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Data Options Macro Window
Selected Five - Year Financial Data
(ia thousinds, except amployee and per share data)
1988 1987 1986 1985 1984
[Revenue end Costs
‘Net Revenues $432,806 | $318,663] $309,266 [ $239,656 | $207,907
Cost of Revenues 79,309} 165,570] 58,344] 40,710} 40,215}
Rani D 79,809] 52,3611 33,081] 21,420} 20,676}
Sales/Marketing 87,680] 88,108] 62,490] 48,99]
Gen Admin 27,653|__18,537|_ 12,594] 7,306]
Income from Operations $157,855 | ($5,913)/$142,756 [$121,221
‘Non-op Income 7,804) 6,630] 3,715] 2,008)
Income Before Taxes 165,659} 726) 146,471] 123,229)
Provision for Taxes 67,092| 294] __ 59,321] __ 49,903]
Net Income $98,567 | $432 | $87,150 | $73,321
Assets and Liskilities
Current Assets 223,579] 112,622] 79,282] 44,250
Net Property 75,468] 73,937] 41,209] 24,957
5,643|___3,764|__—_—3,673|__—_—«2. 400
$304,690 |$190, 323 [$124,164 | $71,615
ities 34,423) 18,319] 11,599] 5,077
Long-term Liabilities 4578) 4,114] 3,602] (3,293
Stockholder’s Equity 265,689] __167,390| _108,964| __ 63,245]
Total Liabilities and Equity | $304,690 |$190, 323 |$124, 164 | $71,615
‘Toleam more, call for the Microsoft Excel 2.2 brochure, (800) 541-1261, Dept. J72. Customers in Canale call 416) 673-9811. Outside North America, call (206) 882-8661. © Copyright 1989 Microseft Corporation.
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So have we.
Introduci
Microsoft Excel 2.2.
In 1985, not long after the Macintosh’
was unveiled, Microsoft’ Excel became the
most compelling reason to buy one.
Within minutes, it became a standard
on the Macintosh. Before we knewit, afull9
out of 10 Macintosh spreadsheet users were
swearing by it. Not sur-
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But, of course, we
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Microsoft Excel version 2.2 has come to the
small screen. Ina big way.
In mathematical terms, 2.2 is greater
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Equally outrageous: 40% faster calcula-
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per sheet, including up to six styles and eight
colors. You can change row height. You can
shade. And basically pack your documents
with more visual punch
than ever before.
Microsoft Excel
version 2.2. Another im-
provement designed to
make Mac’ enthusiasts
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Something 90% of youare a
to. And you other 10% easily can be.
lyused
Making it all make sense.
$60,000
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Monthly Profit By Product Line
SELECTED FIVE-YEAR FINANCIAL DATA
(ia thousands, except employee
‘and per share data}
1988 19871986 19851984
Revenue and Costs
‘Net Revenues $432,805 $358,663 $309,266 $239,456 $207,90
Cost of Revenues: 79,809 65,570 5844 40,710 4021
Rand D. 79809 52361 33,081 21420-2047
Sales/Marketing 87,680 83108 62490 48999 26,40
Gen Admin 2765318537 57308 8
INCOME FROM OPERATIONS
$157,855 $134,087 $142,756 $121,221 $116.08
Non-op Income 7804 663975 2008 138
Income Before Taxes 165659 140,726 146871123229 7A
Provision for Taxes TOR “ID “ASN «49984757
NET INCOME $96,567 $84,436 $87,150 $73,321 | $69,898
Assets and Liabilities
Current Assets 2357 112622 IPB 44256. 44,5
Net Property BAB 7393741209 SST 197
Other Assets Sos 3764367324
TOTAL ASSETS: $304,690 $190,323 $124,164 $71,615 $65,427
Current Liabilities BAB aI 11,509) sor 98
Long-term Liabilities 457 44323284
Stockholder's Equity 265,689 167890 108.964 __ 63.245 4
TOTALLIABILITIES &EQUITY $904,690 $190,323 $124,164 $71,615 | $6527
Working Capital 199642 173,408 «107,766 «= 11988977.
