DG Review articles from December 1991

DG Review archives from December 1991

An AViiON alliance. (Data General, Hall-Mark Electronics Corp. sign distribution contract)(Foreground)
December 1, 1991... Data General has signed an agreement with Hall-Mark Electronics Corp. based in Dallas, Texas to distribute the AViiON family of servers and workstations. The agreement is expected to generate $15 million in sales during fiscal year 1992. ...

Buy West Virginia. (West Virginia to deliver electronic information exchange directly to its business community)(Foreground)
December 1, 1991... West Virginia will become the first state to "rollout" a program designed to deliver the potency of electronic information exchange directly to its business community. Data General donated the AViiON system to run the project. Located at...

The virtues of NetWare. (DG/UX File) (Column)
December 1, 1991... Last month, I discussed Portable NetWare and the types of services it provides. Because of the cost and performance differences between Native NetWare and Portable NetWare, it usually makes more sense to think of Portable NetWare as a...

A communicative union; enhance customer direct marketing operations with network application processors. (Interfaces)
December 1, 1991... In times of a tight economic market, many companies are seeking new ways in which to improve their marketing and customer service efforts as one way to maintain and improve marketshare. This can't be accomplished without achieving the...

Practical applications; learn the ins and outs of DG/SQL from the man who helped develop the utilities to operate it. (Dave Cohen)(Tutorial) (Tutorial)
December 1, 1991... Data General's relational database offering, DG/ SQL, sports a blend of powerful interfaces. The embedded SQL precompilers, a stalwart of large applications development, provide the most familiar database access. However, DG/SQL also includes...

Back to DG. (Data General Corp.'s service and support )
December 1, 1991... MIS managers have witnessed dramatic changes during the past decade. With multivendor platforms and distributed processing now the norm, the computing environment has become significantly more complex and has placed new, broader demands on...

An ounce of prevention; taking some preventive measures can thwart the damaging effects of a disaster. (Feature)
December 1, 1991... Disaster recovery, contingency planning, crisis management. Whatever you prefer to call it, planning the scenarios for an effective recovery from major disruptions to your data processing functions is an art requiring skills and knowledge...

The LAN ranger; diagnosing common LAN hardware problems. (local area network) (Cover Story)
December 1, 1991... When I was first asked to write this article, the subject was supposed to be how to trouble-shoot MV LANs. But after thinking about it, I realized that I now spend the vast majority of my time diagnosing PC LAN and not MV LAN problems....

Crosstown consulting; remote trouble-shooting is now available to MV users in Screen Demon 3.0. (Threshold Corp.'s software for Data General Corp.'s MV minicomputer)
December 1, 1991... We've all been through it. One of your users across the building or across town is having a problem with a program, and you're trying to help them get back on track. You ask them what the program just said. They read it back to you (usually...

Duck soup. (copyright law and ownership) (Column)
December 1, 1991... Dear Readers: It's time to clean out the closet again and answer a few questions from "inquiring minds." This month, Duck Soup addresses the legal. issues of software copyright. Q. I am the head of a software company and would like...