InfoWorld articles from October 1994

InfoWorld archives from October 1994

Delphi95: Borland's definitive statement; programming environment is a hit. (Borland International Inc) (Software Review ) (Evaluation)
October 31, 1994... Delphi95 is the code name of Borland International Inc.'s new GUI object-oriented programming environment. The name is singularly inappropriate, because Delphi was the oracle famous for giving ambiguous answers. Borland's Delphi, by contrast,...

Notebooks are next scheduled stop for PCI bus. (Tadpole Technology Corp and other vendors to preview PCI notebook computers at 1994 Comdex)
October 31, 1994... A handful of smaller companies will unveil PCI-based notebooks at next month's Comdex, thanks to enhancements being made to the bus architecture. Intel Corp.'s Mobile PC/PCI group is developing a version of the bus that includes enhanced...

Pipeline. (networking)
October 31, 1994... LICENSED Sybase licenses ODBC Sybase Inc. has licensed Intersolv Inc.'s just-announced Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) 2.0 drivers. Starting in the first quarter of next year, Sybase will sell the drivers as part of DataDirect (formerly...

HP raises the bar, lowers hub pricing. (introduces AdvanceStack 10Base-T Hub-8U) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Ethernet hub competition surges; HP preps low-price stackable with optional modules Hewlett-Packard Co. will ship in December the eight-port AdvanceStack 10Base-T Hub-8U, which at $299 could be the industry's lowest-priced stackable Ethernet...

Mesa ships Microsoft Mail BBS add-on. (The Mesa Group Inc's Conference+ 1.1 bulletin board software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Workgroup software maker The Mesa Group Inc. last week announced Conference+ 1.1, a new version of its bulletin board and conferencing add-on for Microsoft Mail that can interact with a host of other third-party mail systems. Conference+...

IBM pushes on with alpha of PowerPC OS/2; long-awaited OS still needs GUI. (OS/2 for PowerPC)
October 31, 1994... After two years of promises and reports of delays and premature death, the first batch of code for IBM's OS/2 for PowerPC has finally made it out of the labs. An alpha version of the system, which is essentially OS/2 without the graphical...

Reports say Windows 95 to boost Microsoft's networking objectives. (Forrester Research Inc)
October 31, 1994... Microsoft Corp.'s dual operating system strategy will allow it to successfully mount an attack on both client and server sides of the network, according to two recently published reports. According to Forrester Research Inc., in Cambridge,...

FTP readies Internet access product; Explore OnNet to include enhanced Mosaic browser. (FTP Software Inc) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Scrambling to catch up with other TCP/IP application providers, FTP Software Inc. plans to ship its Internet browser next month for $149. Explore OnNet, one of the few packages offering automatic Internet address configuration, includes an...

Windows 95 leads push to optimize software for Pentium. (Microsoft and Lotus boost software performance)
October 31, 1994... Software optimization for the Pentium is gaining steam. Microsoft Corp. and Lotus Development Corp. are among the leading vendors optimizing their applications and operating systems to give users the performance benefits of using...

Oracle planning big Power Mac push. (porting entire product line to the Power Macintosh)
October 31, 1994... Apple Computer Inc. has found a big-name booster to help the Power Macintosh make a stronger push into corporate America. The assist will come from database powerhouse Oracle Corp. Starting in January, the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company...

IBM forges ahead with beta release of PC DOS 7. (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... IBM's PC DOS 7 entered beta testing last week, with delivery expected for the first quarter of next year. The new version offers a host of enhancements, including more flexible setup, viewing of system modifications with comments prior to...

IBM debuts Internet access services. (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... IBM last week launched SLIP Internet connections services and within the year will offer Point-to-Point Protocol connections as well, according to the sources within the company. OS/2 Warp users will automatically get 14.4Kbps dial-up services...

