Table of Contents| IBM and Its Personal Computers | 1 |
| Phil Lemmons |
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| INTRODUCTION: The Array of IBM Personal Computers | 9 |
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| Matching Machines to Computing Requirements | |
| IBM Personal Computers at a Glance | 10 |
| IBM Forecast: Market Dominance | 30 |
| IBM's array of follow-up products and enhancements for the PC means it is here to stay. |
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| Michael Killen |
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| STALWARTS:The IBM Personal Computer, PC XT, Portable and PCjr. | 41 |
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| Machines Within the Machines: Operating Systems | |
| A Tale of Two Operating Systems | 42 |
| Confused about virtual memory operating system in the new XT/370? Compare it to Microsoft's PC-DOS. |
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| Charles Daney |
| The Future of UNIX on the IBM PC | 59 |
| With Unix available for the XT, the question is not how to emply it, but how soon. |
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| Ralph A. Phraner |
| Five Window Managers for the IBM PC | 59 |
| Multiple windows, mouse pointing devices, and multitasking envornments for your IBM PC. |
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| John Markoff |
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| Manners of Speaking: Programming Languages | |
| Two Logos for the IBM PC | 91 |
| Two Logos, one by Digital Research and another from IBM, share many features, but choosing the better package proves difficult. |
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| Morton Goldberg |
| The Logical Record Keeper: PROLOG on the IBM | 125 |
| This very high-level language makes it easy to program knowledge-itensive tasks. |
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| James L. Weiner |
| An Introduction to PC Assembly Language Programming | 134 |
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| William J. Claff |
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| Ways of Writing: Applications and Programming | |
| Technical and Business Graphics on the IBM PC | 155 |
| A quick look at some spreadsheets and graphics packages in a crowded field. |
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| Jack Bishop |
| Word Processing Revisited | 165 |
| A review of five new versions of familiar WP packages for the IBM PC - WordStar, Word, pfs:Write, MultiMate, and FinalWord. |
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| Janet Cameron |
| Update on Six Database Managers | 187 |
| A comparison of six popular DBMSs for the IBM PC. |
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| Dave Kruglinski |
| Evaluating 8087 Performance on the IBM PC | 197 |
| Saving time in engineering and business is easy if you choose the right translator. |
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| Stephen S. Fried |
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| EXTRA POWER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: IBM's XT/370, 3270 PC, and S9000 | 209 |
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| The Micro as Mainframe/The Mainframe as Micro | |
| The IBM XT/370 Personal Computer | 210 |
| A qualified success, IBM's XT/370 represents a genuine advance in desktop computing. |
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| Ernest Sabine |
| Number Crunching on IBM's New S9000 | 218 |
| IBM joins with MIT's Nanional Magnet Lab to develop spectrometers for imaging systems. |
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| David J. States |
| The Mainframe Connection: IBM's 3270 PC | 231 |
| High-quality graphics and multihost communications characterize IBM's 3270 PC. |
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| Larry Augustin |
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| Maximizing the PC Family: Communications and Compability | |
| Modems: The Next Generation | 238 |
| New modems, with call-progress signal detection, alternate voice and data using smart interfaces. |
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| Mark Klein |
| Moving Data Between PCs and Mainframes | 248 |
| Moving shared data around once you access it is still a problem in an industry without standards. |
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| Jay Siegel |
| Testing for IBM PC Compability | 256 |
| Determining how compatible a computer is compared to the IBM PC has now been simplified with two new programs. |
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| Robert A. Stillman Jr. |
| What's New | 266 |
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