Number of Employees 34562707681 1390/18
| Common Stock Data
Net Income per Share $13 S19 $1902
Book Value per Share $455 355 $229 SMe
Cash and Investments $265 $160 $0B) SOAS
‘Average Shares Out 87535 8325844956 826,98
Shares Out/Year-end 8670 51305 26589159098
Key Ratios. a
Return on Net Revenues 23% 2% 28% 31%. 348
Return on Total Assets 20% 4% We We 07
Return on Stock Equi Bad 5% SOR 6 18
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INDUSTRY NOTES
Apple fares Suit |
larrowed
A Son Francisco court hos ruled that 1985
license agreements between Microsoft and
Apple invalidate most of Apple’s copyright
infringement claims in its suit against Micro-
soft and Hewlett-Packard, Other look-and-
feel questions, and the basic issue of copy-
righting interface design, remain to be
decided.
fie Sis SE Prices,
i, - the suggested retail price
of ll 68000-based SEs by $300 and added
the 1.4MB FDHD SuperDrive to the SE
models, which had previously had 800K
drives. The FDHD drives permit the transfer
of data files between Macs, DOS machines,
P5/25, and Apple Il systems, all on the same
Aoppy dish ;
Micron to Distribute Memory
through Microamerica —
‘Micron Technology one of the few U.S.
makers of DRAM chips for general sale, has
begun selling its ne of memory upgrades
through Microamerica. The products include
the Xceed line of memory boards for Macs.
Softsel to Distribute Nodem
LAN Interface
Sofisel Computer Products hos agreed to de
tribute Adaptec’s Nodem LAN interface unit,
cadevice for linking Mocs to Ethernet LANS.
Because the Nodem connects fo the SCS! port,
it can support all Macs from the Plus up.
The Source Hangs Up
CompuServe Information Service has pur-
chased The Source Telecomputing. The online
‘messaging and databose giant has shut down
The Source and incorporated its 53,000 cus-
tomers. At press time, CompuServe was
deciding which Source databases it would
provide access fo.
| Seiko Instruments US,
300-dpi Color Printers Start Under $7000
announced its GD-5500 series of single-user and network 300-dpi printers,
which range from low-end monochrome systems fo three- and four-color de in both single-user
and network printserving models. A monochrome, single-user printer with 1MB of RAM is priced at
$6995, A four-color network server version that contains 6MB of RAM and can output lelter- or
tabloid-size paper will sell for $13,995. The printers include 35 outline fonts and are compatible
with 32: -bit QuickDraw. Single-user versions were slated to ship in September, with network ver-
sions to follow ia October. For more information, call Seiko Instruments at 408/922-5800.
MultiSync Monitors Connect to Macs or PCs
NEC Home Electronics (U.S.A. has introduced three monitors that can work with either the Mac II
family or with IBM PCs and compatibles. The $3699. MultiSync 5D is a 20- inch color display that
works with VGA, 8514/A, or Mac Il conirollers at resolutions up to 1280 by 1024. The $1799
“MultiSync 4D iso 16inch monitor thot works with the same controllers al resolutions up to 1024 by
768. The $349 MulliSync GS2A is a 14:inch grayscale display. NEC expects to begin shipping
all three monitors in Seplember. For more information call NEC at 312/860-9500.
| PLI and Xyxis Ship Erasable Optical Drives
Peripheral land Inc. {PL!] and Xyxis Corporation have both begun shipping erasable optical disk
drives. PLl's device, called Infinity Optical, is based on a Sony magneto-optical drive. Infinity
‘Optical’s media can be formatted in sectors of either 512 bytes or 1024 bytes. The 51 2-byte
format stores 573MB on both sides of the disk and has an average access time of 75ms. The 1024
format stores 625MB with a 90ms access time. A one-drive version has a suggested retail price of
$5495, and a two-drive configuration lists for $10,995. "
The Xyxis drive, called the XYGOORW, stores up to 600MB with an average access time of 61ms,
| It lists for $4995. For more information call Pll at 415/657-2211, or Xyxis at 612/944-8288,
Maynard Enters Mac Market with Three Tape Drives
Maynard Electronics Corporation, a longtime player in the IBM PC backup arena, hes announced
three tape drives for the Mac. The MaynSiream 60, 150, and 2200HS can store 6OMB, 150MB,
and 2200MB, respectively. All three come with software that lets users choose from a variety of
options, including using Boolean logic to define what will be backed up. Now shipping, the
60MB drive lisis for $1595, the 1S5OMB model for $1895, and the helicalscan 2200MB version
sells for $7495. For more information, call Maynard at 407/331-6402. i
Anterleaf Slashes Price of Publishing Software
Interleat has reduced the price of Interleaf Publisher, its textand-graphics publishing software,
from $2495 to $995. Designed for the Mac Il, Interleaf Publisher includes word processing, graph-
ics manipulation, and automated desktop publishing capabilities. Interleaf is working on a version
for 68030-based Macs. For more information, contact Interleaf at 617/577-9800.
