MacWorld 9008 August 1990

| emestetoncastaenPrmeas | MACWORLD Personal LaserWriters: | von Apple TT ACCELERATORS SUNS = BUA PRODUCTS ome think there's no a lications. ore sae tangabe P Nobel | Cheon “Medical Applications at ndustial Applications 80 ‘Report to the Board of Thuswer Sytem he el cet pe ten a ape, though hance and ace ane em Cs ‘iycerh compound Vr meet nn leet ogg “Shise fame) has long Baca woes ae ‘manufacturing process of eymamee Gree stat eam ee cpt ees ener cra neste Sar dvantage to i cere some thought utnitro and glycerin. If you own a Mac’ you may already —_-your report. Its as simple as it sounds. know what a phenomenally powerful piece of Of course, because we are talking about y software Microsoft” Word is. the BIG presentation here, youll want to go the And, most likely,youre also aware ofhow _ extra step and blow them away. Enter Microsoft powerful Microsoft Excel is. Well heres gaa something you probably don't know: When Word and Microsoft Excel are combined, they're even move power: | paste ful. In fact, they're nothing short of ex- | {1° plosive. Pun intended. = Because together Word and Microsoft Excel allow you to exploit the PowerPoint? Its the easiest way to create atten- tion-getting overheads and slides in black and white or color. Just cut and <u | paste data from Word or Microsoft Excel : into your presentation, draw, color, shadow, and take a bow. As you probably know, Microsoft * | and the Macintosh have an unusually Macintosh’s operating system in a way ) close relationship. We've been involved that has never been possible before. a — with the Mac since the beginning Which We call this unprecedented fea- “imonts'see’ means we know how to get the most out ‘update link" from Word's ture “warm links” But you'll be more el nie change of it, now. So, if you want to coax ever inclined to call it the best thing aeatere more capability from your Macintosh, for revising documents since white out. depend on these and the rest of the Microsoft Here's how warm links works. Imag- _ line of business applications, that are always ine it’s the end of the day and tomorrows _ designed to get a powerful reaction from each the BIG presentation. You've been working other. And your Macintosh. with the sales manager to incorporate his Fora free brochure that describes how Microsoft Excel projections into your you can improve productivity by using report. Youre finally done. But wait.Suddenly Microsofts Mac applications F ri he makes one of his famous last-minute together, call (800) 541-1261, changes to the spreadsheet. Dept. K29. Ask about The This is where warm links saves the day Microsoft Office—four of (or the hour). No more antiquated manual Microsoft's best-selling moves of opening and closing your document, _ business applications at cutting, pasting and praying. With warm a great price. links, you simply open your Word document = and select Update Link. Word automatically finds the latest Excel data and updates Making it all make sense ‘Customers inside the 50 United States, call (800) 54141261. In Canada, call (416) 673-7638, Outside the US. and Cansda, call 206) 882-8661. © Copyright 1989 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, the Microsoft Togo and PowerPoint are registered trademarks and Making i all make sense isa trademark of Microsoft Corporation, Mac and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. What can you expect from Apple's duo, the LaserWriter quality compact size ata reasonable price. For an in-depth analysis, see page 128. (Photo by Paul Franz-Moore.) page 105. 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Copyright 1990 Macworld Cammunications, Inc. All rights reserved, 30 computer publications in teen milion people read one ‘or more 1DG Communications publications each month DG THE PLANE'S NO It's no accident that the high performance of Canvas™ evokes images of a jet fighter in full flight. Factis, its technical draw- ing power renders Canvas remarkably adept at evoking almost any kind of image you could want. Over time, this has served to render Canvas's competitors rather speechless, And its reviewers, just the opposite. A quick tour of its amazing arsenal of weapons helps explain why all the commotion. Advanced Bezier and spline curves with total editing con- trol. 64,000 dpi accuracy. 16 million-plus colors, Custo rulers, dashed lines, al arrowhead styles. 11,0 inch hairlines. Aufoobject al distribution afd dimensioning of lines Sates. Auto vaca scannéd aft. o ress-ready. 4-color (CMYK) pala ; with ra cl ie Ds sels alll slo SHABBY EITHER. 