DG Review articles from October 1988

DG Review archives from October 1988

Interview: Ron A. Fitch. (interview)
October 1, 1988... INTERVIEW: Ron A. Fitch Describing himself as an autodidact, Ron Fitch says that at 19, already a licensed radio amateur, he accidentally stumbled across computer programming and was hooked. Next thing he knew he had enrolled in a FORTRAN...

What's wrong with the RISC architecture? (reduced instruction set computer)
October 1, 1988... What's Wrong with the RISC Architecture? If you've been following the RISC saga, you know why DG is going RISC (DG Review, August, 1988) and what makes the chip so fast (DG Review, September, 1988). Now it's time for a discriminating look...

Interpreters & interfaces.
October 1, 1988... INTERPRETERS & INTERFACES To reply or not to reply, that is the question. It's come to my attention that a certain individual has been downgrading the merits of interpreters in relation to compilers. To protect identifies, I'll just...

Whatever happened to DNIDUMP? (RDOS backup utility)
October 1, 1988... WHATEVER HAPPENED TO DNIDUMP? Dear Ira, I'm very touched by the complimentary remarks you made about DNIDUMP in the June issue of DG Review. DNIDUMP is alive and well. It's been updated several times in the last year and our users still...

Let's play a serious game. (designing macros for WordPerfect)
October 1, 1988... LET'S PLAY A SERIOUS GAME If you've followed my writing for any length of time, you know I'm addicted to WordPerfect. Although I've used WordPerfect's word processing software for over eight years, there is still much to be learned about...

The NADGUG review. (North American Data General Users Group)
October 1, 1988... THE NADGUG When annual conferences reach 15 years old, as the NADGUG (North American Data General Users Group) Conference did this year, it suggests a certain degree of maturity, commitment and growth in the marketplace. It is such an...

A healthy dose of service: DG introduces new service programs to end-users, VARs.
October 1, 1988... A HEALTHY DOSE OF SERVICE Even when they're from Data General, new service offerings don't usually get your blood rushing in anticipation. For the most part, service is just not tangible enough to warrant the excitement generated by...

DG's new lineup: VDTs sport low price tags, high performance. (Data General) (product announcement)
October 1, 1988... DG's NEW LINEUP Data General had much to show at the NADGUG Conference. Considerable traffic took in the demos for DG's new family of low-cost, high-performance video display terminals. The upwardly compatible terminals are priced as much...

DG's D462 terminal saying hello and goodbye. (product review) (Data General) (product announcement)
October 1, 1988... DG's D462 Terminal Saying Hello And Goodbye Saying goodbye to an old friend is usually a painful experience, but this time the old friend was a battered D200 dinosaur that had seen better days, so pain was kept to minimum. I replaced my...

Introducing the DG Dasher-386. (microcomputer product review) (Data General) (product announcement)
October 1, 1988... Introducing the DG DASHER/386 Data General has expanded its line of PC offerings at the high-end with the introduction of the Dasher/386, a high-performance, multi-purpose, IBM PC-AT compatible system. The Dasher/386 debuted at the NADGUG...

DG adds low-end MV-2500 DC. (minicomputer product review) (Data General) (product announcement)
October 1, 1988... DG adds low-end MV/2500 DC Say hello to the Eclipse MV/2500 DC, an integrated minicomputer system just released by Data General. The new system is designed to strengthen the low-end 32-bit product line, now home to the Eclipse MV/1400 DC,...

DG ships DG-UX Revision 4.0. (product announcement)
October 1, 1988... DG ship DG/UX Revision 4.0 NADGUG was the coming out party for Data General's DG/UX Revision 4.0 of its native UNIX operating system. Revision 4.0 provides a complete implementation of the UNIX operating system based on System V...

Zetaco adds new products. (product announcement)
October 1, 1988... Zetaco adds new products Zetaco Inc. made a splash at the NADGUG Conference by introducing several new faces--two fully-integrated disk subsystems, a removable disk subsystem and several models in the Max series of disk subsystems. The...

Interview: Jeffrey Joy; DG product manager for terminals. (Data General) (interview)
October 1, 1988... Interview Jeffrey Joy DG Product Manager for Terminals Data General doesn't put out a new line of video display terminals every day, so you'd expect the line to be somewhat revolutionary. It was with little surprise then, to hear Jeffrey...