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OpenVMS VAX has been a tremendously successful product that it be able to efficiently support operating systems other than OpenVMS. The Alpha AXP designers also wanted to start with a […]

Alpha seems like a panacea. All that CPU power just waiting to be tapped. New, faster I/O buses, massive cache buffers, speed, speed, speed. We can't wait! Then the questions […]

Companies looking to become early adopters of Microsoft's Windows x64 Edition OSes encountered a reason to postpone the decision: They may find their favorite anti-virus software no longer works on […]

Encapsulation of Applications in the NewWave Environment THE HP NEWWAVE ENVIRONMENT provides powerful capabilities for applications that are written to take full advantage of the object management facility (OMF), the […]

Faced with the prospect of a bumpy transition from Windows 3.1 to Windows 4.0 (code-named Chicago), some ISVs are considering adding filters to their current applications to ensure backward compatibility […]

M Microsoft Corp.'s new DriveSpace compression software appears to be virtually identical to its DoubleSpace product with regard to drive structures and programming interfaces, according to PC Week Labs' analysis […]

As Microsoft Corp. continues to whet the computing public's appetite for Windows 4.0, IS managers are gearing up to shift to the more complex and still unfinished 32-bit operating system. […]

March 14 was Albert Einstein's birthday. If you forgot to celebrate, don't worry. Apple Computer Inc. marked the holiday for you with a big send-off bash for its long-awaited Power […]

Running one operating system on top of or within another operating system can be like running a circus. Some operating systems try to keep other operating systems flying through the […]

First to flock: development tools, databases, terminal emulators ATLANTA -- The coupling of Digital Equipment Corp.'s AXP systems with Microsoft's forthcoming Windows NT operating system last week won endorsements from […]

ATLANTA -- A traffic jam of client/server vendors is growing behind the drawn-out shipment of Windows NT, with frustrated users in tow. As key pieces such as Advanced Server are […]

As this decade progresses, it will be easier for users to build a WAN with off-the-shelf components that will be as interchangeable and easy to use as befits the commoditization […]

By Gina Smith Shunning a technique already used in as many as 300 PC applications, Microsoft Corp. is adopting an alternative method for juggling DOS-extended applications under Windows/386 and OS/2, […]

Though Microsoft's Chicago runs on 4Mb, observers estimate that users will need 8Mb to 12Mb to take full advantage of the operating system. The average corporate PC today runs on […]

To most, Chicago is in Illinois and Seattle in Washington. But a fortnight ago, this wasn't so obvious. To the journalists in Seattle, meeting for the first in-depth look at […]

On several occasions, I've advocated the use of the Desktop Management Interface for the management of PC LAN nodes and components. In response, people have asked how the DMI compares […]

Much of the software sold today is prominently labeled 'Microsoft Windows-compatible.' But when you buy that software, do you often wonder what you're getting, what 'compatible' means and who is […]

First they stopped talking to each other, and then they moved into separate apartments and split up the goods. Now their software is incompatible, and it looks like the divorce […]

A friend of mine who recently returned from a meeting of corporate computing coordinators shook his head and said, 'I didn't want to be rude, but most of their problems […]

All is not as easy as pie with Apple's relatively new high-end Macs, the Quadra 700 and 900. Now that the 68040-based Quadras are settling into their niches, users are […]

Ultimate Plus from the Ultimate Corp. is fully compatible and consistent with the native Ultimate environments. It is compatible with Pick and Pick-like implementations including Pick R83, McDonnell Douglas and […]

LIKE MS-DOS, ONLY BETTER Most people pay little or no attention to DOS. That's too bad, because there is an alternative available from Digital Research, Inc., Monterey, Calif., that is […]

A Different Kind of DOS All of the talk about Microsoft Windows 3.0 may have led you to believe that plain old DOS has gone by the wayside. It hasn't. […]

By Gina Smith In a DOS world once ruled by Microsoft Corp. and IBM alone, Digital Research Inc. appears to be slicing its own profitable piece of the market. DRI […]