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January 1996 MACWORLD Apple's stunning Poser Mac $8500, reviewed in all its multimedia glory, page 52. 29 30 37 39 41 Hews MacBulletin News Dual NuBus/PCI Clone * This year’s hot new games * QuickDraw 3D, and more Power Mac News Macs accelerate into the twenty-first century Macworld Online Anytime, anywhere pickup games * Mac- world’s GameLine New Products What for Macclone. Read about it ce been waiting an innovative 17 21 139 143 240 ISH® AUTHORITY JANUARY 1996 Opinion State of the Mac BY ADRIAN meLLO Judging the Mac’s real success. Letters The Desktop Critic BY DAVID POGUE mania. Launcher CPUs gear up forthe next century, page 37, Conspicuous Consumer BY TOM NEGRINO izi user groups. Viewpoint BY MARJORIE BAER Happy New Millennium—what's in store for the year 2001? 132 135 Graphics News Blazing trails with Painter 4.0 * New filters, 3-D for KPT 3.0 * Tomorrow’s image- setters today, and more Expert Graphics sy CATHY aBesS Graphics pro- fessionals share their secrets. 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If the men had shared their information, instead of each concluding on the basis of one piece of the puzzle, together they might have assembled a true picture of the animal. In just this way, observers who gauge the Mac solely on the basis of its slender share of the personal computer market misrepresent the overall picture. A more precise representation, derived from snapshots of various market segments, shows a robust computing platform—a product with legs, as they say. But What about Market Share? It’s true, the Mac’s share of the personal computer market has hovered around 10 percent. When Mac sales dropped to 7.4 percent in the second quarter of this year, critics saw the vultures circling overhead. Not so fast, Apple’s sales bounced back to 9 percentin the third quarter—a 21 per- cent increase over the third quarter of 1994. But size is not the only indicator of a healthy platform. The Mac remains the platform of choice in several market seg- ments, especially multimedia, desktop publishing, Internet use, education, and home computing. Apple is eminently capable of providing superb solutions for these customers. Admittedly, the big player in the market attracts a lot of atten- tion from large businesses and developers, with size alone a strong incentive for them to focus their resources on creating prod- ucts and solutions for those users. Apple must fight to maintain an adequate share of the market if it’s to retain its status as an independent platform. For both Mac- intosh users and for developers, the good news is that there are sound financial rea- sons to produce for the Mac. STATE OF THE MAC BY ADRIAN MELLO Assaying Market Share What's wrong with this picture? Take a Closer Look I have some sympathy for those blind men. Because activity in the personal computer market as a whole is so hot, it’s constantly subjected to analysts’ scrutiny. The steady flow of studies and surveys, each examining a different dimension of the market, makes it difficult to compose a cohesive picture of the Mac’s position there. The effort pays off, though. Among color-prepress professionals, the Mac is the computer of choice. According to a 1995 study by Griffin Dix Research Associates, the Mac holds 76.2 percent of this market, compared with 18.9 percent for Windows and 0.9 per- cent for Windows NT. Furthermore, the study shows that stronghold will contin- ue and even deepen, predicting the Mac will hold a 77.4 percent share; Windows, 11.9 percent; and Windows NT, 6.5 percent. The Mae also remains strong in the multimedia world. The same Griffin Dix study measured which platform is used for producing or playing motion video and found the Mac had 43.5 percent, to Intel-based computers’ 52.2 percent and 4.3 for Unix. In the education market, the Mac’s vigor is even more evident. A 1995 Link Research report projected that, in 1995, the K-12 education market would buy nearly twice as many Macs as Intel-based PCs. International Data Corporation reported in 1995 that the Mac dominates and will continue to dominate the home market. (IDC is a research subsidiary of IDG, which also owns Macworld, PC World, and numerous other computer magazines.) And the Mac is strong on the Internet and in science and engineering. All of these are vital and expanding market segments that help build the Mac’s strength. That's a picture you won’t see if you focus only on the gross market-share numbers. Software Sales Another way to gain a useful perspective is to look at how much software has been sold for various computers. The Software Publishers Association (SPA) reported on North American software sales during the first half of 1995. You’d expect Intel- based PCs to perform well in the traditional produc- tivity area, reflecting the large number of sales in big business. And indeed, though the Mac OS hand- ily outdistances DOS, the Mac doesn’t fare especially well in business-productiv- ity software categories. For example, word processors sold to the tune of $448.5 million for Windows, but only $31.6 million for the Mac; word processors for DOS came in at $17.5 mil- lion. The story is the same with spre: s, where the Mac pulled in $22.2 million compared with $337 million for Windows and $9.3 million for DOS. For database-management software and most other productivity applications, the same rough proportions hold constant. The one category where the Mac showed dis- proportionate strength was integrated software. Here it came in for $20.6 mil- lion in sales, compared with $40 million for Windows and $1.4 million for DOS. That's mighty good performance for such a small hunk of the pie. continues MACWORLD January 1996 17 STATE OF THE MAC ‘The SPA report on education, desk- top publishing, design, and software sales echoes the figures on the Macintosh com- puter’s powerful presence in those mar- kets. Home education software brought in $14.6 million for the DOS platform, $131.4 million for Windows, and $46.1 million for the Mac—over a third of the Windows share. Desktop publishing soft- ware sold $50.9 million on Windows (DOS sales were negligible) and $21.6 million on the Mac—over 40 percent of ess & 2 9738 Imagine the meeting where you all have the same vision, the same objectives, and the same notes. micROoFIELD the Windows share. In the illustration and design arena, Macintosh software didn’t just haul in more than its propor- tionate share, it actually outperformed Windows. Illustration and image-editing software sold $79.5 million on Windows but $87.3 million on the Mac (again, DOS sales were negligible). The SP. report did not measure sales in the Mac’s other strong suits, multimedia and Inter- net software, but I strongly suspect the pattern would persist. SoftBoard only looks and feels like an ordinary whiteboard. Whatever you create on a SoftBoard® appears instantly on your Macintosh® or Windows®-based PC. Once it's there, you can save it, print it, cut and | paste it, e-mail it, fax it, even network it to multiple sites. 