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Databases are our theme this issue. The big issues on the national
scene are about what will happen to the new Dbase IV, SQL and
issues of multi-user databases. On a more local level, we take a look
at Canadian Mind Products and their shareware database language:
Abtmdance. An mteresting product iron the interesting mmd of
developer Roedy Green. Check out the article for more.
Hypercard development does not seem to have gotten the same
response locally that it has had in the U.S. We went loohng for
samples of locally developed commercial stacks to little avaiL The
one product we had seen advertised on The Bible gets anosuwervice
responsefrom thetelphone comyany. Ifanyone knows ofany stacks
please let us know. We do however have m our midst author Barry
Shell who has writte two books on Hypercard: Concise Guideto
Hyper Talk" and "Running HyperCard with Hyper Talk". Barry has
been w ell known in the Macintosh community since he won Microsof't's Excel Macro competition a couple of years ago. Here he gives
us an overview of Hypercard's potentiaL
We talked with Eric Venot at CONNECr about the mteresting
potentialof Mmitel type installations for specific busmess solutions.
The idea would be to set up on-line databases with a more "user
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Our old pal, Dave Allen is back with another burst of Amiga
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Peter Turner from Optical Storage Systems managed to makeitin
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Peter's expertise is in both databases and in CD-ROM applications.
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Ingrid Hams gives us an article this time on the subject of
Ergonomics, a word that has been misused lmaat as often as
"Natural". She applies her thorough approach to an examination of
the issues and discussion with some local experh on the topic.
Mike Wolfe is back with another installment of the continuing
saga of the LAN. Gord Simmonds looks at a powerful shareware
database caHed File Express.
Some interesting new products came across our desk this time.
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We continue to grow. My ~
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buys three to 50 Amiga 500 contputers, Commodore will seH the board a complete Project Software library for C$2,500. With thepurchaseof Sl
to 100 Amiga 500s, the librazy will cost C$1300.
and aboard thatbuys more than 100machines will
Chip Shortage Pushes Up Prices
get the software library free. The new pxogram
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CL (NB) Sun Micxosys- complements Coznmodore's Three For Two plan,
tems is the latest to announce price hikes that in which publicly funded schools get one free
reflect increasing charges forDRAM chips. Sun Amiga 500 for every two they buy. (416) 499says it has upped many add-on memozy products 4292,
by 399oto 509o. An extramegabit ofmemoxy for
a Sun 4-200 compixter, for instance, is now $780
fxmn$563. "We'veheldoff as long as wereasonably can," reports Greg Xenakis of Sun.
New Graphics Standard Promoted
Apple Computer hiked an add-on memory kit for SAN RAFAEL, Ca. (NB) Pixar has published
the SE by409o earlier this month; Wyse has hiked aninterfaceproposal which itpromises wiHmake
computer prices by 69o to account for its higher "photorealism a standard capabiTity" on desktop
chip costs. And the worstisn'toveryet. The rumor computers. It's called RenderMan and itdefmes a
miH has it thatDRAM dup prices wiflxise another methodology for 3-D modelmg systems to attach
309o by July.
visual auributes to g
way as
tosimulatematerial, texture,reflecdvity, and gloss.
Microsoft Excited About 586
While most of us are wondering what the Intel Pixar wants the industry to adopt the technology,
80386 chip
means tous,BiH Gates and hisassoci- and it's of'f to a good start. 19 fi rm, including
ates atMicrosoft are two generations ahead, work- Autodesk, Sun Micxosystems. NeXT, MPS,
ing with Intel Corp. on the design'of the 805&6 ApoHo, Prime, and Walt, Disney, have endorsed
We' re already finished our work RenderMan and have committed to usmg the inon the 486," Gates told a conference in Toronto terface in their products. None, however, chose
May 19, "and we' re aheady starting our work on the introduction to announce specific products
the 586." Gates said each of the next two genera- based onRenderMan. "Just as PostScriptfueled
desktop publishing, the 3-D scene- description
tions of Intel chips the 486 and 586 will
roughly triple the performance of its predecessor. interface wiHfuelphotoreahsticimaging,"claimed
Hesaidhis teamis veryexcitedabout the586. One Tom Porter,director of advanced technology at
Pixar. The specification for the RenderMan interof its capabiTities will be "multiple dispatch"the abiTity to execute more than one instruction at face is available now ftom Pixar and may be
obtained free of charge by contacting the coma time.
pany.
Pixar is largely owned by Apple co-founder
Gates also said that MS-DOS will continue to
outseHOS/2 for thenext two to four years, and that Steve Jobs. CONTACf: PIXAR, 415/2584100
Microsoft plans yearly enhancements to the older PC Pagemaker 3.0 ShipsSeattle, WL, is shipoperating system, including a menu-and- icon ping version 3.0 of PageMaker for the PC. The
sheH simHar to Windows and OS/2's Presentation new version mcludes suppoxt for long documents.
Manager.
enhanced graphic capabiTities, and user mterface
improvements, including built-in templates.
Chip Shortage
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chips will cause a slow down in the entire computer industry and wiH persist through 1988, says
Dataquest, a market research flzm. Shortages of
256K and 1 megabitdynamic random access
memory chips will fmaHy ease by mid-1989,
according to Manny Feznandez, president and
CEO of Dataquest, but until then, the shortage
"could have a significant impact on the growth of
the computer mduslxy in the coming year.
Dataquest's flndings are much tamer than those
issued by the Semiconductor Industry Association, which says worldwide chip sales will gmw
only 3.9 percent in 1989, a sharp contrast with the
30.19o growth expected to be seen this year. The
SIA forecast
hintsthata dreaded "r-e-c-e-s-s-i-on" may be headed our way after thenewyear starts,
at least where the semiconductor industxy is concerned.

TORONTO (NB) Laser Friendly Inc. has cut

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The company says that halving the price of The
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MS-DOS computers. 'The newly reduced price
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madteting, saidinaprepsredannouncemeut."With
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FORT WORTH, TX (NB) Tandy Corp. came AmigaColor Seperation System

in for harsh criticism the week of April 25 as
reporters and analysts learned it misled the press
and public about its erasable Compact Disc (CD)
technology, THOR-CD. Among the April21 statementsthat didn't hold up to scrutiny:
-Tandy said itdeveloped anew, umquetechnology on its own at its Santa Clara labs. In fact,
"Business Week" reported May 9, and Tandy
confirmed, that the company licensed most of its
technology from Optical Data Inc., a weH-known
(by analysts) start-up inBeaverton, OR whichaho
licensed its technology zo, among others, N.V.
PhiTips.
-Tandypressreleasessaid its new technology
involved putting "pits" on aCD. In fact, the ODI
technology Tandy is using makes and erases
"bumps"on the CD surface acrucialdistinction
which obscured the ODI connection for a time.

TORONTO (NB) Commodore Business Machines Ltd. showed a color separation system
running on its Amiga 2000 personal computer at
the Comgraph '88 show here May 17-19. Commodore says the Professional Color module of its
Professional Page desktop publisbmg softwareis
the flrst fuH-feamred program to create and output
type and photography as black and white halftones, mechanicaHy separated Sm or screened,
four-colorprocess separations.

ogy was ready to leave the lab, but press spokesman Ed Juge quickly admitted under questioning
it's 1&-24monthsfzomcommercialization.'That' s
a lifetime in this business," according to analysts
interviewed by NEWSBYTES.
-Tandy uumpeted a $500 list price for its erasable CD player, a price similar to that of magnetic
hard disks, and within the budgets of home users.
In fact, a version of the product for use with PCs
would haveto be pricod at$1,200, because fmer
error~ e c t ion is needed. (CD-ROM drives have
the same pxoblem.)
-Tandy has yet to license the basic CD audio
technology from Sony and PhiTips. You can' t

the strong perfonnance of ihe Amigapmduct line,

which accounted for approximately 45 percent of
xevenue in the current quarter. Comxnodore's line
of PC-compatiblecomputersalsoexperiencedgood
growth in the quazter."

Amiga Making Money for Commodore

WEST CHESTER, Pa.(NB) Withsolidsalesof

its Amiga computer, Commodore International
Ltd. showed a thirdquaxterprofitof $9million (28
omts per share) on sales of $200 million. For the
thixd quarter last year, Commodore had a $1 mil-

lion proflt (3 cents per share) and $170 miHion in

sales. Irvmg Gould, Commodore chairman and

Protection for VDT Workers

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (NB) The Suffolk County
legislature has passed alaw, believedtobe the flrst
m the U.S., to protect workers in private businesses who stare at video screens aH day. The
ordinance takes effectinNovember and covexs aH
businesses with 20or more VDVs, and employees
who workmore than 26 hours per week in front of
the screen. The law requires a 15-minute bxcak
after
threehoursofw ork.Italso setsstandardsfor
lighting and for chairs, and mandates thatemployers pay 80 percent of the cost of eye exams and
glasses. The biH won approval by a 13-2 margin.
following a three-hour public hearing. A business
organization, the Long Island Association, opposed the measuze, arguing that the cost would
make themuncompetitive withbusinesses located
elsewhere.

IBM Donates Million Dollar Computer

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TORONTO (NB) Coxmnodore Business MachinesLtxL has announced ProjectSoftware, a

new marketing program that will give Canadiaa
schools evaluationcopies of Amigasokwareat75
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annual Education Computing Organization of
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'Ib make matters better (or worse for the banks), less work is involved in
using Accounting Master to complete a payroll, than in filling out forms for
the bank.
The company'smoney can earn interest for the company not the bank.