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Apple sources say a significant part of the problem is that the proliferation of Mac hardware and software means longer and more complicated compatibility testing. ‘The Future of PostScript Adobe is working on a new generation of PostScript, to be called PostScript Level 2. Level 2’s enhance- ments include support for printing patterns and forms, the CIE color model, new screen and half- tone algorithms, control of printer hardware (paper trays and staplers), improved speed and memory ef- ficiency, improved compression for better color han- dling and fax output. Level 2 also incorporates ear- lier extensions for CMYK separations; Display Post- Script; composite fonts (like kanji); and Microsoft Windows. Adobe says all current applications will print on Level 2-compatible printers when they be- come available in early 1991. Adobe CEO John War- nock says that over the next 10 to 15 years he envi- sions PostScript becoming a universal, device-inde- pendent data vehicle, with support for sound, video, and other formats. Adobe, EFI Dispute Color Technology Aseries ofannouncements charging that Adobe docs not have the right to use color technology as imple- mented in PostScript Level 2 and Photoshop may darken the future of PostScript. Electronics For im- aging (EFI) claims that Adobe is infringing a patent held by MIT and licensed exclusively to EFI. Adobe's response is confusing: It argues that because the MIT patent covers hardware, the color capabilities of Adobe's software do not infringe EFI’s license; at the same time, Adobe has filed suit seeking to have the MIT patent declared invalid. The Unexamined Network Status Mac is a utility that extracts information about each Mac on a network to help managers trou- bleshoot their networks. Status Mac gathers a wide variety of information about cach CPU and its Sys- tem files, applications, INITs, DAs, fonts, SCSI vol- umes, and ADB devices. Status Mac does not look at data files. It provides some data-analysis tools and can export information in SYLK format. A network manager might use the program to see if everyone has virus protection turned on, or to locate the per- son using an old version of the LaserWriter driver. Status Mac works across a network using Microsoft Mail 2.0, or it can be run at each workstation. Pric- ing was undecided at press time. For more informa- tion, contact Pharos Technology at 513/984-9273. Apple Cuts Prices on the Portable Apple recently cut the suggested retail price of the costly Macintosh Portable by $1000 to spur lag- ging sales. The Portable without a hard drive now lists for $4799. With an internal 40MB hard drive the Portable retails for $5499, also down by $1000. In addition, Apple dropped the price of the Portable’s 1MB Memory Expansion Kit from $649 to $499. AVirus Rival. Microseeds Publishing’s new product, Rival, oper- ates transparently in the background to protect against viruses. Instead of scanning floppies at inser- tion, Rival inspects files when they are opened or when Get Info is selected (Rival also catches viruses such as WDEF), notifying the user only when it dis- covers an infection. Rival lists for $99. As new vi- ruses appear, Microseeds plans to distribute plug-in updates electronically; registered users can receive six updates by mail for $50. For more information, contact Microseeds at 813/882-8635. Mac TV Vent and Generation X Technologies have an- nounced a video board that displays color Mac out- put on a television. The Vent 8-bit NTSC video board, listed at $599, hooks up to a cable-ready television set or VCR. The board is the first product to emerge from a joint technology agreement between video graphics manufacturer Generation X, and Nolan Bushnell’s new multimedia company, Vent. For more information, contact Generation X Technologies at 408/739-4570. k around the ROMs. Pioncer has announced that it is shipping the DRM- 610 CD-ROM Changer, a CD ROM player that switches discs automatically. The DRM-610, which is listed at $1295, uses a six-disc magazine that can (Continues) MACWORLD + AUGUST 1990 Ww mn) a ecccnnctcnt MAC BULLETIN change CD ROMs in seven seconds or less. The player has an average access rate of 600 milliseconds. For more information, contact Pioneer at 201/327-6400 or 800/527-3766. FWB has announced that it is adding three new products to its line of storage devices: an internal hard drive, an erasable optical drive, and an expand- able chassis for storage devices. The hammer155EMEi internal hard drive, listed at $4095, has a 7-millisec- ond average access time and is compatible with the Mac UL, thx, and Ifx. The hammerDisk1000 erasable optical drive, listed at $8995, uscs SOOMB Sony and — Ricoh removable cartridges and has an average ac- cess time of 35ms. The Sledgehammer FMF expand- _ able chassis can incorporate many types of storage devices with a total of up to 2 gigabytes of storage space. The subsystem can configure its storage de- vices in a variety of ways to speed up storage and protect data. The 600MB base configuration of the Sledgehammer