. Microsoft Excel
and MacWrite. Agooddealat$850.finn.
Call 4284)809.
MACINTOS
HFEVER: I havevarious Macintoshmodelsat tin'I be beatprices. Call
Paul al8314it58.
M/CINTOSH
LCI 4/40 w/14" color monitor, keyboard,mouseand lots of sfwr. 6
monthsnew$1680. CallBriana4-9 pmat
25H566.
MEMORY
RAM: 1MBi parity chips(grh)
70 ns.
$30,enhanced 101bilingualkeyboard for .8088t286$30, Call 608-7399
anyti
meorevenings653-9692.
MITSUW
gCD.ROMnew. 50msec150kb
complete with interfacecard software
cables. Richard.$180.93243tt.
MODEM: ATI 2400Etdev42BIS, error
correc
tMNP5compress,sendfax,external, mint condition. $65 firm. Call Dave
842-3967.
MONITORS:Aanuuing 12"amberTTL,
like new,$40. COM
PAQ14" SVGA, needs
repair, $100. Call 608-7399anytime,
evenings
653.9692.
MOUNTAIN
tapedr,TO4000 8,TD8000.
Ph. 4990376.
NCR DM-5
computer,10 MB hard dri
ve,
color VGA,
5 1/4 FD.with LOprinter $400.
763-7326.
NEC286Computer for sale:NK 286.640
RAM,MonoSamsung monitor, 101Enh.
KB, 5 1/4 FDD,21MBHDD,2400/9600
FAXModem,DOSS.$500call2368195
NECLaptop640K2FOD $400. Call2717843.
NECLASERprinter extracartridge, 500
sheet trays. II50 obo286IBMcomputer
with CGA
color rrenitor, 60 rneghd$550
obo. Call271-7843.
NEW/USE
D hardware videocards/acceler.
40MB Harddrives, 9 pin printers,

OLYPMPIA
Qlytext20 w/y includes twin

drives, keyboard,monitor andmanual.

$275. Phone
2404412.
PANASO
NIC1124 24Pindot mahix printer. Like new. Comes
with manualand
ribbon. Paid $410. Selling $195obo.
Call 762-1905.
PANASO
NIC2123 printer SI50. 24 pin,
quiet technology, incl. colour kit, 800
sheets bondpaper(25%cotton). Call
416/905.276-8817.
PANASO
NIC4430 laser Sppm2mb Ram
almostnew. $1059. 519-745-7055.
PC JR. 128K1FDD 8Amber monitor
somes/w$75or b/o, Peterafter 7t 7817583.
PERFECT
for graphics printingl Okidata
400 with 2.5 mgmemoryandnewcartridge. Cost $950. Askmg$700. Gall
539-9839.
POSTSCR
IPT for IBM4019 laser Printer.
Wiry notupgrade?$100or bo. Call8484640.
PRINTER
HPDeskjet 5000 -$560. Call
737-5480.
PRINTER: PanasonicKX-P1180g-pin.

2K. Manycharacter sets. Bi-directional;

up to192 charJsec. Envelopes,single,

continuous,fomw. Excegentcondilion.
WanantyMarch1994. $100. 7244tgf.
RAM 24 MegGimm
efor anyIBMdone.
Asking
$250 each/2M dips$7each/1M
dips $3each/Jeny4544256.
REAL IBM Proprinter III(4201) 9 pin
w/cabl
es$100.Voicemail:608-73SL TeL
evenings:8534Pk
SANYO16LX deluxe, 640K, 40MBHD,
5.25 ~ 3,5FD,101KB.mano, mouse,
Roland9101printer, DOS5i mare, $650

