Table of Contents
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| Themes | |
| 16-Bit Designs | 52 |
| Phil Lemmons |
| Sunrise Systems | 54 |
| A Texas computer company produces a system to be custom-tailored by OEMs. |
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| Bruce Roberts |
| Product Description: The Gavilan Mobile Computer | 74 |
| Phil Lemmons |
| Digital's Professional 300 Series | 96 |
| A Minicomputer Goes Micro |
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| Wesley Melling |
| A DEC on Every Desk? | 104 |
| John J. Snyder |
| Tight Squeeze: The HP Series 200 Model 16 | 110 |
| How Hewlett-Packard crammed a powerful 16-bit microcomputer into a square foot of desk space |
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| John Monahan |
| Texas Instruments' 99/2 Basic Computer | 128 |
| A look at the design process from concept to prototype |
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| Harry Littlejohn, Mark Jander |
| Implementing Minicomupter Capabilities in a Desktop Microcomputer | 138 |
| Multiple users, Xenix and local-area networks characterize the Altos 586. |
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| Colin Nayler |
| A Machine for All Processors: The Fujitsu Model 16s | 150 |
| The Micro 16s, with its plug-in processors, was designed to run a large variety of operating systems and applications programs. |
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| Wayne Clingingsmith |
| The Pronto Series 16 | 168 |
| The design of a new business-oriented microcomputer based on the Intel 80186 microprocessor. |
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| Skip Hansen |
| The Docutel/Olivetti M20: A Sleek Import | 188 |
| A personal computer that marches to the beat of a different drummer - the Z8000. |
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| Sergio Mello-Grand |
| Modular Architecture | 194 |
| Designing a modular computer around the IBM PC. |
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| Sudha Kavuru |
| Digital Research's DR Logo | 208 |
| A user-friendly language comes of age. |
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| Gary Kildall, David D. Thornburg |
| An Inside Look at MS-DOS | 230 |
| The design decisions behind the popular operating system. |
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| Tim Paterson |
| BYTE West Coast: A Guided Tour of Visi On | 256 |
| Phil Lemmons |
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| Features | |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Use ADPCM for Highly Intelligble Speech Synthesis | 35 |
| Some new integrated circuits from Oki Semiconductor comress digitized speech data effienctly. |
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| Steve Ciarcia |
| Product Description: NEC PC-8201 | 282 |
| A new contender with Tandy's Model 100. |
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| Steven Wszola |
| The User Goes to the Faire | 306 |
| Our redoubtable critic journeys from Chaos Manor to the Eight West Coast Computer Faire. |
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| Jerry Pournelle |
| Design Philosophy Behind Motorola's MC68000, Part 3: Advanced Instructions | 339 |
| Thomas W. Starnes |
| The Bazeries Cylinder: A Cryptographic Challenge | 352 |
| Rinaldo F. Prisco |
| AVL Trees | 387 |
| Introducing a Russian-developed scheme for searching and updating sorted data efficiently. |
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| W. Douglas Maurer |
| Build a Simple Light Pen for the Apple II | 395 |
| Avoid complex hardware with the strategic use of software. |
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| David J. Lilja |
| User's Column: Zenith Z-100, Epson QX-10, Software Licensing, and the Software Piracy Problem | 411 |
| Our intrepid columnist shoots from the hip and takes a little flak. |
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| Jerry Pournelle |
| The 8086 - An Architecture for the Future, Part 1: Introduction and Glossary | 450 |
| The advanced 8086 microprocessor overcomes the limitations of previous designs. |
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| Stephen A. Heywood |
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| Reviews | |
| Hardware Review: HMS3264 EPROM Programmer | 288 |
| Marvin L. De Jong |
| Hardware Review: Electrohome Supercolor Board and Color Monitor | 298 |
| Jon N. Swanson |
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| Nucleus | |
| Editorial: Hight Tech Morril Act | 4 |
| Lawrence J. Curran |
| MICROBYTES | 7 |
Operating systems battle lines involve IBM, DEC, American Bell
Digital Research introduces Personal BASIC and markets languages for IBM PC-DOS
Sydis system integrates voice and Visiword
Microsoft announces multi-tool Word, mouse
Softoffice to offer IBM PC integrated software
Octagon 80286 supports three operating systems simultaneously
PFS:WRITE coming this month from Software Publishing
Micropro imporves Wordstar and introduces Planstar, Starburst, Starindex
Ashton-Tate introduces Friday
Sharp enters portable-computer market
Nanobytes |
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| Letters | 7 |
| Programming Quickies: Novel Methords of Interger Multiplication and Division | 364 |
| G. Reichborn-Kjennerud |
| Technical Forum: Random Numbers from an All-Digital Generator | 379 |
| You don't need a complex and expensive analog generator to produce fast random numbers. |
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| Gary Finley |
| Book Review: 6502 Assembly-Language Subroutines | 446 |
| Paul E. Hoffman |
| Clubs and Newsletters | 458 |
| Ask BYTE | 462 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Software Received | 466 |
| Event Queue | 470 |
| Books Received | 479 |
| What's New? | 482 |
| Unclassified Ads | 541 |
| BOMB, BOMB Results | 542 |
| Reader Service | 543 |
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