Again, providing big savings for the small to medium sized business
panicularly if a large overdraft is involved.
Accounting Master Inc., of Suite 163-2619 Alma St, Vancouver has
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computers.This easy to use program does itall for you. T4's,employee
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just some of the ieports it handles. It even exports directly to ACCPAC
general ledger, but saves the complex set up time often associated with
ACCPAC's own payioil progra.
Until now payroll softwaie for personal computers has been either too
simple to handle mote than the most straight forward situations, or too big and
expensive to set up. Accounting Master promises to be the best solution
possible, it is easy to leam and inexpensive to buy and maintain.
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computer, workstations, and software, will be
used by the school's engineexmg department to
link 290 terminals.
The gift is part of au ongomg effort by IBM to
nurture San Jose's budding pin-sttipers at the
academic level. The coxiaration has already
donated equipment and oue staff member to San
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Star Wars Unworkable:Lacks Software

WASHINGTON (NB) The Office of Technol-

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says the president's "strategic defense mitiaxive,"
dubbed "Star Wars" by the press, wouM fail the
first and only time it was called on. The
reason? The computer software necessary to target all the incommg missiles isn't anywhere in
sight. The targetmg and control software, said
OTA, cannot "be produced in the foreseeable
future." The 900- page OTA report has not been
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slouch when it ennea lo sharing his riches with
those in need. But his latest gift has the heads of
even the most liberal uuning. Packardhas decided
to give away $2 billion of his esthnated $2.87
billion wealth to the Packard Foundauon, an organization he set up with his late wife Lucile to
distnlnxte funds to charitable omses. Packard told
the NEW YORK TIMES, "We decided early on
this was what we wanted and worked25 years to
get to the point where we can do it."
Much of the grants sre expected to go to causes
which help children. $40 million of the money
will help buBd a new children's hospital at Stanford University. Schools throughout the SanFranciscoBay Area will receive grants, so will science
and engineermg studexxts who need funding for
research. Additionally, money hasbeenearmaxked
for a program that helps prevent teenage pregnancy and one that provides family phmning services to Third World countries.
Previously, the Packard Foundation has given
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Business Show was "TheintelligentOIfice-More
Effective and Comfoxtable Working Space"Internationa' Trade Fair Grounds, Harumi, Tokyo on
May 18. Over 400,000 visitorswere expected,
both domestic and foreign, during the 44xy exhibiuon. Some 295 companies displayed their latest
products and occupied 29,600 square meters of
floor space the largest scale in the show's
history.
The biggest crowdswere auracted to IBM's exhibit where the OS/2 operating system was hemg
pxomotecl "IBM OS/2 Theater" showed the development and features of the Personal System/55
Model5550-Sff,Model 5570-T, and OS/2 Extended Version. Observers remarked that the
depth of development information was unusual
for IBM.
IBM's New Products Corner was flooded with its
32-bit MPU-based Personal System/5$ Model

5550-SfI', and Model 5570-T. IBM's laptop

Trade and Industry (MTQ has just endorsed a

project to develop a fifth generarion computer.
MITI will invest about 30 billion yen ($240
million) Rom 1989 through 1992 for the pxoject
and the institute for New Generation Computer
Technology (ICOT) will develop the prototype
machine. The system will be caINtble of parallel
pxocexsmg of data and will coxmect a staggering
1,000 central processing units (CPU). It is expected that such a machine will be able to process
a whopping 500 times more data than present
large-scale general purpose computers. MITI
even claims this fifth generation machine will be
the first to understand. and infer human voiceand such a prototype will be complete in three
years.
Meanwhile, MITI wlII provide free access to all
copyrights and Iicences acquired in the development of this prototype machine to companies at
home and abroad. In this way, MITI aims to
acquire international participation in this project.
CONTACT: Institute for New Generation Computer Technology, MitaKokusai Bldg,. 2F., 1W28
Mits, Minato-ku,Tokyo 108

Coxnputer Speaks and Reads Japanese

TOKYO (NB) Tokyo-based heavy electric

machinery manufacturer Meidensha has developed a revoluticmary new sound synthesis system
thatresds Jspanesedocumeuts writtenby computers and word processors. Fmther, the technology
is said to be capable of interpreting the meaning
and context of a statement, thereby adjusting mflection. The sound synthesis system consists of
Japanese languageprocessorand sound generator.
The system is processed as follows: The Japanese
languagepxucessorconverts disk-basedtextdocuments into sound code, the sound generator processes the code into voice-like sound, using micxoprocessors. Fmally, the system reads the sound
through sIeahrs. Meanwhile, its makers say the
system canbe adapted to other languages, since
theph~ o r basic unitsofhuman speech, are
similar for most languages, and simply have to be
reaxrsnged for the system to work. CONTACT:
Mei~
2-2- 1 Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
100

Canadian Business Confused by LANs

1ORONIQ (NB} Personal computers are used
m nearly 90 per centof large Canadian businesses,
70 percentofm edium-sized ones and only about
40 per cent of small busmesses, accoxding to a
recent study by International Data Corp. Canada.
IDC also found, in a separate survey, that businessesareconfused about local-area networks.
Contlicting vendorclaims aud theabsence of clear
standaxds axe the big problems, IDC said. IDC
found that more than one third of businesses surveyed could not ideatify the vendor that had supplied their network interface cards. Among those
that knew whose cards they had, IBM and Novell
were the most popular vendors. In the personal
computing survey, the researchers found that the
IBM PC-XT was more widely usedthan its smaller
and larger siblings, the PC and PC-AT. More than
40 per cent of large sites surveyed are already
using PS/2 machines, and fewer than one fimx of
the large organizations that responded to IDC's
survey wereusing IBM-compatiblePCs. In smaller
orgamzations, the PS/2 was shghtly less popular
and compatibles more so. CONTACT: INTERNATIONAL DATA CORP. CANADA, 7 King
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New Novell Hardware

OREM, UT (NB) Novell found its major
Comdex/Spring announcements lostin the hubbub andtheboredom.'Hte company, whichbought
a number of hardware fixms in the last few years
and got Indigestion, announced a new AT-type
texmmal with a built-m Ethernet adapter, along
withadiskless workstation. Also added were afile
server based on the 80386 chip with a 155 megabyte capacity and a power supply that can handle
even bigger drives. A SCSIhaxd diskcontxoller for
the PS/2 was also announced, and the company
announced its Advanced Netware, Version 2.11
will ship May 27. Support for OS/2 will be available in the fourth quarter.
NRTLINR, Prove, UT,introduced a networking

computer, the PS/55 Mode15535, was exhibited at

its Laptop Plaza, demonstrating that it can rtm
Japaneseword processing software Ichitam and
Lotus 1-2-3.
Meanwtule NEC was exhibiting aud demonstrating its defacto standard Japanese PCs, the PC- system whichusespower lines called Link. With
98QQ and the PC-8800 series. Japan's PC giant it, any set of PCs in a building can now be linked
played host to third paxtyproductdisplays as well Ihrough a serial port plugged into a wall outlet.
Sony exhibitedits UNIX-basedenghteering work- Prices are $5-600 per PC, aud it ships m June.
station the NEWS, occupying most of its exhibiW/pj'
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$th Generation Cotnputer Due in 3 Years SAN JOSE, Ca. (NB) Mitxosoft has been

TOKYO (NB) TheMinistry

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the suit filed against

it by Apple Computer into two separate piecesone a licensing, the other the notorious "look and
feel" dispute. Microsoft auorueys claun that the
hcensing dispute, in which Ayple has charged
Microsoft with going beyond the bounds of a 1985
agreement to use copyrighted. elements of the
Macintosh display, is thekeyto them6re case, aud
if settled in Microsoft's favor, the entire suit is
settled. The U.S. districtjudge hearing the case has
predicted a trial on the licensing issue could come
as early as October.
The seccmd half of the suit, whether Micmsoft and
Hewlett Packard areviolating Apple's visualcopyrights, maynot reach atrial stageuntil late 1989, at
best, say those close to the case, and thenonly if the
licensing dispute is seuled in Apple's favor.
While Microsoft auomeys and spokesmen applauded thejudge'sruling, anApple spokeswoman
merely agreed with it, saymg thatif it will move the
case forward, "that is exactly what we are looking
for."

McCRAY

uun out a quarter of a million software packages

each month; eventually one million packages a
month will be ymduced, according to company
officers. Set to become operational this month,
the new plant, just north of Bothelt, will mitially
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THE NEXTBATTLE for the hearts and 6ngersof
ing speed of aMacintoshIL The McCRAY board,
computer users will be between IBM's OS/2 and
$4,295,enablestheMac llto iun ate whopping 50 IBM's Unix operating systems.It will be a friendly
MHz and to process 17 million mstructions per
battle both hardware giants are buildmg links
secoild.
between theirenvironments andthecompetition's.
AutoCad for the Mac II
Who will win the desktops of the 1990s? At the
SAUSALITO, Ca (NB) In a move viewed as Software Horizons conference Monday mortung,
placing the Macintosh where no Mac has gone the clisensiis was it depends on whose desk
before,
Autodesk has announced a version of its you' re talkmg about. Esther Dyson of REL 1.Q, a
highly successful computer aided design program newsletter, Gordon Eubanks of Symaiitec, a softfor the Macintosh II.
ware maker, Enzo Torresi of BusinessLand, a
Expected to win kiends for the Macintosh in pre- store chain, and David Wagman of Softsel, a
viously closed MS-DOS and UNIX engineering distributor, all agreed that among engines Unix
circles, the yrogram. called AutoCAD Release 1Q, should lead while m the office, OS/2 should win
provides 3-D wire kame construction and surface out
modelling functiotN, and will exchange files with
ndMS-DOS aud UNIX machines also nmning Au- The%arne ofthe G ame atComdex isfi
toCAD. Engmeersanddraftsmenhaveoverwhelm- mg nifty new pmducts which will set your store
ingly chosen the Autodesk CAD package over the and your customers apart kom the competition.
years, bringing it toanurnber oneposition for sales This means spending hours walking miles of
of this type of software. 11ie mKEware is priced at aisles, weighmg yourself down with literature. In
earlyreturnsone oftheniftiestideascomes kern
$3000 and is ex ted to be available t his fall
Taiwan, specifically kom Diamond Flower InterHyperbole
oftheWe ek
national (DR), Booth 2738 in the West Hall. It' s
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ahandheld scanner calloi the Handy Scanner with
HypetCsrd than in any other hmguage."
a 4-mch wide scan-head, meaning you can run it
Apple Fellow Alan Kay, speaking to a Washdown a newspaper cohmm and mput true stories
mgton, D.C. gathering
into your PC. It has two modes, and comes with
the $199 Halo DPE (desktop publishing editor)
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IBM Looms Ominousfor Clone Makers The Iestseller at this year's Comdex Show is a
NEW YORK (NB) IBM says its wants compa- 400-page tome called "Operating System/2 Apnies to pay uy cm past royalty fees before it will plication Guide" bemg given away at the IBM
enter into new licensing agreements for PS-2 booth. In it, you' ll fmd hundreds of programs
compatibles. According to company spokesman which work with OS/2. Some are bemg demonMichael Stacks, Big Blue may also push for reuo- strated in a massive booth with IBM's and
active royalty payments even if the clone maker Microsoft's name m the West Hall. As a piece of
has no plans for PS-2clones. IBM wants payments dis-information, this is one of the best pieces of
of one percent of sales on computer sold through work since Richard Nixon's 18-minute gap durlast Apri11, and full payinentby the end of the year. mg Watergate.
After that, says IBM ominously, prices ccnild rise. Why? For starters, each section has its own cover.
"To be consistent," says Starks, "we are not going That's ayage. Then there's a blankpagebehindit.
to enter into new patent licensing agreements with That page counts, too. Then each pmgram in the
companies thatrefuse torecogtuze their liahility to book gets its own page. And very few of these
IBM f the use of IBM patents in their existing programs amin stoma now, as the book readily
products." Unaf'fected are Tandy and Compaq, admits. Of the 8 programs noted in the "desktop
whichhave cross- licensing agreements withIBM. publishing" section, for instance,4won'the availWhether the fact that IBM hasn'tdunned the clone able until 1989. Only two will be done by the end
makers for payments in the past will undercut the of this quarter, in June. Andmany developers, like
current attempt to collect is unclear, according to Inset Systems and Manhattan Graphics (to take
computer law speciahsts.' rhis one couldbeheaded two kom the same desktop publishing section)
to court," one lawyer told NEWSBYTES.
don't know what hardware you' ll need on your
New DOS Due for June
PS/2 to nm them.
S ANFRANCISCO(NB) r f ~
Still, IBM people are handing out these books
correct, IBM will release version 3.4 of DOS on with straight faces, and quotmg from them as
June 2 a DOS with amore visual interface than though they were Holy Writ. When you stop to
its p
and which has incorporatedex- think about it, this may be the mosthumorouspart
tendedmemory support. In addition, hard disk of thewhole Comdex scene.
volumes may now contain up to 512 megabytes of ShareholdersDefeat South Africa San
datL
RICHMOND, Va (NB) Intemauonal BusiNews of
anew IXlS hascaused even more confiu- nessMachines Corp. shareholdershaverejected a
sion in a market already confused about the bene- stockholder proposal that would have led the
fits of IBM's newest operating system, OS/2. company to step selling its products in South
Jeffrey Tartar, editor of "Softletter," comments Africa as long as that nation's apartheid policy is
that "DOS 3A sends an interesting signal to the m effect. The South Africa proposal got less than
marketplace that we suspect could dramatically 10 percent of the 400million shares voted. Shareaffect the transition to OS/2.... Until new, the lack holders also rejected proposals that would have
of aueution to DOS Rom both IBM and Microsoft forced the company to disclose experIments conhas encouraged most users to regard it as a dead- ducted with animals, and to deny health insurance
encL.X DOS contumes to evolve, we expect that payments for abortions.
usas and developers will increasmgly think of
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omsolidated its production anddistributionopera- IBM's PS/2 machines with the Micro Channel
iions m oneplant said to be the size of 6ve side-by- M-1. They also claimed58% of the Fortune 1000
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IBM Road Shovr Promotes PS/2 OS/2

