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SEPTEMBER 1997, VOL. 13, NO.8
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p73 Edwina Enderby
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Apple in retreat?
I was just writing to inquire about some-
thing that hapenned the other day. 1
walked into a Harvey Norman store in
Sydney, into the computer section look-
ing for the small Mac software area
amongst the massive area for PC and con-
sole systems. When I could not find it, I
inquired about where the Mac software
was, to be told that Apple had withdrawn
from the retail market altogether.
Do you know what the hell is going
on? It was bad enough owning superior
system with much less software, but, it
was better than none atall. Rhapsody had
better be good — it looks like the only
thing that can break Apple's fall.
Owen Ticli
via Internet
Apple Australia has decided to reduce its pres-
ence in the retail mass market and concentrate
on specialised outlets such as Apple Centres.
This leaves the mass market open for compa-
nies like Mitsui (with Power Computing clones)
or the other clone distributors to move into the
lower end of the market.
It has always been difficult for Apple to
compete in that sector of the market, where
sales staff tend to be knowledgeable only about
Intel-based PCs and Windows software. While
it’s easy to sell someone on the advantages of
one computer over another because it has a
faster processor or a bigger hard drive, it’s far
more difficult to express the advantages of one
OS over another, so many sales people simply
didn’t bother. Apple was throwing money and
resources into a market that was not willing to
supportit. | am, of course, not referring to any
retailers in particular.
Lately it has been even more difficult for
Apple to compete for the consumer market,
since the profit margins are much smaller than
on high-end equipment that gets sold to pub-
lishers and businesses. In the medium term,
Apple needs to concentrate on increasing its
profitability, and the mass market is not the
place to do that.
The downside of this is a lack of visibility
for Apple hardware on Myers, Brashs and Har-
vey Norman shelves. However, if you consider
that most of that visibilty consisted of Macs sit-
ting disused with a screen saver running in the
corner gathering dust while the sales staff
demonstrated applications and games on Win-
dows, | think it's visibility that the Mac can live
without
Apple in the US is planning a very large
marketing campaign for the release of Mac OS
8, and while Apple Australia has not announced
any plans, it would be a good opportunity to
raise awareness of Apple innovation and remind
people that the Mac is far from dead.
—MICP.
Correction
I noticed an error on page 19 of the July
Australian Macworld.
It says“. . .users who are running OT
1.1.2 must install OS 7.6.1 immediately
after they install OT 1.1.2”
OS 7.6.1 uses OT 1.1.1 and would
require OT 1.1.2 to be reinstalled after
installing OS 7.6.1, not vice versa.
David Bakkers,
Apple Customer Response Centre, Sydney
Oops. — MJC.P.
Pavlovian response
I begin to salivate before your mag is due
out! Keep up the good work. I'd like to
point out one minor thingy regarding
your May HTML article (page 20). You
state that the World Wide Web Consor-
tium uses the abbreviation “W3C”. This
is, technically, incorrect — I would imag-
ine that they use a superscripted 3 as this
is a standard in the technical world? If
this is not the case, then I’m sure you'll
enlighten me with a suitably curt and
biting reply.
David Trainer
via e-mail
I think the best response to this minor thingy is
to show you the W3C logo, as downloaded from
the W3C Web site at http://www.w3c.org/
W53C Yoga DieVi®,
For “curt and biting", | recommend that
you read magazines about Nirvana and Mike
Tyson. — MJC.P.
DOS things
I run a DOS-based system at work, not
by choice: it’s the only alternative in my
industry. Once per week I have to format
and initialise a floppy disk to send claim
data to a government department — they
still haven't heard of modems. I have been
doing this for the past five years.
Last week the DOS system decided
not to format the disk in drive A; it
thought it was time for a change and for-
matted drive C (the hard disk)!
Every last scrap of data gone. I bet a
Mac can’t do that!
Is it that DOS has an in-built empa-
thy for the concept of voluntary euthana-
sia? Have we upset the planetary alignment
by landing on Mars? I put these questions
to the technician who rebuilt the system.
His reply: “It’s just one of those DOS
things.”
I know what I would like to do to
those DOS things — give me my Mac any
day.
Jobn Dolton,
rina Heights, NSW
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APPLE SENDS THE
he board of directors of
Apple Computer forced
Chairman and Chief Exec-
utive Officer Dr Gilbert
Amelio to hand in his res-
ignation on the 9th of July, after
he had served for seventeen
months. The announcement
came just weeks before Apple
announced a smaller than
expected quarterly loss ($US56
million) and less than a month
before Mac OS 8 was delivered
to customers.
Officially, the board felt that
Amelio was not sufficiently
“customer focused” to lead the
company, and was not able to
meet the shareholders’ expecta-
tions of profitability and
growth. It said that his “profile”
did not fit with Apple’s imme-
diate goals. In plain English,
they got impatient with him
failing to meet his own
timetable for profitability and,
as one Apple exec put it, “he
was so focused on the micro-
processor level, he couldn't see
the bigger picture”.
The news of Amelio’s
departure was met with jubila-
tion from some quarters and
ambivalence from others.
Almost no-one — seemed
unhappy to see him go. Amelio
10 SEPTEMBER
DOCTOR AWAY
had been strongly criticised for
his management style both by
sections of the press and, pri-
vately, by some within Apple.
In the months prior to his
departure, he had reportedly
become remote and removed
from the day-to-day operation
of Apple. By contrast, when he
joined the company he was
applauded for his understand-
ing of the technology and his
“hands on” approach to learn-
ing how Apple operated.
Amelio was brought into
the company in February 1996
when the board fired Michael
Spindler after months of spec-
ulation and internal division.
At the time, the company’s
stock price was diving, sales
were plummeting, the Copland
project was wandering aimlessly,
licensing the OS was marginal
on the company’s agenda and
damaging issues such as quality
control were affecting Apple's
image and legendary customer
loyalty.
Seventeen months later, the
company has a coherent oper-
ating system strategy based
around Rhapsody, many of the
features of Copland are about
to become real as Mac OS 8,
the company has strong and
1997
innovative products such as
233MHz_ notebooks and
300MHz consumer-level
machines, quality issues are
tightly controlled and, most
importantly, Mac clones are an
accepted part of the Mac OS
landscape.
Yet, Amelio has been shown
the door.
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As Apple Australia’s General
Manager Steve Rust told AMW,
“There are different imperatives
for an incoming CEO to what
Gil found. Now, we're not
bleeding badly, our hardware
and software strategies are work-
ing and in place, people are set-
tled into their positions and
they’re keen to get on with the
job. What we need to do now
is improve our communica-
tions, improve our marketing.
We have to be a lot more
aggressive.”
Until a new CEO is found,
Chief Financial Officer Fred
Who's the boss? Jobs and Amelio in January
Anderson will be Acting CEO,
and Steve Jobs will have “an
expanded role” in advising the
board. Part of that role will
be selecting the new chief exec-
utive, as part of a committee
that includes Jobs, Anderson,
board vice-chairman “Mike”
Markkula and Edgar S.