obo. Cal890e00
l
exl 6236.
SIMMSForSatecheap286 Olivetli computer for sale40MHD1.2M tlopyy EGA
very reliable. Make
an ofl'er. Call Shahab
7424tt44.
SOUND
blaster 8 bit sound card deluxe
edition 2 monthsold completewith software manualsoriginal package. Ibchard.
$80. 9324311.
SOUND
bhster delwe oewi never used,
includesfull utsgesamlgames$100. Call
James497-2047.
SUPRA14.4Fax/ModemMSmouse, Windows, WP
for Windows,Excel. Call 416465-5855.
TOASTER2.0,17meg,f60hd,040accelerator. CallPeterwk. 2524I07. hm. 6549656.
UPGD
Apple2GSw/ the works4164536370.
VGAcolor monitor. CTX14 VGAmonitor
plus extension
cable. $200obo. Call929.
8177.
XEROX
printer. Daisy wheelprinter, very
goodcondlgon$190.Plscall5S8-1863.
XT 2FDD,monochrome monitor,650K
memory. Goadcondition. 6'l75. obo.
Call Chantalat287-2394.
ZENITHMinisport Portable computer, 2
megabytesRamMSDOS3.30 built into
the RQM. $395. Will Faxdetails. Call
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mouse. 416-9214I700.
NOVELLNetworli, 286 80MServer, setup

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ANALYST/PROGRAMMER-10yrs.exp.
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QBJECTVISION, PARADOX. Cal
Bill Landry6t9-2463.
ANALYST/PROGRAMMERseekscontract/ft PC tutoring, C, Clipper, dBase.
Datamgmtexp. iy 416496-9035.
ANALYST/PRQGR
AIIIIMER seeks con.
tracgfugtimein DOS,UNIX, Novel, C,4, Windows,Assembler, CUPPER,Communications. 7 years' experience. Call
Alee 416-36IHI744.
ANALYST/programmerseeks PCprogrammingassignments. hp. In C, CH.
PascalSma
, gtalk, Windows. Veryreasonablehourlyrate.Daveat326-9459days,
evenings
2674240.
ARCHDESIGNER: 15 yrs experienceACAD. R12seeksresidentiaVadditional
work tull/part time or coraract. Call Joe
4164I37-2566.
BA seekspart-timeemployment/contract.
Experience:C(DOS,08/2, Mac),Clipper
DOS), Basic (AlpraMicro). Call Gabor
16-265-5821.
CQlllIPUTER
knowest-all seeksf/t job DOS
8 WIN Imowledge,Imagescanning/conversions,graphicdesign, Customersupport Call Peter4914I694.
COMPUTE
ROperations position wanted:
Software: IB MVS/XA/ESA/TES2/TSOISPF/IMS/ESP
/PCM/ICUGDG/EMAIUCICS
IROSCQE/CA1+Hardware:CPU3090/30
33/4341/XLSIDASD3390/3380N
DT 32903276. CalChuck
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416-508-8945.
COMPUTERSPECIALISTDOS,Windows
installation, setup, tutoring, small programmingdBASELotus Call53837tr/
COMPUTER
specialist seeks f/t position
experienced inAS/400, DOS,LAN,Windows, WP,Lotus etc. Pleasecall 6639518.
ENGINEEER
available ft/pt. VAXIVMS,
Fortranandmore. Programming,training,
research
anddesign. CallZoran41lbl81
3695.
FQXPRIWPMacros,Helpavailable. Will
travel. Readyforanychallenge. Ted
$15/hr. 416-3614I493.
GRAPIBC
designer, 5+years' exyerience,
excellent traditional skills + Pagemaker,
glushatoi, Quark Seeksft/pt or freehnce
opportunities. NorthToronta Glenn3225899
MACH.ENG.tt/pt, dBase, Clipper, Lotus,
Excel, Wind. or will work vol. for CLan
training. Zoran532-5256.
MACINTOSH
Artist: Computer layout,
typography,igustrationsseeksfull, part or
Ireehnceemplo
yment,Lac483.5240.
PARTNER
for Fax broadcasting. No
investment. Know-howandequipment
required. Cal9254gt78.
l
PROGR
AMMEREXP. in CNovel, Clipper,
dBASE seeks full or part time job.
Stephen496-9035.

