New features include the ability to process embedded batch files in a user's Autoexec.bat file, and the ability to temporarily increase the high RAM region in high memory during a program's load and initialization. Optimize now can automatically exclude portions of high memory accessed by device drivers and TSRs.

Users can also create "response files" that QEMM-386's LOADHI programs can use to get information about where and how to load programs high.

Optimize now lets users view, browse and play with the list of device drivers and TSRs that the program has relocated to high-memory. QEMM-386 version 6.0 results from a new feature called Stealth. Quarterdeck's new "Stealth" technology hides a PC's ROM code, and makes its memory addresses mappable as High RAM, which is then usable for other purposes.

Stealth technology is dependent upon ROM design. ROM implementations by hardware manufacturers may cause one or more of Stealth's strategies not to work. Optimize will test a user's PC with all Stealth methods and recommend which method to use. Optimize will only present Stealth options to users if it cannot load all TSR.s or drivers in high memory. If a laptop system supports Suspend-Resume, QEMM-386 automatically detects it.

Until December 31, 1991, users may upgrade, from any previous version, for $30.

For more information contact Quarterdeck Office Systems, 150 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405, (213) 392-9851, Fax(213) 399-3802.

Sun systems can now connect to IBM hosts in both a point-to-point and worked TCP/IP manner.

In addition to Sun SPARC systems, Systems Strategies EXPRESS is also able for UNIX 386/486, IBM RISC System/6000, Hewlett- Packard, IBM PS/2 and Digital RISC ULTRIX systems. The EXPRESS SNA products now operating on Sun's S-bus platform include: EXPRESS 3270, RJE (3770), LU6.2, HLLAPI, Net-Thru and LUO.

The price for EXPRESS ranges from $400 to $4,000, per system, depending on configuration. Quantity discounts are available.

For more information contact Systems Strategies Inc., 225 W. 34th St., New York, NY 10001, (212) 279-8400, Fax (212) 967-8368.

Turbo C++ & Turbo Vision includes two compilers in one: an ANSI C compiler and a C++ compiler conforming to AT&T C++ 2.0 specification. Turbo Vision provides support for streamable objects, allowing objects to be made "persistent" by reading them from and writing them to files. The Programmer's Platform is an integrated development environment that enables programmers to compile, debug and run C and C++ applications. Provides automatic overlay control and allows programmers to develop larger programs that take advantage of overlays that operate in 640K of memory. Context-sensitive, hypertext help with copy-and-paste examples for every runtime library function to enhance programer productivity and ease of use.

Turbo C++ with Turbo Vision has a 100 percent ANSI-C compatible runtime library with more than 450 functions, including the Borland Graphics Interface, hands-on tutorials and primers on C and C++ programming. It is compatible with Borland C++ so that code written using Turbo C++ can be ported to Borland C++.

Turbo C++ & Turbo Vision requires DOS version 2.0 or later and operates on PC compatibles, and 640KB memory (512KB for command- line compiler), a hard disk with 7MB minimum of free disk space is required.

The suggested retail price for Turbo C++ & Turbo Vision is $199.95, upgrades consisting of Turbo Vision software and documentation for $99.95. Turbo Vision source code is available for $69.95.

For more information contact Borland International, Inc., 1800 Green Hills Rd., P.O. Box 660001, Scotts Valley, CA 95067-0001, (408) 439-1631.

A minimum configuration consists of IDB running stand-alone on a single personal computer, and it is not difficult to migrate applications to a LAN-based environment of PCs and workstations.

The price of a single developer license is $2500 for the IBM PC or Macintosh; $3500 for the NeXT; and $6000 for HP/Apollo, HP/UX or Sun workstations.

For more information contact Persistent Data Systems, 75 West Chapel Ridge Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15238, (412) 963-1843.

The C++ compiler implements the 2.1 definition of the C++ language with numerous extensions to support embedded applications development. Complementing the compiler is the Microtec XRAY Debugger, enhanced for debugging optimized C++ code. Microtec Research will also supply a variety of inspection and conversion tools, including the OWL C++ name inspector and the Capsule Class Library.

