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= 28 March 1989 Vol. 3 No. 13 Ww fe) R K $ T A T | ° N N E Ww Ss Full Impact upgrade adds custom XMacros San Jose, Calif, — Ashton-Tate Corp. last week released Full Impact 1.1, a free upgrade that supports XMacros, a feature allow- | ing users to add custom functions and commands to their spread- sheet applications. The company also announced a | free maintenance upgrade for Full- Write Professional. Version 1.1 improves the word processor's overall stability, especially in the outlining mode and in low-memory | situations, the company said. Full Impact’s XMacro commands | are similar to HyperCard’s XCMDs {external commands), according to See Ashton, Page 8 Solutions plans fox gateway for MS Mail Williston, Vt. — Solutions Inc last week announced plans for a new software gateway that will pro- vide networked fax modem capa- | bilities for users of Microsoft Mail. | FaxGATE will connect a forthcom- ing version of Microsoft Mail to Solutions International's BackFAX software, allowing any user on a Microsoft Mail network to send and receive fax messages through a single fax modem attached to a server. Tom Evslin, Solutions presi- dent, said the still-unpriced prod- uct would be available as soon as Microsoft ships the new version of its mail program. c | Merger announced for Novell, Excelan Provo, Utah — Novell Inc. and | Excelan Inc. have agreed to merge, the companies announced last week. Excelan of San Jose, Calif, will become a wholly owned sub- | sidiary of Novell, the Provo, Utah, company that makes the NetWare network operating system. Excelan is the parent company of Kinetics Inc., maker of Mac networking hardware products. Raymond Noorda will continue as Noyell president. Kanwal S$. Rekhi, Execlan president and will become Novell executive vic president and remain responsible for Excelan’s operations. By Emily Brower San Francisco — The recent federal court ruling in Apple's lawsuit against Microsoft has set the stage for a full-blown copy- right battle over the origins and ownership of the Mac’s famous graphic interface. U.S. District Court Judge William Schwarzer's written order on the first phase of the dispute, made public last week, roundly rejected Microsoft's defense that Windows 2.03 is covered under Lawsuit ruling sets stage for showdown its 1985 license agreement with Apple. “Our motion for partial sum- mary judgment is granted, and the license defense is out,” said ‘pes Brown of Brown & Bain in Phoenix, Ariz., Apple’s princi- pal outside legal counsel in the case, Microsoft claimed a victory of its own in a press release high- lighting the judge’s statement upholding the 1985 license agree- See Lawsuit, Page 9 START NEG: | Nov. 22, '85 \_ x hole Sun to launch ‘030, SPARC workstations By Daniel Forber Mountain View, Calif, — Sun Microsystems is preparing to intro- duce a series of new machines that is expected to set new price and performance standards for desliop Unix workstations, The new mod els, including computers based on the 68030 chip and Sun's own SPARC chip, may slow Apple’s cur- rent movement into the low-end market, industry workstation observers said, Sun will announce next month its first family of SPARCstations, a new line of workstations based on the SPARC (scalable processor architecture) chip, Sun’s reduced instruction set computing (RISC) microprocessor. Sun officials declined to com- ment, but sources said that the SPARCstations, as well as Sun’s new 68030-based machines, will range from personal workstations starting at about $5,000 to network servers costing more than $60,000. Two machines at the low end of the spectrum, the SPARCstation 1 | and the Sun 3/80, will be priced competitively with Apple’s 68030 offerings, They will include built-in Ethernet connections and will be housed in a sleek, compact box, | sources sald. » The SPARCstation 1 processes more than 12 million instructions per second (mips), includes up to | 16 Mbytes of memory, three expan- sion slots for add-on cards, a 200- Mbyte internal hard disk and a 3.5 See Sun, Page 8 GA onslide presentations See Poge 33. Apple, third parties grasp for token ring By Jon Swartz Cupertino, Calif. — Apple and two developers are gearing up for midyear announcements of token- ring adapter cards for the Mac II. Sources close to Apple said a 4- Mbps version of TokenTalk, the token-ring card rumored to have been in development at Apple for more than two years, will be announced in June. A 16-Mbps ver- sion is expected sometime in 1990. Apple has co-developed the 4- Mbps card, which will be priced in the $1,200 range, with Sytek Inc. of Mountain View, Calif. The 16- Mbps TokenTalk card is being developed entirely within Apple Both are based on Apple's Macin- tosh Coprocessor Platform, an intelligent NuBus card with a real- time multitasking operating system, sources said. Apple’s 4-Mbps card will incor- porate a high-performance Texas Instrument (TI) chip set, a 10- MHz 68000 processor and 512K of memory, according to sources. TokenTalk’s delay-plagued histo- ry has been beset by software rewrites, a lack of technical support and marketing confusion, hy observers said (see sidebar, Page 8). The technology is in high demand at Fortune 1,000 compa- nies — in particular East Coast banks, where IBM PCs dominate. “T'm just glad it’s finally coming out,” said Dan Mallin, who super- vises Mac purchasing decisions at 3M Corp. of St. Paul, Minn., where 35,000 PGs and 2,500 Macs are in- stalled. “It’s been a long, long wait.” Meanwhile, two other compa- nies have announced their inten- tion to manufacture token-ring cards this year. > Asante Technologies Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif,, also is making a 4-Mbps card based on TI’s chip set and a NuBus interface. Unlike TokenTalk, it will not include on- board memory or processing “Our card is more of a worksta- tion card rather than TokenTalk, which is a server card,” said Wilson Wong, Asante president. “Apple has been extremely supportive of our efforts.” Wong said Asante’s still unnamed and not-yet-priced card will be announced in May and evaluation units will ship in June > Kinetics Inc. plans to release token-ring products as soon as an See Token, Page 8 Bushnell toys with Mac market Atari founder joins Preferred By Henry Norr Santa Clara, Calif. — Nola: Bushnell, one of Silicon Valley original visionaries and most- prominent entrepreneurs, has assumed the chairmanship of a small Mae devel opment company with big plans; Pro z to de- liver “technology with a smile on its fac that will make computing easier for Every- man,” the 46-year- old Bushnell said last week that he has become chair- man of Preferred Publishers. The 16-employee Memphis, Tenn., Nole company shipped its first products, the DAtabase and Vantage desk accessories, just last December. Bushnell helped launch the video game craze of the 1970s by writing Pong, the first hit gan and founding Atari Corp., wh he said, he gave Apple founder Steve Jobs his first job. Jonathan Whitman, Preferred’s See Preferred, Page 8 a Sat shoell will be chairman of Preferred Publishers, which promises to deliver “technology with « smile on its face.” Driving in its purist form the 1988 Porsche Jayout 1 ) you always AWM RRRY RH itr KAA H Fri lub Without was the printer. MocWEEK 28 March 1989 AutoCAD Release 10 ships for the Macintosh By Cliff Lehman Sausalito, Calif, — Autodesk Inc., developer of the leading CAD package for personal computers and workstations, made its long: anticipated entrance into the Mac market last week with AutoCAD Release 10 for the Mac Autodesk first announced its intention to provide a Mac version in May 1988. The popular package is already available for the IBM PC, DEC minicomputers, and Sun and Apollo workstations. Autodesk claims 50 percent of the CAD mar- ket with 200,000 users worldwide on all platforms. The company expects the Mac version to signifi- cantly increase its market share. The new entry will retail for $3,000 and will be distributed by resellers drawn from the ranks of both Autodesk's and Apple's autho- rized reseller networks. The package boasts the function ality of the PC version, including 3-D wire frame construction and surface modeling. Mac AutoCAD files can be shared with AutoCAD files on any other platform without file conversion, the company said. Developers who have created add- on applications for the PC version are porting their products to the Mac, the company added Autodesk's struggle to imple- ment a Mac interface for AutoCAD slowed development, but the com- par) msnaged (0 fnplemeat sips port for standard Macintosh inter- face features. AutoCAD Release 10 also in- cludes Autodesk's AutoLISP, a high-level programming language that lets users adapt the package for particular functions iB cus- tomizing menus and commands. Autodesk Ine. is located at 2320 Marinship Way, Sausalito, Calif. 