SAN FRANCISCO (NB) If there is any doubtthat the PS/2 line
is the most successful product intmduction in the history of the
computer industry, consider this more than 2 million machines,
half of them with IBM's new Micm Channel Architecture, have
been shipped over the last year, according to IBM. StiU. to cornbat
the prevalence of Doubting Thornases, IBM is throwing a 13-city
media event hosted by its own Bill Lyons, general manager of IBM
Personal System merchandising and other IBM luminaries. The
event is designed to dispel rumors and answer questions about the
new line.
At the San Francisco showing, IBM premised that a book wiH be
released at Comdex describing same 300 applications now being
written m OS/2. Micmseft's Balmer further dispeHed rumors that
development of applications for OS/2 had been cunailed due te
Apple Computer's lawsuit over the "look and feel" of the new IBM
ne software developer in any way, shape,
operatmg system. "I see
or form change their plans ene iota as aresult of the Apple lawsuit,"
said Bahner. As far Presentation Manager, the visual interface for
OS/2being developedby Micmsoft, is righton track despite rhe suir,
and wiH be released to the public in five months aud three weeks."

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miHion shares priced at $8-930 per share.

Suu, Lotus Sales Soar

BOSTON (NB) Sun Microsystems Inc. of Meuntain View,

Calif., and Lotus Development Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., are the
fastest gmwing companies in electmmcs, according to ELECTRONIC BUSINESS magazine. Sun's sales soared 4744 percent
over the pastfive years, the magazine said, while Lotus grew 369.2
percent over the same period. The rankings only apply to publicly
held finus. Others in the top five: AST Research of Irvine, Calif.
(249D percent growth); Iomega of Roy, Utah (185.2 percent);.
Mentor Graphics of Beavrnton, Ore. (164.1 percent).

Bedford AnnouncesPublic Offering

BURNABY, B.C. (NB) Bedford Software Ltd. has filed a
prospecms for a public stock offering with securities regulators in
three Canadian pmvinces. The offering is underwritten by the
Montreal secunries finn of Levesque Beaubien, and the prospectm
has been filed inBritish Columbia, Ontario and Nova Seed+ Kristin
Keyes, Bedford's director of marketing, said the size arid price of the
offering have not yet been determined. Proceeds will be used to
finance new product development. In fiscal 1987, Bedford earned
C$153,000 en revenues of C$198 rniHion. In the first aine months
of fiscal 1988 (to January 31) the company made a C$455,000profit
on revenues of C$35 million.
BCE to let Motorola Buy MDI
Menrreal, wiH not buy MDI Mobile Data International Inc. of
Richmond, B.C. BCE and Motorola Inc., Schaumburg, IH., agreed

to pursue jomt ventures in the mobile radio business, THE GLOBE

AND MAILreports, and BCE will withdraw from biddmg for MDI,
leavmg the field clear for a buyout by Motorola

Computer Innovations Distribution Iuc.

Brampron, Ont., reported a C$63-miHion profit in the year ended
AprH 2, up from C$3.9 million the previous year. Revenue climbed
te C$3063 million from C$2555 million.

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Commission(CRTC) figures BeH ismahng too muchmoney, so the
phane company was told it must reduce rates for long-distance calls
fmm Ontario andQuebec to other parra af Canada by an average ef
24.6 per cent. Rates for caHs to the United States will fall about 103
per cent, and calls within BeH aerritary will be about 2.8 per cent
cheaper.

The UMX Rebellion

NEW YORK (NB) Led by giants International Business Machines Corp.and Digital Eqrnpment Corp., the world's two largest
seven major computer makers have launched
a rebellion agamst American Telephone gr, Telegraph's recent
mitlalive to revitalize the Unix operating system. Calling themselves the Open Software Foundation, and dedicating $90 million
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scornfullyto the new Unix challenge. Robert Kavner, new chairman of ATILT's
ATILT reacted

WASHINGTON (NB) Apple Macintosh com-

puters at the Environmental Protection Agency

are recovering following a viral attack, according
data systems group, said, "this new group has no to "Government Computer News." EPA technitrack reconL We question the process whereby
cians used Virus Rx, a free Apple program, to
several competitors most of whom have only diagnose and vaccinate the computers. Apple is
developed closed systems are now gomg to
promoting "safe computing," the digital equivadevelop an open operating system." Kavner im- lent of "safe sex," as the ultimate answer to virus
plied thatIBM and DEC arenotreallyinterestedin attacks. This means backing up data files, write
openness, but inretarding real Unix, thus keeping
protecting master disks, and not computing with
their own, non- compatible, operating systems
strange programs. Perhaps we can call those little
alive. 'We may not see an end product out of this write-protect tabs "compucondoms7"
gioupinmy~
" sai d Gordon Bridge, AT8cT In the meantime, congressional computer investivice president, national sales, who spent 22 years
gators say the virus that infected Macs in the
at Big Blue before joining ATILT.
H ouse of
Representatives was the "scores"virus.
The new foundation hopes to auract additional They say that the virus may have migrated to the
members, with a $25,000 entry fee for pro6t- House Information System computers bom comm aking companies,
and $5,000 for non-pmfits.
puters at NASA. NASA, in turn, picked up the
But one major player won't be joining. Frederick virus at the Johnson Space Flight Center in HousWang of Wang Laboratories issued a statement ton, wheregovernment computers became inafter the announcement, saying: "We regard this fected by EDS computers.
development as nothing more than an argument
among vendors, which will only serve to confuse PC Virus Cure From Foundationware
business and governmentcustomers as well as ATLANTA (NB) Oneof the biggest worries
software developers allover the world. The polar- softwareusers have today are computer viruses.
ized posturing of these companies cannot help the These are evil Iittleprograms which hide in bigger
real headway that was being made towards open- programs and seemingly without waaung can
ness m operating systems standards. As such, this trash your machine. Most are found in publicis a great pity and a disregard of customer's real domain packagesdownloadedfrombulletinboards.
But at least one, which issued a message of peace
interests."
Seemg the disarray in the ranks of the vendor to Macintosh users in April, was accidentally
community. Boston attorney
Peter Marx says he loaded into a commercial training program.
will try to organize anational coalitionof business Well, if you want to be sure you' re computing
users, to give users greater clout m the develop- safely, there's a solution. It's called Vaccine. It' s
ment of new programs and standards. Marx al- aprogrambyFoundaiionWareof Cleveland, Ohio.
ready is counsel for a group of Data General Corp. Mark Hosmer, the company's director of software
users, counsel for the Washington-based Informa- development, says it automatically checks each
tion Industry Association, and chairman of the program in your machine for viruses and reports
New England Computer Law Forum.'There is no back to you. A small memory-resident program
voice now for the users," Marx said. 'There are which comes with Vaccine can check each prosome years of chaos ahead until this issue of a gram you use before you use it. And if you have a
standard operanng systems is settled. It's time the big office where workers like to play computer
games on company time, this program can foil
users should be unitetL"
too. Smce it won't let you run a program it
Sun Mierosystems Mountain View, Ca., will them,
hasn'tchecked, youjustuse it onall theoffice PCs
sell nearly 900,000 shues about 2.5% of the
and hide the key disk. When a worker tries to slip
common shares to ATILT in the latest deal to a game floppy into his disk drive, they' ll find they
get cozy with the inventor of UNIX and parmer in can'tnmit Theprogram will ship in July andretail
the operating system's next incarnation. The
for $189. CONTACT: FOUNDATIONWARE,
stock purchase is expected to cost AT&T some 216-932-7717
$40.6 million.