Woolard, Chairman of duPont
chemicals and, reportedly, the
man who asked Amelio to go.
HANCOCK
FOLLOWS AMELIO
Ellen Hancock, the VP of
Technology who followed
Amelio to Apple from National
Semiconductor, was asked to
resign the day after Amelio
received his marching orders.
She has said that she did not
feel that she would be able to
function properly under the
new management in Amelio’s
absence, while other sources
indicate that Steve Jobs, whose
own role in the ouster remains
unclear, did not believe that she
was “technical enough” to han-
dle such a responsible role in
the company.
Hancock spent more than
twenty years at IBM before
moving to National Semicon-
ductor, where she and Amelio
were credited with turning
around that company’s flagging
fortunes. When Amelio was
recruited to Apple, Hancock
was expected to replace him as
Nat Semis CEO. The job did
not eventuate, and she followed
Amelio to Apple.
‘At Apple, she was responsi-
ble for improving the company’s
quality control and technology
strategies. She recognised that
the Copland strategy was irre-
trievably adrift and killed it,
then set about searching for a
replacement strategy. The
NeXT acquisition followed,
after which many of her respon-
sibilities were taken over by
incoming NeXT personnel,
notably Avie Tevanian. Her dis-
satisfaction with that outcome
has been widely reported, and
it has often been rumoured that
she was on the verge of leaving.
Jows IN THE ASCENDANT?
Speculation about who will
replace Gil Amelio as chairman
and CEO has been rife, and
made more so by the fact that
the board does not appear to
have anyone waiting in the
wings. The front runner in the
betting is of course Steve Jobs,
who has been acting as an
adviser to the board since Apple
acquired his company, NeXT
Software, in December. Since
Amelio’s sacking, he has taken
much more responsibility in the
company and has, effectively,
been acting as its chairman.
Speculation has centred mainly
on the prospect of Jobs as chair-
man of the board with a more
business-like person handling
the day-to-day role of CEO.
Apple's stock price has been
buoyant and Mac fans and ana-
lysts alike have rejoiced at the
prospect of having a genuine
certified Silicon Valley legend
at the helm. The downside is
that Jobs is infamous for his
overbearing style and “whim of
steel”, which may male life very
difficult for an incoming CEO
and may hamper Apple’s efforts
to find the best person to work
alongside him.
Jobs himself has said he
does not want to be CEO
because it would take him away
from Pixar, the computer ani-
mation company he acquired
from Lucasfilm in 1986 for
$US10 million. His stake in
Pixar is now reported to be
worth $US500 million after the
box office success of “Toy Story”
and a ten-year, six-movie deal
signed with Disney which will
produce a sequel to “Toy Story”
next year.
In a letter to Pixar employ-
ees, he said that Apple had
offered him both the CEO job
and the chairmanship and he
had declined, although he had
agreed to step up his involve-
ment with the company he
founded. However, some have
speculated that with the Dis-
ney deal in place, Pixar could
effectively run itself for the next
five years, and Jobs would be
free to provide vision and long-
term strategy to Apple while
someone else handled the
details.
A final announcement is
expected at the Macworld Expo
in Boston, where Jobs will be
delivering the keynote address.
Gil Amelio was to have per-
formed that function.
€ OS, the operating system Apple left at
the altar when it acquired NeXT last year,
will be available for Intel hardware in
January. A demonstration of Be OS running
‘ona multi-processor Pentium-based
machine is expected at the Macworld Expo in
Boston.
Since the Be OS was built from the ground
up as a multitasking, multiprocessing OS for
PowerPC hardware, it was seen as a logical
choice for Apple to acquire after the Copland
project was cancelled, The acquisition of NeXT
Software and its OpenStep operating system
took many by surprise.
When asked by the press to justify the choice
of Openstep over Be OS, Apple officials have
pointed to the availability of Openstep on Intel,
and therefore the potential for the next-
generation Mac OS to cross hardware barriers, as
a key advantage.
Be Incis obviously out to reduce that
advantage. Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée has said
that the company needs to avoid limiting its
growth potential to that of the PowerPC
platform, and cites Apple's ongoing disputes
over licensing arrangements as casting doubt on
that potential. He has said that Intel approached
him, rather than the other way around, but he
sees it as an ideal partnership.
Even though Be only started selling the final
version of its OS a few weeks ago, it has been
aggressively seeding beta copies to developers
and has garnered a good deal of support. In
addition, several Mac OS licensees, including
Power Computing and Motorola, have licensed
the Be OS.
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AUSTRALIAN MACWORLD
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Only Apple has built
a computer
that runs both Mac OS
and Windows.
(Well, one of us had to be big enough to do it.)
Introducing the Power Macintosh 7300/180 PC Compatible.
Now, with the touch of a button, you can go from using the Mac® OS to using Windows® 95 or Windows 3.1 or even
DOS. (But don’t worry, you can always switch back.) Because inside the Power Mac 7300, there’s an actual PC
Complete with a 166 MHz Pentium microprocessor. So you can run Windows and Mac applications at the same
time. And you can do it right out of the box, without any installation or an engineering degree. Which, if you happen
to work with people who use PCs, can come in handy. Because there may be times when you'll want to log on
to a PC network to check and send e-mail, to access printers or get on the Internet. And with built-in Ethernet,
you can. If you ever want to run a multimedia presentation on a PC, this PowerMac even has Sound Blaster 16 and
ATI Video. In other words, it’s just like you went out and bought both a PC and a Mac. Because, well, you did.
Us
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MOTOROLA'S STARMAX 6000 LINE FEATURES HIGH-SPEED CACHING
he first of a new generation
of Mac systems based on the
Common Hardware Refer-
ence Platform (CHRP) are
about to arrive.
Motorola Computer Group
has announced the first CHRP
Macs: its new high-end line,
called the StarMax Pro 6000,
will be demonstrated for the
first time at Macworld Expo in
Boston.
In tests by Macworld Lab,
the StarMax Pro 6000 machines
pull far ahead of older
machines, because they take
advantage of CHRP’s 66MHz
bus speed (most Macs today use
40MHz to 50MHz buses).
They also gain much of their
speed from the PowerPC 750’s
(code-named both Arthur and
G3) new caching scheme, called
backside cache. Both backside
cache and faster system buses
help alleviate many of the per-
formance bottlenecks of older
systems, raising the overall per-
formance bar for this new gen-
eration of Macs.
PPC750’s SPEED SHOT
In most Macs today, the CPU
and cache communicate through
the system bus — which typically
operates at 40MHz to 5SOMHz.
speeds. But the PowerPC 750’s
backside cache uses a separate,
higher-speed cache connection
reserved for CPU-to-cache (and
cache-to-CPU) communications.
The PowerPC 750’s backside
cache communicates with the
GPU it W21, 2:35:52, 06235,
ratios. So, for example, a
300MHz PowerPC 750 can com-
municate with cache using a
300MHz, 200MHz, 150MHz,
or 120MHz cache bus — several
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times faster than the previous lim-
itation of the 40MHz to 5S0OMHz
bus speed.