94965; (415) 331-2344.0 TapeOp animation controller links the Mac to videotape recorders By Connie Guglielmo Santa Monica, Calif. — TapeOp, a new program from Master Digital Inc., links the Mac to videotape record- ers and allows users to transfer color animations to videotape frame by frame. TapeOp allows the Mac Il to oper- ate as a remote control device for video devices by simulating the con- trol panel of a videotape recorder (VTR), including 1-inch, Betacam, U-Matic and digital recorders. Functions include play, stop, record, standby, fast forward, rewind, preroll, auto-edit, edit in edit out, trim and preview. The program, which will ship in May for less than $3,000, was designed to provide desktop video producers with a way to build frame-accurate animations on video from the Mac. Full-color images stored in either PICT2 format or PICS animation format can be To our readers MacWEEK will be moving to new offices in April. Our new address will be 30] Howard St., 15th Floor, San Francisco, Calif. 94105; (415) 243-3500; fax number: (415) 243-3650. Master Digital Inc's TopeOp software simulates the control panel of a videotope recorder on the Mac desktop. recorded on videotape, according to Steve Lomas, director of image computing for Master Digital “This is an animation controller,” Lomas said. “It allows you to display artwork from your Mac, sequence it and then get that predetermined sequence out to video.” Other features include a status window and a pattem generator for creating color bars and conver- gence patterns. Master Digital plans to market TapeOp as a stand-alone applica- tion and as an add-on module that cap be incorporated into Mac graphics applications, Lomas said. He said the company is also working on RotoOp, a software module for use with TapeOp that will let Macintosh users contro} video digitizers and capture images from video. Master Digital Inc. is located at 1749 14th St., Santa Monica, Calif. 90404; (213) 452-1511.0 10 14 16 V7 18 18 v 20 20 20 90 4 28 30 35 36 44 48 52 4 News Show emphasizes CD-ROM business applications Apple may develop internal ISDN card for Mac MacinTouch Third porties balance on the high wir. 105-Mbyte hard drive added to Quantum’s line Tallgrass unveils 40-, 100-Mbyte hard drives HyperPublisher shown at Seybold RasterOps ships “full chunky” boards to developers National shows another data acquisition board Opinion Editorial With o bird in hand after its courtroom victory over Microsoft, Apple i in 0 position to obtain a favorable settlement. Letters Mac Soapbox Andy Hertzfeld A pioneer in Mac development calls out to the small groups within Apple to create an entirely new system that “shares the maverick pitt of its dlustnous ancestors.” Mac the Knife The Mac dons a hard hat and a blue collar: Both software and hardware possibilites are on the horizon for the Mac in computer integrated manu- facturing. Organizational Mac MIS needs fo change roles in corporate America The Mac Manager Don Crobb “West of Eden” by Frank Rose offers o view inside Apple that managers may find helpful MacWEEK Graphic Arts Mixed media Creating slides gets easier, better State-of-the-art briefing center Tech Issue Port III: Color-separation software Design issue: Hyphenotion and (ustification Industrial design meets the Mac 61 61 62 62 66 68 87 88 87 75 76 79 80 85 Boldface £210 Shopiro ‘Meonwhile, bock in bell, Soton revels in the arrival of muftimedio. Window On Equation solving on the Mac: Mathematica isn't the only way to do math on the Mac. 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At the conference, which runs from March 28-30, Apple will announce a ~3pac” promotion, which puts the market clout of MicroD, the Santa Ana, Calif. based Mac distributor, behind two $249 packages with three business- oriented CD-ROM products each. John Clem, market development manager at Apple, said the 3pacs will help build previously weak dis- tribution channels, as well as demonstrate the viability of CD- ROM as an information-delivery vehicle. The promotion will begin in April and run through September. One 3pac has a multimedia theme, the other a desktop pub- lishing motif. Both will be pack- aged by Discovery Systems of Dublin, Ohio. The multimedia 3pac includes: > DeskTop Sounds tal volana al 400 clip sound effects from Los Gatos, Calif.-based Optical Media International. Motherboard replacement gives SE/30 power to SEs SE owners yearning for SE/30 copo- bilities con upgrade beginning in April for $1,699. This motherboard replacement from Apple uses the same 1 6-MHz 68030, with on-boord memory manoge- ment, found in the Moc IIx, Nlcx and SE/30. The board indudes o 68882 floating-point coprocessor, SIMM-mounted ROM, the Apple Sound Chip and on SE/30 Direct Slot. Upgraded mochines will run opplications up to four times foster than the original SE. >The PD-ROM, a 250-Mbyte volume of public-domain and shareware applications, from Berkeley, Calif.-based BMUG. > The VideoWorks CD-ROM, a collection of clip animations from Chicago-based MacroMind. The desktop publishing Spac consists of: > ProArt Professional Art Library from Multi-Ad Services of Peoria, Ill. The ProArt series consists of 50 Mbytes of PostScript clip art. > Photographs for Corporate Newsletters, a disc of 50 pho- tographs from Comstock, a New York-based photo agency. > The National Directory, a disc of phone and fax numbers from Xiphias of Marina Del Rey, Calif. It includes software for auto-dial- ing and fax transmission via Apple- Fax Modem. Analysts see the promo as a much-needed step toward getting titles to the general marketplace. “MicroD is a big player and is well- respected,” said Linda Helgerson, publisher and editor of CD Data Report in Falls Church, Va. “Distri- bution channels are sorely needed.” Besides Apple's 3pacs, the 2,000 or so attendees will have plenty of other products and announcements to examine, including the following: > Discovery Systems will Rivets hybrid mastering format that allows a disc to be played in both IBM PC and Macintosh CD-ROM players > Optical Media International and Meridian Data will demon- strate tumkey CD mastering solu- tions for corporate in-house pub- lishers. OMI's ToPiX and Meridian’ CD Professional are based on Yamaha CD recording technology and Fuji write-once media, » The Optical Publishing Associ- ation, in conjunction with InfoTech, will release a CD-ROM industry assessment including detailed mar- ket data and growth projections. > In the field of CD video for- mats, Sony Corp. plans an announcement on its CD-XA data structuring format, while Intel Corp. will report new develop- ments concerning its DVI video compression scheme, UVC Corp. of Irvine, Calif, is also expected to show a new technology making full-motion CD video possible. The UVC announcement has generated unusual interest, since many observers consider the diffi- culty of using CD-ROM to play video to be the technology's Achilles heel. o CD-ROM maturing at last? Like a child prodigy, the CD- ROM industry was expected to act like an adult before it ever made it to adolescence “The CD-ROM industry was sabotaged by unrealistic fore- casts” in its early years, an in- dustry analyst said recently. But this week's fourth annual Micro- soft CD-ROM conference, coin- ciding with Mac CD-ROMS first birthday, will bring develop- ments that may put the CD mar- ket on the road to maturity. Industry observers agree that the $1,199 AppleCD SC player has so far fallen short of Apple's hopes. Many observers blame sluggish industry sales on an uneducated marketplace. Apple’s “3pac” promotion (see story at lett) may help with that problem. More importantly over the long haul, the new hybrid format that Discovery Systems plans to unveil may let developers produce one dise for both Macs and PCs. That, in tum, could mean enough titles available for Mac users to give the CD SC the appeal it has so far lacked. Analysts agree that when major players like Aldus, Adobe and Apple come out with CD- ROM titles, the industry will be legitimized. “Until we see gener- al market applications, we won't see Pee alent purchase,” said Michael Weiss, vice presi- dent of Infonetics, a research company in Santa Clara, Calif. Another new technology from UVC Corp. of Irvine, Calif., could also help CD- ROM move into the emerging multimedia market by solving een that have until now imited its use for full-motion video, — By John Battelle ‘MocWEEK 28 March 1989 MaciWEEK Publisher Michael Tehong EDITORIAL : Editor Daniel Ruby Exective Eater Daniel Farber Menoging Eder Brevela Benner Section Editors Henry Norr (News), Bernard ‘Ohanian (Opinion, Feafitres), Rochelle Garmer (Organizational Mac; Window Oa), Rebesea Wiring (Reviews), Anita Malnig(GA) {dter ot Large Dale Coleman Techsicel Eater Ric For (Boston) Techical At Decor Laslo Vesprem Seale Writers Connie Guglielmo, Rick LePage (Boston) Asvedate Editors Eric J Adams (News) Richard Raves (Window On) Information Dieter Evnily Brower Shalt John Battle, Elinor Graig, Clif shim Rene Mas id a Jonathan Swartz Assistant Editors Stephen Howard (Reviews), Suzanne Weber (Features) Copy Edtrs Charles Lenaiti (Copy Chief), Carobya Said (Desktop Publishing Chief), Janice Maloney. Sue Troy, Mital Waltz Contribating Editors: Eric Alderman, Don Crabb Vernon Keenan, Dennis Klazkin, Peter Lisher | Jonathan Littman, Steve Michel. Steve Rosenthal, Ezra Shapiro ae ART AND PRODUCTION Assedate Poblsher Masstoctering Rarri Khiogaan Ant Director Eleanor Leishiman: 5) Assedate Art Director Laura Stoll Designer Gary Suen Phote Editer Jonathan Harsteiw Prodecticn Seperviser Carolyn Beaham West Grophics Techaidans Henri Froissart, Rick Valdes Grophic Arist Tainara Gangus (Ad Production Manager Debra Di Blasl_ Ad Coordinator Michelle Gangus: tenet Pe Th [acta ssn ara Le Kerr Kathy Kettenbach, Joana Reseorch Director Griffin Dis Promation end Research Coordiactor Deviaess Meneger Karen Branoan Administrative Assistants Jennifer Elizabeth Camey, Chris President Kenneth H. Koppel Vee President J Scott Briges ‘Ve President Willan Lohse Apple slates multimedia videodiscs By Connie Guglielmo Cupertino, Calif. — Apple plans to publish two interactive multi- media products in the next few months as part of its emerging campaign for multimedia technolo- gy on the Macintosh, ‘The Visual Almanac and Interac- tive Nova videodiscs are driven by HyperCard, said Sueann Ainbron, co-director of Apple's Multimedia Lab in San Francisco. Visual Almanac, created by designers at the lab, is a compila- tion of information and activities designed as a resource for teachers. It contains text, graphics, sound and video images on a variety of subjects from physics to history, Apple also funded Interactive Nova, a presentation developed by Boston-based WGBH Educational Foundation, creator of the Nova science series aired on the Public Broadcasting System. Under devel- opment for three years, the two- dise presentation is based on a Nova program about animal migra- tion called “Mystery of Animal Pathfinders,” said Ted Sicker, pro- ject director. One disc contains the complete “Animal Pathfinders” show, along with still images and other video footage shot for the presentation. Another dise contains a stack of more than 600 cards with informa- tion on animals, as well as three interactive activities and a resource section containing a glossary, refer- ences and maps, Sicker said. Both Visual Almanac and Inter- active Nova contain tools that allow users to put together reports or videos using any information included in the presentations. ‘ave also is putting together a list of about 100 multimedia con- sultants nationwide with the re- sources to help organizations create multimedia presentations. 0 For ie recor In the March 7 Window On Storage, Microtech International's Nova tape drives were incorrectly referred to as Novy tape drives heidlge ‘Cambridge, Mass. 08142; (617) ‘MocWEEK (ISSN 0502-5118) ls mer Service Box 21, Chery MUL NY Om of addres recite that a pew Aled ut completely and inehuda aakdroxs. Allow 4-8 weeks fr <WEEK Send adress changes to Cheery Hill NJ 08034. Second Sa Franeiseo and additional Mac WEEK i an with Apple Computer Ine, trodernarks of “Two or three years from now, the typical laser printer will be a lot like the Business LaserPrinter™: small, light, with a SCSI connector for a hard disk, and inexpensive.’ Thats how Publish! magazine characterized our Business LaserPrinter (BLP), a Postscript® printer for Mac- THE FUTURE OF | intoshes? IBIMé° and IBM clones Wed only add that the future has arrived ahead of schedule. PO RIPT. Simply stated, the BLP is a bet- La ter way to translate the language called Postscript into the graphics, words and numbers people use to communicate in business TH AT WIL Better because the BLP lets you—oranyone else onyourApple- Talk® network—produce superior TAKE IT THERE text with the aid of 39 fonts (four @ more thanournearest competitor). Better because the BLP comes with expandable RAM (two megabytes expand- able to four), which lets you increase print speed. And as ithas a SCSI port, which lets desktop publishers extend the font storage capacity of the BLP via a hard disk. Finally, the BLP even takes better care of your bottom line. In fact, you can buy a BLP and a dedicated hard disk for less than the price of a LaserWriter® Il NT alone. Someday, if Publish! magazine is right, other printers aN y will offer all this. But if you prefer not to wait, just visit your —= — authorized GCC Technologies dealer for a BLP demon- | stration. For more information, or the name of a dealer near == TECHNOLOGIES you, phone (617)890-0880" Peripherals With Vision. th Vision, Business Lase/Printer and the GCC Technolog of GCC Technologe’ | Preferred continued from Page 1 29-year-old president and CEO, also announced last week that the company has recruited a highly regarded software engineer from Serle to take charge of its research and development efforts. Russ Wetmore, 33, is currently assigned to the “future systems and architec- tures” group at Apple but will leave the computer maker this week and become leader of a “dream team” Preferred plans to set up in the Cupertino, Calif., area next month. While declining to disclose details about its product plans, the three officials said Preferred aims to have an extensive line of easy-to-use utilities and applications ready for the release of the new multitasking operating system now under devel- opment at Apple. “We want to play the role with the new system that Danny Goodman played with HyperCard,” Whitman said. Some of the new programs may be functional substitutes for DAs, which the new system will no longer support The company said it plans to begin developing hardware as well News as software. “We believe that there are several small pieces of hard- ware that can be added to the Mac that will significantly enhance it,” Bushnell said. Whitman said the group hopes to “revolutionize the way input devices look and feel by integrating video and audio in a more seamless fashion.” In 1984 Bushnell built what he called “the office of the future” using IBM technology as its foundation Designed for computer-shy execu- tives, the system combined voice and handwriting recognition, but Bush- nell said he was “very disappointed | Ashton Lane Freestone, senior product manager for Full Impact. Develop- ers or users familiar with the C or Pascal languages can create libraries of XMacras to add capabil- ities not built into the program or available through Full Talk, the spreadsheet’s scnpting language Jon Canfield. president of Compu-Sult of San Diego, is using Full Impact’s XMacros to develop a commercial vertical accounting program, Accounting with Impact “Anyone who can write an XCMD nal function) Continued from Page I should be able to write an XMacro. with no problem,” he said With Full Talk. Canfield said, he could have created dialog boxes indicating errors such as an out-of- balance check register, Instead, he used XMacros to make his account- ing package verbalize such errors The upgraded FullWrite Profes- sional 11 lifts previous limits on the number of sidebars, footnotes and index entries per document. It also permits access to a series of foreign language dictionaries that Ashton-Tate plans to release later this year. The suggested retail price for both products is Sun Continued from Page 1 inch floppy drive. The CPU is priced between $6,000 and $10,000, depending on the configu- ration, and will be available before year end, sources said > The Sun 3/80 includes a 25- MHz 68030 microprocessor and processes about 3 mips. The base configuration, including 4 Mbytes of RAM, will be priced around $5,000, sources said. By compan- son, the 65030-based Mae IIx with 4 Mbytes of RAM costs about This “Multi-Media Librarian” application, created in Full Impact 1.1, wses KMocros to generate costom meno and submenu items. $395. All regis- tered users will automatically receive the 1.1 upgrade free Users who are not registered ean call (213) 329-9989, Ashton-Tate’s Macintosh Divi- sion is at 6411 Guadalupe Mines Road, San Jose, Calif, 95120; (408) 268-2300. — By Eric J. Adams $7,000 and offers from 2 mips to 3 mips. Sources said the 3/80 will ship this summer. The new hardware also includes an optional proprietary graphics accelerator card that greatly enhances graphics performance across the line, sources said. By next year Sun expects to offer a SPARC machine delivering 10- mips performance for about $5,000. While Sun’s new hardware may be raising the stakes in the workstation puleeivectos mated competition, the company still lags Russ Wetmore (left) will leave ‘Apple to lead a “dream team” ‘ot Preferred Publishers. “We mode him on offer he couldn't refuse,” said Nolan Bushnell (right), who just ‘ussumed the choirmanship of Preferred. with it once it was complete.” The new venture will be Bush- nell’s first foray into the Mac mar- ket. He said he had been at work on 4 Mac project for “four or five years, but the technology has finally advanced enough to make it viable.” Bushnell, who has devoted much of his entrepreneurial energy to the toy industry since selling Atari to Warner Communications for $38 million in 1976, said the company would also produce entertainment roducts. “Fish have to swim. Birds have to fly. 1 have to write a game or I'l die,” he explained. AAPPS, a recently launched company that is the latest in his long list of start-up ventures, will be merged with the pri- vately held Preferred. None of the parties would disclose finan- cial details except to say that Bush- nell had made a “substantial” investment Bushnell said the idea of the merger arose suddenly when he discovered Preferred’s DAtabase program. “I said ‘Eureka’ as soon as I saw it,” he added. Wetmore said he had joined the Preferred team because the new MocWEEK 28 March 1989 job will “give me a chance to haye greater impact than I could at Apple.” Bushnell said, "We made him an offer he couldn't refuse.