July 1994 / News & Views

Borland Readies dBase, Takes Aim at Microsoft	In the battle of PC databases, both Microsoft and Borland have set their sights on having it all - by Stan Miastkowski
WordPerfect Enters Paperless-Document Arena	What was once a small club is turning into a crowd. - by Lauren S. Thompson
The Best of Interop+Networld
Interop runners-up	Applications: the InterAp applications suite for accessing the Internet, California Software ((714) 729-4224); the Zip Office Server for Lotus Organizer and cc:Mail, which links scheduling systems across LANs to IBM PROFS and OfficeVision, Attachmate ((416) 979-1380).
High-Speed 1394 Train Still at the Station	Hardly anyone talks much about the "plug" half of "plug and play" when the subject turns to making PCs easier to use. - by Christopher O'Malley
1-2-3 Proves DOS Isn't Dead	Lotus Development isn't letting 1-2-3 for DOS die in the shadow of its Windows spreadsheet. - by Daniel Gasteiger
PIMs Are Not So Personal Anymore	Recognizing that few people in today's workplace work alone, software developers are adding group-collaboration features to PIMs (personal information managers. - by Alexis Tannenbaum
Three Programs Help Manage, Create Fonts	A trio of new products make it easier to manage, generate, and manipulate fonts on your PC. - by Jon Pepper
Turn Your PC into a Powerful RISC Machine	By integrating a Mips R4x00compatible CPU with an advanced memory architecture that obviates the need for a conventional S RAM (static RAM) cache, a Silicon Valley start-up has created a unique upgrade board that turns VL-Bus PCs into high-performance RISC systems for Windows NT. - by Tom R. Halfhill
High-Altitude, Top-Down Programming	In 1986, long before the concepts of object-oriented, RAD (rapid application deve lopment), and visual programming became fashionable, a database applications builder called Magic, which embodied all of these concepts, showed up. - by Rick Grehan
Next's Enterprise Objects Framework	The NextStep 3.0 development system came with DBKit, a data-access layer that you could easily wire to data-aware user-interface controls. - by Jon Udell
Motorola Enables Custom Microprocessors	Motorola has announced an ambitious program to better serve the needs of the 32-bit embedded-microprocessor market. - by Bob Ryan
ScriptX	ScriptX (see "Kaleida Hopes that X Marks the [Multimedia] Spot," Microbytes, September 1992 BYTE) Kaleida (Mountain View, CA), the joint multimedia software company formed by IBM and Apple, is looking at September for the release of software development kits based on ScriptX, the company's object-oriented programming language for creating multimedia titles.
Simon	Simon (see "Simon Says: Communicate," February BYTE) Officials at BellSouth Cellular (Atlanta, GA) don't have a release date for Simon, the communications-based PDA (personal digital assistant).

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