Set to ship by the end of
September, the StarMax Pro
6000/233, the 6000/266, and
6000/266 XL provide 512K of
cache, which communicates with
the CPU in a 2:1 ratio, for
117MHz and 133MHz cache
buses, respectively.
The StarMax Pro 6000/ 300,
expected to ship in October, will
come with 1Mb of backside
cache communicating with the
CPU in a 3:2 ratio, for a
200MHz cache bus.
OTHER BENEFITS
In addition to improving raw per-
formance, the CHRP specifica-
tion also helps create a more open
platform, since the Mac licensees
will no longer be using Apple-
designed motherboards — whose
circuitry is often partially undoc-
umented, requiring the clone
makers to turn to Apple for help.
Clone makers should be able to
move at their own pace and not
rely on Apple for assistance.
CHRP also uses industry-
standard components, so the Mac
makers (including Apple) have a
wider choice of suppliers, can buy
components at lower prices, and
are less likely to be faced with a
parts shortage.
And CHRP allows the faster
adoption of emerging technolo-
gies, such as the Universal Serial
Bus and the FireWire high-speed
peripheral bus, as well as of exist-
ing technologies that would give
Mac owners more choices. For
example, the CHRP specification
supports the PC's ISA bus, which
Mac makers could incorporate
into their systems so Mac owners
will be able to use any internal
PC modem with their Macs.
to reflect the change.
dobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is great for
high-quality, precisely formatted documents. But
PDF's huge file sizes can be a high price to pay,
especially when sending the files over the Internet.
JStream (http://www. jstream.com) believes it has the
answer in its JPress Document Format (JPD), a proprietary
compression technology based on the company's text-
handling libraries, which are written in Java.
Built-in viewer JStream’s WiredWrite publishing
application, scheduled to ship this September, translates
documents into the JPD format — which compresses them
significantly — and attaches a small (70K), Java-based viewer.
Java for portable documents
JSTREAM OFFERS
The resulting files retain all formatting, are rapidly searchable, and
can be read on any computer running a Java virtual machine. Also, you
can reformat text as you read it; if you resize the window, a JPD document reflows
AN ALTERNATIVE
TO
PDF
Java limitations JStream has far to go before JPD will be widely accepted, largely because Java's
printing and typography features are embryonic at best. Also, while many current applications can
directly output PDF files, users must filter documents through WiredWrite to produce JPD files. And
PDF, given its roots in PostScript and growing acceptance in the print world, will likely be the
electronic document format of choice for high-quality output. But JPD may offer a viable alternative
when PDF is too much and HTML is not enough.
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Boston.
Through retail channels, Mac
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native Finder with multithreading,
meaning that desktop-level
functions, such as copying files and
emptying the Trash, can take place
simultaneously. Productivity
improvements include “sticky”
menus, “spring-loaded” folders
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Internet. Cosmetic enhancements
include desktop pictures, allowing
you to decorate the Finder with a
single image, rather than tiling as in
Mac OS 7.x, and new colour
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POWER MAC
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uP TO 350MHZ
Apple Computer has announced its
new range of top-end Power
Macintoshes, running on IBM's
latest-generation PowerPC
604e processors. The
Power Macintosh 8600 line
will be accelerated to 250MHz, while the
9600 will offer processor speeds of 300 and 350MHz, both
only in single processor models for the time being. Performance will also be increased by an Apple-
designed 1Mb inline level 2 cache on its own 100MHz bus.
The increase in clock speed is made possible by improvements to IBM's CPU design. The new
604e uses .25-micron circuits in conjunction with advanced metal layers, allowing greater clock
speeds with lower power consumption and less generation of heat.
Both machines will be available with a 24x CD-ROM and Zip drive, and the 8600 will ship with
32Mb of RAM while the 9600 will ship with 64Mb. Both will
ae feature 4Gb hard disk drives. For the first time,
Apple will also sell a "VAR" version of the
9600/300, with no RAM and no hard
disk, so that customers can customise
it to their own tastes.
Apple Australia expects to have
machines to sell by mid-September,
but had not finalised pricing as this
issue went to press. The 8600/250 is
expected to be roughly the same
© price as the currently shipping
8600/200, while the 9600/300 will
likely cost slightly more than the
current 9600/200 and the 9600/350
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BUREAU
PRODUCTS
TO THE
acintosh users in the pub-
lishing business have long
awaited the era of virtual
manufacturing, a brave
new world in which the
service bureau and commercial
printer become a seamless exten-
sion of your desktop. Thanks to
a host of recently announced
software products and telecom-
munications services, that
promise is closer than ever to
reality.
OPENing Move The technology
to enable this vision first
appeared in the OPEN work-
flow-management system from
Luminous (http://www. lumi-
nous.com), which lets service
bureaus create pipelines where
incoming jobs are automatically
inspected, trapped, imposed,
colour-separated, and printed
with or without the involvement
of a prepress operator. OPEN is
both a product and a plug-in
architecture; any OPEN-com-
pliant prepress application can
be added to the automated
pipeline.
A companion product,
Luminous Virtual Network —
formerly Adobe Virtual Net-
work — lets your service bureau
accept transmitted print jobs for
automated processing through
the pipeline. It has two compo-
nents, a host program run at
the service bureau and a client
program that can be freely dis-
tributed to customers. Lumi-
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BRING YOUR
DESKTOP
nous offers a free generic version
of the client on its Web site, but
your service bureau can also gen-
erate customised client modules
for distribution to customers.
Choose your service The cus-
tomised client makes your ser-
vice bureau appear as a
Chooser-level output device.
When you print the job, you fill
out an electronic order form
with instructions for handling
1997
SERVICE
the file. The file is then auto-
matically transmitted to the ser-
vice bureau.
Group Logic (http://www.
grouplogic.com), which devel-
oped the core technology in
Luminous Virtual Network, has
released its own version, called
Mass Transit. The company also
offers a remote document-view-
ing and annotation program
called Imagexpo 2.0.
Tempus in a Teapot (http://
www.dka.com) has developed an
alternative to OPEN, called
Tempus, that can handle native
QuarkXPress and Adobe Page-
Maker files in addition to
PostScript and PDF; OPEN is
limited to the latter formats.
Current Tempus-compliant soft-
ware products include DK&cA’s
InPosition and Trapper and
EFI’s Fiery Booklet Maker.
DK&A is inviting other software
developers to create Tempus-
based products,
High-speed pipelines File-trans-
fer software does you little good
if you don’t have a fast data
pipeline. Fortunately, several
vendors have introduced prod-
ucts and services targeted at the
file-transmission requirements
of graphics professionals,
MCI, British Telecom, and
Scitex have announced the Dig-
ital Graphic Network service,
which will permit high-speed file
transfer among designers, adver-
tising agencies, stock-photo
houses, service bureaus, and
printers.
MCI also sponsored devel-
opment of an Adobe Photoshop
plug-in called Genuine Fractals,
from Alta-mira Group (http://
wwwaltamira-group.com), that
compresses scanned images into
resolution-independent Fractal
Image Files of IMb to 2Mb.