Sun to use Ross HyperSparc chip. (Sun Microsystems Inc, Ross Technology Inc) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Sun Microsystems Inc. is abandoning its "not invented here" posture and will use a high-speed HyperSparc processor from Ross Technology Inc. to power its next generation of workstations. The two companies will announce Nov. 7 that Sun will use...

Briefly noted. (At Deadline)
October 31, 1994... Macromedia Inc. last week acquired FreeHand developer Altsys Corp. in a transaction valued at approximately $69 million. Altsys will remain in Richardson, Texas, as Macromedia's Digital Arts Group... Intel Corp. last week began shipping the...

On ships workflow, metering upgrades. (On Technology Corp's Coordinator 2.0 for Windows, Softrack 2.0) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... On Technology Corp. this month released two products: an all-new Windows version of its Coordinator software and Version 2.0 of Softrack, a software metering system. The Coordinator for Windows is a graphical version of the company's DOS...

75-MHz Pentiums deskbound: Gateway, ALR put speedier Intel chip in desktop PCs. (Gateway 2000 P5-75XL; Advanced Logic Research Evolution X/75) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Desktop PCs powered by Intel Corp.'s new 75-MHz Pentium are being sold by at least one manufacturer, and more will be announced by Comdex in November. Gateway 2000 Inc. is already selling an unannounced 75-MHz system priced at $2,499, the...

PS/2s won't Plug and Play with Windows 95. (IBM PS/2 Micro Channel Architecture incompatible with Windows device handling technology)
October 31, 1994... Nearly 10 million IBM PS/2 Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) customers will be able to run Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95, but they won't be able take advantage of its Plug and Play capabilities, at least not right away, an IBM official confirmed...

IBM to showcase its workgroup strategy based on UltiMail app. (multimedia E-mail) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... At Comdex, IBM will unveil a broad new workgroup strategy that is very different from the one espoused by close groupware partner Lotus Development Corp. IBM has been reselling both Lotus Notes and cc:Mail, but it is now prepared to put its...

ATM switches for PCs due early next year. (Fore Systems Inc's ESA-200PC EISA, NBA-200 NuBus) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... As expected, Fore Systems Inc. will ship early next year adapter cards that will enable users to extend Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology beyond expensive workstations to PCs and Macintoshes. The products take the shape of 100Mbps...

New markets heat up printer rivalry; Tektronix, Xerox challenge HP. (Tektronix Phaser 540 color laser printer and Xerox 3000 series printers) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... The first color laser printer from Tektronix Inc. and a multifunction inkjet printer from Xerox Corp. are scheduled to make their debuts this week, as both companies take aim at market leader Hewlett-Packard Co. Tektronix, which is also...

StrataCom devices can hook up remote sites with multiple protocols. (FastPADmp, FastPADlmp) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... StrataCom Inc. last week began shipping two products designed to give network managers a low-cost option for linking small and remote sites with PC LANs, SNA devices, and X.25 units to corporate backbone data nets. The products, FastPADmp...

Retix router interface will connect LANs to ATM nets. (ATM Interface Module) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Retix Inc. will ship by year's end an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) interface and associated software for its high-end router that will enable users to link LANs to ATM backbone networks. The company said its new ATM Interface Module...

Sled ships Internet on-line directory. (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Sled Corp. is offering a free on-line white pages directory to help users quickly find the E-mail addresses of individuals, companies, and organizations. Using any Internet browser, such as Mosaic or Lynx, users of Four11 software can search...

Programming and sound (card) decisions for OS/2 Warp. (installing Creative Labs' Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card and new HockWare VisPro visual programming tools on systems running OS/2 Warp) (Down to the Wire) (Column) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Now that I have OS/2 Warp installed on a few machines, I'm almost ready to start installing some of the interesting software that's been coming in lately. There's the trio of visual programming tools for OS/2 by HockWare Inc.: VisPro/Rexx,...

