December 1994 / Reviews

Low-Cost Color Lasers The Facts	Three color laser printers make fast color printing almost affo rdable - by Tom Thompson
Tektronix Threatens a Show Stealer	During this review, Tektronix showed me a prototype of its Phaser 540, a color laser printer with features and pricing that will compete directly with the three printers I review here.
Simonizing the PDA The Facts Selected Simon Features	BellSouth's communicative Simon is a milestone in the evolution of the PDA - by Chris O'Malley
Collecting Facts from Fax The Facts	Teleform 3.0 is powerful software for automatically converting customized paper forms to computer data - by Stan Miastkowski
The BYTE Hardware Poll	To test Teleform's capabilities, the BYTE Reviews department created a hypothetical poll in Teleform Designer, printed a master on a laser printer, made 93 copies, and distributed them to the members of the BYTE staff in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
SCSI Rides High on PCI The Facts	PCI-based SCSI host adapters combine state-of-the-art speed with (almost) Plug and Play simplicity - by Steve Apiki
Four Peer Operating Systems The Facts Performance Benchmarks	Peer LANs have matured into trustworthy tools. Here's how the top players--LANtastic, Microsoft Windows for Workgroups, Personal NetWare, and PowerLan--stack up. - by Barry Nance
Peer into the Future	Virtually all peer LAN products use DOS to access files on the server's hard disk, but DOS won't be with us forever.
Visual Programming for Lotus Notes The Facts Building Notes ViP Objects Class Inheritance Visual Programming for Notes	Notes ViP adds significant new features to Lotus Notes, including visual programming, reporting and charting tools, and enhanced connectivity - by Rick Dobson
Speedy Data Delivery The Facts	Micropolis's high-capacity AV drives deliver uninterrupted data transfer to match the needs of serious audio and video developers - by Stan Miastkowski
No Interruptions, Please	For professional audio and video work, any gaps in data flowing from the hard drive can cause dropped video frames, jerky motion, annoying sound pauses, or even software crashes.

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