_{Cover of the April 1993 issue of Byte}

Though off of its peak, Byte still had a respectable page count in the early 1990s with the April 1993 issue weighing in at over 300 pages. It had become somewhat less technical by this point but that was the way the market was going. This issue includes:

News

• Microbytes - The Casio/Tandy Zoomer pen computer being released to compete with the upcoming Newton from Apple; Microsoft working on combined 32-bit DOS/Windows code-named Chicago; DEC releases Alpha; HP and AMD working together on new chip technology; first simultaneous voice and data transmission carried out over GSM; Next abandons hardware business (of course, Steve Jobs would be back with Apple in a few years); and more.


• Report From Croatia: Recovery Though Technology - The computer industry was one of the fastest recovering industries in Croatia.


• First Impressions: Easy Does It with MS-DOS 6.0 - A look at the new features of MS-DOS 6.0 including its compression and memory management features.


• Photoshop Now Does Windows - Photoshop 2.5 becomes the first version available for Windows.


• Stylus 800 - An affordable $499 ink-jet printer from Epson.

_{Table of Contents from the April 1993 issue of Byte}

Features

• Fighting Fatware - Dealing with the ever increasing space demands of newer applications including Microsoft Access, Lotus 1-2-3, and others.


• Putting Fuzzy Logic into Focus - A look at software for developing fuzzy logic applications including FIDE from Aptronix, FuziCalc from FuzziWare, and others.

State of the Art

• Visualization Applications - A look at scientific visualization software in engineering, financial analysis, structural biology, and more.


• Navigating the Data Flood - Software to help you visualize your data.


• Inside Multidimensional Data - Visualizing data beyond three dimensions.

_{Table of Contents from the April 1993 issue of Byte (continued)}

Reviews

• Solutions Focus: Shrink to Fit - On the fly compression software for PC and Macs. Some products available included Double Density, Stacker, SuperStor Pro, and XtraDrive for the PC and Stuffit SpaceSaver, SuperDisk, and TimesTwo for the Mac.


• Ultraportable PCs: Worth the Trade-Offs? - At the time, "ultraportable" PCs often meant non-backlit, low resolution, black and white screens, limited memory and limited storage among other trade-offs.


• PowerBook Peripherals - A look at third part expansion options for the PowerBook including ethernet controllers, internal modems, and more.


• OS/2's Multimedia Extensions - A look at the multimedia features available for OS/2.


• Two Ways to Say VL-Bus - A look at two VL-Bus motherboards including the Micronics EISA/VL-Bus System Board and the American Megatrends Enterprise III.


• Teaching Macs to Fetch - A look at Aldus Fetch 1.0, a multiuser, mixed-media database for cataloging images, animations, movies and sound files.

Hands On

• Under The Hood: FDDI Speaks - A look at this then new optical-fiber LAN standard.


• Some Assembly Required: Processing Magic on the Mac - A detailed look at the workings of the System 7 Process Manager.


• Software Corner: LAN Remote Control - A look at two PC programs for remotely controlling PCs over a LAN, Control and SlaveIPX.

Opinons

• User's Column: What's Hot, What's Not - The personal computer, OS/2, CD-ROM drives and more. Includes a discussion of the Gateway 2000 4DX2-66V which was my first PC (after my Commodore 64 anyway).


• Book and CD-ROM Reviews: Markets as Virtual Reality - Reviews of The Death of Money, Windows 3.1 Insider, and Practical Ray Tracing in C.


• Editorial: Fatware Strategies - The computer industry's price war makes writing more memory and storage hungry software easier.

_{Back cover of the April 1993 issue of Byte}

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