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IDC discovered that de’ opers will get a greater return on invest ment in the Mac market than in the PC market, despite the smaller audience for their products. That’s interesting news. What's behind it? One key factor is that Macintosh users buy more software than Windows users—30 percent more. Another factor is that developers can still sell Mac software at prices somewhat higher than Windows software. According to IDC, because of these two factors acting in combination, the value of software sold for each Mac- intosh this year will average 73 percent higher than the value of software sold for each Windows machine Irdoesn’t stop there. The IDC report states that if you exclude word processing and spreadsheet software—categories dominated by Microsoft—and sales of office suites, “the value of software sold per Macintosh jumps to three and a half times that sold per Wintel machine!” All of the: amply demonstrate that the Macintosh market's value to develop- ers is far more than computer sales alone would suggest. But Wait, There's More IDC compared the development and marketing costs as a percent of revenue and found that it is less expensive to devel- op and market products for the Mac OS than for Windows. Mac development averaged 36.4 percent of revenue versus 55.8 percent for Windows. Add to this the fact that the large Windows market cre- ates more competition for developers, some of it already well entrenched. That's a daunting prospect for any developer to face, especially new ones poised to enter the market. 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My first approach was to use the ser- vice offered by America Online since T was already a member and had success- fully accessed the Web via Windows at work. The installation went smoothly on my Mac at home, but I could not get the Web browser to work. I chatted with the AOL technical consultants online and learned that 8MB of RAM is a must. I considered buying more memory. But after reading your article, I found an independent provider, purchased Mac- TCP and The Internet Starter Kit for Mac- intosh, and it all works with SMB. Sid Frost via the Internet OUR ARTICLE CONCERNID WEB browsers was accurate and insight- ful. However, I believe you overlooked MacWeb’s most important feature—its size! MacWeb is small enough to fit onto a high-density disk, which makes it per- fect for people whose Internet access comes from a public computer lab—like college students who do not have network ports in their dorms. The computers have no hard drives, so using 2MB browsers like Netscape Navigator or Mosaic is impossible. In the future, when you're reviewing Internet tools, I invite you to consider size as well as speed, as a service to those Internauts whose utility belt is a little tighter than most. Justin Payne via the Internet WOULD LIKE ‘TO EXTEND A HEARTY ly and lake the Right Con- nection.” I’ve been tromping through the comp.sys.mac.comm newsgroup for quite some time to get answers to questions that you made available. I had an idea of what to do, but simply lacked the direction. Your article provided that direction. Daniel R. via the Internet ECAUSE OF "MAKE THE RIGHT CON- nection,” I felt creative enough to post my own Web page on America Online. You said AOL allows a 2MB HTML home page, but this feature is only available for Windows. AOL would 39.9 ¢€ = not give me an exact answer on when it would be available for the Mac, only “it’s currently in beta-testing.” Michael Thibeau via America Online You're right; the Mac version is still in beta. AOL expects it up and running sometime this fall —Ed. Big Picture, Big Question A CORDING TO MACWORLD, *P! M Stoller is a Los Angeles: Macintosh consultant who delights in solving arcane Mac problems in America Online’s Macintosh Operating Systems forum.” This is an arcane Mac problem possibly of his own making. Macworld rated the Philips 17B as the best 17-inch monitor tested and gave it the Editors’ Choice (“Big Picture, Big Value,” Octo- ber 1995). Since | am in the market for a 17-inch monitor, I thought, “Great! T’ll get one.” This was going to be one easy sale for Philips—except I couldn't find the 17B! I should have sensed trouble when I called Philips and they had never heard of it. 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Microsoft bas not announced a release date for the next ver~ sion of the Office product. (Our apologies for any inconvenience. The problem stems from Philips’ arcane naming conventions. The product name is the 178, while the model number is the 1766DC. Philips tends to refer to it as the latter. The whole thing will become even more confused in January when Philips reverts to the Magnavox name for all its monitors. According to our sources at Philips, the prob- lem with availability for the 178 is that the company recently shifted manufacturing of this model from Taiwan to Mexico. That caused a hiccup in the mon- itor’s availability. It has not been discontinued, and it is indeed the same monitor that we tested. Accord- ing to Philips, though, it will probably be hard to find and may have to be specially ordered because of this manufacturing glitch —Ed Move Quick on Quix Y¥ OUR ARTICLE SCOOPING THE QUIX port to the IBM PReP (Nes, Octo- ber 1995) was a pleasant surprise that I could personally relate to: for the past couple of months I've been using the Quix port of the Mac OS on my Next machine. I've been as amazed as you regarding the bomb-proof reliability of the company’s porting technology. I skeptically read the rave reviews on the various Next forums at the beginning of the summer, but they were so over- 22 January 1996 MACWORLD whelmingly positive I decided to order it from the American distributor, Open- Source. I’ve used it intensively in a pro- fessional environment since then and it’s run flawlessly, and at Quadra 950 speeds. Quis is for real, and I hope that Apple will follow the example of successful com- panies like IBM and Microsoft—and not pursuing an open computing strategy. Judging by its products and good support, Quix comes across like a crack professional group of engineers, and Apple would do well to take Quix seriously. Roger Brisson via the Internet The Sporting Life Uu NTIL BI STLY I WORKED EXC sively with IBM computers, both in graduate school and in the research indus- try. However, my new employer uses Macintoshes. [have been pleased with the so much, in fact, that I plan to one. I searched for } Kendall Szeliga via the Internet You might not see them sitting on the shelf at your local software store, but Mac-compatible sports games are out there. In fact, a couple are mentioned in this issue (see “Links Pro CD,” in Reviews, and Macworld Online news). Inside Mac Games (800/339-0636; $59 for ten CD-ROM-based issues) covers all sorts of Mac games. Of course, if you've got the time and the money, you can always pay a visit to the Macintosh Game Hall of Fame in Pittsfield, Massachusetts —Ed. Please, Just No Dylan Lyrics WAS INITIALLY SURPRISED TO READ the conflicting suggestions regard- ing E-mail signatures from Guy Kaw ki and David Pogue (Wise G. Desktop Critic, October 199: gests that signature and that “Some people and create elaborate si ry, quotes, and AS fy your signature or don’t use one at all.” Meanwhile, David tells us “Netiquette example two: signing your E-mail with nothing but your name is the online equivalent of wearing a ‘dork’ sign on your back.” As I tried to reconcile these contra- dictory thoughts from these Ma it occurred to me that the larger less continues s be used sparing] . go overboard Surf the Web. BEST. 