Doceo filter boosts digital video quality. (Evaluation of Doceo Publishing's Doceo Filter video utility) (Software Review) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Anyone who works with Microsoft Video for Windows files knows their frequent limitations: choppy playback, mediocre image quality, and big files. Doceo Publishing Inc.'s Doceo Filter can accomplish the neat trick of enhancing a video clip's...

WinInstall can do upgrading legwork for you. (On Demand Software and Services' WinInstall 4.0 Windows software distribution software) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
October 31, 1994... Package gives several options for doing mass software installations Network administrators dread across-the-board product upgrades. Walking around to dozens of workstations to run installation procedures -- usually after hours -- can be...

Novell NLSP cuts bandwidth use, connect fees. (NetWare Link State Protocol routing technology) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Novell Inc. is offering a server software upgrade that will enable users to eliminate frequent broadcast messages that use up to 40 percent of bandwidth in Novell internetworked LANs. The company's NetWare Link State Protocol (NLSP) is a new...

Novell, PSI offering free Internet time; promotion will end December 31. (Performance Systems International Inc) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Novell Inc. is letting NetWare users get their feet wet on the Internet by offering 30 days of free Internet service. Through an agreement with Performance Systems International Inc. (PSI), announced last week, users will receive free...

Image-altering tools take two paths. (Elastic Reality Inc's Elastic Reality 1.01 and U-Lead Systems' MorphStudio for Windows morphing software) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
October 31, 1994... Elastic Reality stretches horizons; MorphStudio costs just $59 Morphing effects are a staple of MTV, movies, and television commercials. Software to create digital movies with similar attention-grabbing transformations has been available for...

BBN ships Mac Internet link. (BBN Internet Services Corp's Internet Server system) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... BBN Internet Services Corp.'s Internet Server, shipping this week for Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh, was designed with content providers in mind. The IP service provider is extending its services to the desktop so companies interested in...

IBM/Apple union: Will love be better the second time around? (From the Editor) (Editorial)
October 31, 1994... Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to join this man, International B. Machines, and this... "Excuse me, your honor? A small point." The Best Man has something to say? By all means. And you don't have to call me "your honor" -- I'm...

Workgroups gain report writers. (Seagate Technology's Crystal unit's Crystal Reports Standard Edition 4.0, Crystal Reports Pro 4.0 and Report Server enhancement; Cognos' Impromptu upgrade) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Report writers from Crystal and Cognos Inc. are about to gain workgroup features that will make reports easier to manage and relieve PCs of the burden of running long reports. Crystal, the Vancouver, B.C., unit of Seagate Technology Inc., is...

Word, Excel faster, similar in Windows NT. (Microsoft Word for Windows NT 6.0 and Excel for Windows NT 5.0) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
October 31, 1994... If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck. But not always. Fact is, Microsoft Corp.'s Microsoft Word 6.0 for Windows NT 3.5 looks just like Word for Windows. And Excel 5.0 for NT looks just like Excel for Windows....

The origin of Ethernet and its link to the information superhighway. (From the Ether) (Column)
October 31, 1994... My editor has been asking me to write a column answering your questions about the history of Ethernet. One question, for example, is where did Ethernet get its name? Well, I've moved to Maine and ended my two and one-half year stint as...

UB package lets hubs handle the data; managers freed for other tasks. (UB Networks' Access/EMpower Supervisor card and applications) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... UB Networks Inc. next month plans to ship a hardware/software package that will enable its hubs to collect, analyze, and correlate data and, based on user-definable rules, respond in real time with minimal intervention from network...

Digital multiclient workstations designed to run Unix, Windows. (DEC Multia Multiclient desktop system) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Seeking a place for Alpha on the desktop, Digital Equipment Corp. on Nov. 7 will introduce a "multiclient" workstation, along with two midrange workstations. This week, the company will revamp its x86-based PC line. The Multia Multiclient...