Microsoft Office to Ship on CD ROM
A version of The Microsoft Office—a bundled set of the latest versions of Excel, Ward, PowerPoint,
ond one Microsoft Mail node—should now be available on CD ROM with all the documentation in
HyperCard format and with special search algorithms to facilitate finding information. The tutorials
take advantage of CD ROM’s capabilities by, for example, using Farallon ScreenRecorder tapes in
(continues)
MACWORLD © OCTOBER 1989
INDUSTRY NOTES :
Mac Consultants to Enforce
Standards
The Macintosh Consultants Network is for-
‘mulating plans to ensure that its members
fallow the Network's code of ethics and is es-
tablishing procedures to resolve disputes be-
‘tween consultants and their clients. For more
information, call MCN at 206/453-2729.
Symantec: Q1 in the Black
Symantec dosed its first quarter after going
public last spring with profits of $1.24 mil-
lion on income of $11.2 millon, This com-
pares with a loss of $490,000 on income of
$8.8 million for the same period in 1988.
GCC Sets Up Direct Sales
Channel
‘Moc hardware pioneer GCC Technologies has
launched a direc soles campaign to market
its peripherals through mass catalog Liss
ings. Under the new program GCCis offer
overnight shipping for $9, 0 304 Hp
‘questions asked” money-back guarantee,
extended business hours, and. longer ware
rants. The company has asa added a tol:
free number (800/422.7777) fr arders
nd free technical support.
MacGuide Magazine Closes
The August issue of Denver-based MacGuide
wos the magazine's final issue. Last spring,
the quarterly Mac product catalog had at-
tempted to relaunch os a vertical market-
oriented monthly,
SuperMac to See Light of
SuperMac Technology has signed a national
distribution agreement with Computertand.
Computertand has 818 stores, and the two
companies expect sales of SyperMac products
fo reach $10 million the first year.
MGMStation Changes Hands
‘Micro CAD/CAM, the publisher of MGMSta-
tion, has been absorbed by Aura Systems, a
firm specializing in electromagnetics, electro-
oplits, microwave technology, and expert
systems. MGMStation CAD and MGMStation
CAD/CAM ore being renamed auraCAD and
curaCAD/CAM, respectively, For more
information, contact Aura Systems at
213/937-1406.
i place of static screen shols fo demonstrate featu in action. Th cD will als
bundled with IsiAid Kit for $159
Adding It Up
| new version also integrates into the SUM shell a backup 5 program. written | by the same co pany
ue Micro: ft e |i
selection nf templates. For more information contact Benware at 206/
Now with Twice the Security : ae SERA
ASD Software is preparing two products fo provide security to Mac users and admin’
Version 2.0 of FileGuard adds password prolecti ion |
copying, « and changing files; copying | oF launching r
abily to keep Wo mirror page backu
Both products should be ayailable now.
version is under development. At i press time, [wi
contact ASD Software a} 71 4/624-2594
IstAid Software’s Second Line of Defense —
The publishers of IsiAid Kit and Anti-Virw 5
products. Complete Undelete keeps 0 record ‘of the dir
files, allowing you to retrieve deleted files, A single CD
and tecovery, and @ special feature makes the drive delay overwriting deleted s
Sector Collector helps recover data from disk sectors thot haye gone. ba
sectors into a dummy file, preventing the drive from irying to write to them
user from having to reinitialize o hard disk after a sector goes b
Both Sector Collector and Complete | Undelete should be ava
The bundled set will inleg
\stAid Kit shell. For more information, call 617/7837) 18.
en ses ‘bad
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Making progress
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by Jerry Borrell
COMMENTARY
thas been a long six months since we
began producing Macworld through
electronic means. A time during which
we have matured in our use of the
tools and learned about the limitations of
electronic publishing technology. Our
travails have been made more difficult by
the evolution of the new design we put in
place in the May issue. The type was too
small in places, and our pages at times
seemed distracting due to overuse of dif-
ferent page elements to break up the
dense content of the articles, Our design-
ers needed time to learn to use the power
of page composition software effectively.