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Now, if I can just figure out the per- fect E-mail message that would get Guy to invest in my company. Bret Keisling via America Online Sanily Saver OU'VE DONE IT AGAIN. SAVED ME from the extremes of total frustra- tion. This morning I was online, and just before signing off decided to click on the America Online greeting screen. I clicked on an icon that said New, for Computer- something magazine. What a mistake. I was forced to wait over 20 minutes for the artwork to download. I’m not quick to anger as a rule, but by the time it finished, Iwas fit to be tied. I signed off and was too frazzled to go to work right away. I took a little break and picked up the October Macworld. Ic must have been destiny that it fell open to The Desktop Critic and the solution to the plague of artwork down- loads on AOL. I’ve just installed and test- ed ArtValve, and boy, am I one happy camper. Can’t wait to get my $5 in the mail to Bill Karsh. Sheila Bailey via America Online Wiseacre A NBODUMDEKTA (NEVER BEEN Online, Don’t Understand Mo- dems, Don’t Even Know The Acronyms), I was shocked to learn in Guy Kawasaki’s column (Wise Guy, October 1995) that ALL CAPS is a definite faux pas when ting E-mail. What zo came up with this convention? I aways write in ALL CAPS. With the many hours I type on m computer, if I need to add extra emphasis to my writing, I merely use my mouse, a few strokes, different-size type, and boom, I’m in. WYSIWYG. I can’t afford to contract carpal tunnel syndrome by constantly pushing the shift key up and down all the time. Why has the comput- 24 January 1996 MACWORLD er world not embraced this yet? This went out with the typewriter in my book, Guy. Doug Ellis Grandview, Missouri Why? Because we want to hang on to what meager eyesight we have left —Ed. Turkey Turnaround UAL BUSINESS SYST! sional Output Manager was recently featured in your “Bugs & Turkeys” as (I regret to say) a turkey, because of our ser- ial-port dongle (News, October 1995). This is no longer true. We have an ADB (keyboard)-style dongle available for any of our users who would like the availabil- ity of their serial ports. All new now ship with the dongle, which has been tested on the latest Macintosh computers. Anyone wishing to switch to the new dongle should contact VBS at 508/263- 9900; via the Internet at vbs@visbussys .com; or on the World Wide Web at http://www.visbussys.com/vbs. Christopher Osborn Visual Business Systems via the Internet Marketing Department? Huh? Oo YOU HAV Apple’s E-r il address is? Nick Aschbrenner via the Internet You can FTP to Apple's software update site, ftp://ftp.info.apple.com, or visit the Apple Web page at http://www.apple.com. I've also heard tell that it's possible to send E-mail to Apple via competition@applelink.apple.com, but it didn’t work when I tried it —d. FIND IT WONDERFULLY IRONIC THAT. Microsoft chose the Rolling Stones “Start Me Up” as its theme song for the release of Windows 95—only they left out the line, “You make a grown Mark Feldman Santa Cruz, California Letters should be sent to Letters, Macworld, 501 Sec- ond St, San Francisco, CA 94107; via fax, 415/442- 0766; or electronically to CompuServe (70370,702), ‘MCI Mail (294-8078), America Online (Macworld), AppleLink (Macworld’), or via the Internet (letters ‘@macworld.com). include return address and day- time phone number. Due to the high volume of mail received, we can’t respond personally to each letter. We reserve the right to edit all letters. All published letters become the property of Macworld. 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Industry sources suggest that the German com- puter maker Vobis, Taiwan-based Umax, and Japan's Canon—as well as two U.S. companies, PReP develop- er FirePower Systems and Mac-clone maker Power Com- puting—will announce plans at Comdex to build machines based on the new standard. Apple's Ups and Downs = After a year of much bad news, Apple is showing signs of a rebound. Despite an inability to keep up with the strong demand for new Macs, Apple earned a record $3 billion in the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 1995—up 20 per- cent from the same quarter a year earlier. Apple sold about 1.3 million Macs between July 1 and September 30, 25 percent more than in the same period in 1994. Power Macs accounted for 70 percent of the sales. Apple's share of worldwide personal computer sales jumped from a dismal 7.4 percent in the summer to 9 percent in the fall—Apple’s usual percentage. The delays in shipping the new Macs appear to be one rea- son for the summer dip. Fueled by strong sales of Macs to the education market, Apple now accounts for 63 percent of the com- puters used in U.S. public schools, up from 59 percent in the 1994-95 school year. But the record earnings and higher sales do not mean record profits. Income for the quarter was $72 mil- lion, versus $190 million the year before. Apple now earns less per product—averaging 20.7 percent of the sales price this year, versus 27.2 percent a year ago. Apple's efforts to reinvent its management also continued. In early November, senior vice president Dan Eilers, the respected number two executive and former Claris president, left the company after a reorganiza- tion eliminated his job. Apple has reorganized several times in the last year, consolidating the company's focus on key markets (such as North America, Europe, and Japan) and key user segments (such as graphics, edu- cation, and publishing). Novell Drops OpenDoc, WordPerfect Reversing a diversification effort, Novell has returned to its roots as a networking company. A month after sell- ing its Unix business, Novell has ended its development of the Windows version of OpenDoc, an Apple-IBM technology for making small applications work togeth- er as if they were one big program. Apple continues to develop a Mac version of OpenDoc, which should be released in early 1996. IBM will take on the Windows version in addition to its OS/2 effort. And Novell is putting the WordPerfect division up for sale, although no deal was announced at press time. In addition to the WordPerfect word processor for the Mac and Windows, the division also sells a Win- dows suite that includes a spreadsheet and database. Novell was reportedly porting that suite to the Mac to compete with Microsoft Office; its fate is unknown. m MACWORLD January 1996 29 N THIS ISSUE ith Apple's QuickDraw 3D technology avail- able for any PCI Power Mac, iv’s only a matter of time before companies find new ways to take advantage of 3-D display for their programs, whether they be games, solids modeling, design, or Web publishing. And as software takes advan- computer-aided ¢ of 3-D, you can expect hardware companies to be close behind, offering Quick- Draw 3D acceleration to bring the Mac closer to the kind of 3-D processing power heretofore reserved for main- ames and Unix Systems. 