Once transmitted, these files can
be enlarged to between 400Mb
and 500Mb — even if the orig-
inal scan was only 10Mb to
25Mb.
Another company staking a
claim for high-speed file trans-
mission is 4-Sight (http://www.
4sight.com), whose ISDN Man-
ager software uses standard
ISDN connections to transmit
jobs to service bureaus.
Agfa is using ISDN Man-
ager in a new service called
PrintCast that lets you submit
jobs to facilities that have
installed its ChromaPress digi-
tal printing system.
icrosoft has posted Preview Release 1 of the upcoming version 4.0
of Internet Explorer, and even this initial release has plenty of tasty
new features sweetening the user interface and supporting new
Internet technology.
The most obvious change is a new Explorer bar that runs down the
left side of the browser window. On touching of one of four folder-like
tabs (Search, History, Channel, and Favorites), the bar slides to the right,
revealing a window where you can browse your favourite sites or surfing
history, access Internet search engines, or click to content channels to
which you've subscribed. Unlike the Windows release of IE 4, the Mac
version will not come pre-populated with push channels, even though the
same content works on either platform.
IE 4 for Mac will also not be as tightly integrated with the Finder as
the Windows version is with the desktop. This will not be a problem to
anyone who upgrades to Mac OS 8, as the new OS features Integrated
Internet regardless of what browser you use.
Microsoft has also tweaked features previously introduced in Explorer
3.01. For instance the autocomplete feature — in addition to
automatically completing a URL as you type it — now offers a pop-up
menu populated with likely matches for your half-completed URL. The
Subscriptions feature in Explorer 3.01 would notify you if it detected a
change on a Web page that you set it to monitor. Explorer 4.0 will
automatically download and cache a page if it detects changes; you can
also break your Internet connection and browse cached pages offline.
The preview release of Internet Explorer 4 for Mac OS is available
from http://www.micro soft.com/ie/mac
s vendors like Luminous and Group
Logic strive to reduce the barriers
between service bureaus and their
customers, Apple is promoting its own
vision of a digital-media workflow. Apple's
former executive vice president, Ellen
Hancock, recently presented a new model
for media production that accommodates
CD-ROM and Web authoring as well as
traditional print media.
The current model, she said, is driven by
print production: at a certain point in a print
project, a designer adapts existing text and
graphic elements for the Web or CD-ROM.
Under the new model, all elements used in
print and new media are stored as objects in
a central media database, from which
various forms of print and online content
can be generated in parallel. In addition to
permitting the reuse of appropriate media
elements, she said, the model is better
suited to the immediacy of online
‘communications, because production is not
dependent on the print workflow.
What is Apple's stake in this? Chris
Gulker, Apple's business development
manager for publishing, entertainment, and
new media, says that WebObjects, the
sophisticated Web authoring software that
Apple obtained as part of the NeXT
acquisition, is the glue that will enable
databases and other software components
to work within this new-media-production
model. The software currently runs under
Windows NT and Unix, but Apple promises
a Mac OS version by the end of the year.
The current price tag is $US5000; however,
Gulker says the price is likely to drop as
Apple targets the software at a broader
market.
Database
Content
Gulker admits that the new workflow
model is geared toward the largest
publishing operations — companies like
Time Warner and R.R. Donnelley & Sons
that manage huge volumes of
information. And support for the model is
far from unanimous. On hand for
Hancock's presentation at Seybold New
York, Quark chairman Tim Gill argued that
the needs of electronic and print media
are so different that few elements can be
reused in the manner suggested by
Apple's proposal.
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technology, until recently the
province of a few pioneering
multimedia developers, is
stepping into the limelight.
PictureWorks (http://www.picture
works.com), Live Picture (http://
wwwalivepicture.com), and Pani-
mation (http://www. panimation.
com) has introduced inexpensive
software packages that make it
easier to create QTVR panoramas.
Thanks to a new application
programming interface (API) in
QTVR 2.0, developers of graphics
software can add QTVR authoring
capabilities with minimal hassle.
Still, Apple can't rest on its QTVR
laurels because several competing
technologies have emerged.
A QTVR panorama gives you
the illusion of being in the centre of
a virtual environment; scrolling with
the mouse or cursor keys offers a
360-degree view of the scene. To
create the panoramas, you shoot a
series of photographs from the
centre of the environment you
want to replicate; you can also
create panoramas consisting
entirely of computer-generated
images. Either way, you need a
QTVR authoring tool to stitch the
individual images into the full
panorama and save it in QTVR
format. Panoramas can also include
object movies that let you view
objects from different sides.
New sortware Apple offers free soft-
ware that converts panoramic PICT
images created in other programs into
QTVR movies. However, creating the
panoramas themselves is a time-con-
suming task. The new authoring pro-
grams — PictureWorks' $100 Spin
Panorama, Live Pictures $100 Pho-
toVista, and Panimation's $169
Nodester — make it much easier to
stitch the images into QTVR movies
or panoramic stills saved in PICT or
JPEG formats. With their simple inter-
24 SEPTEMBER
AUTHORING
TOOLS
Be Here's Portal $1 can capture a
complete QTVR panorama in one shot
faces and low price tags, they promise
to bring QTVR authoring capabilities
toa much broader market. They are
especially useful in conjunction with
digital cameras.
With each product, you begin
by taking a series of photographs,
rotating the camera clockwise so
that each shot slightly overlaps the
previous one. You then import
these images in sequence to create
the panorama. Spin provides tools
that simplify the stitching process
after you identify common
reference points in adjacent images,
the program causes these points to
overlap, binding the right side of
one image to the left side of the
next. PhotoVista and Nodester
automate this process, aligning and
stitching the images with a single
command. You also have the
option of manually fine-tuning the
stitch. All three programs include
blending functions that minimise
lighting differences between
adjacent photos. However, none
can produce an object movie.
Nodester includes a simple
built-in image editor, allowing you
to perform basic image enhance-
ments without using a separate
program, A rapid-fire mode lets you
capture a series of images using a
digital camera tethered to the
computer; the software then
1997
INTRODUCED
automatically composes the images
into a complete panorama.
Spin and Nodester support
QTVR only. PhotoVista supports
QTVR plus Live Picture's own
RealVR format, which was
developed by Eric Chen, a member
of the original QTVR programming
team. Live Picture is currently
working on an enhanced version of
PhotoVista, to be introduced later
this year, that will allow designers
to add a variety of media elements
to the panoramas, including
FlashPix images.
Competing formats RealVR is
one of several technologies that
have emerged to compete with
QTVR. Its major advantage is file
size: a RealVR panorama generally
consumes much less data than the
equivalent QTVR movie. The
format consists of a JPEG image
packaged within a VRML file; to
view the panoramas you need to
download a VRML extension from
the Live Picture Web site.
Other QTVR competitors
include Ipix from Interactive
Pictures (http://www.
cylinder — meaning that you can
look all the way up and down in
addition to left and right.
