Blasts From The Past

BYTE's cross-platform tests of a Deskpro 386 with FPU against a Mac SE with a 68020 showed the 386 to be faster, but with plenty of caveats. Other articles covered image processing, encoding maps on CD-ROM, and LAN tutorials.

An article explained the difficulty of implementing continuous voice recognit ion. Another story discussed using virtual memory to give your PC 1 MB of storage. We wrote: "Nobody expects a system to actually have a megabyte of on-line storage."

Articles on computers in the arts and sciences ranged from machine-generated poetry to using PCs for audio special effects, graphics, and even to predict wars.