January 1988 - THE 68030: HOW HOT IS IT

ARTICLES

386 VS. 030: THE CROWDED FAST LANE

by Tyler Sperry

Skeptical of all the conflicting benchmark data on the Motorola 68030 processor, Tyler set out to discover the truth, and learned that, as usual, the truth is far from simple.

A PROGRAMMER'S DATABASE FOR THE MACINTOSH

by A. Al-Dhelaan and T.G. Lewis

Macintosh programmers: have you ever wished you could pull down a menu, type in the name of a toolbox routine, and view its Inside Macintosh description on screen? Meet MacMan, the Macintosh manual-in-a-desk accessory.

PUTTING ROM CODE IN ITS PLACE

Rick Naro's listing continued from last month.

COLUMNS

C CHEST

by Allen Holub

This month Allen wraps up a two-part presentation of his preemptive multitasking kernel, detailing how the subroutines work.

TO THE MACS

by Stan Krute

In our new monthly column on Macintosh programming, veteran Mac hacker Stan Krute explains how to write custom CDEF resources to create several new species of buttons.

STRUCTURED PROGRAMMING

by Namir Clement Shammas

Namir examines the power and problems inherent in an object-oriented programming in Pascal, concentrating on an implementation for the Macintosh.....

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

by Ernest R. Tello

... while Ernie looks at object-oriented programming in the PC environment in his critique of version 1.1 of Actor, the object-oriented programming language written by Chuck Duff of Neon fame.

FORUM

EDITORIAL

by Sara Ruddy

RUNNING LIGHT

by Michael Swaine

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SWAINE'S FLAMES

by Michael Swaine

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