scw@cepu.UUCP (05/02/84)
Since this group is now 3 months old and *no-one* has yet done it: BYTE Magazine May, 1984 Vol 9, Nbr 5 576pp. LETTERS Mostly flames/responses to the Mac Articles, 1 flame against timeing benchmarks on Multi-user systems by cpu time. Steve Ciarcia Pt 1 of adding a 8001 to the IBM PC. Chaos Manor Hard-disks on Micros, Flames on DR documentation (again), Waffling on UNIX, Sage II & IV, Game review AH Legionaire & Parthian kings Byte West Coast Amateur radio Bulletin Boards in Space? The main thrust. Professional Computing A professional's perspective on User Friendliness. A Computer in the Doctors Waiting Room. The Microcomputer as a Decision-Making aid. Benchmarking Buisness-Modeling Software. Expert Systems for Personal Computers. How Laywers Can Use Microcomputres. Computerizing a Medical Office. Reviewer's Notebook Multiplan and PFS:Write, The Leading Edge Word Processor, Infoscope,PC-Talk,Two Z80 machines (Kaypro 10, QDP 300). Software Review Thinktank ( an Idea Processor ) Hardware Rev Converting TRS-80 III to CP/M (Mapper III, Shuffleboard III and Vid-80. Software Rev CAD-1 (CAD for the Apple ][ ][/e) Software rev Two more C language packages for CP/M (Q/C, Eco-C) Hardware Rev LNW-80 (and evolving TRS-80 I) Features The Apple IIc; Inside the TRS-80 Mod 100's ROM;Maximizing Hard Disk Performance;Update on Apple Macintosh and Lisa 2; Laboratory Data Collection with an IBM PC; Putting the Apple II Work, Part 2:The Software;ISIM: A Continuous-System Simulation Language; Indexing Open-Ended Tree Structures; Using Comments to Aid Program Maintenance User to User Interesting as usuall. Heathkit Happiness, Defence of CB-80, A comment on disclamers (Disclaimed *NOTHING*!!!),Forth (pro), Modula 2 questions (and answers), Timings for NS16032 (Fast!), Epson QX-10 CP/M Utilitys,Valdocs user,A flame Against the Eagle for not having Parity Memory,A flame (tirade actually) against the Televideo 950 (break key location).More on Superfile (counter flame). The usual Page after Page of adds (wish I had a Million dollar$), letters hints from Steve Ciarcia &ct, &ct. -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcsvax!bmcg}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-locus location: N 34 06'37" W 118 25'43"