AT8r T Personnel Problems

NEW YORK (NB) Withthedeathof Ouiirman
James Olson and the decision by Vittorio Cassom
to desert ATILT for Ing. C. Olivetti k, Co., the
telephone giant is reeling and spreading doubt
about whether it will everybe able to turn its shaky
computer business around. On top of Cassoni's
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CUPERTINO,Ca (NB) Apple Computer has

released a program which is the siTicon equivalent

of an AIDS test. The VirusRX will detect the
presence of a computer virus in a system but will
not eradicate it. The program is designed to
specifically detect the Scores virus which recently
mfecied Macintoshes in Congress and various
federal departments. The program is the first
response to what Apple expects will be a major
facturer are squabbling. AT%Towns abig hunk of assault on the problem of programs with a hidden
Ohvetti. Cassoni was the architect of ATgtT's agenda Another response is a new Spread the
strategy of turning the Unix operating system into Word campaign, designed to alert users to "safe
the software glue that would link many different computing practices" that will prevent the spread
systems and push ATILT into success m comput- of computer viruses.
Meanwhile Apple is said to be actively investigatAT8rT has replaced Cassoni, 45, with Robert mg the source of the Scores virus but has no
Kavner, as chief of the datasystems group. Kavner suspects yet.
has been ATES's chief financial officer and the
data systems job will give him a chance to cut his Virus in US House of Representatives
teeth on company line operations. Kavner says he WASHINGTON (NB) A virus that causes
wants toslideawayfrommanufacturing andtowar printer problems and difficulty in accessing cersoftware. Kavner will probably take Cassoni's tain applications has hit the Macintosh computers
place on the board of workstation maker Sun in the U.S. House of Representatives. Bob Harris,
Microsystems, a key company in AT&T's Unix director of the House information systems of6ce,
told NEWSBYTES that he believes the virus has
gambit.
not yet spread very far among the approximately
250Macs inusein the House. No virus was found
among the population of 2500 PCs also in the
Newspaper Struck With "Brain" Virus
House of Representatives.
PROVIDENCE, RL (NB) Reporters at the "We are contacting users snd worhng with them
"Providence Journal- Bulletin" newspaper got a
io show them how to identify the virus, how io get
frightening message as they were usmg their rid of it, andhow' to sanitize their systems," Harris
computers:
"Welcome totheD ungeon. Beware of
said. Hams said he has called in experts Irom the
this VIRUS. Contact us for vaccination." ComNational Aeronautics and Space Administration,
puter experts at the paper located and killed the whichhas faced a major problem of viral infection
virus before it got onto the Atex minicomputer
of Macs. NASA investigators are trying to findthe
system used in the newsroom or the mainf'rame in source of the virus and Harris said he expects the
the business office, but not before the virus de- agency will also try to identify the source of the
stroyed and damaged scores of PC disks. The
House Macvirus. "We have no idea where it came
newspaper said the virus was the "brain" strain,
Irom," Harris told NEWSBYTES.
created by two brothers who nm a computer store
m Lahore, Pakistan.Oneof thebrothers, identified
as Amjad, told the paper Ihathe wrote the program
to track his software, fearing that people were
pirating it. A brain virus recently was discovered
at Bowie State College in Maryland, where it
destroyedfi
ve student's disks.Th e newspaper's
experts aren't sure how long the virus was at the
paper or how it got into the systems. The virus can
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WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Even in an induslzy where unusual names are common, Roedy
Green's company name has an interesting origin. Roedy explains,
"When I was little, there used to be cartoons about people who
bought stock in a mythical company called Consolidated Moose
Pasture. Thename appealedtome andI told Daplme, my baby sister,
that someday I would have my own company, and I would call it
Consolidated Moose Pasture.
I johngly suggested that I wouldn't have to do anything except
sue people who accidentally made Sm of us, and live off those
pmceeds.
I come from a close knit family of seven. At the family feast
gatherings they woukl ask, "When are you going to get this CMP on
the road, Road? We all want to work thymi too."
8yze Magmine asked me to do the article (on Abundance). This
is not quite the truth, but at some point a conversation went
something like this.'%%atis your company's name?""I don' t have
a company, but we have a pretend company we sometimes call
ourselves CMP." "A pretend company?" "Yes, uh, what I mean is,
it is not incorporated." '%%at do the hens CMP stand for?" Byte
is a very straight-laced magazine. They were not going fo disgrace
themselves by using the wordsConsolidated Moose Pasture on their
glossypages.Ihad to thinkquickly."Gulp,erah erC anadian,erah
gak Minder er mn Products". "Canadian Mne Products? do you
sell mmmg equipment'P "No Mind, as in brain." "Oh." Long
silence. Even that was tuo fiaky for them."

A DIFFl9tENT SET OFCORPORATE GOALS

The unusual name matches anunusual approach to the company
purpose. According to Green, 'The purpose of a company is to
pmvide services to the community aud to provide a fun place for
people to work. It is not to help one person, the owner, acquire
outrageous wealth. Some people find this idea subversive, wicked
and even conmunist. Our goal is to see to it thatevexy charity on the
planet has a records keepmg system at least as good as the ones we

provide."
He continues 'The coxnpany should never be allowed to gmw
larger than twelve people. Bureaucracies are the world's greatest
firn-killers and time wasters. If the company should become too
successful, it must amoeba-like split in two. Everyone m the company should share equally m the revenue gextezated. This leads to a
gmup spirit and optimal assigning of tasks. This has to be adjusted
slightly to allow far the fact that some people put in more hours, but
the theory is that emptymg the trash cans is just as important as
writing the mner-most interrupt level machine code."
Canadian Mind Products aims to produces products or services
Ihat contribut to a peaceful, clean, exxxlogically bahmced, healthy,
and well fed world. Emphasis is on seemg the greatest good done
where there is most need. The company co-operates with others to
transfer knowledge so ihat other firn work places can be set up.
In practice, Roedy says "I am a tenible busmess person largely
because I have an aversion to money. I want to do everything free,
then try to figure out later how I can pay the bills. I feel guilty every
timeI acceptmoney from anyone. Whenl was littlemy Mom drilled
into me Doe'z take money
fronastrangers! Doe'z take money from
your friends!" I think these coxmnands are still subconsciously
fimctioning."
"We have xecently moved to larger qualm in the showroomof
Superior Office fuxnitur supply store. So some of usnow have very
fancy computer furniture. To the owner, we are fimituxe models. I
stiH hide out in an airless back room with my famiTiar fibreboard
furniture."
"So far there isnotmuch income and we are busier thsnbees, but
very little of the work we do, do we getpaid for. There are now five
of us working mund the clock%e have along waiting list, and very
often have to turn down new busmess".
%HAT DOES CMP DO'P
CMP'smambusinessi's writing custom Abundance programs for
charities, though theydocommercial work as well for doctors and
bookpublishexs.They alsoputoncourses, helppeoplefixmachines,
write public domain software, and magazine articles. According to
Roedy, "We get requests almost daily to write pmgzams or consult
commercially. For example a few days ago Bell Northern Research
wanted me to come back to Ontario for a couple of weeks to help
them get their Btrieve applications flying. Nearly always I have to
turn these requests down for laclr. of time. This drives them nuts.
They want you all the maze. I hear stories that computer pmgrammezs cannot find work. This seems so ridiculous when we are
beating them off wiih sticks."
"I talk with other consultants who complain about how difficult
it is to get contracts and I say,"Learn Abundance, then I could farm