ViaCrypt PGP brings 'pretty good privacy' to Windows systems. (ViaCrypt's ViaCrypt PGP for Windows 2.7 encryption software) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
October 31, 1994... Ever worry that a competitor might intercept an E-mail message on your latest business proposal? Do you prefer to keep your electronic messages secure from computer hacks with a knack for cryptography? Perhaps you simply want to protect the...

Lotus ships Notes 4.0 to beta testers. (groupware) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Trying to stay a step ahead of Microsoft Corp. in the workgroup arena, Lotus Development Corp. last week upped the workgroup ante by shipping a beta version of Notes, Release 4.0, to about 200 developers. The new version, slated to ship by...

Intel working on P6 compiler. (company developing back-end compiler for processor) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Intel Corp. is already working on compiler technology for the P6 processor, and is working on further improvements to Pentium optimization. As part of its P6 processor strategy, Intel has begun "back-end" compiler work for its...

Sybase acquisition lays warehousing foundation. (Expressway Technologies Inc and Expressway 103 obtained) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Sybase Inc. has quietly acquired a small technology company that will figure big in Sybase's next-generation System 11 database server. On Oct. 1, Emeryville, Calif.-based Sybase acquired Expressway Technologies Inc., of Waltham, Mass., a...

Digital plans interoperable OS. (DEC to use IBM's WorkPlace microkernel to crete interoperable operating system) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... IBM is not the only vendor pushing the IBM WorkPlace microkernel. Digital Equipment Corp. announced last week that it will use the IBM microkernel to build a "distributed real-time operating system" that will run on Intel, PowerPC, and Digital...

OS/2 SmartSuite users receive Value Pack upgrade. (SmartSuite 1.1 for OS/2) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Lotus Development Corp. next month will release a free Value Pack upgrade for the OS/2 version of SmartSuite 1.1. The Value Pack is designed to add user interface features available for the Windows offering to the OS/2 version. The Value Pack,...

Ten troublesome trends in computing that are sure to spook you. (Peer to Peer) (Column)
October 31, 1994... Bob Lewis researches new technology products for a major Midwestern newspaper and is the author of Telecommunications for Every Business (Bonus Books, 1992). Write to him at 71213.150@compuserve.com. It's Halloween, so Christmas can't be far...

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you aren't being bugged. (Notes from the Field) (rumor)
October 31, 1994... Ted Nelson, the Buckaroo Banzai inventor of hypertext, once told me, "The paranoids are always the first to suspect." As in most things, Ted is right, and we should listen to those paranoids from time to time, viewing them as the prophets they...

AT&T, Red Brick tap into data warehouse boom. (AT&T Global Information Solutions' Enterprise Information Factory; Red Brick Systems' Red Brick Warehouse VPT) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Client/server users are beginning to remember what was good in the bad old mainframe days about keeping all their data in one place. These users are feeding a boom in the market for data warehousing software, which makes huge amounts of data...

More, reverse, max: How three more buttons can max reverse buttonization. (Peer to Peer) (Column)
October 31, 1994... Nestled between the alphabetic keys and the numeric keypad on the far right is a cluster of navigation keys. Notice a couple of things about them: 1. They often come in opposable pairs (DownArrow, UpArrow; RightArrow, Left Arrow; PgUp, PgDn;...

3Com sets 'PACE' with multimedia over Ethernet. (Priority Access Control Enabled technology licensing) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... 3Com Corp. last week officially unveiled a technology designed to enable the huge installed base of Ethernet networks to efficiently and simultaneously support voice, data, and video. The technology, called Priority Access Control Enabled...

Where, oh where are Telescript's intelligent agents? (General Magic programming system) (Distributed Thinking) (Column) (Software Review) (Evaluation)
October 31, 1994... I've been using the Sony Magic Link for more than a month now. I still feel very positive about it. But one component of the machine still doesn't meet its set expectations. The problem is Telescript, which is described as the first system...