The SPARC C++ package includes single and multiple inheritance run-time libraries for I/O streams and complex arithmetic. Also included is the Microtec Research Capsule Class Library, a collection of class library building blocks for data structure management, graph manipulation, and error handling.

Microtec Research will initially offer the SPARC C++ Compiler and companion tools on SPARCstation platforms. Other hosts will follow, including the IBM-PC. Prices for a complete toolkit including the C++ compiler, C++ XRAY source-level debugger, and class libraries begin at $6,600 on the SPARCstation.

For further information contact Microtec Research Sales and Marketing, 2350 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054, (408) 980-1300, (800) 950-5554, Fax (408) 982-8266

The QPC library contains a form package, menu and windowing systems, over 100 string handling functions, extended precision math functions, a complete set of date/time functions, file name and command line parsing, sound control, data compression and more. The library supports any size text screen, a mouse, DOS extenders, memory managers, TSR's and high level languages.

Price: $99.95, with source code $299.95 (no royalties)

Requirements: MS-DOS or PC-DOS 2.1 or above Microsoft MASM 5.x or above, Borland TASM or SLR OPTASM

For more information contact Quantasm Corp., 19855 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014, (408) 244-6826.

In addition to the RISC System/6000 workstation, ONTOS DB Release 2.1 supports the UNIX operating system on the Sun 3, Sun 4, SPARCstation, HP/Apollo, and DECstation hardware platforms. UNIX operating systems supported are SUN OS, HP/Apollo Domain, DEC Ultrix and IBM AIX. The OS/2 Standard Edition and Extended Edition versions 1.2 and 1.3 are supported in ONTOS Release 2.0.

For more information contact ONTOS, Inc., Three Burlington Woods, Burlington, MA, 01803, (617) 272-7110 extension 500, (800) 388-7110, extension 500.

For the first time, C programmers can concentrate on using data structures which are efficient rather than replicating data to avoid the risk of memory leaks inherent in shared data. GC can easily be incorporated into most existing applications to "plug the leaks" in those applications.

GC's proprietary algorithm combines the compiler independence of conservative mark and sweep collectors with the freedom from accesses to memory which is no longer used provided by copying collectors.

A source license to GC is available from Systems Essentials Limited for $10,000.

For more information contact Systems Essentials Limited, 55 Main Street, Newtown, CT 06470, (203) 426-4430.

Eiffel on the NeXT includes the complete Eiffel distribution from ISE, including the development tools (es, eb, flat, short, etc.) and the complete set of class libraries as documented in "Eiffel: The Libraries". The X Window based graphics libraries are included, having been validated against both the currently available X Window implementations for the NeXT (co-Xist from Pencom Software and the public domain mouse-X from McGill University). It also includes a set of graphics library classes that duplicate the X Window graphics classes, but are implemented using NextStep and Display PostScript. In addition, it features a set of Eiffel classes corresponding to the NeXT AppKit Objective-C classes and online documentation (using the Digital Librarian) for the all classes within the Eiffel classes library.

For more information contact Interactive Software, 270 Storke Road, Suite 7, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 685-1006, Fax (805) 685-6869.

CASEWORKS, developers of the QuickCASE:W technology included in QuickC for Windows, will let registered QuickC for Windows users upgrade to CASE:W Standard Edition for just $99 or CASE:W Corporate Edition for $249. The offer is limited to one upgrade per copy of QuickC for Windows and is available only directly through CASEWORKS. CASE:W Standard Edition regularly retails for $495; CASE:W Corporate Edition regularly retails for $995. The upgrade offer expires December 31, 1991.

For more information contact Caseworks, 1 Dunwoody Park, Suite 130, Atlanta, GA 30338, (404) 399-6236, Fax (404) 399-9516.

Pricing for the SVS C3/FORTRAN-77 version has been set as $395. The SVS C3/ANSI C and SVS C3/Pascal versions are priced at $325. For more information contact Silicon Valley Software, 1710 S. Amphlett Blvd., Suite 100, San Mateo, CA 94402, (415) 572-1685.