3-D's Web Possil While the initial buzz. on 3 -D involved specialized uses— particular! CAD—it turns out that 3-D may now have a bigger reach. The World Wide Web is no longer limited to static text and graphics. VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) and Apple's QuickDraw 3D (408/996-1010, quickdraw.3D @applelink.apple.com) let Web pages contain 3-D objects that an be manipulated and 3-D scenes that can be navigated. ‘The 3-D elements can also contain links to other 3-D objects and other Web sites. modeling and 30 January 1996 Pp. 32 Hot Games Preview p. 33 PowerBook Future p. 34 Will SuperMac Return to Sell Clones? p. 37 Next Step for the PCI Bus _p. 112 Web-Friendly Painter 4.0 p. 112 The Dry Film Advantage p. 120 The Simplified Lotus Notes _p. 132 Waiting for ARA 3.0 3-D Comes to the Mac With technol can include 3-D models of products that customers can view from any angle. A college can create a navigable 3-D campus in which clicking on the bookstore brings a student these emer es, online catalogs to a page showing the store's interior or listing its invento- ry. Theatergoers and sports MACWORLD what they'll view from the seats they're about to. purchase. Scientists can jointly analyze fans can see exactly 3-D representations of live experimental data. The possi- bilities are endless. The VRML standard and Apple’s QuickDraw 3D get around previous 3-D file-size roadblocks by rendering scenes on the fly ata client’s computer. Web servers trans- mit only geometry and texture information, not large ren- dered 3-D files. The client computer determines the placement, color, and shading of individual pixels. The result is drastically smaller files that can be efficiently distributed over 14.4-Kbps modems. For example, an 1100-polygon 3-D model of a temple can be described in 42K with VRML. By contrast, a flat-shaded DXF version of the temple requires 1.5MB. In some cases there are performance hits. A 66MHz Power Mac can manipulate objects with a few dozen poly- gons in nearly real time, but more complex models and scenes take longer to manipu- lave and navigate. A shaded 6- polygon cube takes 8 seconds to fully rotate through 36 steps, while the 1100-polygon VRML scene takes 22 sec- onds. Future plans for Quick- Draw 3D and VRML include supporting animation, allow- ing multiple participants in the same scene, and improv- ing performance. Apple’s QuickDraw 3D adds a few twists. If a Web page contains a model in QuickDraw 3D’s 3DMF for- mat, a user can drag that file out of a browser and drop it on another document or into the Clipboard. Apple plans to closely integrate QuickDraw 3D with its QuickTime VR technology, letting one scene contain both realistic and syn- thetic 3-D information. Upgraded versions of Mac 3-D applications—including Strata StudioPro 1.75 ($1495; 801/628-5218, info@strata3d .com), Virtus Walkthrough Pro 2.5 ($495; 919/467-9700, info@virtus.com), and Specular International’s Infini-D 3.1 ($899; 413/253-3100, info@ specular.com)—will all create VRML files. Integrating a VRML file into a page takes about the same effort as em- bedding a GIF file. Integratinga VRML file containing mul- tiple URLs requires a bit more effort. You can view VRML models with Whurlwind, a freeware Power Mac application by John Louch and Bill Enright that re- quires QuickDraw 3D. Whurlwind 1.0 can be installed as a continues on page 35 First Dual-Bus Mac Clone NUBUS, PCI IN ONE SYSTEM Macintosh clo: aren’t noted for innovation. Sure, Radius and Pow- er Computing have each bettered Apple in small ways—better enclosures offer easy access to compo- nents and upgrades; deft pack- aging of peripherals creates an integrat- ed solution forhigh- end DTP and video users. But licensing restrictions have made it hard for clone makers to deliver more than refined knockoffs. Until now. For the first time, a Mac clone maker has made good on the promise to inno- vate. Power Com- puting recently in- troduced the Por Wave 604 series of dual-bus desktops. (Shortly afte DayStar Digital deliv multiprocessing clone jointly developed with Apple, which is also a meaningful innovation.) The PowerWaves offer both NuBus and PCI slots—unlike anything Apple offers. If you have a huge investment in NuBus cards for video, graph- ics, and high-end storage, yet don’t want to be left behind in the inevitable transition to the faster PCI standard, you can now heave a sigh of relief. Ss 3-D cards, such as those from Matrox and Yare, are starting to appear. Power Computing’s Inno- vation The basis of the new technology is an application- specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designed by Power Computing (800/671-6227, info@powerce.com) with Apple funding. Apple retains rights to use the new Stargate ASIC, but according to Power Com- puting CEO Stephen Kahng, Apple does not plan to pro- duce dual-bus systems. This chip will also be available to third parties, so don’t be surprised if others cash in on Power Computing’s new Power- Wave 604 series runs as fast as 150MHz. the NuBus legacy market. For example, Radius officials have long hinted the company would offer a dual-bus ma- chine, probably using its own technology. (All the clone makers realize they must de- sign their own ASICs to com- pete against Apple.) ‘The Stargate ASIC oper- ates as a PCI-to-NuBus bridge and resides on a $249 riser card; expansion cards fit into the riser card instead of direct- ly on the motherboard. So if you just need PCI, you won't need this chip and can buy a cheaper version of the machine with a PCI-only ri Power Computing claims the chip yields higher perfor- mance than traditional NuBus for some applications—partic- ularly digital video—but no units were available for test- ing as Macworld went to press. The New Lineup Dual- bus configurations will be roughly based on Apple’s PCI Power Like Apple’s PCI Ma they will use continues me MACWORLD In Briel Dual- Want both a rewritable optical drive and a CD-ROM drive on Drives your desk but don't have the space—or the cash? Using technology called phase change, three storage vendors recently announced new dual-function drives that combine both into one unit with a common tray-loading mechanism. The technology differs from what's found in a magneto-optical drive because there's no magnetic process involved—the laser that reads the CD-ROM can also write to the optical disc, DynaTek's PCD650 (416/ 636-3000, info@raider.dynatek .ca) is shipping for $995. The APS PDCD (816/483-1600, sales@apsTECH.com) and the Toray Phasewriter (415/341- 0845) are scheduled to ship by the end of 1996; pricing was not available at press time. LcD Proxima (619/457-9647) has in- troduced a $6295 desktop active matrix LCD projector, the Desk- top Projector 2400. It can display 2 million colors simultaneously at 640-by-480-pixel resolution. 