* Wetmore said the company will seek submissions from Ghereee opers in addition to working on longer-term projects of its own. “We're not really going to be raiding Apple for talent,” he said, “but I've got a lot of friends and connections in the industry who seem to be excited about this type of venture.” Whitman will continue to direct the company’s operations from its Memphis office. Two new utilities, a screen-capture program ¢alled Exposure, and DirectMail, a mail- management, label-printing and layout utility, are due for release this summer, he said_ Preferred Publishers is at 5100 Poplar Ave., Suite 617, Memphis, Tenn, 38137; (901) 653-3383. 5 Token upcoming TI chip set supporting both 4- and 16-Mbps transmission becomes available. A Kinetics spokeswoman said the Walnut Greek, Calif,, company considers token-ring cards for the Continued from Page 1 How token ring work © Sending station 8) waits for revoking [A] foken (be). Y Mac IT a top product priority. Asante Technologies is located at 1050 E. Duane Ave., Suite G, Sun- nyvale, Calif. 94086; (408) 736- 3360. Kinetics is located at 2500 Camino Diablo, Walnut Creek, Calif. 94596; (415) 947-0998. 5 Token ring uses a uni kind of signal that is con- tinvously passed from workstation to worksta~ tion on the network. Each workstation can transmit ‘signal only during its turn in control of the token. If a station has nothing to transmit, it posses the token on. The ym allows every sta- tion an equal chance to transmit, with no addi- tional delays when traffic is heavy and no chance of data collisions. AppleTalk and Ethernet vse fundamentally differ- ‘ent and less structured schemes to organize traf- fic On AppleTalk every node constantly monitors all network traffic. A workstation with data to transmit waits for quiet ‘moment ond then, after on odditional random delay designed to reduce the risk of collision, sends the Information. far behind the Mac in software. “Sun's had success within the technical workstation market, where applications are more per- formance-driven,” said George Bateman, director of planning and vendor relations 4 the waren) of Chicago. "Sun will have to devel- op a rich software base, compara- the to the Mac's, to penetrate the humanities in higher education and in wide acceptance, Apple's chal- lenge, on the other hand, is to develop its multitasking operating system and improve performance,” Currently, the only productivity software for the new machines that offers a graphical user interface is the suite of three products intro- duced by Sun earlier this month SunWrite, SunPaint and SunDraw are based on the Open Look inter- face developed by Sun and AT&T. Sun expects to have « broader selection of software, however, by the time the SPARCstations ship, sources said. In addition, the new machines are likely to include a DOS emulator, like the one ayail- able for the Sun386i. 5 users in need of adapter cards, the wail been the hardest part. at least a behind sel TokenTalk is ‘undergoi third software rewnite sources said, “We desperately ring cards so we ¢ Maes on our IB! information “We're breath for seen hide dict that token-rin, ‘MocWEEK 28 March 1989 Lawsuit Continued from Page 1 ment. “We are extremely pleased that the court has upheld the valid. ity and relevance of the 1985 set- tlement agreement and interprets the meaning of the license in a way that is consistent with our posi- tion,” said William Neckous Microsoft's vice president of law and corporate affairs Despite this attempt to put a rosy glow on the order, the imme- diate effect of the ruling was, as one analyst said, “not good for Microsoft.” The company’s stock already battered by s that earn. ings in the next quarter will fall short of last year’s, dropped more than four points on March 17, the day the judge disclased his opinion. closing at $46.50. In the wake of the de: rumors of a possible out-of-court settlement abound. A new agree- ment could take the form of royalty payments from Microsoft to Apple -d visual ision for the use of the contes displays, according to industry observers. Microsoft Chairman Bill that the id soon Gates recently predicte suit would come to a regardless of the summary judg- ment ruling However, that was well before this month’s hearing, and counsel for both sides appear to be pre- pared to argue the case before U.S. District Court Judge Wiliam Schwerzer rejected Microsoft's defense that Windows 7.03 Is covered under its 1985 license ogreement with Apple. a jury: The case has been distilled to two central issues, the originality of the Macintosh interface and the degree of similarity between it and the allegedly infrin software. 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Microsoft will argue that the various elements of Windows 2.03 fall into three cate- gories, all legally protect- ed: ideas, or material from the public domain: visual displays licensed under the 1985 agree ment for Windows 1.0, and original work by Microsoft “In effect, Microsoft will be splitting the inter- face away layer by layer, like an onion,” said Jack Russo, an intellectual- property attorney with Nelson & Russo in Palo Alto, Calif. “Apple, on the other ay will address the entire work and attempt to prove that if it looks like an onion and smells like an onion. then it is an onion.” After sitting on the sidelines during the first phase of the litigation, co-defendant Hewlett-Packard will take an active role in arguing the copyright issue. During the hear ing, counsel representing HP said that they intend to question the originality of Apple's work. “Apple did have access to the work of oth- ers, most notably Xerox, and there is a threshold question as to 7 News a5 OT ST whether Apple has any [valid] copyright,” said Jonathan Marshall an attorney for HP. Apple counsel Brown countered that he is prepared to demonstrate the originality of the Mac interface. As to HP's New Wave, he said, “Our allegation is that that’s a work derivative from our work Schwarzer’s decisions on these issues could set a precedent for the legal community, bat in the mean- » “it's business as usual” for ndows developers, said Heidi Roizen, president of T/Maker of Mountain View, Calif, which is developing a line of Windows prod- ucts. “This is definitely not a nail in the coffin of Windows,” she said. body doing Windows devel- opment is worried about the law- suit,” said William Corfield, presi- dent of The Windows Support Group Inc. in New York. Cornfield also said that if Microsoft is forced to change Windows in any way, his code could be easily adapted to a new version of the software. “We could be non-violating in a matter of days if need be. 5 NeXT graduates into business world By Doniel Farber Palo Alto, Calif, — NeXT Inc. is apparently graduating from college and taking up residence in the business world The company has reportedly inked a distribution deal with Busi- essland Inc., the leading desktop computer retailer to businesses XT is expected to announce the ment at a press conference “It would be a smart alliance,” said David Bunnell of Io Publishing in San Mateo, Calif. “Businessland is by far the most technically astute nix-based workstations a lot of support Peter Hayes, Businessland’s director of marketing, declined to comment, as did NeXT officials, According to sources, the San Jose, Calif.-based chain will begin offering the NeXT Computer tem and IBM PC RT workstations running the NeXT software environ- ment later this spring. Developers miliar with the n ine, however, don’t expect the system software to be finalized until the summer. Retail pricing for the NeXT machine is expected to be far higher than the original $6,500 price offered to educational users for the base system, which doesn’t include a hard disk or laser printer. 6 Macintosh viruses Virex, the first comprehensive solution to the threat of Macintosh viruses, both DETECTS AND REPAIRS infected programs on files, disks and servers. Virex combats all known Macintosh viru- ses, including Scores, nVIR, Hpat, Init29 and ANTI. Virex uses a simple icon-driven interface that makes It easy to use. Just select a disk, click the diagnose or repair icon, and let Virex do its work. Virex is updated when new viruses occur, and users are eligible to subscribe to an inexpensive update service. Virex runs on the Plus, SE, SE/30, Hand Ilx. T ™ HJC Software, Inc. (© 1900 NU Samar nc fi P.O. Box $1816 hapsaeqerey | Dumham, NC 27717 Merton n torn sortwane (919) 490-1277 ee Coens, tt News Apple looks down the ISDN channel Mac ISDN card in development By Emily Brower Scottsdale, Ariz. — The Macin- tosh is poised to become the ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Net- work) platform of the 1990s, and | Apple is paving the way with the development of an internal Mac ISDN card, sources said. Earlier this month, the Mac played a starring role in AT&T's premier demonstration of ISDN applications for business. Along with Timbuktu Remote from Faral- lon Computing of Berkeley, Calif Macs were used to show off the capabilities of ISDN networks Steve Nussbaum of Bell Labora- tories in Naperville, Ill, said Bell and Apple are discussing ISDN development at various levels “Apple is working on an ISDN card. In combination with ISDN, Apple would like to see the Mac become a super-fancy telephone.” said another source. A termi adapter card is necessary to tal full advantage of the 64-Kbytes- er-second (Kbps) bandwidth of asic-rate ISDN, Apple’s manager of strategic alliances, Bob MeNinch, acknowl- edged that the company is looking at ISDN and other fiber-optic stan- dards, but said that Apple does not intend to drive acceptance of ISDN by introducing hardware before fiber-optic cabling becomes Cy generally available. “Our position is that we will run on top of whatever the customers want,” he said. But MeNinch was enthusiastic about the use of the Mac and Tim- buktu Remote to showcase ISDN’s capabilities. “Putting voice and data together is going to be a great application,” he said Nussbaum used a combination of Macs and R-Servers from Solana Electronics of San Diego to create a wide-area AppleTalk network over ISDN. Graphics and text were transferred between Macs over ISDN at 19.2 Kbps and then flowed into a PageMaker docu- ment. With Timbuktu Remote sending the screen image over one of the ISDN voice/data channels, the document appeared on two Macs simultaneously while their users discussed the layout over the other channel. Although Nussbaum conceded that this configuration could be created currently by combining several non-ISDN phone lines, high-speed modems and R-Servers, he argued that ISDN’s price and ease of use offer great advantages “For one-and-a-half times the price of a regular phone line,” he said, “you get three times the perfor- mance over the network and a simultaneous voice connection.” 