DG Review articles from August 1990

DG Review archives from August 1990

Big time or bust. (Data General's Unix strategy) (column)
August 1, 1990... Big Time Or Bust Back in the late 70s, I used to hear so-called experts go on and on about how the computer revolution was going to bring on the wonderful world of the "paperless office." Right. I look around my office and find I am...

Tale of two systems. (Comparison of AOS/VS and Unix operating systems)
August 1, 1990... Tale Of Two Systems Before my company started porting some of our AOS/VS software to Unix late last year, none of our programmers had much experience with Unix. I was concerned that learning the new enviroment would be a time-consuming...

Punch the clock. (Macros that function as an automated timeclock)
August 1, 1990... Punch The Clock For the user. Tracking a worker's time schedule can be tedious and prone to error and procrastination. Maintaining a time chart manually seems time-consuming and inefficient to most computer users. But programs which...

Why AI? (artificial intelligence; part one of two)
August 1, 1990... Why AI? Artificial intelligence is for real. I know--I heard two computers talking to each other, and one was saying, "Now you tell me you have the virus." We tend to think of AI in terms of computers that talk naturally, understand...

Bench press. (includes related article on standard benchmarks; part one of two)
August 1, 1990... Bench Press Data General has a long-standing reputation as a price/performance leader in the computer industry. Measuring and understanding the performance of its products is key to maintaining that leadership. In this article, we'll...

AOS/VS power generation.
August 1, 1990... AOS/VS Power Generation AN OPERATING system generated to fit your environment is essential to achieve the utmost performance from AOS/VS and AOS/VS II systems. A fine-tuned operating system helps ensure that your system uses all the available...

Fitness center. (George Hawkins of Data General's Systems Evaluation and Performance Analysis Center) (evaluation)
August 1, 1990... FITNESS CENTER WHEN YOU'RE worried about your waist-line, you simply head for the nearest gym. But if the CPU's out of shape, you can't very well take your MV to aerobics class. So what's an MV user to do? You might start with a call to...

Disk count.
August 1, 1990... DISK COUNT DURING ONE OF his sessions at the DG Review Expo in New York, Phil Horvitz suggested that 95 percent of AOS/VS systems have disk performance problems. While I'm sure he exaggerated to make a point, he probably wasn't far off the...

Eagle eye. (File_Monitor from Eagle Software)
August 1, 1990... EAGLE EYE DATA GENERAL USERS can now identify their most heavily used system and application files and directories with the help of Eagle Software's File_Monitor, a utility which reports the number of accesses made to files or directories....

Up to speed. (Standards)
August 1, 1990... Up To Speed One technology, one standard. Sounds simple enough, but there are many impediments in the path to a utopia of standardization. For instance, decision-makers in the industry must ensure that networking standards keep pace with...

DG PC products proliferate. (New Products;)
August 1, 1990... DG PC PRODUCTS PROLIFERATE Price: Dasher/386-25k, $4,995; Dasher/286-12j, $2,375 Model 6628 color monitor, $645; Model 6664 disk, $1,695 Data General Corp. 3400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 (800) DATAGEN Data General has introduced two...