We felt all of the problems, much more
than most of our readers. In fact, the lack
of reader response to our changes was—
deafening. Still, we knew our work was
being observed. lle, a magazine with our
size format, even sent a team of designers
to study how we work. Our sins may have
been multitudinous, but the onlookers
were asking how we were making our
mistakes.
Today we are at a stage where de-
signer Dennis McLeod brings full page
proofs (minus illustrations) to content and
approval meetings with the editorial staff.
We view layouts of various sections of the
magazine at an early stage, when it is
possible to make
changes fairly pain-
lessly. Our designers’
demand for Laser-
Writer IINTX output
has outgrown the
one machine in the
department. We use
our QMS ColorSeript
100 to evaluate color
type, illustrations,
even cover concepts.
We've installed the
first of the 24-bit color
boards from Super-
Mac Technology that drive Apple’s 13-
inch monitor, and we are testing the
under-$1000 board from terOps that
does the same, Our copy editors are even
being equipped with full page displays, so
they can make changes to electronic forms
of manuscripts.
Just in time for our September issue we
implemented a beta version of the 24-bit
MACWORLD © OCTOBER 1989
color extension for PageMaker, called
PageMaker Color Extension. Soon there-
after, swearing could be heard at odd
hours, bouncing off cubicle walls. Cer-
tainly the extensions were a boon in
allowing us to specify tint (mechanical or
process) colors directly within PageMaker,
and in potentially saving us time and
money in the stripping phase of page
composition, but we ran into problems. A
number of pages within the first set came
up missing color in type and images. At
times, entire, pages disappeared during
processing cycles on the Linotronic. One
particular set of tricky issues revolves
around color type that’s knocked (re-
versed) out of a black background, requir-
ing a workaround in order to make an ef-
fective trap for the type.
We've had better results with the Bar-
neyscan Slide Scanner, which give
ability to look at 35mm images incorpo-
rated into page layouts. Unfortunately,
most of our images come from profes-
sional photographers who use 125mm
film, and we still have no way to scan
those in-house and must rely on tradi-
tional service bureau methods (a Crosfield
laser scanner). But for departments and
news sections that use the lower-quality
transparencies, the Barneyscan offers
new potential to graphic arti
page designs.
sus the
s evaluating
VISIONARY
Another long-awaited event, our test of
the Scitex Visionary system, finally hap-
pened. The appointed day came and a
group of us trooped down to Balzer/
Shopes, a local color-separation supplier,
to test the future. Trugh to tell, it ain't what
it's cracked up to be. But let’s start at the
beginning. I have been looking for one
source that can produce type, continuous-
tone separations, mechanical color sepa-
rations, and separations of graphics files
(PICT, EPS). Currently we have these
things done at four separate places. In
addition, I dream of a single, reliable
source of these materials. No more stand-
ing in line waiting for some quarterly
newsletter to roll off the Linotronic ata
service bureau. DTP doth strange bedfel-
lows make.
(continues)
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But I digress. I envisioned Visionary
and the more recently announced VIP
(Visionary Interface to Postscript) as a
mythical product floating in a bed of
clouds, bathed in a golden light, that
would really make life easier. Follow the
yellow brick road—you get the picture. I
really wanted this stuff to work, but every
time I called to set up a meeting to test it,
people were .. . uh, out, call again. The
Wizard is busy, go away. No, not that bad,
COMMENTARY
However, I was beginning to wonder,
On the day of the test, a group of us
wandered into the room where gleaming
new Visionary products reside. We saw
the Visionary workstation (a Mac ID re-
plete with VIP software, 8-bit Raster Ops
monitor and color video board,
QuarkXPress software, the gateway sta-
tion (in this case, a Mac II with a 19.2
kilobaud modem), and the Scitex assem-
bly station (designer furniture hooked up
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MACWORLD © OCTOBER 1989
to a freezer-size box with a couple of
printed circuit boards in it). The assembly
station uses proprietary Scitex software
that does the actual color touch-up work
and page composition, readying the data
to be sent to the Scitex film plotter. Not
evident were the laser film scanners, too
big to fit in this already jammed room.