Warp will arrive on time with bug fixed, IBM tells resellers. (OS/2 Warp) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Despite a last-minute bug that temporarily suspended production, IBM officials promised that a fixed version of OS/2 Warp will be in stores this week. The bug, discovered after IBM had begun manufacturing Warp, was caused by problems with a...

For the record. (Correction Notice)
October 31, 1994... The Oct. 24 story "Cognos ready to ship Axiant" (page 14) said an upgrade price from Axiant 1.0 to 1.1 was unavailable. Cognos Inc. will provide Axiant 1.0 users with an upgrade to 1.1 for no charge, the company said. An Oct. 24 Pipeline...

Bay Networks ships remote routing hub, network manager. (SynOptics Communications and Wellfleet Communications merged entity releases Access Node hub/router and Optivity/RM package) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Bay Networks Inc., the company created through the merger of hub powerhouse SynOptics Communications Inc. and router power Wellfleet Communications Inc., last week announced its first products. The new products include a remote office routing...

Cisco to secure switching hubs with Kalpana acquisition. (Cisco Systems) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Seeking to extend the life of existing Ethernet and Token Ring LANs, Cisco Systems Inc. last week announced plans to acquire switching hub vendor Kalpana Inc. for more than $200 million. Kalpana will bring to Cisco sorely needed departmental...

Pipeline. (Software)
October 31, 1994... SHIPPING Wellfleet ships Site Manager on CD-ROM Wellfleet Communications Inc. is shipping on a single CD-ROM its Site Manager application, an SNMP-based pack that helps users configure, monitor, and control the company's routers and...

Coding a masterpiece. (developing GUIs) (includes related article on design rules)
October 31, 1994... Although GUI tools abound, there are no hard-and-fast rules for creating an interface By Jeffrey Gordon Angus Programmers are often thought of as scientists trained in the machinations of computers. They go to school for years to learn a...

How Microsoft, Novell detente spells relief for IS. (NetWare 4.x and Windows NT 3.5)
October 31, 1994... How Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. coexist and compete in coming years remains to be seen, but recent events suggest that tensions between the distributed computing titans may be easing. The result could be that businesses will be able to...

Manager's bulletin board. (includes calendar for November and December)
October 31, 1994... Deflating superhighway hype. Last year, broadcasting execs were often quoted on the convergence of broadcasting, computing, and telephony. The image was that of Mr. and Mrs. Jones at the telly, using Windows to navigate through information and...

Learning curve makes dBase 5.0 a dud; Borland says it simply ain't so. (Borland International's dBASE 5.0 for Windows DBMS)
October 31, 1994... Borland International Inc. promised that its dBase 5.0 for Windows would include a wealth of new features and object-oriented-language extensions far ahead of other desktop databases on the market -- and it delivered, according to users. But...

Software AG collects warehouse-building tools; package counts on third parties. (Open Data Warehouse Initiative program of packages and services)
October 31, 1994... Software AG will this week announce a program designed to make it easier for IS shops to construct data warehouses. Data warehouses combine data from many sources -- usually production database systems -- deployed throughout a company into...

Microsoft starts Windows 95 drumroll with Beta 2. (M7 operating system trial release)
October 31, 1994... Microsoft Corp. took its Windows 95 show on the road last week, previewing the latest beta release to press and analysts in an effort to remind the Windows community what all the fuss is about. The Beta 2, or M7, release is due this week to...

HP quits consumer software; departs arena following sale of Dashboard to Borland. (Borland International's acquisition of Dashboard for Windows) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... Borland International Inc.'s acquisition of the Dashboard for Windows utility from Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Home Products division marks the end of HP's dalliance in the consumer software arena. Dashboard will become the second product in the...

FotoSets fills in background (Art Textures and Background, Volume 1 clip art) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... A new collection of photographic textures and backgrounds in Kodak Photo CD format from FotoSets enables designers and illustrators to incorporate any of the CD's 100 images into their graphics and illustrations. "The FotoSets collection was...

