April 1995 / News & Views

Mac Clones--Finally Radius's Mac OS-Compatible Systems	Now, more than 10 years after Apple introduced the Mac, the first Mac OS-compatible systems sanctioned by Apple should be available soon - by Dave Andrews
Low-End Servers Grow Up Servers Sales Go Up	It's easy to tell the difference between low- and high-end Intel-based LAN server systems: The processor, installable RAM, cache size, and hard disk capacity are usually bigger or better in the high-end servers. - by Ed Perratore
Faster Graphics Cards on the Horizon MEMORY TECHNOLOGIES COMPARED	PC buyers will see a tremendous leap in graphics performance at the end of this year or early next year, thanks to new kinds of graphics memory. - by Cate T. Corcoran
Microsoft Furthers NetWare-to-NT Transition Microsoft's File and Print Service for NetWare	Microsoft continues to ease the transition for users migrating from NetWare to Windows NT Server with its File and Print Service for NetWare, or FPSNW. - by Jon Udell
Free Rides Are Disappearing	Unisys recently decided to collect license fees for the data-compression algorithm used in GIF, a popular graphics standard of the on-line world. - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
The Net's Next Big Thing: Virtual Reality Template Graphics Software	A platform-independent standard for VR (virtual reality) called VRML (Virtual Reality Markup Language) could make navigating through on-line museums, libraries, and marketplaces on the Internet as common as interacting with textual information is on the WWW (World Wide Web) today. - by John Vacca
Networked VR From A Cave	Most Internet VR (virtual reality) projects don't support immersion, where you wear a helmet and gloves and are immersed in a simulated environment. - by John Vacca and Dave Andrews
GUI Building with Real Intelligence	At first glance, Utah appears to be just another Windows GUI builder, or so I thought when I initially examined the package's documentation and explored the multimedia demonstrations supplied on the CD-ROM. - by Rick Grehan
PerfectOffice a Strong Contender	WordPerfect's Perfe ctOffice is a latecomer to the Windows applications suite market, following Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite. - by Dave Andrews
Whatever Happened To...	Diamond-Film Hard Disks? - by Nick Baran
Legal Land Mines Cloud Multimedia GRAPH: CURRENT STATE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION SURVEY: WHAT SHOULD BE COPIED FOR FREE Current State of Intellectual Property Protection	The world of multimedia development is filled with more hidden legal land mines for developers than any other type of product. - by Peter Wayner and Salvatore Salamone

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