1GB Drive Modules MicroNet Technology (714/453- 6000) will offer lomega’s 1GB and 540MB Jaz cartridge drives (higher-capacity cousins of the popular 100MB Zip drive) for its DataDock system. Each Jaz drive will cost $600. The DataDock consists of stackable cases into which you can insert and remove SCSI devices such as hard drives, with no need to worry about cabling and SCSI IDs. Color Laser Lexmark International (606/ 232-2000) now offers a 600-dpi CMYK color laser printer. The Optra C costs $6400, plus $299 for a LocalTalk interface card. Lexmark also unveiled four black-and-white laser printers that output at 1200 dpi: the R+, Rt+, Lx+, and Lit. Prices range from $1749 to $3549. January 1996 34 ‘The $249 riser card adds NuBus slots to the new Power Computing PowerWave 604 systems. daughtercard-based CPUs to make for easier upgrading. Power Computing’s Pow- erWave 604 models will be based ona 150MEIz, 132MEIz, or 120MHz PowerPC 604 CPU, But the dual bus and enclosure design (in minitow- er and desktop models) should offer more flexibility and con- figurability for consumers. The 132MHz and 150MHz tower machines will feature three drive bays accessible from the front; the 120MHz desktop unit will feature two bay: xpansion capability will be the same on deskto; and tower machines —three PCI slots, or two PCI and two Nubus slots. Power Compu ing says these uni will be available in small numbers through November 1995, with produc- tion ramping up in December. Like the Power 100 and 120 models that the new machines will gradually re- pla the Power Comput- ing offerings will ship with a keyboard, mouse, quad-speed CD-ROM drive, and a range of bundled software; these machines will support Mac and VGA video and offer 16MB of RAM and a 1GB hard drive in the base model: ‘The PowerWave 604/150 wi cost $4499, the 604/132 will cost $3699, and the 604/120 will cost $3 199.—CHARLES PILLER More Add-on Cards for PowerBooks FAX MODEM, ETHERNET, AND VIDEO CARDS Ao (408/739-7000) and Global Village Com- (408/523-1000, sales@globalvillage.com) have both announced PC Cards (former! led PCMCIA) for Apple’s new PowerBook 5300 series and 190. Both companies announced 14.4-Kbps and 28.8-Kbps fax modems and 10Base'T Ether- net/fax-modem combination cards, Global Village’s combo card offers simultaneous use of the modem and Ethernet con- nections, while its fax modems offer two phone Both companies’ products can sup- port cellular phones with optional kits. ActionTec’s 28.8-Kbps fax modem costs $299, while the combo card costs $479; its 14.4-Kbps modem costs $149 while the combo card costs $339, An Ethernet-only card $149. Global Village’s 28.8-Kbps fax modem costs 399, while its combo card costs $599; its 14.4-Kbps fax modem costs $209. Viking Components (714/ 643-7255) offers the Netlink 288, a $329, 28.8-Kbps modem that works with cellu- lar telephones and provides autodial and — autoanswer modes. And TDK Systems (916/478-8421) offers the $529 DF2814APB Global s fax modem. In related news, Focus Enhancements (617/938-8088 focus@applelink.apple.com) has broadened its line of PDS cards for the new PowerBooks. In addition to the $279 MV8-EN card, which has 8-bit video on 15-inch and 17-inch monitors plus a 10BaseT Ethernet con nector, Focus offers the $399 SPECIAL REPORT Hot New Games ‘The glorious revolution continues, comrades! For years, the hardware fiddlers on the PC s Je ha had better games, while the Macintosh proletariat, weakened by the anemic performance and burdened with massive system overhead, suffered under the grinding boot of niveling Apple dictators, obsessing about the Mac’s being called a toy computer. But the will of the people cannot be restrained. The petty bureaucrats at Apple are being reeducated, and the PowerPC chip burns inside the Macin- tosh with the fury ofa thousand suns. This special report pre- views an exciting, innovative new game, Bad Mojo, and goes deep into the heart ofa top game developer, LucasArts, to bear firsthand witness to the mighty forces being unleashed therein. Long live the revolution! 32 January 1996 MACWORLD Sneak Peek: Bad Mojo just say that you've had One minute you're ith a passport, a plane ticket, and a million dollars, and the next minute You're a cockroach. Your sudden demotion to six-legged scavenger is your entry to the dark and twisted world of Bad Mojo, the latest game from Pulse Entertain- ment (310/264-5579, badmojo@ Pulse-ent.com; formerly Drew Pictures, creators ration and puzzle solving. Macworld was able topl beta version, and while otherworldly and 7th Guest was eerie, Bad Mojo is Discarded pilled liquids, to the un- derside of tables, all photo- graphed and rendered in loving detail and startling realism, set tes Myst wa deliciously grim cigarette but and bits of gum stu the stage for a bizarre tale of sorrow, loss, and redemption amidst the ordinary debris of human existence. Your insectile alter ego is creepily believ- able, appearing on screen in a top-down view, responding with legs scuttling and anten- nae waving to simple directional keyboard of Iron x). Bad Mojo draws on the we of Broderbund’s Myst and Virgin's 7th Guest, send- commands. Success depends on inferring clues from the bits and pieces (and occasionally people) that you crawl over and under, The game is also infused with otherworldly elements, as pictures come to life with memory flashb: quences); silv fellow roaches pass on survival hints via a sort of vermin telep- athy; and a mysterious guide appears in v quences tie Bad Mojo togeth- a moody, atmospheric . In Bad Mojo, you may be a cockroach, but you can still recognize cheap cigars and the smell of despair. MVI6-EN, which has 16-bit color, and the $299 MV16, which isan MV16-EN without the Ethernet connector. —GALEN GRUMAN PowerBook: What's Next? DON'T EXPECT NEW INPUT DEVICES OR CD-ROM SOON ith Apple’s new crop of all now 3k, “Whar’s notebook makers have been introducing innovations, including internal CD-ROM drives, removable LCD panels, and internal removable-media drives, none of which are in the latest Mac notebooks. A few companies in the PC market—IBM most notably, but also Toshiba and NEC. Technologies—have become the prime movers in the notebook technological exploration, taking on a role that most people associate with Apple. But Apple has de- cided not to ride the leading edge when it comes to notebooks, y PowerBook prod- uct managers. As an e} ample, take the CD- ROM drive,a device that Apple almost single-handedly made a standard component, not