Table of Contents
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| PRODUCTS IN PERSPECTIVE | 65 |
| What's New | 67 |
| Short Takes | 89 |
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Agenda
Word 4.0
Portable Vectra
Coldblue
Ask Dan About Taxes & Tax Preparer
VOPEX-2M
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| Cover Story | |
| Multiscan Color Monitors | 100 |
| Fourteen versatile displays that let you use today's wide range of graphics adapters |
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| George A. Stewart |
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| Reviews | |
| Compaq Flexes Its Muscles | 117 |
| The Deskpro 386/20 combines a new bus architecture with a faster processor |
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| Mark L. Van Name |
| The Tandy 4000 | 129 |
| An AT-compatible system with a combination of high performance and extensive dealer support |
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| Mark L. Van Name |
| Datavue's Spark and Snap 1+1 | 135 |
| Price and portability distinguish these two laptops from the competition |
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| Alex Lane |
| Micro Channel Memory Boards | 142 |
| These boards offer up to 8 megabytes of memory for the PS/2 Models 50 and 60 |
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| Jonathan Shiell, Bud Smith, Curtis Franklin Jr. |
| A Quintet of WORMs | 146 |
| Wayne Rash Jr. |
| Turbo Pascal 4.0 | 153 |
| Its new modular design breaks the 64K-byte barrier of previous versions |
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| Walter Banks |
| MPW C for the Mac | 156 |
| Mike Wilson |
| dBASE Mac vs. McMax | 165 |
| Two software companies provide competing database managers for the Macintosh |
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| Namir Clement Shammas |
| MathCAD 2.0 | 168 |
| George A. Stewart |
| RS/1 Research System | 172 |
| Harley P. Macon |
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| Columns | |
| Computing at Chaos Manor: Life after Las Vegas | 179 |
| Jerry tries our new products for the 386, a Mega ST, and a huge COMDEX |
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| Jerry Pournelle |
| Applications Only: Shortcuts for Simplicity | 199 |
| MacInTax and TaxView, a brainy printer cable, TopDOS, and PowerStation |
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| Ezra Shapiro |
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| IN DEPTH: Lisp | 205 |
| Introduction - Lisp | 206 |
| David Betz, Gregg Williams |
| Lisp: A language for Stratified Design | 207 |
| Lisp's power comes from the ease with which you can make abstractions and build on them |
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| Harry Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman |
| Semantics of Scheme | 221 |
| Much of Scheme's elegance and power comes from a minimal but conceptually rich programming model |
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| William Clinger |
| How Lisp Has Changed | 229 |
| After 30 years, Lisp has evolved to be both versatile and powerful |
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| David S. Touretzky |
| Lisp Resource Guide | 236 |
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| FEATURES | 241 |
| The New LIM/EMS | 243 |
| Version 4.0 of LIM/EMS supports memory management, interprocess communication, and code execution. |
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| Peter Immarco |
| The DSI Transputer Developement System | 249 |
| Definicon Systems' new Transputer coprocessor board puts concurrency in your IBM PC |
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| John Poplett, Rob Kurver |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: The BCC180 Multitasking Controller, Part 2: EPROMs and Compilers | 259 |
| Using the Hitachi HD64180 CPU, Steve's project is a multitasking singel-board computer/controller |
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| Steve Ciarcia |
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| DEPARTMENTS | |
| Editorial: News and Technology | 6 |
| Fred Langa |
| Microbytes | 11 |
| Letters | 22 |
| Chaos Manor Mail | 34 |
| Ask BYTE | 38 |
| Circuit Cellar Feedback | 40 |
| Book Reviews | 51 |
A Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp
The Scheme Programming Language
The Little Lisper
The Third Apple: Personal Computers and the Cultural Revolution |
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| Alex Lane, Eva White, Jack D. Kirwan |
| Coming Up in BYTE | 307 |
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| READER SERVICE | |
| Editorial Index by Company | 306 |
| Alphabetical Index to Advertisers | 309 |
| Index to Adverisers by Product Category | 310 |
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