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some of this stuff out to you."''Nah that's too weird. It would be too or a second generation one such as Cobol, Fortran or Basic.
Abundance is designed to incorporate new hardware without
much work to learn a whole new language."
rewriting the source code. For example a mouse, voice recognition,
SERVICES OFFERED TO CHARITIES
voice prompting, laser printing can all be added as the cost of this
The centre nm by Canadian Mind Products, offers a number of
teclmology drops.
computer related services primarily to registered charities. Some of
Abundance is in the public domain. Once a pmgrammer has
the services are pmvided by a microcomputer in the charity's own
mastered its use, he is &ee to use it for his own commercial projects.
office and others are provided by microcomputers in CMP's office.
Abundance is presently about three years ahead of any similar
The most important services we provide are: donation trachng
pmduct on the market- Junior volunteer programmers can rapidly
and income tax receipts, pre authorized chequing (taking regular
produce xesults with comparable professional polish and speed to
monthly donations directly out of the donor's bank account),
thoseproduced by seasoned systems analysts.
monthly reminders to the donors, mail labels, envelopes and foxm
letters, volunteer parficipation tzachng, pick lists to target mail- DESIGN GOALS OF ABUNDANCE
Abundance was written originally for a registered charity called
ings, word pmcessing, electzonicxnail- worldwide, accounting and
the Hunger Project to keep track of donations, tax receipts, fund
statistics, and finally, newsletter preparation and typesetting.
CMP clients include a number of non-profit societies: The Hun- raising projects and volunteers. The volunteers who use the system
ger Project in India and Australia, The Manitoba Alzheimer Soci- are typically given five minutes training and are then let loose
ety, The Friends of Schizophrenics, Non Smoker's Rights The entermg data There is ahightnxn-over of volunteers. There was only
Columbia Centre, The Environmental Law Association and the BC one volunteer programmer, Roedy Green. The Hunger Project was
Civil Liberties Associarion. Pxofit oriented businesses customers doubling in size yearly. Later Abundance was used to write Medics
include Herbal Life, Okanagan Helicopters, Walt Disney and even a physician billing system that warned a green receptionist every
NASA which used part of Abundance in it Saturn projects. Roedy, time she was about to violate one the goveaunent bureaucracy's
with his unusual marketing approach, hasbeen known to unn away myriad billing rules.
Green say this background led to formulating four goals. In his
potential buyers if they are war oriented. He tuxned down both
words: "Top priority being User Fxiendliness for theunsophiisticated
Rockwell and the Rand Corporation because of this.
Concludes CMP's founder Roedy Green, "I don't think I have user, next being Terse Programmmg so I could findtime to write all
ever workedharder than I do atm y presentjob.I certainly have theneeded code, the next being the Elimination of Hardware Details
never made this little money. However I love my work. I love fmm the Application so we could upgrade hardware without impact
onour applications, and finally Blmdin SpeedbecauseI am ahacker
coming to work. I wouldn't trade my job for anyone else' s."
and experienced users don't want to be held up with tyro prompts."
ABUNDANCE
Abundance hasa number of unique features:Alxunthmce proAbundance is a very high level language for wxiting non-profit,
grams can nm forwards and backwards in time; while entering or
charity or businessapplications. A public domain Abundancecom- editing data orpmgrmns all Volkswziter word processing commands
piler has been wrinen that generates code for MS-DOS based maworlr.. Abundance programs can have bugs in them and still worlt;
chines namely the IBM PC XT and AT and compatibles.
Abundance has 35 primitive types eg. dates, times, SL. numbers,
Weighing in at over 7 megabytes for the full pmgram including
telephone numbers, area codes, French surnames and automatically
disk based documentation, leaznmg Abundance looks like a formigenerates keyin xoutines, prompts, error messagex, edit checks,
dable task, but it has its benefits. Accozding to its author Roedy
conversions, fozxnatting, bounds checks, appropriate to each type.
Green, Abunkum has never issued a faulty statement, receipt, IT'S A BIT LIKE
deposit slip, or pze-authorized cheque, it has never lost keying, or
Abundance bormws feamzes Rom other langitages and programallowed its database to become inconsistent or corrupted. The
ming systems: Forth, Assembler, Multiplan, Smalltalk, DBase H,
A bundancesystemhas been inusein avariet ofcharitableorgani- Basic.
zations and businessessmce August 1984. No bugs have ever been
Abundance is a strict supexset of Laboratory Micmsystems Forth
reported.
83 Standard 32 bit Fozth Plus. Thus Ahmdance can do anything you
EASE OF USE: USER LEVEL
can do in Forth.
Abimdance was designed &om scratch with the idea volunteers
Abundance includes a Postfix Assembler. Thus any time critical
with little traming would use it. It has been honed by watching code can be written in Assembler for speed. Abundance itself is nms
volunteers use it. Features include: extensive prompting, an oops about 10 times faster than Basic.
key, the Up axmw key lets you nm the pxogram backward in time
Like Multiplan, Abundance automatically refreshes the screen if
to correct an earlier keying ezmr, familiar wordprocessing function a variable is recalculated. But unlike Multiplan, Abundance lets you
keys work the same way they do in the word processor, elaborate lay the screen out in any way you wish. Abundance takes zhe
exrorchecking and ease ofuse.G iven these, most volunteers can Multiplan concept of windows with independently scrolling regions
become productive within fifteen minutes. Speed is another of of data and extends it to the fully general concept of scaffolds.
Abundance's qualities, it can keep up with the fastest typist.and the Scaffolds allow, for example,multiplecolumns of dataof intermixed
Abundance pick criteria are general enough that Abundance can types to automatically scrolL Scaffolds allow any conceivable layout
produce new lists without a pmgrammer's help. At the same time, of data Abundance automatically scmlls to keep the data you are
they aremenu driven, so no knowledge of Boolean algebra is woxking on in view.
needed to use this powerful featuxe. Abundance is relational so it
Like Smalltallr, Abundance manages its own virtual memory.
ceniralizes all data, changes need be entered only once.
Fmm the programmer's point of view, there is nodistinctionbetween
RAM anddisc. Hejustpretendsthatevexything is always inmemoxy.
EASE OF USE: PROGRAMM E R LEVEL
A ccording to Green, Abundance represents a ~
oug hin Abundance looks after the details of refreshing the disc copies of
computer technology. He says computer experts are excited and certain variables fmm time to time.
Like Dbase H, Abundance lets you create multiple Blree Indexes
eager to leam about it, making it easier to attract capable, dependable, computer-knowledgeable volunteers in future. A program- to your data so that you can find data by name, or by date, or by
m er's
job can bemade easierbecause new featurescan be added to account number. Unlike Dbase H, there are no limits on field sizes,
numbers, indexes or files. Abundance is much quicker than Dbase H,
the program more rapidly.
Abundance is terse. If a program were written in Pascal or largely because it interfaces to the very efficient Btrieve Btree
COBOL it would be ten times longer. Because many irrelevant package and Opt-Tech sort. Unlike Obese H, Abundance is an open
details are handled invisibly by the compiler, it is much easier to system; You can tinker with the innards of Abundance to add new
understand how the program works. Adding new features is easier features. Unlike DBsse H, Abundance uses standard DOS files,
which are easier to mtezface into other programs.
simply because there is less writing, and less code to debug.
Like Basic, you can rapidly debug your programs without having
Abundance is also highly modular. No mutine is longer than 15
lines. All routines use only the stack for worhng storage. This to recompile your whole system. Unlike Basic, Abundance is commakes it very easy to change the pmgram without wonying about piled for speed of execution, but it is so designed that compilation is
very quick, and you usually do not need to recompile all of your
side effects.
Abundanceis writteninstandard Forth 83. Forthis the first fourth program. Unhke Basic, Abundance program can be larger than
generation txnnputer language.Byte Magmine, the leading micro- 640K. Abundance programs are much more terse than Basic, much
computer j
now often has articles on Forth. No other lan- easier to read, and much more structuzed. Abundance is suited for
guage is so honored. Once a programmer has tasted the flexibiTity large complex projects and the price is ri t at $75 US.
andpower of the language, he will only under duresszeturn to athird
generationlanguage such asC,Algol-68,Pascal,Modula, ozA da, :,:,:S~gtssxsxtikez,.;.:8S:.~:. W:N4XWN':.:::.:...:::::'.:::::::::

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AT Upgradeablity

We Canadians didn't get it right the first time. s ystem, transmissions are made a page at a time,
According to Eric Venot, founding partner in w h ich allows much more flexibility in what is
CONNECI', the reason the Canadian Teletex p r esented. Graphics, a variety of typefaces and
system, Videotex failed previously was because various emphasis points can all be transmitted to
although the graphics were bauer, they were too the user, mahng for a much more friendly interslow. This meant inconvenient waits to the users. face.

38 M FRENCH USERS CAN'T BE WRONG POTENTIAL BUYERS

The French Minitel system on the other hand
So m e of the speciTic solutions which CONhas enjoyed enormous sumess because, with a N E CTiscurrentlybiddingonincludetheMedical
lower level of graphic support, it is faster and Services Plan Electronic Claim Submission, a
cheaper, costing usually amund $29 a month for b uyers group for the restaurant indusuy m Vantheterminal and amaximumof $15/hour of access txiuver, a hotel reservations network and a local
time. In addition, the cost of equipment rental is SchoolBoaaL CONNECT is abletopresenta very
masked fxom the user, being billed right along c o stef'fectivesolutionbecauseoflower hardware
with the telephone charges m their monthly state- costs as well as considerable savings in training
ments. What began as a method of decreasing the time for users. A four line server system can be
cost of panting telephone directories, has bios- i mplemented for about $1900 per line. This insomed into a national pastime for the 3.5 million e l udes the boards in the AT, the multiplexor to
plus users in France. They can look up phone handle the phone lines and the software. Tenninumbers, get "Yellow pages" type information n aia sell for $600 each and the cost of the AT is
complete with advertising, dohomebanking, pur- also separate. A four line system camhandie up to

chase goods trom a wide variety on-Ihe vendors 192 ten mmute calls in an eight hour day.
NON STANDARD MODEM AN OBSTACLE
One hurdle for the company to overcome is the
non-standard modem which the Mmitei system
sessions with other interested parties.
currentlyuses. Theboards whichgo into the server
COTTAGE INDUSTRY SERVERS
AT computer currently use V23 standard moOnespinoff &omtheeuccessfulMnitelsystem dems. This sends transmissions from the server at
has beenagrowthindustryinlocal server systems 1200 baud, the average person's reading speed,
which are accessible from the Minitel system. and itreceives typed feedback from the terminal at
Any one with an AT, a multiplexor and a few o nly 75 baud, the rate at which most people type.
phone lines, can set up their own server system, This differs with the standard 1200 baud or 2400
simiTiar to a North American BBS. These servers baud trsnsmissions both ways common to most
encompass a wide spectnnn of products and serv- North American modems. CONNECT recently
ioes ranging from a wholesaler posting his prices managed to get their system working with stanand weekly specials to his distributors, to busi- d ardmodems on a single line system and they feel
nesses or organizations announcing meeting no- they willhave aworhng solution to multiple lines
tices and information for their members. This is v ery soon. This willopenupmanymoredoors for
the end of the market Eric Venot and company thembecauseitwillmeantheexistingbaseofPCs
hope to address in the Canadian market.
will be able to cormect with the server system,
using standard modems. Once this modem issue is
overcome, the software already exists to allow
most popular machines including the IBM and
sss pc
compatibles, Macintosh, Atari and Commodore to
emulate Minitel terminals. Other exciting features
CONNECT
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HyperCard: The Next Software Revolution Begins

What is it that leamy keeps you from getting more productivity
&om your euriputer? Does computer pmgramming seem too complicated or castly? Is your data too large ar unorganized? Do all
databaseprograms seem mysterious to you'?Ifyou answered yes to
any of these questions then HypeECard far the Apple Macmtosh
might be the answer.

ORIGINS
Since it was announced in the fall of 1987, HypetCard.has been
the somce of much talk The name HyperCard is based on the metaphor of a super sophisticated programmable stack of electronic
index cards. The "Hyper" part is bonowed from Ted Nelson's
HyperTextHis idea was tohave a &ca flowing associative database that allowed individuals to browse through textual information with total &eedom to associate any concept or fact with
any other idea or fact at the touch of a key ar click of the mouse.
HypeECard does all this and more.

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INTELLIGENT INFORMATION

InHyperCardprogramsyouactuallygive "intelligence"tothein-

formation itself. This is what really sets HyperCard apart from other
database typepragrams andis thereasonfor tbedawnof arevolution
in computerized information management.
Having a conventional database full of information cau give you
alotof power. Imaginehow thatpower wouldbemaguified if theinformation, itself,hadknowledgeof whatit was, orcouldcarryproyams withm itself that gave itmare meaning. For example, a group
of numbers representing a company's annual sales figures could
contain thecapability to display themselves as a graph at the click of
the mouse button. Or an individual's name in a database would be
able to show you a photograph of the person instantly on command.
All this is possible in HyperCard.Oncedata is imbued with such intelligence, it will always remain associated with the data, even if the
data is moved to another file. This is the essence of HyperCard's
object-oriented programming: the program stays with the data

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serious to thefrivolonsond everything in betpveen. Hypercard hos sparked ~ of novelprogrammingiyieos.
HyperCard has four other types of objects. There are "button" resourcesin Pascal,C, or machine language. Already, there are
objects which can be clicked with the mouse's screen pointer commands inthepublicdomainthatcaneasilybeadded to your capy
causingany number of actions to be performed. There are "card" of HypeECard making it possible ta access information on a dozen
objects which are just like index cards in that they can be sorted, brands of laser video disks and CD ROM devices. HyperCard is
filed, found and even programmed. There is also thebackyaund designed to find any piece of mformation in a 400 megabyte file in
object which can underlie a gmup of cards, ptovidmg them with under two seconds. This means you can get high quality video
common elements. Finally there is the "stack" which is a group of images on a TV and stereo sounds &om a CD player in seconds.
cards with their various backgrounds, buttons and fields taken HyperCardis apmduct that is designed for the near future when this
together. A stack is simply a "stack of cards" aud is analogous to a level of information management and retrieval will be commonconventional disk file.
place in most households.
HyperCard allows the user ta jumpto any other software applicaEVERYBODYe$ HYPERTALKING
tion
or document on any disk connected to your Macintosh comAt every level in this "hierarchy" of objects programs can be
written in a language calledHyperTalk,But programs in Hyper- puter. This abiTity is available at any time &om within any HyperCard aren' t exactly like conventional computer programs. They are Card stack. Once you do this, HyperCard records the path back to
so called object-oriented" programs because they must be broken this applicatitup, unless of course the application is moved.
into liule seynents that get attached to the individual objects that HYPER-LINGUIST
make up the HypeiCard environment. Instead of having one big
HyperCard has been designed to be used and programmed in any
program that has a beynning, middle and end, you must divide the languagethatuses standard roman characterssuch as French or
job into many smalllittletasks called scripts."Eachof the fivebasic Swedish. Any HyperCard stack developed in one language can be
HyperCard objects can have an optional script associated with it, easily Iranslated tio any other language if the proper translation
giving it a certain amount of functionality ar "smarts."These scripts resource is present.
only execute upon receipt of a message that tells them to start
Considering HyperCard's current set of abilities, it is interesting
ruumng. Hence in the lmgo of HyperTalk, scripts are calledmes- ta note that Bill Atkinson considers his work only 2/3 done. Version
sage handlers.
" This is because all the HyperCard objects are 2.0 is due for release later in 1988; Apple is apparently working on
constantly sending and receiving messages. At the same time the versions 3.0 aud 4.0. These advanced editions of HyperCsrd will be
system itself continuously bombards all the objects with messages, presumably faster, easier to use and mare advanced than today' s
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GRAPHICS, SOUND AND OUTPUT