EMF lists at $8795. For more infor- mation, contact FWB at 415/775-2125. Text Indexer Announced ‘The company that publishes the relational text- searching utility Sonar Professional is preparing a — $79.95 indexing tool called Bookends. Bookends _ generates indexes based either on the frequency with which a word appears or on a user-supplied word list. It can create a multilevel index from a multilevel word list, ignore user-specified words, and support difficult formats such as text from main- frame computers. Sonar Professional has been up- graded to version 6 with support for zoom boxes, Status indicators, and user-definable display fonts, It can paste Clipboard contents to a closed file, it can search with wild cards and Boolean algebra, and it has better network support. Both Sonar Professional and Bookends are available in case-sensitive and non- case-sensitive versions. For more information, con- tact Virginia Systems Software at 804/739-3200. Flex Your Graphs Version 1.1 of FlexiGraphs, a charting program that lets you draw charts and then extract the numbers behind them, adds polynomial curve fitting. This feature translates the slope and y-intercept of line charts into various mathematical equations includ- ing average, linear, quadratic, cubed, fourth power, and fifth power. FlexiGraphs 1.1 also adds a smooth- ing function for jagged-line charts and can import scanned or drawn images from the Clipboard and’ trace them to extract the numbers that created them. FlexiGraphs 1.1 lists for $149. For more informa- tion, contact Tree Star at 805/682-4096. Double Time ersion 2.0 of Salient’s file-compression utility, DiskDoubler, lets you decompress and open files by showing compressed files in the creating applica- tion’s Open File dialog; double-clicking a compressed file in the Finder launches the creating application as it decompresses the file. DiskDoubler 2.0 can also decompress Stuffit and Packit archives. Salient claims DiskDoubler 2.0 compresses and expands files more than twice as fast as Stuffit 1.5.1. Version 2.0 of DiskDoubler lists for $79 and upgrades are free for owners of 1.0 or 1.1. For more information, contact Salient at 415/852-9567. Olduvai is developing ReadForm, a forms-recogni- tion add-on for its soon-to-be-released Read-It O.C.R. Professional 3.0. ReadForm will recognize the con- tents of fields in scanned forms and save the data in formatted text files for import into databases. Olduvai says Read-It 3.0 Professional will recognize all fonts, discriminate between text and graphics, read mul- tiple-page documents, and recognize all European characters including Cyrillic. ReadForm will list for $295; Read-It O.C.R. Professional 3.0 for $249; up- grades from 2.0 and 2.1 will be available for less than $100. For more information, contact Olduvai at 305/665-4665. Apple Goes ISDN At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple an- nounced its first phase of support for Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) with the ISDN De- velopers Toolkit. ISDN is an evolving set of stan- dards that allows one high-speed, circuit-switched digital network to carry voice, data, text, and image simultaneously. ‘The ISDN Developers Toolkit con- sists of an Apple ISDN NB NuBus board and Inte- grated Voice/Data Manager software, a group of Macintosh Communications Toolbox tools. The ISDN Developers Toolkit, available only to selected Mac developers, provides the basic software and hard- ‘ware necessary to access an ISDN network and its services. Farallon also showed a demonstration-only version of its Timbuktu/Remote screen-sharing, soft- ware that supports Apple's ISDN NB board. For fur- ther information, contact Apple Developer Services at 408/974-4897. Advice for Writers We live in modern times, but some rules are still written in stone, including the grammar and style rules that Petroglyph has incorporated into Editorial Adviser, one of the first commercial HyperCard 2.0 stacks. Editorial Adviser is not a grammar-checker or a spelling-checker; it is an online style manual cov- ering everything from grammar, punctuation, and spelling to indexing and citations. A section on copyediting shaws how to use copy-edit marks. Edi- torial Adviser has a stack for recording in-house style decisions, which it displays in the main stacks. Edi- torial Adviser will list for $149.95. For more infor- mation, contact Petroglyph at 415/979-0588. 1 MACWORLD * AUGUST 1990 MegaMac" The Ultimate Macintosh’ Desk Accessory. Fe bet you're already figuring how you can justify W this one — even at $78,000! Fact is, you're probably not alone. Most Mac users are desperate for anything that can enhance the performance of their systems. Your Mac Dreams Have Come True. Here's good news for all you despairing Mac users. Our new MegaMac™ doesn't really cost $78,000 — or anywhere near it, But hook it up to your Mac II, IIx, Hex, Ici or IIfx and you'll be surprised that it doesn’t. 