Table of Contents
| Editorial: A Very Special Issue | 6 |
| Phil Lemmons |
| Microbytes | 9 |
Sinclair Rescued from Bankrupty; Sir Clive Loses Clout
Developments Bring Optical Discs Closer to Market
New Products Use 65816 Processor
C Compilers Expand to New Systems
Two MS-DOS Protable Computers Enhanced
NANOBYTES |
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| Letters | 14 |
| Fixes and Updates | 33 |
Leaks Like Sieve: Update to benchmark test
A Power Plant Chip (correction to June BYTE, page 458) |
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| What's New | 39, 380 |
Zoomracks
Modem with Voice Detection
Tektronix AI Systems
MDID Magic, Music Disks
Color Display Adapter
SAM 3001 AT
Robotic Kit
Biometal
The System/36 PC
Compaq PC Turbo
Video Digitizer and BASIC Enhancement for Commodore
Executive Partner
NEW SYSTEMS:
The Amstrad CPC6128 PC
MicroVAX II
Leading Edge Model D PC
TeleVideo's AT
PERIPHERALS:
Chip Interfaces 80286 Processor with 8088 System
RAM Extension for Macintosh
Hard-Disk/Tape Subsystem for IBM PCs
700-cps Serial Printer
Compact Laser Printer
Low-Cost Seven-Port Multiplexer
Graphics Display for DEC, Hazeltime Terminals
Monochrome Monitors for IBM PCs
ADD-INS:
Kache Board for the Apple
MAS 2122 Two-Chip Modem
UNIX/MMU for Stride 400 Series
Micro Speech Lab
SOFTWARE - APPLE:
BASIC-to-Pascal Translator
Circuit-Design Package Runs on the Mac
Bulletin Board for Apple IIs
Map with Stars with Mac
SOFTWARE - IBM PC:
TopView Tools
Mapping Package
Signal Processing on the PC
A Bridge to Macintosh Office
Pascal for 8086 Family
SOFTWARE - OTHER COMPUTERS:
Programming Environment with AI Module
Four for Color Computer; Atari EEPROM/EPROM Programmer
Widen Your Screen
Improvising Commodore |
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| Book Reviews | 49 |
| Ask BYTE | 70 |
| Unclassified Ads | 429 |
| BYTE's Ongoing Monitor Box, BOMB results | 430 |
| Reader Service | 431 |
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| Features | |
| Product Preview: The Amiga Personal Computer | 80 |
| Its speed and colorful graphics come from a 68000 and sophisticated custom chips. |
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| Gregg Williams, Jon Edwards, Phillip Robinson |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Build the BASIC-52 Computer/Controller | 83 |
| A single-board problem solver with great potential |
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| Steve Ciarcia |
| The DSI-32 Coprocessor Board, Part I: The Hardware | 120 |
| Plug a 32-bit microcomputer into your IBM PC |
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| Trevor G. Marshall, George Scolaro, David L. Rand, Tom King, Vincent P. Williams |
| Programming Project: Context-Free Parsing of Arithmetic Expressions | 138 |
| Parse integer arithemitc expressions into executable form |
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| Jonathan Amsterdam |
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| Themes | |
| Introduction | 148 |
| Prolog Goes to Work | 151 |
| What Prolog is, who's using it, and why |
|
| Clara Y. Cuadrado, John L. Cuadrado |
| Logic Programming | 161 |
| Prolog can be used as either a declarative or a procedural programming language |
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| Robert Kowalski |
| Declarative Languages: An Overview | 181 |
| Why do we need another type of programming language? |
|
| Susan Eisenbach, Chris Sadler |
| Program Transformation | 201 |
| A program-development methodology explained |
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| John Darlington |
| Function Programming Using FP | 219 |
| How to program without objects |
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| Peter G. Harrison, Hessam Khoshnevisan |
| A Hope Tutorial | 235 |
| Using one of the new generation of functional languages |
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| Roger Bailey |
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| Reviews | |
| Introduction | 262 |
| Reviewer's Notebook | 265 |
| Glenn Hartwig |
| The Tandy 1000 | 266 |
| A low-cost PC-compatible computer |
|
| Rich Malloy |
| IBM Pascal 2.00 | 275 |
| This version has many improvements, including better documentation and 8087 coprocessor support |
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| Patrick J. Finan |
| Review Feedback | 283 |
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| Kernel | |
| Introduction | 290 |
| Computing at Chaos Manor: The West Coast Computer Faire | 293 |
| Union Problems; PC-Write; Disk Maker I; Multiple Choice; EM-it; Color-400; SR-12; SuperKey; PC-MATLAB; Badges and Flowers; NaturalLink |
|
| Jerry Pournelle |
| BYTE Japan: COMDEX in Japan | 331 |
| Fujitsu lap-size portable; New laser printers; NEC PC-9801M3; APC III versus PC-9801M2/3; Brother WP-600 and FB-100 |
|
| William M. Raike |
| BYTE U.K.: Declarative Update | 341 |
| Two new language systems and two new books |
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| Dick Pountain |
| According to Webster: Greetings and Agitations | 355 |
| Methods; Turbo Pascal 3.0; Copy II Mac; MacTools; MacASM; MacModula-2; Megamax C; QC-20 |
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| Bruce Webster |
| BYTE West Coast: New Microprocessor Chips | 369 |
| The iAPX 386, the 80C86 and the AT Probe |
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| Phillip Robinson |
| Circuit Cellar Feedback | 376 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| BYTELINES | 378 |
| Sol Libes |
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