3 Desk accessory links Macs and CL/1 databases Interface makes queries a snap By John Battelle Fairfield, lowa — CL/1, Apple's anacea for host database access, Rasa't shipped yet, but Fairfield Software already has a desk acces- sory implementation of the SQL- based connectivity language out the door. Fairfield’s ClearAccess DA gives users easy access to any database supported by CL/1, including Beer Oracle, Ingres, Informix and Rdb systems running on Digi- tal Equipment Corp. VAXes, as well as programs running under Apple's A/UX, according to Gerald Caussade, president of Fairfield Software. The program provides a potarasdeaie interface to simplify creation of queries to the host database. While CL/1 is employed to handle communications and data manipulation with the host, ClearAccess offers a series of dialog boxes, accessible from the icon-based main window, for building the queries. The program puts the data it returns on the Mac clipboard, from which the user can paste it to any Mac- intosh application. A scripting facility is included to help administrators automate data access, including such tasks as log- ging onto host computers or mak- ing specific database queries. ~The scripting facility allows MIS to cre- ate executive information systems,” Caussade said. “ClearAccess is intuitive,” said Sushil Da Silva, a software engineer at Jet Propulsion Labora- tories in Pasadena, Calif, Da Silva is responsible for building an inter- face boa Macintosh workstations to an Rdb database. “I could u: it without opening the manual,” he said. CW/, which was developed by Apple subsidiary Network Innova- tions of Cupertino, Calif., will eventually be enhanced to provide access to databases on IBM main- frames as well as a broad variety of Unix systems. ClearAccess requires that CL/1 Server Software, prerelease ver- sions of which are already in use at many large sites, be installed on the host computer. The DA is available now at an introductory price of $149 per user, including free upgrades for a year, Caussade said Site licensing is also available, as is network design and consulting through Fairfield’s parent compa- ny, United Networks. ' Fairfield Software is located at 100 S. 23rd St., Fairfield, Iowa 52556; (515) 472-7077, 0 [(S File Edit View Special ci7A Clearficcess™ The ClearAccess desk accessory from Fairfield Software provides users with o poiat-and-dick interface to host database systems supported by CL/1, the SQL-besed connectivity language. MocWEEK 28 March 1969 Bandwidths for on-line communications “*Bosicrate ISDN” running over copper wire currently offers two 64-Kbps voice data chan- nels. With fiber-optic cabling, totol available bandwidth could reach 2.2 Gbps, enough for real-time animation and video conferencing as depicted in the Knowledge Navigator video. Enthusiasm for ISDN- is far from unanimous — ISDN, short for Integrated Services Digital Network, is the great telecommunications mys- tery of the 1980s and '90s. AT&T. and Northern Telecom are trying to sell it, Jean-Louis Gassée, pres- ident of Apple Products, said he thinks the government should regulate it, and the general public is still wondering what it is. Technically, ISDN is a network standard that sends digital data over fiber-optic cabling or copper telephone wires. “Basic- rate ISDN,” the service the phone companies are trying to sell now for use on copper-wire phone lines, consists of three data lines: two “B” channels, each carrying voice and data at 64 Kbytes per second (Kbps). and one 16-Kbps “D” channel used for network signaling, including such tasks as dialing and establishing connections. Basic-rate ISDN service is already available in Europe and in some U.S. cities, Voice communications from the telephone and data from the computer are converted to and from ISDN format via a terminal adapter, which can be included in an ISDN telephone, an internal card or a separate external device, For those who seek still higher speed and can afford to pay for it, some phone companies are offer. ing a prime-rate ISDN option Prime rate ISDN can transfer one stream of data at 1.5 Mbps or 24 streams of data at 64 Kbps over copper Wire. But the real potential for global telecommunications lies in broad- band ISDN. In the far future, when every home and office in the entire phone network is con- verted to fiber-optic cabling, the total bandwidth available could reach 2.2 Gbits per second. Such bandwidth is essential for the real-time animation and video conferencing depicted in Apple's Knowledge Navigator video. Experts predict, however, that broadband ISDN is still between’ five and 10 years away, and a raft of regulatory and economic problems remain to be solved. Gassée said earlier this month at Seybold Seminars ‘89 that phone company foot on ISDN “will only be sol the [feder- al] government coming in and saying “This is it’ ” In the meantime, proponents of other fiber nance such as Sonet (Synchronous Optical Network) and FDDI (Fiber Dis- tributed Data Interface), criticize the speed and cost of ISDN. Henri Aebischer, Apple's director of networking and communica- tions product marketing, calls ISDN “too little, too late and too much money, “There’s more interest in FDDI,” he added. “Who really cares about 64 Kbps when 100 Mbps can be available?” But ISDN’s supporters, such as Reese Jones, president of Far- allon Computing of Berkeley, Calif, are as tough on FDDI as Aebischer is on ISDN. “It's a transient technology that will not last,” Jonts said. 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(Never mind that the two computers are essentially identical and that the Plus has a better keyboard and mouse.) We're talking about serious problems; the third-party hardware market. When the Mac Plus was intro- duced, Apple didn’t even have a SCSI hard disk ready for it, and the company showed the new computer using a SuperMac DataFrame drive. Apple has no video card for its new SE/30, so the color ar touted in the press release don’t exist without products from Raster- Ops, SuperMae and MegaGraphics, Since the Mac’s early days, com- panies like GCC Technologies have provided Macintosh customers with the things that Apple left out: internal hard drives, high-speed processors, QuickDraw printers and more. Apple has voiced sup- port for its Mac “partners” but occasionally pulls the rug out from under them with Apple-labelled equivalents. Apple's current price structure is putting dangerous pressure on the third parties. A glance at the offi- cial price list shows individual sys- tem components priced with rea- sonable margins that leave room for other vendors. An 80-Mbyte hard disk is $1,800, and 2 Mbytes of RAM list for $1,000. A closer look turns up the prob- lem. Stripped Mac systems are. eae Fatt low) Macs are pri i . The difference between a basic $E/30 and one with 4 Mbytes of RAM and an 80-Mbyte disk is only $2,200. Apple's list price for those ‘components separately is $3,700, Subtract eed for the an ie megabyte and you've still got a dif- ference that's Tard to ene The only explanation we can think of is a monopolistic pricing strategy designed to drive the crucial third-party vendors out of the market. It's reminiscent of IBM's massive legal battles of the past, Radius, GCC and other Macin- tosh pioneers are cutting prices to. compete, but we ond iore long they can hold out. 