Although Hypercard graphics lacks 300 dpi output quality because it uses bit mapped mstead of object oriented graphics, it does
look yeat on the Mac screen. HyperCard can also deliver digitized
sound like that found on CD recordings. These sounds can be
synchronized with the graphics, too, resulting in interesting animation effects. HyperCard has a number of other built-in features.
Figure I. HpperCotEPsobjects are combined on cards in layers os HyperCard can dial a phone number by sending the standard touch
if they were on cfear pieces of acetate piled on top of one another. tones out the speaker on the side of the Mac. If you hold your
telephanehandsetup to the Mac's speaker, the number will be dialed
tal requirements of the vast majority of computer users.
HyperCard takes the idea of spreadsheets and extends it. Just as for you. It also works with a modem.
each individual cell of a spreadsheet can be thought of as a distinct REACHING OUT OF HYPERCARD
computational object that has a formula, format, result, and referHyperCard's abiTities to interact with any software or hardwarein
ences to other cells, so HyperCard is made up of similar computa- the computer's environment are broaEL This is due to the fact that
tional objects. The difference is that HypeECard's "objects" are built inta the HypetTalk language is a technique for extending its set
muchmare varied audpowerful than acellonaspreadsheet. Besides of ctummmds and functions through the creation of custom external
alphanumeric "field" objects that can mimic spreadsheet cells,
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APPLE 'S WIZARD

HyperCard hss been the pet project of Apple's software wizard.
Bill Atkmsan, for the last three years. Infsctever sincehe completed
the Quickdraw graphic toolbox upon which the Macintosh user
interface is based, and MacPaint, one of the original programs
bundled with @e Mac, Bill and a small team of programmers have
been workingon this software pi de resistance."
Apple isbundling Hypercardfree witheverynewMachttashsold.
(Current Mac owners can obtain a copy for a nominal fee of $49.00
U.S.) The simple reason for this is that HyperCard makes it easy to
customize and pmgram the sophisticated Macintosh graphic user
interface. With HyperCard you can custamize your workmg envi- MESSAGES
You create workiing programs in HyperCard by intercepting this
ronment to suit your own personal style. A user's needs can be
myriad
of messages with message handliing scripts located m the
servedmare appropriately sndhe or she canbe completely insulated
various objects. As you can see, this requires anew way of thinking
&om the warkmgs of the disk operating system.
if you are familiar with conventional programming techniques.
BEFORE HYPERCARD MAC TOUGH TO PROGRAM
However, if you arenotaprogrammer, it turns out tobe amuchmore
Until the intmducuon of HyperCard, even the best programmers natural way to address the task of computer programming.
would complain that it was hard to write software for the Mac. New
concepts like event loops, windows, scroll bars, pull-down menus,
Ments
and system resources were difficult to learn and hard to organize in
program code. With the advent of HyperCard, the messy part of
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programming the Macintoshis madetransparent to the programmer.
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Now anyone who has dabbled in BASIC or written a few complex
spreadsheet ftmnulsu can program fancy wmdows and speci@
carer rsr
buttons on the Mac with ease, usmg HyperCard.
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LOCAL USES
Local use of Hypercard is on the rise. As a consultant, I have
introduced several businesses to HyperCard. Onelawfirmnowuses
HypeiCard to import large text files of court transcripts over the
telephone lines with a modem. Then, at the click of a special button,
any and alloccurrences of a specified piece of text are found,
extracted, and assembled into a report showing where they appeared
in the transcript.
A real estate consulting firm in Terrace is creating a stack for a
large client diat organin:s information about hundreds of properties
all over the world. The information is presented in a &ee-foun
associative manner, so that digitized maps can be clicked to show
aerial photographsor site plans and buildings can be clicked to show
Qoor plans,
mai ntenance schedules,fi
naucmg details,resale value,
tax rates, etc. Finally another Vancouver firm is now using HyperCard ta keep track of customers, product pricing and all invoicing.
Systems such as these are easy to setup and maintain and have wide
flexibiTity to change and expand with the needs of the company.

HYPER-IDEAS
Although it is difficult to describe HyperCard to someone verbally, in my experience whenever a business personhas sat in &ont
of the Macintosh and tried HyperCard for just a few minutes, the
reaction is always the same: ideas abouthow it could be used around
the office immediately spring forth with great excitement. Unlike
most database programs that have mysterious concepts such as
records, fields and files, there is nothmg immediatelybaffling about
HyperCard. Instead of confusing new users with arcane concepts
andrules, HyperCard stimulates people to think of new and exciting
ways to use their computers. At the same time, for the more
adventmaus sophisticated user, HyperCard offers a real challenge
and opens up a whole new world of object oriented programming to
explore.

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DynaBase is a flat file database program for the
Amiga series of computers. It is an interesting
product for B.C. Amigausers, not only because it is
locally developed, but also because it does the job
well aml in a straightforward manner.
I Qrst carne in contact with the authors of DynaBase at the local users group. Dsryl Hegyi gave a
demonstration of a "beta" version of DynaBase.
The programwas wellreceived but needed many
nnprovemenfs. I lulve Ienlalned niterested ni their
progress as DynaBase becomes more and more
powerfuL Version 2.0 is just around the comer. I
have watchedthe pmduct grow tobecome one of
the most trusted tools on my computer. I use
Dynabase in my business to handle all my maiTing
lists, clients and enquiries. It gets much of the
"bull-work" done smoothly in our operation so that
we can concentrate on having FUN with our

TCP: What is INFOSAVE serviceP

ROSENHEK: INFOSAVE service is a back-up
service for personal computers designed to make
sure that your data is safe, secure lk recoverable
when you need it. Many PC users are not aware, or
simply refuse to admit to themselves, that the hard AMIGA's.
Configuring Dynabsse recpiires an undersumddiskintheirPCcould "die" withoutevenamoment's ing
of the use of a text editor in order to write
advancenotice.
Apower surge,anaccidentalbump,
database
scripts. Several examples are provided in
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data If you use your PC for serious work, then you the Demos section of the disk, including a phone
MUST backit up inprevention of that ever pending book, home inventory, book and music catalogue.
catastrophe. Otherwise, yourjustaskmg for trouble. Some one famiTiar with databases from another
system, will have no trouble adapting these demos
TCP: What type of company might need the serv- into their own specisic needs. This process will get
ices of INFOSAVE'l
even easier in the upcoruing version wherein 6eld
ROSENHEK: Just about any business who has an specisications and report designs can be made and
IBM PC or compatible with hard drive and is using arrange graphically on screen.
the macltine for business, word processing,CAD/
The biggest complauuagainst the current version
CAM, engineering, programming etc. In fact, any is the manual. As with many smallsoftwarecompaserious PC user whose hard drive contains upwards nies, insuf6cient resources have been allocated to
of 10MB of datawould bene6t, monetarily as well explaining how the program works to non-proas fmm peace-of-mind, through the use of IN- grammczs. Thecurrentversionof the manual leaves
FOSAVE service.
much to be desired. I have been assured it is being
TCP: You mentioned PC catastrophe. How often rewritten with a more "user" oriented approaclL
The Amiga's multitasking capabilities are well
does this actually happen?
ROSENHEK: Our sources indicate that PC catas- exploited by DynaBase. It is possible to call up the
trophe is actually quite common.Onelocal writer operating system commands allowing complete
recently noted that he had had four crashes in his Qexibility in using the Amiga as it was meant to be
life: one iu an airplane, one in scar and two with his used. This integration with sll other well written
hard disk. A major B.C. corporationrepresentative AMIGA programs is important to me. In addition,
claims that in thepastyear, with approximately 300 pull down menus make the program easy to use for
PC's in use company wide, between 20 gc 30 novice users.
machines experienced storage problems recluiring I have looked ata number of other commercial
that the hard drive be re- formatted and its data database programs for the AMIGA. Superbase is
restored. That's almost 10% of their PC'sl In a perhaps the best known of these but falls short of its
recent computer puMication interview, the theft of promise because of a considerably higher price. It
a personal computer worth about $4,000 was being also has the drawback of being copy-protected. I
discussed. "without backup, data recovery would would never own a software program that had to
havetakenthree months atacostof$100,000.The have a dongle (a copy protection hardware based
data was w orth25 times the value of the hardwarel" key system) hanging off the side of my computer.
Insurance will only pay for the replacement of Other database programs are either fsr ioo expenstolen or broken computer hardware. INFOSAVE siveformy pocketbook or filh only some of m y
ensures that your valuable computer data is regu- needs.
larly backed-up, securely stored and promptly re- DynaBase is available for both the AMIGA snd
coverable. Calculate your own odds if you don' t IBM compatible computers. The new versionin
have a proper backup plan. Can you afford to take scheduled m be available in about 2 months. Currently the price now is $39. The new price will go
that chance'l
Up but is still projected to be less than $50. For the
TCP: How does INFOSAVE service works
price aud with the features and flexibility, DynaROSENHEK: Typically, an INFOSAVE techni- base delivers.
cian will visit your of6ce once each week at a
predetermmed time to perform a full back-up of
your hard drive(s) to magnetic tape. After verification, this tape is removed &om your office for
storage off-site in an
contmlled
media vault.
tape, time on the road, time in your office gc adaily
back-up kit- all for one low monthly feel When you
TCP: What about between back ups?
ROSENHEK: INFOSAVE service also includes a consider your cost in employee time, diskeues,
dailyback-up kitdesigned to keep your back-ups pick-up/delivery and vault storage fees, to do the
up to chte. Ail you have to do is enter INFOSAVE equivalent job yourself would cost about twice as
at the DOS prompt and follow simple insuuctions. much as INFOSAVE service.
All necessary supplies are pmvided.
TCP:Where canourreadersobtainm oreinform aTCP:How much does INFOSAVE service cost7 tion about INFOSAVE service?
ROS521HEK Ibere is a one-time instsmatiou fee ROSENHEK: Your readers can call our office at
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UNDER THE HOOD - WHAT MAKES NOVELL GO?