AUTOCAD,Excell, Lotus, WP,seeking

work. 244-2100
BARTER
NETWORK: AgBusinesses 4206967 X611
CHARTEfIED
ACCOUNTANT: Business
starts pinfo, taxation, freeconsult S.Goal
8&6428
COMPUTER
/DTP LESSONS: Perfect for
the university student/private individual.
An introductory lesson(s) to theMacor
DTP, etc. Reasonable. Call Barry8895311.
FREEPRICELIST - Unique Computer
Products, supplies. Write: APM6021
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AMIGANA
UTSMEETING Onthe second
Sundayeach month,6-8 p.m.,at2975
Don Mills Rd.West, OrioleCommunity
RessourceCentre, 2ndfloor, GarnesRm.
Full Amigausers support, monthly tutorials and presentations of latest software
and hardware
for theAmigaand, coming
soon, aBBS.
ANIMATORS'
GROUP Interested in the
creation of2-Dand3-Danimaliong ZimgraphicsLtd. offershands-ontraining and
membershipsforthoseinterested in computer graphics.Formoreinlormation call
(416) 929411
55.a
CANADAROUNDTABLE ON GENIENightly andweekendmeetings. Discuss
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More info71-800-638-9636.
CANADIAN COMPUTER GRAPHICS
ASSOCIATION
CCGAs' mission is "to
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informedof developmentsin theindustry,
and provided
anetworking forumto develop career andbusiness opportunities.
Additional benefits include; insurance,
newsletters, subscriptions, employment
liaison office, andannual art 8 design
competition. CCGA,
2175Sheppard Ave.
E., Suite 110,Wigowdale, Ontario, M2J
1WB.Fax:491-1670 Tek491-2886.
CANAMCOMPUTER CLUB -for serious
computerhobbyists. Breakfast meetings
are heldeverySaturday morning
at Obies
Restaurant inWardenWoods Mall, Scarboro. TheClubhas asister grup in the
U.S. where info ideas and help are
exchanged.Membershipis freebutafull
breakfast is $5.00including grtuity. For
info. call Cy
Leonandat 2884I318.
CASESPECIAL INTEREST GROUP A
special interestgroup is beingformedto
help peopleinterested in learning more
about CASE.
Thepurpose is to providea
forum wheremembers mayshare their
experiences.Experiencedusersor those
interested inCASEcall Joe DaSilva at
252-1408,or RobBeckman928-2694.
CASE
Computer Aided Software Engineering is open
to anyoneinterested in
being toolandtechnologyindependent. 111/2 hours,monthlyscheduledmeetings.
Vendorpresentationsaswell asindividual,
BBS 497-5263, (log on if MIS Affiliated
messages
.into Tech2ndcategorycaged
CASE).ContactJoe DaSilva at 252-1408
or RobBeckmanat 928-2694.
CLUBCUBASEToronto area users of
SteinbergSoftwareproducts, especialy
their powerhouse
sequencer Cubase, now
have a forum to shareinformation and
developskils. ClubCubasemeets at 7:30
pm onthelast Mondayofevery month,in
RoomC426attheCasaLornaCampusof
GeorgeBrownCollege - 160KendagAve.
For moreinformationcontact ClubCubase
at 62 HamworthDrive,Willowdale, ON,
M2H3C2orcall 496-9905.
CLUB MAC COMPUTERGROUP OF
ONTARIO
AgMac users, Macintosh OS
6 related issues, meets 2ndTuesday,
Michener Institute, 222 St. Patrick St.,
Toronto, 7 pm to 10 pm, infoline 4621702.
COMPUTERTRAINERS'NETWORK A
group of teachers,tutorsandconsultants
who meet the first Thursday of every
month to discusstraining or computerrelated issues.Meetingformatconsists of
refreshments, business portion, guest
speaker
andmemberships available. Location: 121KingSt,W., 24th Floor,Toronto,
Ontario. Formoreinformation pleasecall
Veronicaof VisionComputer at(416) 3230406.
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