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- WE APOLOGIZE, but there was no new issue of INFO-MAT HEADLINE NEWS
- released last week, due to the Independence Day holiday. Hope your 4th
- was a safe and happy one! INFO-MAT HEADLINE NEWS now resumes its regular
- weekly schedule.
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- \\ MMMM // -----------------
- \\\ MM /// INFO-MAT Magazine
- \\\\MM//// -----------------
- \\ \MM/ // Vol. 5, No. 18
- \\ MMMM // July 4, 1989
-
- --- Whole #211 ---
-
- Editor: Alan R. Bechtold
- Associate Editor: Tim Elmer
- Technical Director: Gary Funk
-
- COPYRIGHT (C) 1989, by BBS Press Service, Inc. (BPS), 8125 S.W. 21st Street,
- Topeka, KS 66615. Editorial & Advertising: 913-478-3157. Data Line (VIA
- MODEM): 913-478-9239.
-
- >>SPECIAL HEADLINE EDITION<<
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- ====================================
-
- This SPECIAL HEADLINE EDITION of INFO-MAT MAGAZINE is copyrighted, but may be
- distributed freely by ANYONE, as long as NO ALTERATIONS in the text of this
- file are made in any manner whatsoever. Any unauthorized deletion of ANY
- portion of this file, or addition to this file, will be considered a copyright
- violation.
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-
- TABLE OF CONTENTS:
-
- ITEM # ITEM
-
- <1> SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY OPTIMISTIC
- <2> TANDY BUNDLES THREE WITH 1000 TL
- <3> i486 UPGRADES FOR 386 AST PREMIUM
- <4> DEC TO ENTER THE MAINFRAME MARKET
- <5> OMNIPAGE 2.0 FOR THE MAC
- <6> INSTANT BUSINESS LETTERS SYSTEM
- <7> SPECIAL STUDENT PRICE FOR ASKSAM
- <8> QUARANTINE DEFEATS VIRUSES
- <9> NEW ADVANCED SIMULATION SOFTWARE
- <10> PS/2 ADVERTISING "FUN"
- <11> RUMORS
- <12> COMPUSERVE PURCHASES THE SOURCE
- <13> How to Find INFO-MAT Full-Text
-
- (C) 1989, by BBS PRESS SERVICE, INC.
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-
- MOOD OF OPTIMISM PREVAILS
- IN SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY
- -------------------------
-
- (BPS) -- A mood of optimism prevailed among delegates at SEMI's third
- European Forecast Conference in Cannes.
-
- Although there appears to be a slight softening in the immediate
- semiconductor device demand, this is seen by the equipment and materials
- suppliers as a short-term adjustment in the marketplace.
-
- Industry analyst Dan Rose, said "I anticipated the market growing at around
- 10 percent per year over the next two years. Equipment technology is
- improving dramatically and, as a result, reliability and efficiency are being
- considerably enhanced."
-
- Another industry analyst, Malcolm Penn, head of the European market research
- firm Future Horizons, said, "Before long the cost of a 16-bit microprocessor,
- together with a megabyte of memory, will cost less than the price of a Big Mac
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- PACKAGES WITH ITS 1000 TL PC
- ----------------------------------
-
- (BPS) -- In a July and August promotion of the Tandy 1000 TL, Tandy will
- bundle three major software packages that incorporate the DeskMate User
- Interface.
-
- The packages are Quicken, a checking and finance software program;
- MemoryMate, a free-form record database with automatic indexing and cross-
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- -------------------------------------
-
- (BPS) -- AST Research Inc. has released what it says is the first Industry
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- Intel 386 upgrade for the Premium 386/25, is called a FASTBOARD 386/33.
-
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- compatibility with ISA, or AT-class computers.
-
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-
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- 33 percent performance boost over the 25 MHz 386.
-
- Customers may obtain the FASTboard 486/25 or FASTboard 386/33 upgrades
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- required exchange for the existing plug-in CPU boards.
-
- The price of the FASTboard 486/25 upgrade for the Premium 386/33 is $2,995;
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- DEC POISED TO ENTER
- THE MAINFRAME MARKET
- --------------------
-
- (BPS) -- Digital Equipment Corp. is poised to enter the mainframe marketplace
- with the anticipated late-1989 announcement of the VAX 9000 series of high-
- performance scalar/vector computer systems.