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Attendees lined up as never before—to the tune of 60,000—according to the organiz- ers. Despite the many products to be seen, the lament of “there's nothing new” from the general press became a litany. Show News Word Processors lct’s start with word processors. WordPerfect was showing its latest version, indicating a desire to come from behind (it's fourth in the Mac word processor market after Microsoft Word, WriteNow for Macintosh 2.2, and MacWrite ID). FullWrite Professional is still progress: ing, but no one seems to notice ex- pt fora dedicated crowd of enthusi- asts. Nisus, initially an unknown face in the crowd, has built a nice single- digit market share for itself in a rela- tively short time, passing FullWrite. us 2.1 is shipping, with 3.0 due out in June. Spreadsheets There's nothing much to report here, except that Excel is nearing 1 million installed copies. Full Impact has lost impetus in the market ith the general (and undeserved) miasma surrounding Ashton-Tate. Bill Lyons, originally brought in from IBM to head up the Mac division, is now in control of the company and is on the record with strong support for the company’s Mac products. But that didn’t stop rumors about a possible sell-off of the company's Mac prod- so that it could concentrate on its ailing PC product line. Informix’s Wingz has continued to improve, reaching nearly 10 percent market share over the last year (nonannounce- ment of the show—Wingz for the Next machine), Databases Well, most people still don’t buy a Mac for its database pro- grams, but the market continues to be strong for several players. Om: has made a comeback with version 5. Od emed to have lost interest in Double Helix due to its other proj- ects (ODMS, GeoQuery) but now shows signs of returning its attention to its best-selling product. Claris an- nounced FileMaker Pro, and is doing land-office business with that product. Iwas chastised by people at Claris for citing a 2500-per-month run rate for FileMaker II, It’s closer to 5000 to 6000 per month, came the angry retort from Claris, making the product one of two big money-makers for the company. FoxBase+/Mac continues to sell well, but is behind FileMaker in sales. ACIUS. announced a major change for its products by developing a database with related word processing, draw- ing, spreadsheet graphing, and other components. Maryléne Delbourg- Delphis and Laurent Ribardiére (de- veloper of 4D) are on the scene in the States a great deal now, and things are cracking at 4D central. Version 2.0 of 4th Dimension pushed sales ahead of. MACWORLD * AUGUST 1990 other Mac databases this year. Missing in action: Reflex Plus, dBase Mac. Un- announced at showtime: Symantec’ QA. Graphics As a category, graphics in- cludes painting, drawing, illustrating, and image processing. As a group these applications have surpassed da- tabase sales for the second year on the Mac. Missing in action: major up- dates of Aldus FreeHand and Adobe Illustrator—due for demonstration at the August Expo in Boston. Clearly FreeHand 2.0 has outsold Illustrator this year, Both companies are at work on major changes that they hope will blow the competition away. Canvas and MacDraw Il are locked in battle, with the faster developers at Deneba continuing to eat market share at the expense of Claris. MacDraw II is still the larger seller (as much as twice the number of units in some months), but the two companies are now locked into an Illustrator/FreeHand-scale competition, Deneba’s lower overhead makes Canvas a powerful profit-maker for the company. Deneba showed a new version of Canvas and both com- (continues) Why e ™ Sensible Grammar ee is first in its class, Now anything you write, from a busi- ness letter to an annual report, can be stronger and clearer. 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Finally, Deneba's UltraPaint looks like the stiff- est competition for PixelPaint Profes- sional, reaching over 10,000 units of ‘ales in its first three months (sure sign of a hit), The fun announcements of the show came from Delta Tao software with its $99 Color MacCheese 32-bit paint program, and from Creative Soft- ware with its Easy Color Paint for $79. SuperPaint, although it’s color, really doesn't compete with these players. Computer Associates seems to have abandoned Cricket Paint Black-and-White Paint CE Software, ever the opportunist, announced Amazing Paint, a $99.95 black-and- white paint program aimed at the 1 million-plus users of monochrome Macs. The company must have noved the departure of Zedcor (DeskPaint is now in color as part of Desk and costs more), Claris (which unofficially is let- ting MacPaint die), and Silicon Beach (which