In the last article, we looked at various methods of physicaHy
Software for Accessing andI Malntainhg Textual and Numeric wirmg workstations together to fozm a LAN. Regardless of the
Information by Seaside Software.
topology, it is clear that the file server has a lot to do. This month, we
A database system with a name like uxkSme is bound to catch
look at the NOVELL operating system, and examine how
one's axtentiom not only is the name unusual but the software is as workstation requests get serviced quickly and accurately.
well. The name "as/tSeii" stands for "Access Stored Knowledge via SERVER FUNCTIONS
Symbolic Access Method" and the software is designed to hmdle
From its inception, NoveQ has stressed high performance, rehafree-form text- based databases. AskSam can be used to access and
bHity, aud expandability as tbree fundamental goals to be met by a
to keeptrack of such diverse things as inventory and sales, catalogs, Network Operating System (NOS). NoveH's solution, called Netbudgets and billings, bibliographies, coHections, pezsormelrecords, ware, is a special purpose NOS syecificaHy designed and optimized
customer files, patient histories, legal dccuments, word processing for the distributed pzocessmg LAN environment. General purpose
5les, and much more. After ruruung ask5'urn against text files, operatmg systems, like DOS or UNIX are designed torunina variety
information may be retrieved using any word or combmation of of environments, and cannot be optimized.
woxds as a key value.
In the file selver, aH workstation requests for disk reads or wxites,
Why We Were Lookhg At AskSam
printer spoohng, network access, and other services must be satisBecause of our database background, we recently had the enviable
fied. Server operations, called processes, operate independently
assigmnent of evaluating over two dozen data base software pack- Ixom eachother,in a "nice guy" environment whereby a process
ages, including asliSam. for a CD-ROM ayplication. To gain a which is not busy, or waiting (for a disk or printer operation to
proper perspective of the client's requirements we took a 60 mega- complete) wiH reHnquish control of the server to another process
byte subset of the main database and accessed it with axkSam, one which has work to do. Of these processes, the most critical in terms
of the few fuH-text retrieval products that did not require extensive of performance is how the disk input/output (I/O) requests are
input "fHtering" or yre-processing, Although the original data is
serviced.
fielded our extract had no structme to it, that is it did not contain
mdexes or mverted hsts. This was an acid test for cu/tSam as we hsd DISK DRIVE OPTIMIZATION
An AT system running DOS at SMhz,0 wait states could perfozm
never used asl8aex before and like a typical end user we had only
an
average of 50 000instructions during the time it takes adisk drive
dusted the manual's cover before running the software. To om.
surprise and with minimal effort we had full-text retrieval of our to perform 1 physical operation. Since a SINGLE read or write
database in a relatively short time. As/tSam proved to be easy to request may require several disk operations, hundreds of thousands
impIementand the weHdesignedmenus combined with an extensive of instructions are wasted while DOS performs any disk I/O.
Clearly, by reducmg the number of I/O operations, or doing other
context-sensitive help facility made it simple to use.
work while the disk drive is busy, performance would be improved.
Managhxg Documents
AskSam will
manage records, queries and commands. Related Novell uses many techniques to reduce the number of disk accesses.
information is stored within a fHe as records and documents, where DIRECTORIES AND FAT TABLES
a document may contain any number oflmked records and can thus
Any data access involves reference to directories and File AHocabe of any length. The hmit to the number of records or documents in tion Tables (FAT) which are loaded into the server memory (RAM)
a file is the available disk space. The use of fields is optional and when the server is started. This is called caching. Netware always
flexible and is used to add structure to the information. Fields are refers to the copy m RAM whenrequired. Inaddition, directories are
variable length and may be located anywhere in different recoxds. syeciaHy ordered (hashed), and FAT tables for very large files may
Field names may consist of any group of words. Virtual fields, or be indexed to further optimize searching.
Seids xesult'mg from calculations may also be defmd.
DATA CACHING
Hyperhxt Style Information Retrieval
Netware server disks store information m 4,096 (4K) character
Information may be a~
by c o mbinations of words or symblocks,
called "i,actors". This is the minimum number of characters
bols withm arecordor document. Wildcards and proximity searches
read
or
mitten
by a diskIf) operation. Thus, even if a workstation
are supported, as is sorted output and reformatting of the selected
request aread of 100bym, Netware wiH lead 4K. However, the 4K
information for either screen display or printed reports.
sector is stored m RAM, the next request kom the workstation will
In addition. often-used or complex requests may be stored as a
likelybein RAM, eliminatmg the physical disk access. This is called
pxogram for easy zecaH and updatmg. The command set is rich
enough to aHow for complex programming when necessary, espe- data caching.
ciaHy when the new Hypertext facHity is used to advantage. Hy- When a write request azrives, Netware simply mites the changed
i&ormation iato its data cache RAM area, and immediately informs
pertext turns normal aakSaei records mto pomt-and shoot menus.
workThat is
words
,
ofgroups ofwordson the screen may be usetb l.as the workstation that
station
carries
on
without
delay,
and
Netwaze
physically
mites
the
a basis for a request, or 2. to acHvate another as/tfmn file, or 3. to
changed
cache
bulfers
hter,
when
the
server
is
not
busy.
zequest the execution of another as/zSam program.
Modem Dial-Out CapabHity
ELEVATOR SEEKING
D ata caching
saves a tremendous number of disk operations,but
If a modem is used, ax/rSam will even dial the phone. Also available
from Seaside Software is a mail merge module for creating person- is not the end of the story. When Netware does need to access the
alized letters and reports. A network version of AxkSam is also disk, it re-axranges the order of the sectors it needs to read or write
available as is areadily version for those wishing to distxibute a so that the disk head movement wiH be in a sweeping fashion, from
database with fall-text retrieval capability.
one edge of the disk to the other, rather than thrashing aH over. This
technique is called Elevator Seeking, and not only improves perAskSam fmds information by scanning axkSaii-formatted GIes formance, but may extend the life of the disk drive.
and it does this with suzprising @md. However for hrge databases DATA INTEGRlTY
this can too time consuming. To improve the access speed an
There is no point in optimizing performance if you can't trust the
mdexing facility is available, although it is restricted to only one data. Netware requires that aH server disks are initially put through
index per file. Indexes may becreated at any tirneusing any field aud an exhaustive format and test procedure BEFORE the disk is
the index is maintained within the fHe. Note aho that for non- instaHed on the net. For large disks, this process may take several
indexedsearches because the recordsare scanned starting from the days (as opposed io DOS format which ~ould take many minutes).
Brst record, we do not know the number of tirues the search value Disk drives which fail cannotbe used.
occurs within the 61e.
In addition, each time Netware writes a sector, it immediately
The Manual
reads itbackand verifles that thedatawas writtencozrectly. A failure
The manual documentation with dte program is quite good with on a read after write check wiH be reported immediately. When the
alotof examples and lessons. Commands areexplainedmfine detail disk drive is initiaHy set uy for Netware, a portion may be set aside
and thereisan extensive reference section for theexperienced user. as a "hot Bx" area If a read after write fails, Netware will lock out
My only wish in this departmentis for more teclmical detaihon what the bad sector, and use one of the free "hot fix" sectors in its place.
uxkSam is doing aid the file fozmats it uses. It is obvious that a lot This occurs automatically, assuring ahigher degree of data integrity.
of effort has beenmsde to p
excellentdocumentatieuparticularly for the novice user. This is complemented with the context- FAULT TOLERANCE
Read after mite and hotfixdonothelpif the entirediskdrive fails.
seusitive help faciTity.
Netware can minimize this risk by allowing duplicate "mirrored"
Not Quite Ready For C-ROM
AsfuH-text retrieval so&ware, as%am is certainly a very capable disk drives, each duplicating the data. If one disk faHs, Netware
yackage offering an easy way to access large text files. We found it simply continues using the other until the failed disk is repaired.
simple to implement and the data 6les were easy to mamtain. Data mixrormg occurs thxough Netware, the application programs
However, like any data management software the application must need no modification, As sn added bonus, Netware sHows "spHt
fit into the box. In the case of our 60 megabyte extract we had too seeks" on mirrored drives - a read request is directed to the drive
many fields and the full blowndatabase would have been to large for whose read head is physically closest to the desired sector, further
assam. But if your database is not quite that big, consider askSam. bripf ovlllg peffollnallce.
Another option with mirrored drives allows the disk controHer
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Where can a person acquire up to date and authorized SHARE%ARE programs? There are many sources of SHAREWARE
programs available m the Greater Vancouver area, including the
Pubgc Libraries. Some computer stores offer &ee software with the
purchase of a computer. Remember this "&ee" software needs to be

xegislered and paid for if you couth' to use it.

Another pitfall to watch out for when you acquire software f'rom
a SHAREWARE vendor, is the age of the so&ware being sold.
Some'dealers' of SHAREWARE axe selling old PC-SLUE or PCSIG librsxies. Only authoxizeddealers for these groups have the upto-date versions of thesoftware available. Why test xm a two-year
old version of PC-HLE + or PC-WR1TE to see if it is 'what you
need'7
Purchase your shaxewaxe &om "authorized, reputable" vendors,
and you will fmd SHAREWAREprograms complete, fulfilling, and
fascinating. Questionyour vendor aboutupdated versimis, technical
support,
and ask to seehisvendor'sauthorization &om thecompany
he is acquiring his SHAREWARE from. If you purchase 'cheap'
software,
you may 6ud you get'cheap'service.

