March 1994 / News & Views

Chicago: An Ambitious Compromise	A 4-MB RAM budget and a strict compatibility mandate forced hard choices with Chicago - by Jon Udell
Low-End PowerPC Leaves 68040 Macs in the Dust	As Apple nears the release of its first wave of PowerPC-based Macs, preliminary test results show the least expensive PowerPC Mac completing compute-intensive tasks at least three to four times faster than a 25-MHz 68040-based Mac Quadra 900. - by Dave Andrews
From English To German The following are but a few of the changes that Apple's localization team made in modifying the U.S. Newton to work for German-speaking users.
Teutonizing the Newton	When developing software for today's global market, developers must contend with various factors, including adding support for non-English characters, translating text strings, and supporting varying time and date formats. - by Udo Flohr
Newton Recognition Architecture	The recognition system in the American Newton uses a multiple recognizer architecture, with distinct recognizers for words, shapes (graphics), and editing and command gestures. - by U. F.
Silver Streak Products -- AUI/AAUI connectors that attach to a network-ready computer: $99 each.
Tut's 10-Mbps Telephone Cord Network Could Be Small-Office King	Peer-to-peer network operating systems and network-ready computers can help reduce the aggravation that often comes with networking a workgroup or small office, but if you want to run your network at 10 Mbps, chances are you'll have to rewire your office building. - by D. A.
Networked Multimedia's Business Opportunity
The Importance of Netiquette	So what's a data highway without billboards? Call it inevitable; advertising is now part of the Internet. - by Angela Gunn
Intel and Nestor to Commercialize Neural-Net Chip	Neural networks, which allow computers to perform pattern-recognition functions, have so far remained on the fringe of mainstream computing. - by Nicholas Baran
Binary File Transfer In Fax THE GOOD
Fax Gets a Face-Lift	The great things about fax are that it's easy to use and practically every business has one. - by D. A.
Why Users Sometimes Fear Upgrades	A recent survey conducted by Help Desk Institute (Colorado Springs, C O) indicates that upgrades are the most likely reason for an increase in support calls.
Phar Lap's TNT Adds Life to MS-DOS	Every time it looks like MS-DOS has overstayed its welcome and is about to be shouldered out by a bigger and better operating system, something comes along and suddenly, DO S doesn't look so bad. - by Rick Grehan
Alliances Could Mean Better Integration	Following close on the heels of Sun Microsystem's deal with Next to incorporate the applications development layer of NextStep into the Solaris operating system (see January BYTE, page 148), Microsoft and DEC say the y will integrate DEC's Object Broker distributed-object system with Microsoft's OLE technology. - by N. B.
Zycad Reduces DSP Time to Market	DSP (digital signal processor) technology is showing up in products ranging from modems to cellular telephones to computers. - by D. A.
Complete Communications Solutions	BitFax Professional 3.0 for Windows ($129). Combines fax, OCR, and data communications including terminal emulation and voice mail, if you have a modem that supports voice.
Not Just for File Transfer Anymore	Back in simpler times (in the 1980s), communications software meant programs that coaxed your modem into dialing up an on-line service or BBS. - by Christopher O'Malley

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