is migrating away from the low- cost black-and-white market). Image Processing Basically I’m talk- ing about Letraset’s ColorStudio and Adobe’s new Photoshop. Arguably ColorStudio belongs in the paint cate- gory, but it’s my call that these two programs are primary competitors. Adobe's booth was swamped with people, keeping it busier than at any time since the company announced Illustrator three years ago. Photoshop is a major hit for the company and a welcome addition to the Macintosh software family. It (and the departure of Jean-Louis Gassée from Apple) ap- pears to be a major factor in improv- ing relations between Apple and Adobe. Photoshop has a capable paint program, powerful image-processing features (particularly for image com- position), and an invaluable ability to open and save graphics documents in MACWORLD + AUGUST 1990 any format you might want without having to resort to the original appli- cation (I would buy the program for this feature alone). Desktop Publishing This field, making a transition from DTP to plain old publishing, is in the midst of a quiet revolution. Pity Apple seems so focused on multimedia. Aldus and Quark are really expanding the Mac in publishing, Aldus PageMaker contin- ues its inexorable growth in market domination and in features, while QuarkXPress continues to grow in market share (almost exclusively at the expense of ReadlySetGo) and to grow in its association with high-end, pro- fessional color publishing applications. Version 3.2 of QuarkXPress and 1.0 of DesignStudio both feature the paste- board metaphor of PageMaker. Type Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and others seem to have settled down to the task of making good on their promises that everyone's printers and software will handle the competitors’ products. The real interest for me at the show was the evolution of the Adobe Type 1 font-design tools from Altsys and Letraset. James Von Ehr’s combination of Fontographer 3.1 for Type 1 font design and Metamorpho- sis for conversion of bitmaps and Type 3 fonts is a real winner, Similarly, the editing tools for FontStudio (the old Fred Font) are remarkable. The prod- ucts compete—and do overlap in many ways—but the professional type designer will probably need all three. Taken together they represent a re- naissance of type-design products for the Mac—and they make me want to design a typeface. Integrated Software It’s inevitable that Microsoft will continue to domi- nate this category of Mac software. With about 1.1 million copies of Works sold worldwide, the product a real cash cow for the company, and the integrated product of choice. 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But IDD, developer of MacDraft and Dreams, has returned to its roots (and complaining users) with a major upgrade for the largest- installed-base CAD product on the Mae, MacDraft, with version 2.0. With over 75,000 units installed, IDD could recover and focus its Dreams product on 3-D users. Graphsoft, the Maryland- based developer of MiniCad+ (argu- ably the best product for drafting on the Mac), has issued version 3.0 of that product. The Hungarian hungries at Gimeor are readying version 5.5 for summer and a new low-cost product (also for summer?). At present Gim- eor has perhaps the favored high-end CAD product for architectural design and Gimeor dominates the European market. DynaPerspective, the Japanese product from Dynaware, is now in ver- sion 2.0, which is faster (if not easier to use) than its earlier incarnation. Meanwhile, the parent company in Japan has over 17 Mac products in the works, the first of which, MacBallade (that's right, music), was at the show. Schlumberger showed version 2.0 of MacBravo. And another Hungarian developer, Graphisoft, (as distinct from Graphsoft) announced version 3.42 of ArchiCAD, which is also slanted strongly toward architectural design. Two products in various stages of development for the Mac are a real winner called Shade from a company called SystemSoft (located in Los Al- tos, California) and a prototype from Duane Maxwell (of Levco fame). Both of these products need to be seen to be appreciated. They are second-gen- (continues) REPORTS INDICATE A POWERFUL NEW WAVE WILL SOON ENGULF THE COUNTRY “La Cie gives your hard disks a Silverlining.” - MacWeek 1990 ¢ National onsite service by satew 20-210 megabytes Seek times as low as 15 ms Toll-free technical support Portable, approximately 3 Ibs. 