-
- "Digital's VAX 9000 series will be positioned to support the high-performance
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- Shannon, director of IDC's DEC Advisory Service.
-
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- ------------------------------------
-
- (BPS) -- Caere Corp. has begun shipping OmniPage 2.0 for the Apple Macintosh,
- an upgrade of OmniPage 1.1.
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- OmniPage 2.0 has the ability to recognize European characters as well as
- pages in landscape mode. It also contains new user interface features which
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-
- NEW VERSION OF ASKSAM DATABASE,
- SPECIAL PRICE FOR STUDENTS
- -------------------------------
-
- (BPS) -- AskSam Systems has introduced a new version of its free-form
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- significantly reduced price.
-
- AskSam Version 4.2 allows users to associate any graphics file with an askSam
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- captured video, satellite data, and other digitized graphic information.
-
- All Version 4.2 purchasers will receive a free applications disk after
- returning their registration cards. The free disk includes a wide variety of
- user-modifiable programs and utilities, such as an advanced calendar system
- which produces 12 monthly calendar records for any year, plus a full set of
- day-by-day records.
-
- Also included on the free disk: a database of sports information, a
- programmer's cross reference tool, various conversion tables, a program that
- demonstrates how ASCII graphics can be used in an askSam document, and a book-
- cataloging system to keep track of books, records, tapes, and other items.
-
- The new 4.2 askSam version retails for $295. In a class or lab where askSam
- is being used as a reference tool, or is being taught, the program is being
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- FOR FAILING DISK CONTROLLERS
- ----------------------------------
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- software program, Quarantine 4.0, which defeats viruses and alerts the network
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- (BPS) -- Texas Instruments is changing the way that engineers design
- computers and other electronics systems.
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- An intelligent design assistant, called the SimuBoard software package,
- allows systems designers to simulate printed circuit boards, which are used in
- all types of electronics systems, including computers, on an engineering
- workstation. This saves development time for board design.
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- Computer simulation of printed circuit boards is replacing the physical act
- of assembling and wiring integrated circuits onto a prototype board. A
- computer-generated "breadboard" allows the designer to work out errors and add
- unique features to a design without rewiring or adding and deleting chips.
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- By using SimuBoard software, a designer can simulate a completed application
- just as an airline pilot uses a flight simulator to simulate a landing at a
- specific airport.
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- TI's first SimuBoard package, the TMS34010 SimuBoard, will be available later
- this year from TI for $1,490. Additional applications will be added to the
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- (BPS) -- IBM Wednesday introduced new advertising that is a striking
- departure, creatively, from previous campaigns for the Personal System/2.
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- The ads respond to business people who say they want to use the computer as a
- competitive tool today and in the future.
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- The national print and TV campaign, created by Lintas:New York, begins June
- 29. It is aimed at current IBM users and first-time buyers.
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- The TV commercials use music, lyrics, and special effects to carry the
- message. The print ads are sophisticated and friendly cartoons. The overall
- theme stresses how the PS/2 protects a customer's investment and helps provide
- a competitive edge.
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- many ways the PS/2 can help customers meet their business requirements. There
- are four TV commercials and a series of print ads.
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- The print advertisements feature cartoons that portray business situations
- involving the PS/2 and explain solutions to business problems in an inviting
- and warm way. They use the same tag line as the TV spots, "How're you going
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- -- SCO about to ship Unix V.3.2 for 386s, but its 286 products will keep the
- Xenix name.
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- -- US robotics will ship internal PC card versions of its high-speed 9600 bps
- modems next week.
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- -- Sun is developing a Micro Channel-based Sparc workstation.
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- -- New IBM workstation to use i860 Wizard and 486 with more than 100 million
- floating points per second.
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- -- Coming from IBM, a 4K x 4K virtual matrix graphics standard with 2K x 2K
- on screen.
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- -- In the lab at Micrografx, a translator of Mac software graphics to VGA
- windows on the PS/2.
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- -- If you follow DEC, start looking for a very fast VAX, and a new
- workstation plan.
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- -- The lights that spell messages on the side of Tandy Center's twin towers
- get "programmed" by guys on scaffolds that unscrew them.
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- CompuServe will offer The Source's 53,000 subscribers free membership to
- CompuServe, which has a membership of 500,000-plus.
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