just on Maes but on all PCs, by including them in all models at almost no profit. It took about two years fora CD-ROM drive to become a must-have option for any PC. Now, several PC notebook makers are including CD-ROM drives in their note- books, either in a side bay that normally houses a floppy drive or ina turntable-like apparatus under the keyboard, which flips up to give access to the CD-ROM drive. But Apple product man- agers plan to hold off on adding CD-ROM drives until they can do so while retaining a weight “D-ROM drives are re big. ger, heavier, and pricier than regular notebooks, which is why PC vendors call them bricks. Bricks are typically used as miniature presentation sys- tems, not personal computers. As for copying two well- received IBM input innova- tions—a keyboard that expands to full size with a full set of keys when you open the lid, and the —Apple has no plan to do that, preferring to let users plug in a keyboard if they desire and to keep the trackpad as the standard Apple portable pointing d Later this year, you'll see PC notebooks sporting removable 5'4-inch drives, such as CD-ROM and Sy- Quest; removable LCD pan- els that work on overhead pro- jectors; and a choice of input device. Apple says most of these come at the expense of battery life and weight, al- though itknows that it will have to consider such options in the future. Because there are so many PC notebook makers, a few can afford to invest in such options and successfully target a small part of the large PC notebook market. Apple, witha smaller base of users, can less easily afford to develop tech- nology for subgroups, which is why you'll see only the innova- tive technologies that Apple thinks will appeal to the broad Mac market on its notebooks. Given the small size of the Mac market (about 9 per- cent of the overall personal computer market) and the even smaller slice of notebook continues soundtrack rounds out what's sure to be one of the most talked-about games of 1996. Bad Mojo is expected to ship in January on CD-ROM for both the 680X0 and Power Macintosh; pricing had not been determined at press time. LucasArts Preps Winter Lineup Mac gamers can look forward to a joyous Thanksgiving, a merry Christmas, and a happy New Year, thanks to the crack team at LucasArts (415/472- 3400); the maniacs in Marin County have plans to ship no fewer than five games between October and Super Bowl time. X-Wing for the Macintosh should be on store shelves by the time you read this, and based on my hands-on play with a late prototype, the Mac version was worth the wait. Everything from the scenes between action segments to the game-control screens to the flight engine has been updated with gorgeous high-resolution graphics, and the action is still fast, smooth, and exciting. The game will ship on CD-ROM for $49.95, and will contain all the original X-Wing for PC CD-ROM missions, plus the missions from B-Wing and Imperial Pursuit. In mid-January, Star Wars addicts will get another fix with Rebel Assault II ($49.95), a hybrid game consisting of mul- tiple episodes, each with a di ferent style of play. Something odd is going on in a remote corner of the galaxy; it’s up to you to find out what. Reprising your role of Rookie One, you'll fly a TIE fighter through nar- row canyons, board an X-Wing, battle your way through the sewers of an Imperial station, and race for your life aboard a speederbi s tied together with live-action cine- matic sequences filmed with all the familiar Star Wars props. For the more pen- sive gamer, The Dig is a puzzle-based adven- ture game scheduled to ship on CD-ROM in December 1995 for $49.95. As Boston Low, space-shuttle pilot, you're on a mis- sion to prevent an asteroid from crashing into Earth. Your inves- tigations reveal that the asteroid is actually an alien spaceship, and then things real- ly get weird. Suddenly shang- haied halfway across the galaxy, you and your team must rely on your wits to find a way home. Meanwhile, LucasArts is bringing a pair of adventure- game faves from PC land over to the Macintosh. Day of the Tentacle and Sam and Max Hit the Road are two CD-ROM puzzle/adventure games, each with a twist. In the former, you guide a team of three friends as they attempt to save the world Blasting Imperial storm troopers is all in a day's work for Rookie One. You also get lots of cockpit time in LucasArts’ Rebel Assault Il. from the evil Purple Tentacle. In the latter game, Sam and Max are a wisecracking dog- and-rabbit detective team that rely on your help to solve a tricky mystery. Day of the Ten- tacle and Sam and Max should both be available by the time you read this. Prices were not available at press time. So when the weather out- side turns frightful this winter season, fear not. You'll be warm, , and well entertained by the light of your Macintosh. —CAMERON CROTTY MACWORLD January 1996 33 [ News users (about 15 percent of Mac owners), there simply aren’t enough buyers for the more esoteric technologies. Simply put, Apple can’t recoup the de- velopment costs of technolo- gies that it can’t sell to almost all its PowerBook users, accord- ing to the Apple PowerBook team.—GALEN GRUMAN Rick Schrameck, a former top Radius executive, plans a new line of clones that would resurrect the SuperMac name. Super Mac May Return as Clone Seller WILL FIRST SELL RADIUS-MADE SYSTEMS A former Radius executive is negotiating to li- cense the Super- Mac name from Radius for a new line of Power Macintosh clones and ambi- tiously plans to exhibit early units at the Comdex trade show in mid-November 1995 and ship several thousand units by the end of this year. If this happens, it would be the fastest launch of a clone line, beating the schedules of Power Computing, Radius, and DayStar Digital by at least half a year. Asked how he can fulfill such an ambitious pro- duction schedule, compan chief Rick Schrameck cites his previous experience as CEO of San Diego-based RDI, a manufacturer of Sun-compat- ible portable computers. In addition to licensing the SuperMac name, Radius would also sell its clone com- ponents to the new company, in return for a minority stake of between 15 and 19 percent and an agreement that the new company will not sell through the same outlets. Radius has signed a letter of intent with Schra- meck, but at pre: time the deal was not complete. Schrameck, ecutive vice presi- dent and general manager of Radius’s systems division until August 25, tells Macworld that his new company, unofficially named Clone Corporation, = would sell Taiwan- manufactured Mac clones through the direct and_ retail channels at prices 12 to 15 percent less than Apple charges. This is comparable to Power Com- uting’s pricing. Schrameck says he also plans to make Mac- intosh notebooks that would re- semble Intel-based notebooks rather than PowerBook: Intending to compete with Power Computing, the new small-business and home-ori- ented clones will bear the SuperMac name, which disap- peared after Radius