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The Expo featured new releases for all major Mac music products: Finale 2.0 and Music Prose (both from Coda), EZ-Vision and Stu- dio Vision (Opcode), Ars Nova 2.2 (Ars Nova Software), Clip Tunes (from Digidesign, really neat) and MacPro- teus (also from Digidesign), and the latest release of Great Wave's Con- certWare+ MIDI. CD ROM CD ROM discs appeared to have come into their own at the Expo. I especially liked Electronic Map Cabi- net from Highlighted Data. Larry Shiller’s Bureau of Electronic Publish- ing, has become the repository of all Mac CD ROMs. The company is in Par- sippany, New Jersey, if you want to. call Larry. Mike Saenz is back with a pornography disc that could have re- ally been great (see The Iconoclast, this issue). The graphic environments, navigation, original music, and game- playing aspects make it the most pro- gressive CD ROM work done to date, bar none. Its pomographic focus, how- ever, relegates it to a sophomoric ver- tical market. Mike, apply yourself to a wider audience and you could help shape computing (and make more money). Hardware I could spend another col- umn on this area of Mac technology— but I’m going to do a fast review of my personal favorites. I love the thought of SCSI 3'/-inch erasable disc drives. You'll see them. | talked with three companies that plan to ship them at the August Expo. They say 128MB on a single erasable disc? I'm ready. On the high end of storage, PLI and Pinnacle demonstrated 56- and 10- disc versions of optical jukeboxes; they look fast and seem reliable. I can’t wait to get one in the lab and benchmark the machines. Now that would be backup (continues) La Cie expands your choice. 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When the scanner drops in price it will be the input de- vice for publishing in general. Hurrah for innovation in small compan these guys should win an award. M crotek announced an attachment for its scanners that appears to provide some competition for, and to be more reliable than, the current shipping ver- sion of transparency devices for the Sharp scanner line. I also liked the three hand-held color-input scanners from Mouse Systems, Blue Solutions, and NCL America. Communications Connecting Mac- intoshes with Ethernet seemed to be the main comunications theme of the Expo. Farallon, National Semicon- COMMENTARY ductor, Adaptec, AvantGarde Group, and Neon Software all had announce- ments. Avant Garde showed a neat product, Etherpeep, that allows an- alysis of Ethernet nodes much in the fashion of Farrallon’s Net Analyzer. Neon also offered an Ethernet net analyzer. Displays Low-cost-for-low-perfor- mance monitors and high perfor- mance for the NuBus were dual themes for display products and video boards. Ehman, Lite-On, and Mobius all demonstrated low-cost mono- chrome monitors. Mobius showed a monitor-accelerator combination for only $695. Aapps, after some false starts, finally began shipping its Digi- Video color board for $995. SuperMac had a bewildering array of new prod- ucts for color and acceleration. Mass Microsystems announced the lowest- cost graphics-and-video combination board on the market at under $1000. RasterOps offered an accelerator for its 364 board. Radius showed its third- generation monochrome board for the first time, betting heavily that its inno- vative new product would help the company retain its leadership in mono- chrome and gray-scale products. Printers Hewlett-Packard showed both color and black-and-white prod- ucts at the show. Its LaserJet II may be the first real competition for Apple in the lucrative printer market. QMS. showed a new version of its Color- Script (kanji model) and a new Ultra- Script that allows PostScript files to be output on dot matrix printers. GCC showed its PLP II, the current leader of QuickDraw printers in the Mac market. What's New? Too much—hundreds of products, most of which I haven't mentioned here. 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For more information and a brochure, call or write: 415/570-7700 393 Vintage Park Drive Suite 140 Foster City, CA 94404 Macintosh is a registored trademark of Apple mmpuiter, Ine. faScitor Circle 328 on reader service card MacGlasnost T he Macnost revolution Jerry Borrell refers to (Commentary, April 1990] really began over a year ago in the Baltic states, which are trying to reclaim free- dom from a Soviet Union they never wanted to join. The Popular Front paper Almoda in Riga uses Mac SEs and LaserWriters to lay out pages for weekly edi- tions in Latvian, English, and Russian that go to some 200,000 subscribers and an estimated readership of three-quarters of a million. ‘After meeting with Riga Mac club members in Novem- ber, it was clear to me that the majority of organiza- tions fighting for self-de- termination—such as the Popular Front, the Environ- mental Protection League, the Cultural Foundation, churches, and budding po- litical parties—have made the Mac their weapon of choice. This is true else- where in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Sajudis publications in Lithuania rely on the Mac. So will the Polish trade union Solidarity for its Trybuna Wyborcza. ported by donations