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MacWEEK 28 March 1989 New typesetters | with links to Mac shown at Seybold By Cliff Lehman San Francisco — Several new typesetters sporting links with the Mac emerged from the Seybold Seminars '89 here this month. > Digital Technology International (DTI) of Orem, Utah, showed its SpeedSetter series of PostScript-clone typesetters in a suite off the show floor. The three typeset- ters, all based on a PostScript clone from Hyphen Editorial Systems of Norfolk, land, are the SpeedSetter SS-72, pri $25,995, the SS-94, which costs $38,99. SS-108 at $124,995. The $ 94 are driven by a software raster image pro- cessor (RIP) that resides in a Mac II with 8 Mbytes of memory. The output is provided by a laser imaging engine from Ultre Corp of Port Washington, N.Y., that allows resolu- tions of 600, 1,200 and 2,400 dpi. The SS-108 consists of the Pelbox, a high- end raster image recorder from ECRM of Tewksbury, Mass., driven by a hardware ver- sion of the Hyphen interpreter running on a 68020 applications processor, DTI said it has installed the SS-108 at the London Evening Standard and the New York Daily News newspapers > Optronics, a Chelmsford, Mass.-based division of Intergraph Corp., announced that it has started shipping its $110,000 Color- Setter 2000. With a PostScript-clone inte preter from Custom Applications Ine. of Billerica, Mass., the unit can spit out color separations in approximately 2.08 minutes, the company said. The typesetter can pro- vide halftone screens exceeding 200 lines per inch on 20-by-26-inch film The 2,000-dpi machine is loaded with 16 Mbytes of RAM (expandable to 120 Mbytes) and a 556-Mbyte hard disk, with space for up to four more and options for two read-write optical disks. The ColorSetter system allows access from 1BM PCs and Unix or Intergraph worksta- tions, as well as the Mac. It supports both: AppleTalk and token-ring network > Pre-Press Technologies announced that it is shipping SpectreSetter, a typesetter based on Optronic’s ColorSetter. Spectre- Setter prices range from $105,000 to $135,000, depending on the configuration. Like the ColorSetter, the device supports several interface possibilities, including AppleTalk, Ethernet, token-ring and SCSI > Chelgraph Ltd. of Cheltenham land, announced tha a PostScript clone to be available by mid-1989 on a new controller for its IBX typesetters will include an Apple~ Talk interface for direct connection to Mac intosh networks. The price has not been set The controller will include Hyphen’s Post Script interpreter, a Motorola 88000 RISC reduced instruction set computing) processor and a 150-Mbyte hard disk. The controller al- so will include Chelgraph’s own ACE lang Digital Technology International is located | at 500 W. 1200 South, Orem, Utah $4055, 801) 226-2984 Optronics is located at 7 Stuart Road Chelmsford, Mass. 01824; (508) 256-4511 Pre-Press Technologies Ine. is located at 543 Encinitas Blvd., Suite 114, Encinitas Calif, 92024; (619) 753-0194. Chelgraph Limited is located Court High St., Cheltenham € 0242) 582442. Berkeley 2 6DA England. MocWEEK 28 March 1989 Tallgrass Technologies unveils 40-, 100-Mbyte hard drives | By Renee Mathews Overland Park, Kan. — Tallgrass Tech- nologies recently unveiled 40- and 100 Mbyte hard drives for the Macintosh. The company’s 4000 Disk Series line ExpressWrite DA performs mail merges By Henry Norr Cincinnati — Exodus Software has joined the desk accessory word processor race with ExpressWnite, a DA tailored specifically for writing letters and merging them with address information from database files. Like QuickLetter, a DA released late last year by Working Software of Santa Cruz, Calif, Exodus’ ExpressWnite allows all fonts, and styles to be combined within a single document. It can open text files and MacWrite-format documents from other msfandlcan save user settings /as prc stationery Two unique ExpressWnte features are: > Its Standard Paragraph command, which allows users to store frequently used material and enter it without retyping, P Its extensive mail-merge capabil ities. Using a syntax similar to Microsoft Word’s merge function, the program can fill in business letters, labels and envelopes with data imported in tab-delimit- ed text file form from virtually any database or spreadsheet. ExpressWrite can also directly open files saved with Exodus’ database DA, Retriever. T've been asking at the Mac club here for a product like this for years,” said Rick Walkenhorst, a real estate consultant with Ventress and Walkenhorst of Cincinnati. “I spend most of my time with Excel and Ready,Set,Co!. Every once in a while the phone will ring and someone will say, ‘Can you send me a lit information about that property on Main Street? I used to have to quit what J was doing, but now I have sta- tionery all set up in ExpressWrite and I can get the note out right away,” Exodus Software is located at 8620 Winton Road, Suite 304, Cincinnati, Ohio 45231 513) 522-0011 | cc) DoB728692) ExpressWrite, the new desk occessery word processor | from Exodus Software, lets users send mail-merge | documents without leaving their main application. includes both internal (SDi) and external SDe) versions, with average access times of 28 milliseconds for the 40-Mbyte models and milliseconds for the 100- Mbyte drives. The external drive cabinet can also be con- figured with either a second 40- or 100- Mbyte drive or a tape backup product, The tape drive offers a capacity of 40 Mbytes or, with extended-length data cartridges, 60 Mbytes, according to Kent Jennings, director of marketing. Both systems are based on 3.5- inch Rodime drive mechanisms. They are bundled with Electronic Arts’ Disk- Tools Plus desk accessory collection, which includes an icon-interface file man agement DA, an on-line phone book, and scientific and RPN calculators The drives are available immediately. List prices are $1,095 for the TG-40 SDi, $1,895 for the TG-100 SDi, $1,395 for the TG-40 SDe and $2,195 for the TG-100 SDe. Prices for expanding the external systems with a second drive or tape drive are set at $1,095 and $1,895 for a 40- or 100-Mbyte drive, respectively, and $895 for the 40/60- Mbyte tape backup system Tallgrass Technologies is located at 11100 W. 82nd St., Overland Park, Kan. 66214; or (913) 492-6002; ($00) 825-4727 Introducing Macintosh Software For Publishing Financial And Scientific Tables Other Operating Ri levenues, ABC Corp. 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HyperPublisher shown at Seybold T File Edt Poge Growse Layout Tent Attributes Layouts Merges database with page layout By Connie Guglielmo San Francisco — CliMacS is looking for a U.S. partner to mar- ket HyperPublisher, its database publishing program for the Mac. The Swedish developer, which exhibited the program at the Sey- bold Seminars “89 here this month, has been working on Hyper- Publisher for two years and expects it to be completed by August, said Keith Elkin, CEO of CliMacS. HyperPublisher combines a database program with page-layout capabilities. The program is designed to create any document that contains repetitive or recur- rent information that needs to be frequently changed or updated, including catalogs, directories, con- tracts and price lists. The database may contain text, graphics and even layouts — a page of text and graphics — as records or entries. Users have full database management functions, Elkin said. HyperPublisher contains import commands for importing data from Mac database programs. Users can also import Word, MacWrite and ASCII text files as well as images stored in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), tag image file format (TIFF) or PICT files. The database is linked to the lay- out program, which means database _ Soa) oT | Ss needs to be frequently updated. entries can be positioned automati- cally on pages. If a database entry is updated, the user can easily lay out the document again. “One example is the manufactur- er who puts together a catalog of the parts he sells,” Elkin said. “The parts can be listed in the database. If the prices change, you change the database and lay out the catalog in. You don't have to go into the layout and cut and paste.” In addition, users can sort entries to create documents that are a sub- set of the database. If a customer calls to request specific product information, HyperPublisher could HyperPublisher, to be completed by August, is designed for documents with information that ‘The database can contain text, graphics and layouts. generate a personalized catalog with only that information. Layout and text-handling fea- tures include rules, boxes, a built-in text editor, kerning, automatic hyphenation and justification, and automatic image scaling. HyperPublisher also contains a function library with time, date, mathematical, logical, statistical and financial functions. In addition, the pee has a built-in language that ts users write commands to auto- mate the layout process, Elkin said. CliMac$ is located at Linnégatan 56, Stockholm S$ 114 54, Sweden; 46-8-665-4080. 