Earlier we'd sent the specifications for
our pages and our grid to Balzer/Shopes,
and one of the staff had prepared an
XPress version of our electronic page grid
to accept the text and pictures that we
brought with us. First we tested graphics
files with VIP and discovered that Vision-
ary would not accept more than 256 colors
in EPS files (another dialog box: too many
colors!). The riposte came that we could
have our illustrators use fewer colors. Our
response (after five years of working with
Mac-based illustrators, watching their skills
with computer graphics slowly mature)
was that the tools should not limit the
creativity of the illustrators, and perhaps
Scitex should figure out how to get its
system to read all the color fills and
gradients that PostScript can create.
Next we tried to “VIP” our encapsu-
lated PostScript PageMaker files—that is,
to have the VIP software convert the files
to a bitmapped image that Visionary can
use. The first problems were unrecog-
nized PostScript strings or field errors in
the dialog box, related to the custom fonts
that we had designed in Fontographer.
VIP could not read them, so we had to
return to the original PageMaker files and
laboriously change the type to fonts rec-
ognizable to VIP.
You can imagine our feeling as the re-
alization slowly datwned that Visionary
could not read the encapsulated Page-
Maker files directly, instead using VIP to
create uneditable bitmaps. Scitex bundles
VIP with specific machines. So someone
at the service bureau would have to con-
vert all our files to the Visionary system.
And given the problems with both type
and graphics, I was not encouraged by the
likelihood of having to spend hours on the
phone trying to help the VIP operator
figure out the problems with our pages.
The answer to the more troublesome
question of what the pages will look like
(continites)
Software Ventures presents the all new 1990 model:
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A “Stunning’’ Achievement in Software Engineering
The software that takes the hassle out of telecommunications. Like a finely crafted
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Here are seven reasons why, if you’re serious about telecommunications, you should consider owning
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Power train. MicroPhone II is charged
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Design. Surprisingly, with all its
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once they've been sent through VIP must
await the results of tests still being run at
press time.
At the end of the day we still had not
pulled film for the feature spread that we
were working with, but we were generally
positive. The advantages of better text
resolution, some improved graphics files,
a superior quality of film (denser, silver-
based), and mechanical color froma single
source are encouraging. Stay tuned,
COMMENTARY,
INTERNATIONAL CONNECTIONS
One bright note regarding electronic pub-
lishing at Macworld has been our increas-
ing success in communicating with our
sister publications. There are now
Macworld magazines published in Austra-
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WHAT DO WE REALLY NEED?
We're doing a lot and thinking about the
future, but we need some help from the
vendors. Bargo's announcement of screen
calibration software for the Mac could
help. Having several screens in the design
group calibrated (using the same RGB
colors) would help. Having the screens
calibrated to CMYK color schemes would
be even better, but that is nowhere on the
horizon, Color Studio is finally out, as are
new versions of Lightspeed and PhotoMac
for color prepress work. Erasable optical
drives promise to alleviate our storage
problems with files for 24-bit color illustra-
tions (7MB to 12MB for each small photo-
graph). New color printers are bringing
prices down. Seiko's new B-size printer
under $10,000, and QMS has a new A:
color printer in the same price range. The
necessity for transmission within produc-
tion and design zones on the network will
dictate that we go to Ethernet soon.
What we really need is software that
displays CMYK color swatches on the
screen in a verisimilitude of color from a
known color system such as Munsell or
Pantone. Then we néed that incorporated
into Illustrator et al., so that we can
actually see our output on an RGB screen.
We also need a 125mm scanner. The list
goes on and on,
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holes, the winter of 1989/90 will, I believe,
prove to be the time when we move from
“maybe we could do color" to “we're
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know some do already—Macworld needs
higher quality.) And desktop publishing is
about to go through another explosive
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The Real Waldo
N ice coverage of video in
the June issue [*Star Qual-
ity], but I have one correc-
tion to make: the Waldo was
not invented and certainly not
named by Jim Henson. It was
first described and named by
science fiction master Robert
Heinlein more than 40 years
ago. He wrote a short story
called “Waldo” about a bril-
liant, handicapped, and irasci-
ble scientist not unlike Stephen
W. Hawking. In order to
overcome his handicap, Waldo
builds a space station (no grav-
ity) and outfits it with arma-
tures that allow him to manip-
ulate the outside world. Now
that [the Waldo] is becoming a
reality, it's important to give
credit where it's due.
Seth Godin
Mount Vernon, New York
Jim Henson's character was in fact derived from
the science fiction story. Thanks for setting the
record straight—Ed,
Taking a Stand
| 've just read Deborah Bran-
scum’s article in your May
issue [Conspicuous Consumer).
