Table of Contents
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| Features | |
| Introduction | 86 |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: The Word's Smallest 1200-bps Modem | 89 |
| The essential indredient in the turnkey bulletin board |
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| Steve Ciarcia |
| Programming Project: An assembler for VM2 | 112 |
| This assembler can ease the pain of machine-language programming |
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| Jonathan Amsterdam |
| Programming Project: Extending Turbo Pascal | 123 |
| Five subroutine libraries can enhance your Turbo Pascal working environment |
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| Bruce Webster |
| CD-ROMs and Their Kin | 137 |
| Developments in optical data storage |
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| Richard S. Shuford |
| Highs and Lows of Parameter Passing | 151 |
| You can access assembly-language routines from your Pascal or FORTRAN programs |
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| Michael Kilian |
| Programming Insight: Game-Paddle Control Linearity Test | 161 |
| Measuring resistance with the Apple II |
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| Marvin L. De Jong |
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| Themes | |
| Introduction | 166 |
| The Amiga's Custom Graphics Chips | 169 |
| A conversation with Jay Miner, the chips' designer |
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| Phillip Robinson |
| Raster Operations | 187 |
| Integrating text and graphics in high-performance systems |
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| John Bennet |
| Moving Pictures | 207 |
| Designing systems for real-time graphics performance |
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| Stefan Demetrescu |
| High-Resolution Printer Graphics | 219 |
| You can address the individual dots used to generate dot-matrix characters |
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| Mark Bridger, Mark Goresky |
| The μPD7281 Processor | 237 |
| A non-von Neumann chip designed for high-speed parallel prcessing for images |
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| Tom Jeffery |
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| Reviews | |
| Introduction | 250 |
| Reviewer's Notebook | 253 |
| Glenn Hartwig |
| The Data General/One | 254 |
| A capable 11-pound portable |
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| Wayne Rash Jr. |
| Sanyo MBC-775 | 266 |
| A portable IBM PC-compatible with built-in color monitor |
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| Bruce Roberts |
| Five C Compilers for the Macintosh | 275 |
| Aztec C, Hippo-C, Mac C, Megamax C and Softworks Macintosh C |
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| Tim Field |
| Magic/L | 337 |
| This descendant of FORTH is a complete environment for program development |
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| Michael W. Gilbert, Albert S. Woodhull |
| IBM's Professional Graphics System | 355 |
| For what you get, it's less expensive than it seems |
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| Rik Jadrnicek |
| Juki's 6300 Daisy-Wheel Printer | 361 |
| Letter-quality output and Diablo compatibility |
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| Wayne Rash Jr. |
| Review Feedback | 367 |
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| Kernel | |
| Introduction | 370 |
| Computing at Chaos Manor: Old Favorites and New Ones | 373 |
| ARPANET, BIX, Zeke, SideKick, SuperKey, Kaypro 286i, NCC, Fastback, Janus Ada and Seastalker |
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| Jerry Pournelle |
| Chaos Manor Mail | 399 |
| Jerry Pournelle |
| According to Webster: Memories | 401 |
| Monster Mac, Megamax C, Future mac Designs, Amiga, Tecmar T-card, Atari 520ST, Proper Balance, NCC and Optical Disks |
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| Bruce Webster |
| BYTE U.K.: Living C-Personal | 419 |
| A real-time C debugging environment |
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| Dick Pountain |
| Mathematical Recreations: Repeating Decimals | 433 |