0 RasterOps boards for 32-bit QuickDraw Developers get “full chunky” cards By John Battelle Cupertino, Calif. — Although Apple has hort the release date of its 32-bit “full chunky” implemen- tation of QuickDraw in question, RasterOps Corp. this month shipped to developers what it con- siders to be an answer. More than a year ago, while Apple was mulling over its plans for a scheme that will provide 24 bits of color and eight bits for additional video effects, Raster- Ops shipped the first line of 24- bit color boards. Although the current version of QuickDraw only supports eight-bit color, RasterOps engineered around the problem with a “three-pass” system whereby each pixel is passed over once for red, once for green and once for blue. This technology, for which RasterOps uses a Texas Instruments 34010 graphics accelerator, is called “chunky planar.” Now RasterOps is shipping three boards to developers that it said are fully compatible with Apple's forth- coming 32-bit QuickDraw: > The ColorBoard 124, a full chunky replacement for RasterOps’ 24-bit chunky planar ColorBoard 104, available for $4,995, > The ColorBoard 224, a 24-bit board that operates in one-, two-, four-, eight- or 24-bit modes at an 800-by-600-pixel resolution (16 inch) or a 1,024-by-768-pixel reso- lution (19 inch). The board retails for $5,195. > The ColorBoard 232, a $3,995 board that works in one-, two-, four-, eight-, 24- and 32-bit modes with a 13-inch (640-by-480-pixel resolution) monitor only. Optional video input and output features and effects for the Color- Board 224 and 232 will be available 60 to 90 days after the board ships. Users who trade in their Raster- Ops chunky planar boards will receive more than $2,000 credit toward a 32-bit board, according to Bob Sherwood, the company’s mar- keting director. TrueVision Corp. of Indianapolis shipped a full chunky-compatible board in March 1988. In January, SuperMac Technology of Sunny- vale, Calif, shi ee a 32-bit card to developers, while Radius Corp, of San Jose, Calif,, also is working on 32-bit products. Like RasterOps, all three companies are waiting for Apple’s software, code-named Jack- son Pollack, before they deliver 32- bit end-user systems, “Apple has the starting about time they fired it. 1 jar ket is ready for 32-bit color,” said Sohail Malik, graphics and imaging analyst at Dataquest in San Jose. RasterOps Corp. is located at 10161 Bubb Road, Cupertino, Calif. 95014; (408) 446-4090. 0 This image was created on Ras terps’ Color- Board 224, which complies with ‘Apple's 32-bit full dunky Quick- Draw. RasterOps shipped the board 10 developers earlier this month, it's News EY i ale nS CMS Enhancements releases removable-cartridge disk drive Tustin, Colif. — CMS Enhancements Inc. recently added a removoble-ca disk drive to its already extensive list of mass storage products. The MacStack Removoble, on external unit based on a SyQuest drive anism, features on average access time of 25 millseconds. Its 5.25-inch cartridges store 44 Mbytes of dato. The MacStack Removable, bundled with one cortridge, is avoilable imme (714) 259-5836. Page Studio Graphics expands line of special-purpose fonts Chandler, Ariz. — Page Studio Graphics this month added two new sets of iakpurpose number fonts ond two collections of astrology and astronomy symbols to its line of pictorial fonts in PostScript format. an PIXymbols 8010/12, with two fonts in one $95 package, provides letters and numbers in rectangular boxes and circles for coding and indexing. PIXymbols 8022 is designed for documents that contain fractional weights, measures, portions and aT 36] [Kn4] 9} dosages, Priced at $65, it includes orithmetic symbols, integers, numerators and denominators. The $125 PlXymbols 8051 and $65 subset, 8052, include zodiac glyphs and related symbols. Page Studio Graphics is located at 3175 N. Price Road, Suite 1050, Chandler, Ariz. 85224; (602) 839-2763. You can read about Microsoft Word 4.0, but you can’t use it ; Berkeley, Calif: — You stil con't buy Microsoft Word 4.0— the latest word ” from the company’s headquarters is, as usual, “next month” — but you can already read oll about it. At least one Word 4 book, Poul Hoffman’s “Microsoft Word Made Easy for the Macintosh,” third edition, from Osborne McGravetil, began shipping last month, while The Cobb Group’s “Word 4 Companion” should be on the shelves early next month. Hoffman‘s 378-poge poperback combines o survey of Word's features with scores of screen dumps, tutorial exercises ond review questions for each of its 86 lessons. “Word 4 Companion” by Gena Cobb, Allon McGuffey ond Judy Mynhier is not a tuto- fiol but an 864-poge compendium of tips and techniques. About 50 pages, for instance, are devoted to using Word's style sheets, while sections of similar length over Version 4.0's toble-moking tools, its extensively enhanced customization capa- bilifies ond the AutotMac utility bundled with the package. Hoffman's “Microsoft Word Made Easy for the Macintosh” is priced at $19.95, while The Cobb Group’s “Word 4 Companion” will be $22.95. Microscience releases midsize hard drives for OEMs Sunnyvole, Calif. — Microscience Intemational Corp. has unveiled two mi 3.S-inch hard drive mechanisms for the OEM market. ‘Model 4060 offers o formatted copacity of 68 Mbytes, ond the 4090 has a 9 Mbyte copocity. 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Adams Austin, Texas — National Instru ments Corp. has announced the its line of low-cost data acquisition boards for the Macintosh. Scheduled to ship in June, the $695 Lab-NB is a multi function analog, digital and timing VO plug-in board for the Macin- tosh IL, Tx and Ilex The Lab-NB includes two 12-bit analog output channels and eight analog input channels that monitor external systems at rates of up to 60 kHz. Twenty-four digital /O lines communicate with digital equip. ment such as relays, printers and second entry other computers. By sacrificing a few of the functions and a little speed, we have cut costs nearly in half of our ext line of boards,” said Richard product manager for b-NB LabDriver tware includes ready-to- software routines. The $95 ackage also includes interfaces for : amming languages uch as MPW C, Lightspeed C and Microsoft Basic I looked at several inexpensive woards, and the price/performance ratio [of the National board] seemed best,” said Dr. Carlos Davila, bioengine at Southern Methodist University Davila uses Natio $595 Lab-SE, a version of the board for the Mac SE that was released earlier this year. 0382; (800) 531-4742. LANAI ring researcher NOBODY EVER GOT FIRED DOS ON A MAC FOR RUNNING Afterall, running MS-DOS® on a Macintosh® opens the door to thousands of software programs only available for the PC. And there’s only one software package that brings true MS-DOS compatibility to a Mac I, IDX, or 68020-accelerated SE. SoftPC® SoftPC enables you to run all the PC best-sellers — Lotus® 1-2-3? WordPerfect? etc. — on the Mac. And those PC programs developed in-house for special purposes You can even use PC and Mac programs at the same time, thanks to SoftPC and Apple's MultiFinder” Copy and paste between PC and Macintosh applications, And when you finish, all infor- mation can be stored on the same Macintosh hard disk PUT YOURSELF ON THE FAST TRACK No boards . . . No hassles SoftPC is easy to install and upgrade. Just like you'd expect from any Macintosh application Double-click. among other things. als National Instruments Corp. is located at 12109 Technology Blvd., Austin, Texas 7! any aOR SALES National Instruments’ Lob-NB date acquisition boord includes two 12-bit analog output chan- nels and eight onclog input channels. An SE version, the Lab-SE, was released earlier is year. Davila’s research will help anes- thesiologists monitor patient brain wave responses during surgery 512) 250- News Connect and AppleLink join DASnet mail service | By Emily Brower Campbell, Calif. — Connect Inc and Apple’s AppleLink recently joined the long list of communica tions networks hooked up through DA Systems’ internetwork mail routing service, DASnet For AppleLink users, the prima- ry benefit of this new link is the ability to exchange mail with researchers and educational institu: tions through the Internet. Accord- ing to Russell Briggs, president of DA Systems, “the Internet” is an informal term for a grouping of networks, including BITNET, Arpanet and NSFnet, that exchange mail. Connect customers will get links not only to the Internet but also to EasyLink, Telemail, INET, which includes the American Bar Associa- tion’s ABA/net, and other commer- cial mail services. Apple’s link to the Internet via DASnet's gateway was spon- sored by its higher-education department, according to Anna Li DA Systems’ marketing manager. Last year Apple estab lished a direct link between AppleLink and BITNET through DASnet, but the new move extends the mail connection throughout the Internet Essentially, what DASnet does is give “domain addresses,” recog- nized throughout the Internet, to networks like AppleLink and Con- nect’s MacNET. The domain address includ ers standard AppleLink or Connect address The DASnet gateway recognizes the domain address and routes the mail to the addressee To send mail through DASnet, either the sender or the receiver of the message needs to be a subscriber. If both are part of DASnet, the sender picks up the cost of routing the message via DASnet Among the more than 25 sys- tems accessible through DASnet are most of the major electronic mail services in the United States, Twics in Japan, GreenNet in Britain and GeoMail, which has hosts throughout Europe. DA Systems Inc. is located at 1503 E. Campbell Ave., Campbell, Calif, 95008; (408) 559-7434. 