and imports. Despite repeated efforts to convince Apple Europe that this grass-roots movement represents an immediate market opportu- nity (since the Cyrillic Mac is not an issue), there has been no response. Mean- while I cannot work up too Ca) LETTERS much enthusiasm for Apple’s efforts to cater to Big Brother in Moscow while tanks rumble through the streets of Vilnius. Juris Maxis Ottawa, Canada Polish Joke uringa recent visit to the United States, I read with great dismay your in- terview with Michael Spin- dler [Verbatim, May 1990] When the chief operating officer of a major computer company says, “So far the needs of Poland are basic, like food and clothing,” one only wonders what his source of information is. However, when he asserts that “Fiat licensed technol- ogy to the USSR to build Fiats, or Ladas as the Polish called their Fiats, Then La- das began to be sold into the Italians’ own markets at a cheaper price,” one can- not stop laughing, espe- cially here in Poland, where the first Polski Fiat was built more than do usa favor, in- stead of food and clothing, send more good jokes, like those of Michael Spindler, Jakub Tatarkiewicz Warsaw, Poland Another View of Jasmine | read with interest your article entitled “Gambling on Jasmine” [Conspicuous Consumer] in the May sue. Your readers deserve some additional insight into what happened. I joined Jasmine in late 1987 as director of opera- tions, was promoted to s nior director of operations, and was then promoted to chief operating officer, a position I held until Novem- ber 1988. My performance was characterized as “mag- nificent” and “s efforts called “excellent” and “superhuman,” and my contributions to the com- pany described as “immeas- urable.” My supervisor, company president Dennis Chang, gave me favorable reviews, bonuses, and stock MACWORLD + AUGUST 1990 Corrections AIUX 2.0 does support true multitasking of multiple UNIX applications (Mac- world News, May 1990). DynoDex, the addr book manager by Portfolio Systems, retails for $99.95 (Reviews, fume 1990). The Ici requires a NuBus video board to work with the Apple Two- Page Monochrome Moni- tor (‘Monochrome Monitor Mania,” Gray-Scale Moni- tors table, April 1990). Rolodex (“Roll Over Rolodex,” May 1990) is a trademark of Insilco Cor- poration designating In- silco's brand of card files and other products. suRge, by Museum Quality Solutions, is a surge protector for Macs and other computers on AppleTalk networks ning on twisted-pai (not shielded LocalTalk cables). It retails for $49.95 (New Produets, Jzaze 1990). he sample output for the GCC Personal Laser- Printer Il and the GCC Writelmpact were acc dently switched (‘Printing Without PostScript,” page 178, June 1990). in the company. While I was at Jasmine, ourmanagement team com- pletely renovated the com- pany’s product line. Asa re- sult of our efforts Jasmine more than doubled its size (continues) a7 PETER ALSBERG Cs) eT ES EEE and ine margins. However, something else was going on behind the scenes. As stated in my countersuit against Jasmine, I was fired to allow Dennis Chang and others “to sell stock in Jasmine at a pre- mium price to defendant Radime and/or other po- tential investors.” When I and other senior managers would not assist Chang, we were demoted, terminated, and sued as coconspirators. Unfortunately, the company was then left in the hands of individuals who ap- peared to care little for Jas- mine's future. Jasmine’s contention that its financial failure in 1990 is due to purported wrongdoings of our man- agement team and vendor Rodime back in mid-1988 sed its profit is a weak attempt to cover up the truth, The real los- ers in all of this are Jas- mine's customers and ven- dors. I can only extend my sympathies to those who. were victimized by what Jasmine became after we departed. Hopefully Jas- mine will rise again under new management to fulfill the potential it once dis- played Bryan Speece San Francisco, California DesignStudio Upgrade Path | n your May issue you said the upgrade path from ReadySetGo to Design- Studio was $100 (“Picki Publishing Program” was actually a special time- limited offer for register ReadySetGo users. The rent upgrade policy for registered users who pur- chased ReadySetGo. be- tween February 1 and March 31, 1990, is $295, while those who bought ReadySetGo before Feb- y 1 may upgrade to DesignStudio for $150. Michelle Blank Letraset Paramus, New Jersey The New Smartcom Il ust a comment about Larry Locb’s review of communications prod- tel ucts in the June is ing Information”). Smart- com II 3.01¢ was reviewed although 3. 