acquired BUGS & TURKEYS e Ambrosia Software (716/325-1910; Ambrosia SWG@aol.com) encouraged users of its shareware screen saver Eclipse 2.20 to register by offering a free upgrade to version 3.0. But Ambrosia retroactively canceled the free offer, instead charging $5 for the 3.0 upgrade. & DGX Systems (datagrfx@rtd.com) blanketed the Internet with an offer of an amazingly low-priced hard drive with a mechanism from an unfamiliar man- ufacturer. But in addition to offering only a 90-day war- ranty and notaccepting credit cards, the company hopes to “create a better business-to-business communication vehi- cle for the Internet” by sending you long, unsolicited E- mails. Viewers must send E-mail to avoid further intrusions. Macworld will send you a Bug Report ‘T-shirt if you are the first to inform us ofa serious, reproducible bug that we report in this column, or a Turl xy Shoot ‘T-Shirt if we shoot your turkey in this space. See How ta Contact Maci rid. SuperMac Technology in August 1994. Other clone manufacturers have needed six to nine months to start ship- ping computers. (Schrameck’s agreement with Radius forbids him from competing with Radius directly.) A Radius spokesperson confirms that a deal is in the works but notes that it is con- tingent on Schrameck’s get- ting funding for his company. Because Schrameck’s compa- ny would initially use Radius’s clone components, it is not re- quired to contract with Apple as a licensee, although Schra- meck says that he intends to THE AmCOEx INDEX OF USED MACINTOSH PRICES during week of October 20 Cont Average Monthly ‘Machine (RAM/Hard Drive) Sale Price Change PowerBook 140 (4M8/40MB) $625 +825 PowerBook 165 (4MB/80MB) $950 so PowerBook 180 (4MB/80MB) $1300 +850 PowerBook Duo 230 (4MB/80MB) $775 +825 ‘Mac isi (3MB/40MB) $275 so ‘Mac Iici (4MB/80MB) $450 -$75 ‘Mac Iifx (4MB/80MB) $450 so Centris 650 (8MB/230MB) $975 -$50 ‘Quadra 800 (8MB/230MB) $1050 so Quadra 900 (8MB/160MB) $1100 so Power Mac 7100/66 (8MB/350MB) $1550 $200 Power Mac 8100AV (8MB/500MB) $2200 -$400 puter Exchange wns nelode keybosrd an of Atlante (800/786-0717) tt reflects sales olde monitor and 2 January 1996 MACWORLD pursue a license on his own. Schrameck says that in addition to Radius’s interest in the company, he also expects start-up funding from the company that will act as his manufacturer. So far, he has received funding two individ- ual investors outside the com- puter industi Even though he’s target- ing the low-margin home and small-business arena, Schra- meck—admitting that it’s an aggressive goal—wants to be profitable in 12 months. One idea to achieve this: after a 90- day warranty period, cus- tomers could pay for service and support, choosing from several tiers of options. The new SuperMac machines will have three motherboard sizes; two will fit in the standard PC-industry Baby AT desktop, tower, and minitower enclosures, while the third will fit in an inte- grated desktop that resembles a Performa 5200. Schrameck says the com- pany will employ about 20 people on start-up and 50 by the end of the first year. His model for the company is a PC vendor like Gateway 2000, with all sales coming via phone, catalog, or large retail- ers. He would not use distrib- utors or dealers, he said. —HOWARD BALDWIN “3D Comes to the Mac” continued Netscape helper application and can be used to view mod- els from different. camera positions and to jump to other Web sites. Template Graphics (619/457-5359, info@tgs.com), InterVista (415/648-2749, info@ intervista.com), Virtus, and others plan full Mac VRML Web browsers. Links to Apple's QuickDraw 3D Web site www.macworld.com/password /mwlinks/vrminews.html. Cards Lag behind 3-D an be found at http:// Software QuickDraw 3D is here now, while QuickDraw 3D modeling and rendering programs, and 3-D-enabled Web browsers are promised by ly 1996, But the hard- ware end is less active. While a Power Mac can handle QuickDraw 3D, many people doing serious 3-D | work— whether for creation or view- ing—will want a 3-D acceler- ator card. But these cards are slow in coming, and several companies are revisiting their early enthusiasm. QuickDraw 3D accelera- tors fall into three groups: cards aimed at authoring users G-D artists) that will cost under $1200, cards aimed at gamers that will cost less than $350, and cards aimed at ren- derers and modelers that will cost more than $1000. ‘The authoring and gam- ing cards both offer real-time shading and texture mapping on 3-D objects. The line be- tween the two types of cards is blurry. The main difference is in the amount of memory the boards have, and thus the num- ber, size, and complexity of the texture maps they can hold. Cards for 3-D Developers Expect three authoring cards by early 1996: one from Apple, two from other companies. MICROSOFT FLAILS WHILE THE MAC DELIVERS A” hopes it can exploit the relative confusion of the Micro- soft and Intel position on multimedia to provide a clear lead in the market- place for low-cost 3-D graphics. “The Macin- tosh standard is much simpler and more coher- ent, and it’s a very easy specification to imple- ment,” says Shawn Hope- wood, Apple’s Quick- Draw 3D evangelist. “Apple has imposed a standard on the commu- nity, and generally there’s been little dis- agreement. Intel and Microsoft are still trying to agree on standards in the 3-D arena,” says ‘Trevor Marshall, chair- man and CEO of Yare Systems, a developer of accelerators for multi- media creators. Vendors also hope that their technology will help the Macintosh steal some market share from Silicon Graphics (SGI), which currently domi- nates the market for 3-D graphical workstations. “We've had a number of companies that have talked to us about having a less expensive substitute for SGI machines. A high-end Mac with a good 3-D graphics accel- erator could well be the answer,” says Dave vans, president and CEO of EA Research, which develops video- display cards. “This is going to make 3-D much more widely available; before, you had to buy an SGI workstation,” says Yare’s Marshall. —MICHAEL PARSONS if For a hands-on look at 3-D on the Web, go to http://www.macworld.com/password/muwlinks/vrminews.html. Between five and seven gaming cards that will also work on Windows are expect ed by late spring. This includes PCI graphics acceler- ators with 3-D features (from vendors such as ATI, Matrox, and Diamond). So who will offer 3-D card: panies have plans. * Apple (408/996-1010) plans a November 1995 re- lease of the Apple QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card. With an estimated street price of under $400, Apple expects its card to appeal more to graphic artists and 3-D animators than to game players. The board provides 24-bit 3-D accelera- tion, supports texture maps, and can output alpha channels. ¢ Diamond Multime- dia (408/325-7000, sales4u@ diamondmm.com), which re- cently shipped a 3-D accelera- tion card for Windows 95- based PCs, is investigating QuickDraw 3D cards for the Mac market but hasn't