For more information contact Ancier Technologies, Inc., 5964 La Place Ct., Suite 125, Carlsbad, CA 92008, (619) 438-5004 x132, Fax (619) 438-6898.

Development can be done in the familiar dBASE language and then translated to C. These applications will run faster and take less memory than the original dBASE application, while maintaining its look, feel, and file compatibility. Generated applications and their .EXEs can be distributed royalty free.

CodeTranslator 1.0 retails for $195. For more information contact Sequiter Software Inc., #209, 9644-54 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6E 5V1, (403) 437-2410, Fax (403) 436-2999.

A real mode alternative to DOS-extender technology, the Heap Expander allows programmers to access data storage memory above the 640K limit. Up to 240MB of heap space is made available through function calls.

Features of the new Heap Expander product include a new link library which allows the user to access expanded memory, extended memory, conventional memory and hard disk in any combination as a huge virtual memory pool, support of the XMS and VCPI standards for extended memory, support of the LIM standard 4.0 for expanded memory, backward compatibility.

The Heap Expander supports IBM-PC, PC-XT, PC-AT or close compatible with MS-DOS version 2.1 or above. Also supported are all current versions of Microsoft C, Turbo-C, and Turbo C++, Borland C++, and most standard C compilers.

The Heap Expander is priced at $119.95. For more information contact The Tool Makers, P.O. Box 2151, Santa Cruz, CA 95063, (408) 458-0690, Fax (408) 458-1011.

Actor is a Windows-hosted development platform, allowing users to create applications for Windows in Windows without having to suffer the complications of developing in DOS. The new version offers a significant improvement to ObjectWindows, Actor's class library that lets developers create Windows interfaces and templates quickly and easily.

Actor is available in two versions: Actor 4.0 and Actor 4.0 Professional. Actor 4.0 is for users who want to learn Windows development and object-oriented programming. For developers who need SQL access, Actor 4.0 Professional adds SQL libraries for DBase, Excel, Paradox and ASCII, plus an upgraded ObjectGraphics library and the Whitewater Resource Toolkit. ObjectGraphics 1.1 offers device-independent bitmap support, pallet support, animation and arbitrary scaling of images to create graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The Whitewater Resource Toolkit lets users create and customize dialogue boxes, bitmaps, cursors, icons, accelerator tables, string tables and pull-down menus in a WYSIWYG fashion.

Actor 4.0 sells for $249; Actor 4.0 Professional for $495. Upgrades from previous versions of Actor to 4.0 are available for $75; from previous Actor Professional version to 4.0 Professional for $75; and from previous Actor versions to Actor 4.0 Professional for $195.

A DLL for higher-end database access to DB2, Oracle, SQL Server and OS-2 Extended Edition Database is available for $395.

Actor 4.0 and 4.0 Professional will run on any 80286- or 80386- based or compatible machine with two megabytes of random access memory (RAM), a hard disk, graphics capability (EGA or higher), mouse and Microsoft Windows 3.0.

For more information contact Whitewater, 1800 Ridge Ave., Evanston, IL, 60201, (800) 869-1144, Fax (708) 328-9386.

The ADW/IEW Model Documentation Toolkit is a software package that enables rapid extraction, organization, formatting and typesetting of models contained with KnowledgeWare's ADW or IEW Encyclopedia. The product works in the OS/2 environment (under the OS/2 DOS shell) and in the IEW DOS environment.

The ADW/IEW Standard Naming utility is a utility that automatically converts all Entity, attribute and relationship names contained within an ADW or IEW Encyclopedia to the "de-facto" standard naming conventions used by industry professionals, the Entity Relationship approach, GUIDE and others. The utility can be used to convert existing encyclopedias to consistent naming standards or as a final quality standards conformance step on new or developing models.

The Knowledge Engineering Workbench is a high-performance SQL and logic programming environment that can be used for a number of ADW/IEW Encyclopedia model management and custom reporting tasks.

For more information contact Applied Knowledge, 702 N. Union, Independence, MO 64050, (800) 729-6512.