New tools help sharpen data slicing and dicing. (Brio Technology's BrioQuery; IntelligenceWare's The Information Discovery System 2.5) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Aiming at the user who has accumulated piles of data and doesn't know what to do with it all, two vendors are launching new tools this week designed to help spot and analyze data trends. BrioQuery, from Brio Technology Inc., and The...

Unify sees partitioning vision; Vision 2.0 due out next spring. (Unify Vision 2.0 applications tool) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... A legacy fourth-generation-language (4GL) vendor plans to be the first of its kind to combine the benefit of automated application partitioning, while exempting users from the need to learn a new 4GL. Unify Vision 2.0 from Unify Corp., due...

LBMS builds CORE for multivendor tool storage. (Learmonth & Burchette Management Systems Inc's Common Object Repository Environment implemented in Systems Engineer 5.2) (Brief Article)
October 31, 1994... LBMS Inc. is opening up its repository technology with the eventual aim of letting users browse application components created in multiple tools. The repository, dubbed the Common Object Repository Environment (CORE), stores objects from...

Borland fills 16-bit vacuum: C++ runs Windows gamut. (Borland International's Borland C++ 4.5 applications tool) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Borland International Inc. is planning to get a lock on the loyalty of 16-bit application developers with its Borland C++ 4.5, exploiting criticisms of Microsoft Corp.'s 32-bit only strategy for Visual C++ 2.0. The Borland release, due to...

Goodyear navigates the remote obstacle course. (Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co uses Security Dynamics Inc's SecurID authentication system) (includes related article on checking remote-user IDs)
October 31, 1994... With SecurID, traveling users log on easily without compromising data security Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s products have put cars on the road for decades. But until six years ago, the Akron, Ohio-based company had a big problem when its...

New AutoCAD version on way. (Autodesk's Release 13 of CAD software) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Introducing new features and a reorganized layout of AutoCAD commands and settings, Autodesk Inc. plans to ship the latest version of its CAD program, AutoCAD, Release 13, by the end of next month. Release 13 will introduce rewritten database...

WinHelp helped by Virtual Media apps; Hypershelf and HDK manage hypertext. (Virtual Media Technology's Hypertext Development Kit 2.5 and library system) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Windows users burdened by the distribution of technical manuals or other large documents now have another option for distributing them on-line. Virtual Media Technology has developed a library system, called Hypershelf, for managing on-line,...

InContext prints in SGML. (XSoft's InContext 2.0 for Windows Standard Generalized Markup Language editor) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Xerox Corp.'s XSoft division wants to popularize the use of SGML with an upgrade of its SGML editor, InContext 2.0 for Windows, that finally lets users print out marked-up documents. The program, which will ship this week, is a Standard...

If you think your network security is bad, it's probably worse. (Network Curmudgeon) (Column)
October 31, 1994... Are you paranoid about your network security? Paranoid enough to spend some money to discover how easy it is for someone to break in? Or do you tend to close the barn door after the horse thieves have passed through your part of cyberspace?...

Vendors broaden C/S project management. (Micro-Frame Technologies' ProjectServer extension to Microsoft Project 4.0; Primavera Systems' SureTrak system) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Two new options for client/server-style project management on the Windows platform hit the market last week. Micro-Frame Technologies Inc., of Ontario, Calif., shipped last week its ProjectServer, an extension for Microsoft Corp.'s Project...

Symantec, Vertisoft ship system utilities. (Symantec and Central Point Software's More PC Tools for DOS and Windows; Vertisoft's RemoveIt) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... The latest round of Windows 3.x system utilities ships this week from Symantec Corp. and Vertisoft Systems. Symantec's Central Point division, in Beaverton, Ore., is delivering this week its More PC Tools for DOS and Windows, a suite of...

Parallel ports may provide easier access to Windows 95 networks. (Window Manager) (Column)
October 31, 1994... I revealed last week that Microsoft Corp. has signed an agreement with a small technology company to provide software in Windows 95 that will make parallel ports run almost as fast as conventional Ethernet networking ports. (See "Fast...