NetVR's Tornado is based on
Java, so you don't need special
plug-ins to view the content.
Currently, Tornado generates in-line
3D objects — equivalent to QTVR's
object movies — but the company
is also developing a panoramic
movie component. The pricing is
similar to Interactive Pictures’ —
you pay a sliding fee for each
object you create.
Panoramic camera Be Here,
which introduced its Portal $1
Panoramic Capture System at the
1997 Macworld Expo in San
Francisco, has reduced its original
$US15,000 asking price to
$US9995. However, it's another
metered system: the base price
buys you the right to make 100
images; after that, you pay $US4 to
$USS per saved image depending
on volume. The advantage of the
Portal S1 is that it can capture an
entire 360-degree panorama in a
single shot. This lets you create
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interactive Pictures
(formerly Omniview) Ea")
offers Mac-based
authoring and viewing
software, including a
Macromedia Director
Xtra, but instead of
paying for a standard
ae
software licence, you
pay for each com-
pleted movie, at a
price depending on the quantity you
produce. You can capture a
complete panorama with two shots
from a camera equipped with a fish-
eye lens. In addition, images are
mapped to the inside of a virtual
sphere — rather than QTVR's virtual
Panimation's Nodester makes it easier to create
QuickTime VR panoramas
scenes with people and other
moving elements that would be
impossible to produce with other
cameras. At this stage the Portal 1
has no Australian distributor, but
we understand that negotiations
are under way.
The irrepressible koala is back in his sec-
ond CD-ROM adventure with a third to
follow. Based once again on an episode
from the highly successful TV series,
Blinky Bill’s Extraordinary Balloon
Adventure ($59.95) takes Blinky and his
friends on an international trip where they
discover interesting creatures from other
countries. No installation is needed —
this is one of the few discs that uses
QuickTime’s AutoPlay feature — while
high-quality animation, ease of use, and
terrific music make this an Australian
winner. Tacked on to the interactive story-
book are lots of educational games, which
although initially appealing to three to six
rod
year olds may have limited repeat value.
Blinky Bill also has his own Web site,
accessible via an HTML file on the CD-
ROM or directly at http://www.blinky-
bill.village.com.au. Contact Roadshow
Interactive on (02) 9552 8700.
Providing a way to use a standard medium format camera for di
graphy, Phase One offers the StudioKit camera back. Available in configurations
for Hasselblad, Mamiya, Bronica, Fuji and Rollei medium format cameras, the
StudioKit has a 56mm x 56mm capture area that produces images with 3500 x
3500 pixels (uninterpolated). Images are taken in 36-bit colour and the camera
al photo-
back has an effective film speed of ISO
400. Phase Flicker
Suppression technology to allow the
camera to be used with low-wattage
tungsten lights. Bundled with the unit is
Phase One's own capture software
which is capable of several functions
including on-the-fly unsharp masks,
CMYK separations, rotation and crop-
One utilises
ping, as well as colour correction. Priced
at $16,500, Phase One's StudioKit is
available through Australia Multicomm
‘on (03) 9500 9907.
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Epson's imaging onslaught continues
Scanning your snaps is a snap
with Epson's consumer-oriented
30-bit film scanner. The FilmScan
200 scans directly from 35mm
transparencies or negatives at a
resolution of 1200dpi and is
capable of 4800dpi output.
Included with the scanner is a
film carrier which allows batch
scanning of up to six images. The
FilmScan also supports the
Advanced Photo System (APS)
and comes bundled with
PictureWorks's PhotoEnhancer,
Adobe PhotoDeluxe and Presto!
PhotoAlbum for image editing
and display.
Epson's imaging assault is not
restricted to the consumer mar-
ket. The Stylus Color 3000 is an
edge-to-edge A2 colour inkjet
printer that is capable of 1440dpi
x 720dpi resolution. Targeted at
desktop publishers, prepress
graphic designers and CAD/
CAM users, the Stylus Color
3000 uses a long-life printhead
technology called Micro Piezo
which also helps to provide faster
output. The printer is able to
print anything up to 410mm
wide and supports a number of
media such as backlit film, canvas
cloth and banner paper up to
several metres long. An optional
Ethernet card is available.
The Epson FilmScan 200 is
priced at $999, while the Stylus
Color 3000 comes in at $3500.
... But wait, there's more
Just when you thought you'd
heard all there was to hear, Epson
decides to release even more
products. Targeted at the work-
group environment, the EPL laser
printers are designed to be a nec-
essary addition to your network.
The EPL-N1200 is capable of
printing 12 pages per minute
(ppm) at 600dpi x 600dpi resolu-
tion and incorporates three paper
trays, allowing a storage capacity
of 1250 Ad sheets. The system is
able to use media of various sizes
(including envelope and A6) and
comes with 2Mb of RAM which
can upgraded to 64Mb. An
optional Ethernet
required/can be added to the
system which fully supports
AppleTalk and TCP/IP protocols.
The EPL-N2000 is the A3 version
of the EPL range and already
card is
comes Ethernet ready. The print-
er prints up to 20ppm for Aa
sized paper or 11ppm for A3 and
prints at 600dpi x 600dpi. A stan-
dard configuration includes 4Mb
of RAM (upgradable to 68Mb)
and has a paper capacity of 500
Ad sheets (expandable to 1000)
and 150 A3 sheets (expandable
to 400). The printer also supports
double-sided printing with its
optional duplex unit. The EPL-
N1200 will hit your pocket for
$2199 while the EPL-N2000 will
cost you $3999.
. «Wait for it
Not content to sit on its laurels,
Epson is offering a significant
price reduction on its range of
LCD multimedia projectors. The
top of the line EMP-5000, which
is capable of display resolutions
up to 800 x 600 pixels on a diag-
‘onal screen size up to 7.6 metres
and comes with its own stereo
sound system, is now priced at
$12,600. The EMP-3500 and
EMP-3300, which offer 640 x
480 resolutions, have been
reduced in price to $9200 and
$7400 respectively. More details
are available from Epson on (02)
9903 9000.
This can’t go any faster, can it?
Just when you thought they couldn’t get any faster, Plextor is out to prove that there’s
no speed limit on CD-ROMs. The Plextor 12/20PleX CD-ROM drive is capable of
data transfers up to 3Mb/sec which is roughly five times faster than quad-speed drives.
The drive also includes a 512K buffer which helps to provide playback of full motion
video straight from CDs and a brushless motor ensures higher reliability and longer
working life. Priced at $375, the 12/20PleX internal drive is available through SCSI
Corp on (02) 9894 6033.
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Solution
from the rooftops
Bringing 3D acceleration to the consumer market, ATI Technologies introduces its XCLAIM
range of PCI-based graphics cards to Australia. The XCLAIM VR offers QuickDraw 3D RAVE
support as well as QuickTime acceleration and Mac2TV allows you to output computer
images to TV. Just when you thought you couldn't fit any more features onto the card, it
also allows video capture at 320 x 240 pixels at up to 30 frames per second. The XCLAIM
VR comes in a 2Mb SGRAM configuration (which supports millions of colours up to 832 x
624) and a 4Mb SGRAM version (allowing 1152 x 870 resolution with millions of colours).