As one of those swindled by
Liss, I’d like to express my
feelings, not so much about
Liss as about your magazine—
one of Liss’s primary means of
reaching the public.
You tell us that Atlanta's
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as early as January 1988, and
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wise consumers we'd have
checked this out and been
forewarned. Yet your maga-
zine carried Your Mac Source
ads at least through April.
A magazine that trumpets
its services to its readers
should regularly monitor the
performance of its advertis-
ers, both by keeping in
touch with the appropriate
agencies and by soliciting
comments from readers. A
warning to an advertiser from
a magazine, which has the
power to make improper
conduct widely known, has a
lot more clout than a com-
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MACWORLD
j tomer—or even a
large group of them.
3 Jeff Faria
Hoboken, New Jersey’
We forward reader complaints
to advertisers and other vendors
in-an attempt to resolve dis-
putes. Macworld’s advertising
department stopped accepting
ads from Your Mac Source after
it became apparent that custom-
rs were not receiving products
they had ordered. —Ed,
Getting Up to
Speed
n “Ten Ways to
Speed Up a Mac”
[April 1989], the
author says “You
can also accelerate
a Mac SE by trans-
planting the Mac II's
68020 processor and 68881
coprocessor.” Does this mean
T can simply replace chips on
the SE board, or do I need to
buy an accelerator board? I
have 4MB of memory I don’t
want to lose.
Kenneth C. Beck
via CompuServe
You do need one. Chances are your 4MB of RAM
hs 120-nanosecond chips and will work with an
accelerator. Or buy an accelerator shat can use
the RAM on the SE system board, as discussed in
“Processors: Is Faster Better?” (Macworld, March
1989). —Ed.
Added Dimensions
YS June 1989 article on
animation, “Move It!,” con-
ains several inaccuracies, The
© OCTOBER 1989
product comparison chart lists
our entire Dimensions line of
software at $2500. While this
is correct, the only product
needed for imaging and ani-
mation is Dimensions Present-
er, which retails for $495. The
Export/Import section of the
chart fails to list Pr
support for the PICS anima-
tions format. Presenter imports
as well as exports MacPaint
files and accepts 3-D files from
a variety of other programs
and formats, including DXF,
VersaCAD, and Super 3D,
Eric Hardman
senter's
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Corrections
In “Insights on ReadySetGo
4.5” (August 1989), the power
search-and-replace tip should
read: “To search for or replace
4 tab character, type 0! (Op-
tion-d followed by w) in either
the Find or Replace text fields
To search for or replace a re-
turn character, bype ot or on
(Option-d followed by r orn).
Truevision (800/858-8783)
makes three NuBus boards
that provide 32-bit color capa-
bility: the NuVista 1M, the Nu-
Vista 2M, and the NuVista 4M,
which offer 1MB, 2MB, and
4MB of RAM, respectively
(Macworld News, June 1989).
All three support 1, 2, 4, 8, 16,
and 32 bits per pixel.
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Featured on our August
1989 cover (but unattributed)
was this photo of the RasterOps
24-bit color display.
Neglected Fonts
rfert Fenton's otherwise
fine article in the May issue
about PostScript fonts (“En-
hancing PostScript Fonts”) ne-
glected to mention our col-
lection of over two dozen
Hebrew PostScript fonts that
are compatible with our He-
brew-English word processing
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Pascal Comparisons
W € appreciate the positive
review of Think’s Light-
speed Pascal 2.0 in your June
issue, but we would like to
correct a few inaccuracies that
may confuse your readers.
The add-on tutorial you
mentioned, Just Enough Pas-
cal, was included with Pascal
only during a special intro-
ductory period. It lists for $75.
You state that "it’s difficult
to predict which compiler will
produce better object code
from your source, especially
for large programs.” Actually,
code generation can be com-
pared using several standard
benchmarks or by building a
large project. Think Pascal has
a two-pass optimizing com-
piler that, according to our
benchmarks, consistently gen-
erates smaller, faster code than
TML Pascal for any project,
small or large.
Your review commented
on TML’s customer support
but did not indicate whether
you had tested our support as
well. Symantec provides free
phone support, a forum on
CompuServe, and a 30-day,
money-back guarantee for all
its products.
Julie Bingham
Symantec Corporation
Bedford, Massachusetts
Compilation results on real applications (com-
piled code size 200K to 400K), which typically
in
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