Pipeline. (Hardware)
October 31, 1994... PRICE CUTS Kalidor drops prices on pen computer Kalidor Inc. has reduced the price of its K2000E ruggedized pen computer. The computer, formerly sold by Hansen Information Technologies as the Palmtop 386, uses infrared to communicate with...

Gateway adopts 100-MHz Pentium; high-end PC configured for multimedia users. (Gateway 2000's P5-100XL) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Gateway 2000 Inc.'s latest system continues the company's push into the multimedia market, with high-end monitors and a quadruple-speed CD-ROM drive. The P5-100XL system is Gateway's first 100-MHz Pentium system. The 100-MHz Pentium...

E-mail-to-pager services lower blood pressure, jack up bills. (LAN Talk) (Column)
October 31, 1994... Supporting users seems to have expanded quite a bit beyond PCs, laptops and LANs. We are now expected to acquire, integrate, and support digital pagers, cellular phones, and E-mail on the laptop as standard equipment. Translated, this means...

SunDisk shrinks size of its flash memory cards. (CompactFlash memory modules) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... SunDisk Corp. last week introduced a flash memory system that could lead to smaller notebooks and make all kinds of mobile devices more powerful. The matchbox-size CompactFlash (CF) takes up about one-fourth the total volume of a PCMCIA Type...

Alaris' Cian line promises users choice of chips, bus. (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Alaris Inc. has announced its Cian family of PCs that support a "who's who" list of chips from a variety of manufacturers. The Cian motherboard can use Intel Corp.'s 486-class SX, SX2, DX, DX2, and DX4 processors, as well as the P24T Pentium...

Compaq shifting its focus toward future technologies; communications, connectivity key for desktops. (Robert W. Stearns, VP of corporate development) (Interview)
October 31, 1994... Within two years, Compaq Computer Corp. has virtually recreated itself. Recently a PC vendor struggling to keep up with third-tier vendors, Compaq is now an industry powerhouse expected to become the leading vendor this year by virtue of its...

Polaroid ships PC, Mac digital-to-film recorder; Color HR 6000 priced at $5,995. (HR 6000 Digital Palette) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... A color film recorder developed by Polaroid Corp. is designed to transfer digital images to film while supporting a resolution of 4,000 lines per slide with as many as 16.7 million colors. The HR 6000 Digital Palette is compatible with PCs...

Conner RAID subsystem set to ship in December; can support up to 25 gigabytes. (Conner Storage Systems' CR12-RAID) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... Continuing its push into the network storage market, Conner Storage Systems, a division of Conner Peripherals Inc., will release a new 25-gigabyte redundant array of inexpensive drives (RAID) subsystem in early December. The CR12-RAID system...

All the screen's a stage. (overview of three evaluations of Windows-based authoring tools) (individual evaluations searchable under "All the Screen's a Stage") (Software Review) (includes product summary and executive summary, and related article on testing methodology) (Evaluation)
October 31, 1994... When you interact with a kiosk presentation at a museum or shopping mall, view a promotional disk, take a computer-based training (CBT) program, or play some of the high-end CD-ROM games, you may be looking at the results of authoring software....

AMI goes multiprocessing with Pentium board. (American Megatrends Titan II motherboard) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), a major motherboard and BIOS supplier, has announced a dual Pentium processor motherboard. The company also announced it is shipping other motherboards based on Pentium processors. The Titan II supports two...

Praxis server delivers direct links to networks. (Maxoptix Corp's NWorks' online storage server) (Brief Article) (Product Announcement)
October 31, 1994... The NWorks division of Maxoptix Corp. has added a mainline storage server designed to connect directly into Ethernet-based networks. The new Praxis provides 60 gigabytes of on-line storage that connects to the network as a node, instead of a...