DG Review articles from March 1992

DG Review archives from March 1992

Cognos makes a power play. (Cognos Inc. forms Desktop Software Division)
March 1, 1992... Cognos, Inc. has formed a new Desktop Software Division that heralds an increased emphasis on desktop marketing, and has announced new or strengthened relationships with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) Software, Lotus Development Corp.,...

Downsizing for performance, part 3. (moving from mainframes to microcomputers)
March 1, 1992... Amazing Grace. I was sorry to hear recently that Grace Hopper had passed away. For those of you who are under 30 years of age, Hopper was best known as the person who invented modern programming languages, specifically one that eventually...

Smooth operator. (The DG/UX 5.4 operating system)(DG/UX File)
March 1, 1992... One of the most common criticisms of UNIX is that it doesn't provide some of the fancy file system features that are built into many proprietary operating systems. While this has generally been true in the past, things have changed...

Family matters: DG's Joel Schwartz talks about subjects near to the hearts of MV/Family users. (Data General's vice president and general manager of the Eclipse Business Unit) (Interview)
March 1, 1992... Editor's note: The following interview with Joel Schwartz, Data General vice president and general manager of the Eclipse Business Unit, was conducted at the 1991 NADGUG conference. Schwartz discusses the major development in the MV/Family...

Standards & open systems. (standards and standards organizations)
March 1, 1992... Multivendor systems running on diverse networks are a reality in most computing environments today. Getting these systems to interoperate is a difficult, yet critical requirement if businesses are to achieve their objectives. Open systems...

Some assembly required: even with industry-standard components, it takes some work to put together a heterogeneous environment.
March 1, 1992... Industry standards and open systems have opened up a new realm of computing. Standards, such as the UNIX operating system and communications protocols, have paved the way for multivendor computing environments. These standards increase...

Frameworks for open systems. (distributed computing proposals from Unix International and the Open Software Foundation)
March 1, 1992... As the open systems movement has matured, standards have become available for almost every aspect of the computing environment-hardware, operating system, communications protocols, databases and so on. However, the advent of distributed...

Just what the doctor ordered. (Knowledge Spectrum uses Digital Dynamics' D:drive to develop a fast facsimile system)
March 1, 1992... Hospitals are always looking for ways to reduce costs, and one of the primary ways of doing this is to reduce the time a patient stays in the hospital while maintaining a high level of quality care. In order to do this, more and more...

Reduced RAID. (Data General Corp.'s AViiON 7904 High Availability Disk Array 2.5Gbyte Disk Array; redundant arrays of inexpensive disks; New Products) (Product Announcement)
March 1, 1992... * REDUCED RAID System: AViiON Price: See below Data General Corp. 3400 Computer Dr. Westboro, MA 01580 (800) DATAGEN Data General has introduced a new 2.5Gbyte model of its High Availability Disk Array (HADA) subsystem for AViiON servers....

Duck Soup. (advantages and disadvantages of the C language) (Column)
March 1, 1992... Dear Readers: This month we'll chat a little bit about the C language and its advantages and disadvantages, and try to dispel any rumors about its origins. Q. Where did the C language come from and what do you think of it? We are...