FILE EXPRESS
In my last column I discussed database managers, speci6ically
PC-HLE IH +. One of the main requirements of good database
pxogram I stated, is ixs ease of use. PILE EXPRESS by EXPRESSWARE of Redmond, Washington wss written byDavid M. Bexdan,
and easily ful611s this requirement Of all the ~
epr o grams on
the market, HLE EXPRESS is probably the easiest to learn, and its
90+ page manual on diskene is one of the best wxitten manuals
available for a database program (300 page manual with registra-

tion).
After HLE EXPRESS has been updated by the author, EXPRESSWARE usually releases the previous version, to SHAREWARE.lYis encouragesusers to register withEXPRESSWARE, to
receive the most cuxrent version. It aho means that trial users of the
program are always one version behind. This tends to handicap
EXPRESSWARE, as most user supported software in the SHAREWARE hbisxies are currentversions. The currently released version
of HLE EXPRESS may not have the advanced features available in
PC-HLE +, but those people who register with (purchase &om)
EXPRESSWARE directly, may have some pleasant surprises
awaiting them. If you acquire a SHAREWARE version of HLE
EXPRESS, remember that you probably are not usins the most
current relace. The newest update is Version 4.07
HLE EXPRESS is popular because of its simplicity. Ithas single
key commands, and helpful menus. It does not have a "teach" or
"assist" mode, but the clear, concise manual makes up for this
shorxcomixtg. The function keys can also be "programmed" for data
entry. Version 4.07 allows for 16 million records per database 61e,
3,000charactersperrechd, 1206eldsperrecoxd,250characters per
6eM, 14digit numeric accuracy, and can sort on up to 106elds. You
can also add or delete 6elds in an existing database.It hss most, if
not all, the features available to any good database manager, but
most hnportantly, it is uot cumbersome to learn or use.

LANS CONllNIJEI? FROM PREVIOUS PAGE

board to be duplicated. Each dxive is attached to its own controller
board, so a board failure will affect only one drive. This is called
"Duplexing".Splitseeks and duplexed contxollexseffectivelydouble
therate atwhichdata can beread &om the disk. Yet tobe announced,
but in the woxks at Novell, is the ability to duplicate servers. When
this is a xeality, LAN's wiH be much closer to assured non-stop
operation.

TRANSACFION TRACKING
A risk stiR exists that data may beconN corrupted because a
workstation failed during a critical update. Putting an unintexruptible power supply on your sever will not help if the power fails
when aworkstationis half way through alongpostingxun.twaxe's
Transaction Trackmg System can be told to monitor updates to
critical 61es. A set up updates, called a "transaction" are guaranteed
by Netware to either ALL occur, or NONE will occur, tlms eliminating the risk of data file corruption thxough partial updates.
TUNING IT UP
Novell's latest release of Netware - V2.11 provides Netware
mstallers with lots of statistics to help in fine turi n the network
pexfoxmsnce. A quick review of this month's article reveals a
general theme - higher performance needs more RAM aud a faster
drive, in that order.
There are many reasons why a LAN will bog down, but if you
suspect that the saver is overloaded, don't rush out and buy an

81886 system- it will probably help, but perhapsnot asmuch asyou

thought, and itiscostly. Substantial performance improvements axe
possible by simply adding more RAM to your server, so that
Netware can criminate evenmme disk I/O operations. Also look at
your hard disk, if it is more than 80 percent fall, or is an older 40
mBlisecond drive, installing a larger, faster drive (or additional

drive) can help a lot, at far less cost.

Next month. I' ll look at what a LAN can do for you in terms of
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Statistics Canada'9 1986 Census Database for
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The system is typically used by the market
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would have been piohlbidvely slow or expeilslve.
Now widl a few key slrokes, comprehensive comparisons of areas are available. The system is
simple enough that a sinaH retailer, for example,

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The data avaHable cinrently is only the 2-A
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$145
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$545
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$180
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$140
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dBase IH+ Module 1Jan 13/14
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$150

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Intro to dBase HI+Jun 23
$140
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$140
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$140
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$140
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$150
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Introduction to dBASE HI+Jun 16,27
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$175
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$190
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$130
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$190
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$150
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$150
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$80

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The advent of Of6ce Automation has bxought with it the reduction and even the eliminauon of much of the joint and muscle
movementrequired for our physical health and well-being. Jobs like
6ling, doctnuent handling, copy writing, layout, paste up, drafting,
copy transfer, even mail and meetings can now be done from one
static position seated in kont of your computer.
Vendors pmmoting the "efficiency" and "time savings" of of6ce
automation take little notice of the fact that the slack has been taken
up by a rise in "on premises absenteeism" while many managers
wonder when the "increasedproductivity" they were expecting will
matexialize. Along with the fact that our standards forpresentations,
customer-xelated documents and simple of6ce memos have dramatically increased, employees and their unions are demanding
regular time segxnents away kom the "disconxforts of the VDT", the
very opposite result of what we would expect kom a tool that was
soldus to make ourjobs "easier".
Onto this scene appear many self-proclaimed "ergonomics
experts" and "ergonomics engineers" who provide medicine-show'
style, mass-produced cures for VDT-related ills. Still, that elusive
productivity increase escapes our workplaces. How often recently
have you telephoned or called on a business associate only to hear
that "he/she has 'slipped away' kom his/her desk for a moment?"
It has been estimated that on average 15-20 minutes per hour are
spent by operators "standing amund" or otherwise "not working" in
an attempt to get relief kom the "discomforts of the VIA environment". Physicians warn us to work no longer than four hours at a

limited, for example, in keying alphanumeric combinations most of

the time is spent reading source documents and looking at the
keyboarcL Eyestrain might result kom the operator's tilting the
monitor to avoid re6ected glare, to an angle which results in image
distortion and subsequent, if unconscious, dif6culty in reading the
image. Some operators assume uncomfortable postures to try to
avoid glare. Eyestrain can result from txymg to compensate for the
distortion of the image caused by a dirty mesh filter. Windows
without curtains should never be directly in kont of or behind the
operator, and overhead lights should be adjusted to avoid reflection.
Placing copyholder and VDT on the sameplane as well as having the
copy and VDT ata proper focaldistance could reduce eyestrain
problems.

Appropriate Technology

It is common for businesses to hire Designers for their VDT

areas as well as the rest of their of6ce, often ones who have no
experience in ergonomics and VDT-related problems, and whose
specialtyis aesthetics notoperatorcomfort. Robert Lockhartconsiders that a proper appmach to an ergonomic workplace involves a
team effort. Ergonomics is an interdisciplinary science involving
biomechaxucs, psychology, engineering, and other specialties.
Lockhart feels that no one person knows enough to carry out a full
evaluation of all potential areas of stress. To address the basic
biomechanical concerns Lockhart places strong emphasis on "easy

stretch at a VDT tennis. With this kind of data abounding,

"productivity" seems to be ever more like the proverbial pot of gold

at the end of the rainbow.
Is ERGONOMICS a Myth?
Some managers use the fact that "ergonomics" has become over
used, ahnost to the point of meaninglessness, as an excuse to ignore
the job-related health problems that do in fact plague terminal
operators. And some employees feel that somehow it is "their
problem":, i.e., there is something wrong wilh them because they are
suffering while others seem insensitive to any work environment
they are placed m. Robert Lockhart, Principal of Lockhart Risk
Managementof Vancouver,poixtts out that thedegreeof discomfort,
fatigue and tension varies ko mperson t person and job to job. How
data is being processed, whether the job involves data entty kom
hard copy or retrieving data kom the computer, age and eyesight
variations, height and weight differences, and physical disabiTities
This campmter operator is leaning forward to reach distant keyare among the many factors that affect each mdividual's response to board. Her keyboard height & tefep/xone position force/ter raised
a work environment.
s/xoukters and conesponding tension Photo: Robert Lockhart
Since "discomfort" is the reason given for "on premises absen- adjustsMity". Adjustability because each person's physiology and
teeism".aswellasforunion and employee demands forbreaksfrom
needs are different, and the ways m which one person interacts with
VVf work, itseems obvious that a serious lookfor the sources of the the nxachine differs kom another'L Furniture that is designed to be

problems should be undertaken, especially by any business now adaptable to a number of different people's needs as well as to a
mvolved in automaung their of6ce. This one quarter to one third of
evexypexson-day that is non-pxoductiveshouldencouragemanagexs
to give serious thought and budget consideration towards solvmg
VIA-related ills.
What Kind of Solutions are Appropriatey
Proper seating is the essential and basic starting point for a
comfortable office enviromnent, but a height-adjustable chair is not
the total solution. Manynon-adjustable desks forceshorter people to
raise thar chairs, causing pressure under thekant of the thigh when
they sit back. This forces them to sit forward, away kom the
necessary backsupport. Taller persons,ontheotherhaudmustlower
their chairs to avoid slouching. This raises their knees above the
level of their buttocks, causing all their weight to rest on the back of
the seat, resulting in discomfort and fatigue.
Properly adjusting their chairs, however, causes many users to
need to raise their anna to a keyboard that is then too high, creating
tension in the muscles acmss the top of the shoulders and the base
of theneck, acondition whichquicklyresults inpam and subsequent
"pain-avoidancebehaviors".Our bodies are designed for m ovement; our joints are lubxicated and kept in good working order by
movement. Stress and fatigue result kom working for prolonged
periods in one static position, no matter how comfortable. How
much worse the side-effects then when uncomfortable positions
must be maintained for long periods. In Europe such things as
height-adjustable desks and worktables have been common since
long before the advent of computers, and, in fact, are widespread
regardless of whether the employee types, writes, or uses a VDT
terminal at his/her job.
Robert Lockhart points out the critical importance of proper
body alignment. Problems will result from positions that cause
improperalignment, such as often occur when computers are used
on surfaces with no leg room or by twisting resulting kom awkward
sharing of ettuipment. Continualforcedmovementsuchasthatof the

neck inmoving kom CRT tohardcopy and also improperneck angle

can cause strain and tension in the shoulder and neck muscles
resulting in muscle spasms and headaches. Many sources agree that
improper head angle and too much up-and4own and side-to-side
head movement cause most of the headaches often thought to be
causedby the VDT itself. These types of discomforts cancause other
decreases in productivity such as errors and oversights as well as
farigue. Some people do manage to actually work at their jobs while
suffering kom bsckaches andother painb they are likely operating
at only 40 to 60 9o capacity.
Although it has often been said that the VDT is the source of the
eyestrain, in many jobs actual eye contact with the terminal is very

number of different postures throughout the day to allow easy

movement is most desirable. Changes of position are of primary
importance if we routinely sit m a more or less static position for
more than about two hours a day. Otherwise, by maixxtaining
ourselves m uncomfortable positions we are likely to suffer kom
such physical pmblems as backaches, headaches, and neck and
shoulder pain, which over a period of time can become deMitating.
Training is also important. Staff should be famiTiar with the
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xelieve built-up muscle tension. Regular changes in sitting position
should be promoted.
Uhicka Wallexstemer, a West Vancouver Ergonomist, Principal
of her
own company, Ergo Systems Canada Inc.,and co-author ofa
soon~ be published book entitled, Of6ce & gonomics:Humanisiag theOnce (S
outhwestern), shares the opinion that a team
approach is necessary and snesses the importance of having an
ergonomist on design teams, not only for of6ce envixonments but
also in furniture design itself.

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The logical conclusion is that the cost of an ergonomically
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