As well as a standard DB-15 monitor port, the card includes video-in and video-out as well
as S-Video-in and S-Video-out connectors. A future option for the XCLAIM VR, called
XCLAIM TV, will allow users to use their graphics card as a TV tuner as well. The XCLAIM
3D card is geared more towards the graphics professional and provides the same
QuickDraw 3D and QuickTime acceleration that the XCLAIM VR does. However, the
XCLAIM 3D utilises a 3D memory management utility and comes in a 4Mb SGRAM and
8Mb SGRAM configuration. The 4Mb version allows up to 1152 x 870 resolution and the
8Mb version allows up to 1600 x 1200 resolution, both in millions of colours. The XCLAIM
VR is priced at $499 for the 2Mb version and $659 for the 4Mb version, and the XCLAIM
3D costs $519 for the 4Mb card and $709 for the 8Mb card. Further details can be obtained
through BBF Components and Peripherals on (02) 9630 0941 or (03) 9761 4299.
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APPLES NEW, OFFERINGS
How about a serving of data
Putting more raw horsepower into its server
lineup, Apple has introduced the 7350/180
and 9650/233 Workgoup Servers. The
7350/180 is enclosed in a desktop case (simi-
lar to the 7300 model) which includes 48Mb.
of RAM (expandable to 512Mb), a 4Gb hard
drive, three PCI slots, and a 180MHz PowerPC
604e with a 256K Level 2 cache. Rounding out
the top end of the Workgroup Server line is
the 9650/233, which is based around the
9600 design. A standard configuration
includes 64Mb of RAM (expandable to
768Mb), a 4Gb Ultra/Wide SCSI drive, six PCI
slots and a 233MHz PowerPC 604e with a
512K Level 2 cache. Three SCSI channels are
integrated into the system: one internal
Ultra/Wide SCSI-3, one internal Fast SCSI-2
and one external SCSI-1. Both systems come
with 10Base-T Ethernet, a 12x CD-ROM drive,
Apple RAID software for disk striping (RAID 0)
and mirroring (RAID 1), as well as Apple's
Applications Server Solution and AppleShare
Server Solution software. The Workgroup
Server 7350/180 will require you to fork out
$4995, while the 9650/233 will cost you
$9995. The Apple Internet Server Solution
software can be bundled with either of these
machines for an additional $500.
Author, Author
Boasting a more flexible approach to
interactive applications, Macromedia pre-
sents version 4 of its Internet/intranet
development tool Authorware. Among
Authorware’s new features is comprehen-
sive Shockwave integration which enables
developers to create applications which
30 SEPTEMBER 1997
«Would you like some
PC with that?
Everyone except the terribly uninformed knows
that a Mac can open and save PC files and use
them as if they were Mac files. For those unfor-
tunates who have to go a step further and use
PC applications, Apple offers the 7220 and
7300 PC Compatible machines. Based on the
existing 7220 (200MHz 603e) and 7300
(180MHz and 200MHz 604e) models, these
machines incorporate PC Compatibility Cards
which take up one of their PCI slots. The card
has a 166MHz Pentium processor with a 256K
Level 2 cache and 16Mb of RAM (expandable
to 80Mb). Both systems come with 32Mb of
RAM and a 12x CD-ROM and two free PCI
slots. Pricing starts at $3495 for the 7220 PC
Compatible, while the 7300/180 PC
Compatible costs $4495 and the 7300/200 PC
Compatible comes in at $5295.
It came in a vision
Supplanting the venerable Multiple Scan 20,
Apple offers the AppleVision 850 display as its
monitor for the professional market. Designed
for desktop publishers and high-end graphic
artists,
diagonal viewing area and is capable of
displaying resolutions up to 1200 x 1600
the monitor comes with a 19in
support both Shockwave Director and
Audio files. Separating content from an
application has also been made possible
thanks to the introduction of External
Content Linking. This feature allows an
application to make reference to an exter-
nal media link. By doing so, items can be
updated regularly without having to
update the application itself. A Media
Browser is incorporated into Authorware
so that media elements can be easily locat-
ed and referenced. Authorware also sup-
ports full binary compatibility which
enables users to produce a single file that
will run both on Windows PCs and Macs.
The Authorware 4 Interactive Studio
incorporates Director 6.0, Backstage
Internet Studio 2.0 (Enterprise Edition),
Macromedia xRes 3.0 and SoundEdit 16
2.2. The suite includes an enhanced user
pixels. The AppleVision 850 utilises a Triniton
tube and includes Apple's DigitalColor and
ColorSync 2.0 technology to provide accurate
colour matching with printed output. Elements
such as resolution and colour temperature
are controllable through software that inte-
grates with the Monitors and Sound control
panel. An ADB port is incorporated into the
swivel base and the monitor complies with
TCO 92 environmental recommendations for
emissions. The AppleVision 850 is priced
at $3400
interface which is consistent across all
applications. The stand-alone version of
Authorware 4.0 costs $3145, while the
full studio is priced at $3895. Further
details are available from the fine people at
Firmware Design on (047) 217 211.
Let me take you down
The portable storage gurus at Iomega are
mating it easier to carry around a gigabyte
of data by reducing the price of their Jaz
drives. The internal model is now priced
at $599 (down from $749) and the exter-
nal drive is priced at $799 (down from
$899). Iomega recently reported that,
during its two years of operation, it had
sold over seven million Zip drives, two
million Jaz drives and a million Ditto tape
drives. More details are available from
Iomega on (02) 9461 0601.
Adding to the torrent of new print-
ers this month, Brother presents an
inexpensive option for the SOHO
market. The HL-1060 is a 1200dpi x
600dpi laser printer which is capa-
ble of printing up to 10ppm. The
system comes with two trays pro-
viding a paper capacity of up to 400
A4 sheets. Paper stock between
60gsm and 158gsm can be accom-
modated and the printer uses
Brother's Straight Paper Path technology to prevent paper jams and curls. A stan-
dard 2Mb of memory can be upgraded to 32Mb; however, in order for it to work
on your Mac, you'll require an optional $129 Mac interface. Otherwise, the HL-
1060 laser printer costs $1099 and more information is available from Brother
on (02) 9887 4344.
AUSTRALIAN
MACWORLD
BY MEL BECKMAN AND ELIZABETH DOUGHERTY
~~
What you need to know
to set up a small Ethernet
you're like many Macintosh users in
small business these days, your computer
count is growing. There's the Main Mac,
your 200MHz PowerPC pride and joy
(strictly for work, of course); your
portner’s Main Mac 2; the Auxiliary
Mac for the occasional temp; plus a
PowerBook or two; and you're
contemplating a Web server.
ou can save time and money by
connecting this collection, along
with your peripherals, with
an Ethernet network, which will
let you easily share files and
resources such as printers and an
Internet connection. You might
think a local area network (LAN)
is only for big companies, but you can
reap the advantages, too, if you're will-
ing to spend a little time and money.