decided whether to produce such cards. * EA Research (510/867- 0967, info@earesearch.com) offers three 3-D-gaming/ video cards in the EAsycolor 24 line. One of the cards, the EAsycol- or 1600/16, also supports Adobe Photoshop acceleration. © Matrox Graphies (514/ 969-6300, graph.sales@matrox .com) offers the MGA Millen- nium PCI Graphics Accelera- tor, which combines 3-D and graphics acceleration; it’s aimed at gamers and other viewers of 3-D graphics. A card with 4MB of RAM costs $649 and can be upgraded to 8MB. * Newer’Technology 316/ MACWORLD 685-4904) will release a card that works with the PDS slot of NuBus Power Macs. This card is aimed at gamers and other 3-D viewer: * Radius (408/541-6100, support@radius.com) plans a 3-D card and has shown some prototypes, but the company has not decided what kind of product it wants to deliver or which target user (viewer or creator) it seeks. * Yare Systems (805/ 499-9444, sales@yarc.com) ex- pects its Yarc Screamer card, aimed at 3-D developers, to be available by the time you read this, with a 2MB version priced at $995. A version with extra memory and features will cost $1495. Many software develop- ers say Apple's 3-D card is the best they've seen. In fact, its high quality seems to be giv: ing other companies second thoughts about entering the Mac 3-D acceleration market. Another factor that may have slowed down the de- velopment of 3-D cards was what several developers -all poor coordination be- tween Apple’s PCI hardware engineers and the software engineers developing Quick- Draw 3D; this held up delivery of the QuickDraw 3D software. “The coordination be- tween QuickDraw 3D soft- ware and the PCI hardware was less than optimal. It’s tough to ship a card when you don’t have any software to test it with,” says Trevor Marshall, chairman and CEO of Yare Systems.—JiM FEELEY January 1996 35 ONE [ Thermal ] FOR THE MONEY. FORTHE SHOW No other color printer does more for your image—and your bottom line—than the dual technology Professional ColorPoint 2 PSF from Seiko Instruments. ~ Its actually two printers in one: use the economical thermal wax transfer mode for rough — comps and drafts, then switch to dye sublimation for stunning, photorealistic final prints that come amazingly close to your match print. 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Mo- torola and IBM’s Microelec- tronics Division codesign and manufacture the PowerPC CPU family. But not everyone thinks the industry can keep up that pace. Dave Ditzel, who coau- thored the now-famous origi- nal engineering proposal for RISC processors (the archi- tectural approach upon which the PowerPC is based), thinks that performance doubling will stretch out to 22 to 24 months. That’s because most of the easy gains in CPU fab- rication have already been made. “We have now used all the techniques of the main- frames on a chip. Basic silicon technology will progress at the same rate for the next 10 years, but we won’t get a straight extrapolation in per- formance. Improvements by a factor of 16 to 20 [rather than a factor of 100 as Mo- torola hopes] are very do- able over the next 10 years,” Ditzel explains. POWER Mat NEWS David Patterson, who wrote the RISC paper with Ditzel and now teaches at the University of California at Berkeley, takes a middle ground, saying that many people think the 18-month doubling rate can be sustained for two more cycles before slowing down. “I think what may happen is some new inventions to keep up the rate—to the end of the centu- ry at least.” The chart “How Will Computers Be in Ten Years?” shows the consider- able difference in perfor- mance for the CPU of the year 2005, depending on whether the doubling period stays at 18 months or slows to 22 to 24 months. These esti- mates are all based on com- puters with a single main CPU. The most obvious way to gain performance is to in- stall more than one CPU. Although multiple CPUs have found a place in scientific computing, “so far there’s no need to use more than one processor [for general busi- ness tasks],” Patterson says. “But if we can solve the prob- lem of programming for mul- tiple processors, then we can simply add processors for more performance.” In 5 years, according to Patterson, computers will have 16 times the memory capacity they do now. “One big challenge is the time for the processor to access the memory. {One solution is that] the processor might be on the same chip as memory. Every time you buy mem- ory, you get a proc sor also.” Intel is try- ing out a variant of this strategy with its new Pentium Pro (better known by its code name, P6), which integrates a cache and a CPU on one card. But in 10 years, a RISC chip such as the PowerPC “may run out of gas,” Motorola’s McDermott. Per- haps multiple CPUs that can change tasks on the fly from raw computing to digital-sig- nal processing to image com- pression will be the core of the Macin- tosh in 2005. Whatever the specific technolo- gy, future comput- ers will be more powerful. What will we use that power for? Frank Casano- va, director of ex- ploratory products in Apple’s Advanced Technology Group, envisions man terconnected com- puters on our desks, on belts or wrists, in our cars. These computers would sense the presen of individuals, offer- ing up appropriate information to those with authorization and shutting down in the presence of intruders. An intel- ligent assistant in a computer would have to process huge amounts of infor- This char grow in in- ‘SPECint 92 (in thousands) display, MACWORLD mation to anticipate our needs rather than simply respond to specific reques Software improvements are much harder to predict than hardware improvements. “Software is more driven by a business model than a technological model, Why do something better when people don’t know they need it?” observes Motorola's Swearinge: This trend is nothing new—predictable hardware improvements and unpre- dictable software advances have been a signature of the personal computer industry. And these experts expect that software will continue to lag behind hardware for the next decade.—cary Lu How Fast Will Computers Be in Ten Years? rt shows the estimated increase of CPU per- formance over the next ten years, in SPECint 92 performance, which measures raw CPU performance for integer calculations —the most common on personal ‘computers, Estimates assume that RAM and cache capacity and speed as they have historically ____Bating any setbacks, Industry estimates are that performance will double every 18 months that performance could double every 24 months 1995 2000" 2005 ‘SPECint 92 does not include factors that affect a computer's overall performance (disk access, video bus performance). The SPECint 92 results here for existing CPUs were run on systems with G4MB of RAM and 1MB of external cache, January 1996 37 —_— THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, AFFORDABLE WORLD WIDE WEB SOLUTION AVAILABLE ANYWHERE. 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