Table of Contents
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| Features | |
| Introduction | 96 |
| The AT&T UNIX PC | 98 |
| Gregg Williams |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Build the Home Run Control System, Part 2: The Hardware | 108 |
| Energy management, convience, and security in one package |
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| Steve Ciarcia |
| Set Extensions with Apple Pascal | 128 |
| Add useful set operations to your programs |
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| Alfred L. Schumer |
| Build a Talking Clock Speech Synthesizer | 143 |
| This talking clock chip circuit also allows experimentation with an unlimited-vocabulary speech processor |
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| Ernest H. Piette |
| Smalltalk Comes to the Microcomputer World | 151 |
| Bruce Webster |
| Methods: A Preliminary Look, Part 1: Methods is object-oriented... | 152 |
| Bruce Webster, Tom Yonkman |
| Smalltalk-PC | 155 |
| Object-oriented software on the Apple II |
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| Christopher Macie |
| The Smalltalk Programming Language | 160 |
| An introduction to object-oriented programming |
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| Jim Anderson, Barry Fishman |
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| Themes | |
| Introduction | 168 |
| Multiprocessing: An Overview | 171 |
| A brief look at the latest quest for computer speed |
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| Rich Krajewski |
| Extending Microprocessor Architectures | 185 |
| Extended-processing units can significantly broaden a microprocessor's instruction set |
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| Gary D. Beals |
| Applying Data Flow in the Real World | 201 |
| This model for parallel processing is finding its way into commercial applications |
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| William Gerhard Paseman |
| The Transputer | 219 |
| A building block for parallel processing |
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| Paul Walker |
| Data-Movement Primitives | 239 |
| A low-cost implementation of an innovative technique for sharing memory |
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| J. Eric Roskos, Ching-Dong Hsieh |
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| Reviews | |
| Introduction | 256 |
| Reviewer's Notebook | 259 |
| Glenn Hartwig |
| The Compaq Deskpro | 260 |
| A faster processor and an optional tape backup system |
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| Jerry Grady |
| IBM PC AT | 270 |
| The PC gets down to business |
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| Alan Finger |
| True BASIC | 279 |
| Bringing structure to the realm of "spaghetti code" |
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| G. Michael Vose |
| The GTX-100 Modem | 291 |
| An intelligent device with built-in security functions |
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| Mark Haas |
| Review Feedback | 299 |
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| Kernel | |
| Introduction | 305 |
| Computing at Chaos Manor: In Search of the Perfect Product | 307 |
| LaserJet, The Tweek Cure, Tutsim, Universe, Professional BASIC, The Companion, A+ Mouse, MTBASIC, Expert-Ease, Encore 1200B, SemiDisk, Tunesmith and Fontrix |
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| Jerry Pournelle |
| Chaos Manor Mail | 347 |
| Jerry Pournelle |
| BYTE Japan: Megabits and Gigaflops | 355 |
| New RAM chips and computers |
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| William M. Raike |
| BYTE West Coast: Homebrew Chips | 363 |
| MOSIS, two packages for the Mac, Turtle talk, and Concurrent DOS-286 |
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| John Markoff, Phillip Robinson, Donna Osgood |
| BYTE U.K.: Parallel Processing | 385 |
| A look at the ALICE hardware and Hope language |
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| Dick Pountain |
| Computers and Law: The Sale of Computer Products | 399 |
| A self-help guide for buyers and sellers |
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| Robert Greene Sterne, Perry J. Saidman |
| Mathematical Recreations: An Exercise in BASIC Bitwise Logic Operation | 417 |
| The game of Nim is used to teach the use of the logical AND, OR, and NOT |
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| Robert T. Kurosaka |
| Circuit Cellar Feedback | 424 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Programming Insight: 0.8660254 ≈ √3/2 | 429 |
| An alogrithm that converts decimals to fractions |
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| Dan Sandberg |
| Programming Insight: Computing Pi | 433 |
| Using infinite series to compute mathematical functions |
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| David J. Crawford |
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| Editorial: BYTE's Reader Poll | 6 |
| Phil Lemmons |
| Microbytes | 9 |
New Laser Printers May Outperform Canon's Engine
DEC Revamps Rainbow to Match New PC Strategy
Fairchild Unveils First Single-Chip 212A 1200-bps Modem
Firms Show Chinese-Language Word Processors
IBM Puts Series/1 on a Chip, in an IBM PC Box
Morrow Upgrades Pivot: Fully IBM-Compatible
NANOBYTES |
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| Letters | 14 |
| Fixes and Updates | 33 |
Updates:
Busy, Busy BYTEnet Listings
Sola Makes Uninterruptible Power Supplies
Modifications to Printer Buffer (June 1984)
Byte's Bugs:
FreeSoft Address (March 1985)
A Bit too Wide (February 1985)
Mathematics Mistake (March 1985)
Caption in Error (March 1985)
Corrections for EPROM Programmer (February 1985)
Byte's Bits:
Poke the IIe's Drive Delays in the Sixth Slot
Computer Art Contest for Kids
Alternative address |
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| What's New | 39, 464 |
Business-Pro Runs AT Software (Texas Instruments)
Systems Solution for Test, Measurement, Analysis (Honeywell HOTMS 3000)
GRiDCase Family of Portables (GRiD Systems)
Integrated CAD System for IBM (Micro Control Systems CADKey)
Laser Printer Produces Full-Page, High-Resultion Graphics (Corporated Data Sciences CDS 2300)
Cermetek Unveils 3-line, 1200-bps Multiplexer (Cermetek Microelectronics 3X1200)
Integrated Software for Macintosh (Microsoft Excel)
Test, Measurement Tools (Hewlett-Packard PC Instruments) |
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| Ask BYTE | 48 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Clubs & Newsletters | 58 |
| Book Reviews | 65 |
The Apple Macintosh Book
Fire in the Valley: THe Makeing of the Personal Computer
Beneath Apple Products
Productive Software Test Management |
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| Scott L. Norman, Joel Pitt, Marin Kalman, Douglas L. Freeman |
| Event Queue | 83 |
| Books Received | 442 |
| Unclassified Ads | 525 |
| BYTE's Ongoing Monitor Box, BOMB Results | 526 |
| Reader Service | 527 |
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