While the Mac’s built-in LocalTalk con-
nection makes it easy to connect devices, its
230.4Kbit/sec (0.23Mbit/sec) transmission
speed pales next to Ethernet’s 10Mbit/sec
32 SEPTEMBER 1997
network
(or even 100Mbit/sec, if you want to invest
the funds). Both the cost and the complex-
ity of putting together an Ethernet network
have been reduced so much that the bene-
fits far outweigh the short-term expense.
In this hands-on guide, you learn what
you need to construct your own Ethernet
network: the parts, how they interrelate, how
to avoid problems, and how much it costs.
You can put together an Ethernet network
for a handful of machines for under $300.
For most people, the 10Base-T type of Eth-
ernet is the best to use, since it’s easy to install
and troubleshoot and uses the most preva-
lent wiring type.
With this article in hand, you will be
able to sort through the dizzying array of
network equipment (see the sidebar, “Pic-
turing your equipment options”) in com-
puter stores and zero in on exactly what you
need to start enjoying the benefits of being
connected.
First, the Mac connection
To attach a device to an Ethernet network,
the device needs an Ethernet connector —
either built in or via add-on hardware —
into which you can plug the network cable.
Here’s what you need to know about the dif
ferent kinds of connectors (to see what these
look like, see the diagram “First, determine
the right connection”).
BUILT-IN 10BASE-T If you bought your
Mac in 1995 or later, it may have Ethernet
built in, in the form of a 10Base-T connec-
tor, which looks like an overgrown
telephone jack (it has eight conductors
instead of four). This is the best kind
of connection because it connects directly
to a 10Base-T cable without any extra
hardware.
BUILT-IN AAUI Many Macs, especially older
ones, have a connector type called AAUI
(Apple Attachment Unit Interface). This
requires a hardware adapter called a 10Base-
T transceiver (about $100 to $200), a tiny
box with a 10Base-T connector for the net-
work cable and its own cable that connects
to the Mac’s AAUI port. You don’t need any
additional software.
ADD-ON CARD If your Mac doesn’t have a
10Base-T or AAUI connector but has an
expansion slot, you can add a 10Base-T con-
nector via an internal card. Ethernet cards
come in several varieties, including NuBus,
PCI, Apple Communications Slot, PC Card,
and LC (for the PDS slot).
You install the card just as you would
any add-on card: following the instructions
included with the card, you open your Mac,
locate the card slot, insert the card, and but-
ton everything back up. Unlike the way it is
in the PC world, there are no jumpers or
switches to set on Mac cards — just plug
and play.
Cards might require you to install dri-
ver software — read the documentation for
requirements and check the vendor’s Web
site for the latest version.
Ethernet cards are commodities, costing
as little as $125 to $175 (see the table,
“Comparison shopping for your Ethernet
network”). Buy your cards froma reputable
manufacturer — such as Asanté Technolo-
gies, Dayna Communications, or Farallon
Communications — that offers a warranty
and good technical support.
EXTERNAL SCSI ADAPTER For Macs without
expansion slots, such as older PowerBooks,
or when expansion slots are already filled,
you need an external SCSI 10Base-T Eth-
ernet adapter. The vendor will include any
software you need. SCSI Ethernet adapters
are expensive, around $400.
Second, the right cable
Whatever type of connector you have — a
port in the back of your Mac, a transceiver,
an add-on card, or a SCSI adapter — the
goal is to get a place to plug in a 10Base-T
cable, also called unshielded twisted-pair
(UTP). You may hear about thickand thin
Ethernet; avoid these obsolete technologies.
Here’s what you need to know about
buying cable.
SPEED RATING You want Category 5 cabling,
the fastest possible (the scale is 1 to 5). The
price difference between categories is not
large, so don’t consider buying anything less
than Category 5. Look for the Category 5
or CAT-5 designation printed every metre
or so on the wiring’s outer insulation.
Another benefit to using Category 5 cable
is that it will accommodate faster network
speeds, including 100Mbiw/sec.
LENGTH Measure your work area, and buy
terminated cable lengths that match the dis-
tances between devices as closely as possi-
ble. Keep in mind that Ethernet has distance
limitations — practically, a maximum of 90
metres.
STRAIGHT THROUGH VERSUS CROSSOVER
10Base-T cables come wired straight through
or crossover. You'll usually use straight-
through cable; crossover cables are for spe-
cial cases, such as connecting two devices
directly.
To distinguish between types, hold the
transparent connectors from both ends of
the cable side by side with the same orien-
tation. In a straight-through cable, wire
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colours inside the connectors match left to
right; in a crossover cable, the colour
sequence differs.
Third, the hub
In a 10Base-T network, you connect one
end of the cable to the device and the other
end into a hardware piece called a hub (also
called a repeater). Just as the hub of a wheel
connects all the spokes, a network hub con-
nects all the devices of the LAN in what's
called a star topology. In contrast, LocalTalk
devices link sequentially, in a daisy chain.
The hub adds some expense (about $300
to $400 for eight ports) but connects mul-
tiple devices, regenerates data signals to
improve reliability, and simplifies trou-
bleshooting by isolating a failing device to
prevent the whole network from crashing.
Here’s what you need to know about
buying a hub.
(CHOOSE UNMANAGED Of the two kinds of
hubs — unmanaged and managed — you
want unmanaged; managed hubs are expen-
sive and have remote-control capabilities you
don’t need in a small LAN. Count the
devices you want on your network and add
two for growth — that’s the minimum num-
ber of ports you need.
Common 1 0Base-T small-hub configu-
rations have five or eight ports. There’s not
a big price difference, so don’t scrimp — net-
works usually grow rather than shrink.
Expect to pay between $30 and $50 per port.
Make sure you count 10Base-T ports; one
port is sometimes for connecting another
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hub or different cabling type.
DECIPHER THE LIGHTS You'll want to know
a little bit about troubleshooting, but the
information that hubs provide can make it
as easy as it is to check Print Monitor when
you have a printing problem.
Every hub has status lights indicating
whether a port is connected properly and
when data is moving to the port. Other lights
show if there’s too much traffic or a failed
device.
I find it easiest to monitor a hub that has
the connectors and status lights on the same
side of the box. However, you might want
to have the cables on the back of the hub so
they’re out of the way. Just make sure you
can easily see the lights to check for trouble.
As with cards and cabling, buy a hub
from a reputable manufacturer that stands
behind its warranty with good technical sup-
port. Online resources are key for getting
quick help, so check out a vendor’s Web site
for online documentation, tutorials, and
troubleshooting aids.
BRIDGE TO LOCALTALEK If you have Local-
Talk devices, suchas printers, that don’t have
an Ethernet connection, you can use a
LocalTalk-to-Ethernet converter (some are
just for printers), costing $350 to $400.
If you need to connect to LocalTalk
Macs, you need a device called a bridge.
However, a bridge is expensive, about $500.
You can also use Apple's free Laser Writer
Bridge or $111 LocalTalk Bridge software
to turn a Mac into a Local Talk converter or
bridge, respectively. Remember that
Local Talk devices connected to an Ethernet
network this way are still limited to
LocalTalk’s slow speed.