0 SEEING IS BELIEVING Don't take our word for it Visit the nearest computer dealer and ask for a demonstration of SoftPC. It's a safe approach To find the dealer closest to you, call 800-848-7677. Insignia Insignia Solutions Inc 787 Lucerne Drive Sunnyeute Calfornia 910865 Tel (408) 522 ™ rademarks and ® registered tracdemaria of their reapective Companies 20 5 Opinion Letters Traditional type industry unimpressed with ruling MacWEEK’s assertion (Feb. 14, “Copyright issue rocks type industry) that “the type industry” was turned “on its head” by a Copyright Office decision in September 1958 confirming that typeface designs (digital or other- wise) are still not subject to copy- right makes one wonder exactly what “type industry” you are talk- ing about. Certainly not the industry of professional typographers, such as those represented by this associa- tion. Certainly not the traditional manufacturers of typesetting equipment and fonts, some of ssfootn have been at ft for 100 years. We would hardly be tumed on our heads by a reaffirmation of the Copyright Office’s longstanding position that the public’s right to the alphabet precludes anyone's monopolization of a “mere varia- tion” of the design thereof. Your worries about “the quality The best purchase of my life occurred in January 1978 when I spent $1,295 plus tax — most of my life savings at the time — on an Apple II microcomputer (serial number 1703) with 16 Kbytes of RAM. I was instantly delighted, and the deeper I dug into it, the more excited I became. Not only could I finally afford to have my own computer, but the one I got turned out to be magical: it was better than J ever thought it could be! I started spending most of my free time with my Apple, and then most of my not-so-free time, exploring the various technical aspects of the system. As I taught myself 6502 assembly language from the monitor listing that came with the machine, it became clear to me that this was no ordinary product — the coding style was crazy, whimsical and outrageous, like every other part of the design (especially the hi-res color graphics screen). It was clearly the work of a passionate artist. Eventually, 1 tea so obsessed with the Apple II that I had to go to work at the place that created it. I abandoned graduate school and started work as a systems programmer at Apple in August 1979, Even though the Apple I was overflowing with both technical and marketing genius, the best thing about it was the spirit of its creation. It was not conceived or designed as a product in the usual sense; it was just Steve Wozniak trying to impress himself and his of typeface design” are belied by the Pact that, even ati copy- right protection, le are Pouing out of ta eeodware to design and sell “desktop” typefaces that include some of the worst designs ever seen by humans, while good designers of the caliber of Zapf and Veljovic work on undeterred. Next time you want to know what is or is not turning the type industry on its head, ask the type industry. And don’t rely on sources who claim to have “discovered” the world of typography in just the past couple of years. Richard N, Weltz past president, Typographers International Association Washington, D.C. MacWEEK replies: The article was referring specifically to the digitized typeface industry, a point we should have made clear: Ashton-Tate support safety net breaks down I purchased FullWrite Pro- fessional shortly after its release on Mac Soapbox ANDY HERTZFELD Waiting for Apple’s next revolution friends. Most of th employees we early Apple own ideal customers, The Apple II was simul- taneously a work of art and the ful- fillment of a dream, shared by Apple's employees and customers Its unique spirit was picked up and echoed back by third-party devel- opers, who sprung out of nowhere with innovative applications. ‘The personal computer industry began to grow and evolve very rapidly w fae cones realized the extraordinary potent of personal computers. Apple's sales took off like a skyrocket as the Apple I became an established industry standard. By the time the early 1950s rolled around, many opportunists had come to both Apple and the personal computer ial Aug. 8, 1988. Realizing that the product support warranty period was 90 days, and after that avail- able for a fee, I made it a point not to call technical support until I had a really big project lined up and would need help to see me through. In the meantime my documents were being saved as FW Thesaurus documents, not FullWrite Profes- sional (documents), and therefore could not be opened from the Finder. In short, a bug. I called Ashton-Tate on ite 16, gave my serial number to the operator, was informed my support period had begun, and, was put through to the technician, He informed me it was a bug in the program and that either a “fixed” copy of the disk could be sent or I could use ResEdit to fix the problem. I opted for the fixed disk. ‘Two days later, realizing that my warranty period had begun, through no fault of my own, I wrote Ashton-Tate asking them to reassess the beginning of my war- ranty period. irty-six days have passed, and Ihave yet to receive the disk or an See Letters, Page 22 industry, pesos whose only con- cern was to make as much money as possi- ble. I started to become disillu- sioned when Apple hired many profes- sional managers who didn’t appreciate the magic of the Apple 1; mam ol ther would have been just as happy selling refrigerators. I probably oak have left Apple sometime in 1981 if I hadn't run across a tiny, sloppily wire-wrapped digital board created by Burrell Smith, a young technician who worked in the ser- vice department. Burrell wor- shipped Woz's Apple II design and had forged an idiosyncratic eae style that was even crazier than. Woz’, using many clever tricks to coax enormous functionality out of the minimum number of chips. Somehow Burrell’s embryonic Macintosh board reeked of the same creative spirit so prevalent in the Apple 1; 1 knew that I just had to a on the project Steve jot also became enam- ored with Burrell’s circuit board and quickly took over the tiny design group, moving it to a See Soapbox, Page 22 oom sa of MocWEEK 28 March 1989 Ss Editorial Apple should settle for a tactical victory Score one for Apple. The company has prevailed in the first round of its copyright battle with Microsoft and HewlettPockard. And with Microsoft now fidgeting behind the eight boll ofter Federal District Court Judge Wiliam Schwarzer’ ruling in favor of Apple in the two companies’ contract dispute, anolysts and case watchers are predict- ing on out-of-court settlement, A settlement might not serve the interests of the computer industry as a whole because the industry stands to gain from a legal ruling thot would set a precedent on the “look-and-feel” issues now left in the case. An out-of-court settlement that doesn’t result in a legal precedent simply leaves the door open for future lawsuits ver copyright and intellectual property. But for Apple, the Macintosh community and, most importantly, the Macintosh user, on out-of-court settlement mokes oll the sense in the world. Origin of the metaphor. We've consistently supported Apple’s tactics in seek- ing protection for its user interface even while we've questioned the legal volidity of the company's position. We see no reason to waver in that support now. By filing suit against Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard, Apple sowed doubt among prospective developers for those environments, thereby protecting the Mac’s softwore odvontage ond future business prospects. This defensive move was ond continues to be to the odvontage of Macintosh users, especially if Apple uses the time ond rev- enves gained to aggressively advance the Mac's underlying technology. Now that the contract dispute hos been decided, Schwarzer is intent on swiftly moving to the central copyright issues of the cose, which include the originality of the ‘Moc interface and the substantial similority between it ond Microsoft Windows. Apple might buy more time ond spread more uncertainty by carrying the cose through to completion. But why not avoid the risk of 0 loss that could outweigh the benefits of its first-round victory? Although Apple attorneys say they are prepared to prove the originality of the company’s expression of the desktop metaphor, no one fomilicr with the development of the Mac would deny that the ideas behind that metophor come from elsewhere, And if Schwarzer determines that Windows is just another expression of those ideas, Apple will not have a legal leg to stand on. Benefits vs. cost. Schwarzer’ first-round ruling on March 17 gives Apple the opportunity to use the hord:nose negotiating tactics for which Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates is famous. With the contract issue disposed of, Gotes may be willing to accept royalty agreement that would result in higher prices for competitive systems and a new revenue stream for Apple. Under such on agreement, Microsoft could continue development of Windows, thereby creating what it hopes will be the graphic interfoce stondord on the IBM PC cand PC compatibles. But the added cost of the royalty, if its set high enough, would moke 0 PC running Windows comparable in price to. a Mac. Apple customers would gain from a royalty agreement. Increased income avai able meons more money for the R&D on Apple's next generation of computers. And, in tum, Moc enthusiasts will be able to keep their positions as computing innovators. Apple moy insist in seeing the cose through, but it would then need o smashing vic- tory. A narrow ruling in Apple's favor i likely to be too narrow to bring the company the strategic benefits of o royalty agreement. 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