Published in 1992 (Computer Jagat) ALR’s Powerpro/MC systems are being launched in direct competition to IBM’s PS/2 Model 95 system. The Powerpro/MC system microprocessor is upgradeable. Unlike the IBM PS/2 Model 95 system, the Powerpro/MC is designed to be dual processor– ready to satisfy future high performance computing requirements,” said Gregory Hauw, vice president of [...]

Published in 1992 (Computer Jagat) The growing demand for facsimiles suitable for homes and small offices has led to an upsurge in production of low-end j machines. New manufacturers arc ‘ emerging all the time in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The intensifying competition has resulted in price cuts in Taiwan of $ 20 to $30 [...]

Published in 1992 (Computer Jagat) The latent pen-based computer market will remain grounded until at least the middle of the year, its lift-off hampered by a lack of deliverable hardware and further delays in the release of two key pen-based operating environments. Several developers claimed a series of bugs will delay the arrival of Go [...]

Published 1992 (Computer Jagat) Mitchell Kapor, founder of Lotus Development and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), used the keynote address at the Winter ’92 Usenix technical conference to hammer home the EFF’s vision of a civilized network world, with networking for everyone. Kapor was of the opinion that Integrated Services Digital Network  (ISDN)—a technology considered [...]

Originally published in 1992 (Computer Jagat magazine) A Zatnan Subhani When an organization or a person go to computerize their organization and if there is no computer specialist, in that case, it’s wise to hire a computer consultant to do the job smoothly. But, sometimes the volume of business of the organization is small or [...]

Cellular technology, which revolutionized wireless telephones in the 1980s, now promises to do the same for mobile computers in the 1990s. Analysts predict that most notebook PC makers will offer wireless options by the third quarter of next year. Yet despite the promise, sending data over cellular networks still poses some daunting challenges in terms [...]

Novell, Inc. is to leapfrog rivals Banyan Systems, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. by an integrated network management platform that will manage Netware and just about anything else within a corporate local area network installation. Novell’s Netware Management System, a graphics-based system allows the network manager to centrally monitor real-time alerts and collect configuration information from [...]

IBM and Apple Computer Inc’s first PowerPC-based system will be priced under US$2,000 to compete with 386SX machines, officials from both companies and Motorola Inc revealed. The system, a low-end desktop expected as soon as early 1993, will offer about 20 SPECmarks in performance, said officials from the three com-paines, speaking at the fourth annual [...]

Byte Magazine’s, has released its editor’s choice for the best products of 1991. The Awards for Excellence went to the following products: * System 7.0, the Macintosh operating system from Apple Computer. Also from Apple was the Quick Time 1.0 movie file format for multimedia. * Another operating system winning the lop award was Digital [...]