| Cycles, sequences, and late repeaters |
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| Robert T. Kurosaka |
| BYTE Japan: Comparing Fujitsus | 445 |
| The Fujitsu FM-16ß and an update on the NEC PC-9801M2 |
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| William M. Raike |
| Circuit Cellar Feedback | 450 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
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| Editorial: A Tale of Four Covers | 6 |
| Robert Tinney |
| Microbytes | 9 |
Apple Introduces Add-ons for II, Macintosh
Intel Sampling 80386 Microprocessor
AT&T Will Sell Alloy MS-DOS Emulator for UNIX PC
Northewst Instruments Unveils Hardware-based Software Analyzer
Nanobytes |
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| Letters | 14 |
| Fixes and Updates | 33 |
BYTE's Bugs: RAMDIC Corrections
BYTE's Bits: Writing for BYTE available; New Number for BYTEnet Listings; BYTEnet Listings Goes On Line in the United Kingdom |
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| What's New | 37, 452 |
Three Expert-System Generators (Neuron Data's Nexpert, Radian Corporations's RuleMaster and Aion Corporation's Aion Development System/PC); FORTH Development System for Atari's 520ST (The Dragon Group's 4xFORTH); Ansa's Paradox Database (Ansa Software); Banker Board Gives Color Computer 256K Bytes (J&R Electronics' The Banker); SideKick for the Macintosh (Borland International Inc.); Bubble-Memory Subsystem from Intel (BPK 70AZ-6C); Multitasking Operating System Toolbox for IBM PC (Wendin); Hewlett-Packard's LaserJet Plus; EPROM Emulator (GP Industrial Electornics XM512); Fast 20-megabyte Backup tape (Genoa Systems Corporation)
New systems: Dasher/One from Data General; IBM PC XT-compatible (Americal Computer and Peripheral Inc.); Turbo PC (PC's Limited); Wang Advanced Professional Computer (Wang Laboratories Inc.'s APC); Low-COst Two-Drive System form Apricot (F2)
Peripherals: Dual Disk Drive for Commodore (HBH Sales' The Clone); Heath EPROM Programmer Kit (ID-4801); Series 1500 Graphics Display Terminals (Cleveland Codonics); Apple II Touch Window (Personal Touch); Desktop Skanners (CompuScan's PCS 230 and PCS 240)
Add-ins: Tattletale Data Logger (Onset Computer Corporation' Tattletale Model II); Fiber-Obtic Modem for the IBM PC (ICS Inc. FOC1); HyperDrive 20 for the Macintosh (General Computer Company); Model 1018 Multi-I/O Board (Industrial Computer Designs, Inc.); Color Graphics for the Apple II Line (Video-7 Inc.); IntorVoice IV for the IBM PC XT (The Voice Connection)
Software - IBM PC: Text Retriever Works with Optical Disks (Reference Technology's Clasix STA/F); Cost Modelling for Semiconductor Parts (Fountain Hills Software); Thai/English Word Processor (Megachomp Co. Duanglang); Programs for Chemists (Molecular Design Ltd. ChemBase and ChemText)
Software - Apple: Apple-to-Mac Translator (Abaton Technology Corp.'s Abaton Transform); DOS for Apple IIs (Foscil Labs/Datacom Media FDOS); Pascal Pop-up (dogStar Software *Monitor); Animated Simulation (High-Performance Systems' Stella); Structural Analysis with Mac (Design Source Software MacFrame 2D); Duo for Recording, Graphing Data (Sof-Ware Tools' Stats Tool Kit and Process Control Chart Tool)
Software - other computers: Assembler, Debugger, Communications for Hitachi Chip (Echelon Inc.); Traveling ROM (The Ultimate ROM); Math Subroutine Library (Quantitative Technology Corp.'s Math Advantage; Features Added to Paint Porgram (Media Cybernetics Inc. Dr. Halo II) |
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| Ask BYTE | 44 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Clubs and Newsletters | 54 |
| Book Reviews | 57 |
Macintosh Revealed, Volume One: Unlocking The Toolbox
Advanced Programmer's Guide Featuring dBASE III and dBASE II
16-Bit Modern Microcomputers: The Intel i8086 Family
Statistical Programs in Basic |
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| Bonnie L. Walker, Paul W. Lowans, Alan Finger, David W. Hopper |
| Event Queue | 82 |
| Unclassified Ads | 509 |
| BYTE's Ongoing Monitor Box, BOMB Results | 510 |
| Reader Service | 511 |
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