January 1996
Volume 14 Number 1
CROSS-PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT
Implementing a Cross-Platform Graphics Engine
by Kostya VasilyevOOP is a natural for graphics, and a boon to portability. But that doesn't mean it's easy to draw exactly the same picture in diverse environments.
Object-Oriented SDI-12 Communications
by David Perelman-HallC++ can indeed bring useful structure to real-time data acquisition, particularly when reusability is more important than high performance.
FEATURES
Simple Simultaneous Equation Solver
By K. B. WilliamsGaussian elimination has been a workhorse equation solver since the earliest days of computing. K.B. Williams gives us a handy version in C.
The Backpropagation Neural Network
By Dwayne PhillipsIf you've ever wanted to tinker with simple, but not trivial, neural networks, here's some C code you'll enjoy playing with.