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PC Notes #94               09/17/92           copr. 1992, Dave Williams
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 Some of my friends think I'm strange because I have address labels and
stationery printed up as "Occupant."

 Microsoft has released Visual BASIC for DOS.  Whoopee.  Just what the
world needs - another BASIC.

 Speadsheet Wars:  Lotus Development Corp. has cut the suggested price
of 1-2-3 by $100.  It's about time - Borland's Quattro's de facto price
has been $99 ever since it came out, and Quattro has been whittling away
1-2-3 sales at an ever-faster rate.

 PC Week, Sep 14 '92 reports: "PKWare will start the ball rolling at
Comdex/Fall in mid-November by announcing version 2.0 of its PKZip data-
compression software, priced at $295..."  It goes on to mention PKWare
has licensed Zip to a company called ASi, which will be selling versions
for Unix ($87), and Mac ($47).

 Award Software's mew Virus Warning BIOS automatically checks for
certain types of viruses.  Whoopee.

 The Russians Are Coming:  Sun has hired 33 Russian programmers to help
develop new commercial products.

 AddStor has released SuperStor Pro.  The main improvements appears to
be JPEG compression for graphics and a password protect scheme.

 TrippLite's sales were up 31 percent last quarter, for 19 consecutive
quarters with growth over 20 percent.

 Apple Computer has been running ads in the IBM magazines, claiming
"It's All Included - Nothing Left to Buy."  Then why are they hawking
Applesoft Draw for $395 and WriteNow for $199?

 Maxtor's new 7213 200Mb hard disk is small.  They're showing ads with
a Kennedy half-dollar in place of the platters.

 Microsoft and Federal marshals busted another company selling alleged
pirate copies of MSDOS 5.0.  This time it was Number One International
in South El Monte, CA.

 Digital Research's annual report for last year reported less than a
million dollars for CP/M royalties.  It's not *quite* dead yet...

 A California court granted Borland's request for a restraining order
against Gene Wang, who Borland accuses of disclosing trade secrets to
Symantec.

 You remember those cheap KLH clones for sale at Sam's and National
Home Center?  They should get even cheaper - KLH just bit the dust.

 Dell was the first non-IBM manufacturer to license OS/2 1.0.  Now
they're the've signed up for OS/2 2.0.  No word of why it took so long.
Reply Corp. signed up in March, Olivetti in July.

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 Dave Williams is the author of "Programmer's Technical Reference"
    (Sigma Press, 1990) and "DESQview Unleashed" (SAMS, 1992)
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