1c is the current version. [It adds better scripting capabilities, text buttons to which you can assign autopilots (these can be displayed simultaneously with icon buttons and are handy and powerful), and Ymodem/Ymodem-G file- "With Its Focused Approach, That Long List of Features Options, DXF Import And Export Built In, Quick Performance and Small Hardware Demands, and Lower Price., Blueprint Should be a Serious Contender In 2-D Drafting... Blueprint ... Compares Favorably With ClarisCad." MacWeek, Nov. 7, 1989 Call Today for More Information ! 5.00 Only wen Demo: $19.00 Mastercard/VISA accepted, Ory Money Back Guarantee. Circle 177 on reader service card. MACWORLD + AUGUST 1990 transfer capabilities. Tim Winders Baltimore, Maryland Multi-Misnomer J our feature “Multimedia: Is It Real?” [April, 1990] begins, “Buzawords intrigue but rarely inform.” This is especially true with multi- media because we've been using the word incorrectly. A better buzzword would be hypermedia. The word media is plural, making the term multimedia redundant Moreover, multimedia has. already been widely applied in a much different sense to the entertainment indus- wy. So, to use multimedia as we are doing here is not only sloppy but inaccurate. However, it may be just mushy and comfortable (continues) For a Double Helix brochure or test flight kit, call Odesta now at 1-800-323-5423, (In IL, 312-498-5615.) Current users, ask about our special upgrade offer. sexs Dorporation, 4084 Commercial Avenue, Northrook. 1 60062 6 1969 Odesta Coraration ‘Double Helix isd registered trademark af Odesta Corp. Macintosh is reniteted tradectark of pula, ‘ADIIDHI20189, The database that helps Federal Express = deliver buildings overnight. | Rie Honey, a project manager of new construction for Federal Express, knows a little about deadlines. “People say to me, ‘We need this building next month: I say, But that’s a 1-year project? They say, ‘OK, 3 months? “Managing 4 or 5 projects like that can mean a paper trail of over 600 forms at a time. All with pen and paper: | knew I had to do something” So Rie looked into a database program for his Macintosh? “I chose Double Helix® because | didn’t want to learn a programming language. “| had a spreadsheet, and I knew it could do ‘macros; But J couldn't. 1f1 could tell it in English what I wanted, fine. But I'm an awful typist. One finger. Try doing macros with that! “Wh on the Only Double Helix lets you When they manage information your way, told me about using simple Double Helix, on-screen T said ‘You mean symbols, I don't have to read anything? {Dha) All 1 do is drag i ouble Halix <> around ieons, Ppralinsp pictures? This makes sure all the big expenses Is great!” come up for my approval!” Now Ric and his team run the Double Helix multi-user application he created. He reports its already cut 25% off his paperwork time. “T just tell Double Helix what 1 want. And I get it. “| wish my whole life was like that!” cs) eee ES EEE enough to prevail. Glenn Ralston Indianapolis, Indiana Fat Macworld K folks, it’s time to diet. 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Free the oppressed pages and return them to their rightful owners: your excellent lineup of writers. tdward Arnold Chicago, Illinois Fontastic Article hanks for writing the de- finitive article on outline fonts (“Battle Royal,” April 1990); it was all I wanted to know about outline fonts but was afraid to ask. To the font mongers who are already yelling “Down with Adobe,” I say “Phooey on yout” I say the same to those who are shouting “Out with Apple,” for introducing a new font 40 technology. I'm for any prod- uct that is competitive in its industry, Until Apple rocked the boat, Adobe had a veri- table monopoly on the out- line font market, and you didn't see it giving any of its hints away. If Apple is attempting to bring outline fonts into my home ata price I can afford, T'mall for it. PostScript users shouldn't complain; they have had a good thing that will be useful for quite a while, unless Adobe aban- dons PostScript (yeah, right). Thomas A, Martin Brooklyn, New York Ici Performance sno doubt that the the new perfor- mance leader [“Power at a Price,” May 1990]. However, to question the Ici's future niche without including its best performance option was puzzling. Your own graph [“Push- ing the Mac II Performance Envelope,” February 1990] indicates that the Mac Ilci with a cache board was the standout price/performance leader, Performance in- creases of 40 to 80 percent over the stock IIci were indi- cated in 1-bit mode. Since a lot of important applications, such as spreadsheets, cata- bases, and word process: do not require gray color, they can enjoy the benefit of that speed. So can CAD and graphics applica- tions, if black and white is sufficient. Thus a $995 cache- board upgrade to the Ici appears to bring it much of the way to IIf performance at only about 25 percent of the price difference. In addi- (Continues) NEI ay © 98 (AS NVCRLATION saat AOLTS. WORD EUs ace» ph er. 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