A hubless alternative
If you’re converting an existing LocalTalk
network to Ethernet, or if centralised hub
wiring is inconvenient, you might consider
Farallon’s hubless 10Base-T architecture
called EtherWave, which uses 10Base-T
cabling and proprietary adapter cards and
transceivers (each with two 10Base-T jacks).
EtherWave lets you daisy-chain up to eight
devices LocalTalk-style.
EtherWave transceivers and adapter cards
cost about twice as much as their hub coun-
terparts. If you have AAUL-equipped Macs
and need to buy transceivers anyway, the
extra cost for EtherWave transceivers may
be offset by the money you save not buying
a hub. If you have some AAUI-equipped
Macs, you can use Ether Wave for those, but
you'll still need a hub for Macs with only
10Base-T connectors. You can connect an
Ether Wave daisy chain to a 10Base-T hub.
Do the maths. Generally, a hub is the
cheaper option for Macs with 10Base-T built
in, since two EtherWave transceivers cost
more than a hub and two transceivers.
The software side
As long as you've installed any required dri-
vers for adapter cards, System 7.5 and above
has all the software you need for common
networking tasks.
TRANSPORT PROTOCOLS The Mac OS
CommSlot
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Asanté Technologies
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Dayna Communications
(02)9975 2799
Farallon Communications
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34 SEPTEMBER 1997
includes transport protocols, the software
needed to move data over a network. The
protocols you care about are AppleTalk and
TCP/IP (which the Internet uses).
You should use Apple’s current network
architecture, called Open Transport (version
1.1.2 at this writing), which installs auto-
matically with System 7.5 and is mandatory
with System 7.6. Under System 7.5, you may
have to enable Open Transport by running
the Network Software Selector, found in the
Apple Extras folder. (Apple has announced
that it will maintain but not further develop
Open Tiansport; instead it will use the Open-
Step networking architecture in the new
Rhapsody OS expected in mid-1998. How-
ever, that’s not something to worry about
right now.)
PILE SHARING The Mac OS includes Per-
sonal File Sharing, which lets network users
share data on hard drives in what’s called
peer-to-peer networking. For centralised file
sharing, AppleShare server software, an extra-
cost item, is necessary. You likely won't need
AppleShare to accommodate data-sharing
needs on a small LAN.
Connect and test
Once you've connected all the hardware
together, take the time to make sure every
device can communicate with every other
device and measure network throughput by
timing how long it takes to copy files
between Macs using Personal File Sharing.
Keep in mind that although 10Base-T
theoretically transfers data at 10Mbit/sec,
Picturing your equipment options
[A] A nus, such as Dayna’s MiniHub-5, serves as a central connection point for devices on a
10Base-T network. The lights give you information such as whether a port is connected prop-
erly and when data is movir
to the hub. If your Mac doesn't have a built-in 10!
hardware such
eee [D] Farallon’s ErHerWave, a hubless alternative, us
adapter cards and trans
daisy-chain up to eight devices
due to overhead you can only achieve about
60 per cent of this speed. Data rates of
GMbit/sec are very good on fast Macs, and
4Mbit/sec may be perfectly acceptable. Keep
a record of your baseline network perfor-
mance so you'll have a comparison point if
you have trouble later.
The symptoms of problems can be as
obvious as a nonfunctional network or as
subtle as reduced performance or intermit-
AAUI SCSI-to-Ethernet LocalTalk-to-
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T jacks, pictured). EtherWave lets you
tent failures. Most protocols that run over
Ethernet have built-in error detection and
correction, and they will forge on in the face
of severe transmission problems.
MAKE A DIAGNOSIS The status lights on the
hub, adapter cards, and transceivers will help
you diagnose a problem if trouble occurs.
The link status light indicates that
there’s a proper electrical connection
between a device and the hub in a
hub-based network or between two
devices in a hubless network. If this
light is off, try replacing the cable;
make sure you have the right type
(straight through or crossover).
The waffic light, sometimes labelled
Activity or LAN, blinks when traffic is
flowing. Better-quality devices have
separate transmit and receive indicators
(called TX and RX, respectively) to
indicate the traffic direction. If you
have a link indication but no traffic
indications, suspect software
misconfiguration or a failed hub,
transceiver, or adapter card. Try
swapping cables, then changing ports
on the hub, to isolate the problem.
The collision light blinks when there's
too much traffic for the LAN to
AUSTRALIAN MACWORLD 35
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transceiver or a card — to connect to a 10Base-T | ie! ee,
depends on the vintage ‘of your Mac. Tip: to see if your x ou
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Built-in Ethernet If your computer
has a 10Base-T (also called RJ-45) port,
you're ready to go — all you need is a
40Base-T cable
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"40Base-T port
AAUI Connection If your computer
has an AAUI port, you need a 10Base-T
transceiver; you can use either a
standard transceiver, Which requires a
crossover Cable or a hub, of Farallon’s
EtherWave transceiver
AAUI port
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handle. A few collisions per minute are
normal — these result when two
computers try to transmit at the same
time. Frequent (every few seconds) or
continuous collisions may indicate
wiring problems, such as damaged
cables or corroded connectors. Try
simplifying your network configuration
to just two devices and the hub to
isolate the problem component.
The jabber light indicates that a device
is transmitting noise onto the network.
Jabber occurs when a device
malfunctions and usually indicates that
the device's Ethernet transceiver or card
has failed. You can manually locate the
failing device by disconnecting ports
one ata time at the hub. When the
36 SEPTEMBER 1997
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10 network port, You
need an internal PCI (shown), NuBus, or
ions Slot Ethernet card or
an external SCSI-to-Ethernet converter
Hub-Centric a,
devices in a star
jabber light goes out after you
disconnect a particular port, you've
identified the problem.
WIRE TANGLES Most Ethernet problems
result from bad or improperly wired cables.
Buying ready-made cables designed for
10Base-T helps prevent problems. Still, you
should have spare Category 5 cables for test-
ing suspected wiring problems. Bad cable
routing can induce noise in an Ethernet
cable. Avoid routing cables in parallel with
AC power lines, device power cables, or RS-
232 printer cables.
Although you're not likely to reach
10Base-T’s length limitations in a small office
or home, it’s easy to forget that 90 metre
limit between hub and device. You can
extend this limit by connecting up to three
PProach A 10BaseT
topology. Use straighi
hub connects more than two
it-through cables
hubs in a series (follow manufacturer instruc-
tions for interconnecting hubs).
The last word
Allin all, a10Base-T Ethernet network for
a small workgroup will set you back about
$800 which icludes an eight-port hub, three
PCI cards, and three Category 5 cables. Buy-
ing a system with room for expansion will
save you hassles down the line when you
want to add machines to your network.
With its higher performance and low
cost, Ethernet is a better choice than
LocalTalk for small networks. Using quality
components and avoiding common wiring
errors are the secret to building a reliable
LAN and enjoying the benefits of being well
connected.
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