The South African
S H A R E W A R E
M a g a z i n e
Volume 6 - Number 4
Shareware Your Software Alternative
From the Editors Desk
Dear
member,
Time flies (like an arrow?) - it
seems only yesterday that we were celebrating the start of the new year and now
it's almost winter?! And to give you an excuse to sip a glass of cherry /
gluhwine / scotch or a cup of rooibos tea whilst you are relaxing next to the
fire: here's some reading for you.
The first article consists of
snippets from our disk "Bildit" [how to build your own PC] which
actually contains a wealth of information on current PC technology. You will
appreciate its ability to have something for address both new and seasoned
users. We selected a brief explanation of "PC specs", some common
problems and how the Pentium PC differs from 486 systems. A second article is a
program from a leading-edge technology research lab which they use for naming
their new inventions. You also find a personal selection of one-liners
(taglines taken from vols 4250/1). And, of course, an amazing selection of new
fresh shiny shareware and public domain software. In fact, this is probably the
largest single addition of volumes to our library. Unfortunately, this forced
us to keep descriptions rather brief.
You will also notice the new
format of our newsletter: we are trying to save postage (and reduce printing
costs along the way). May we also remind you of the fact that we can
unfortunately no longer afford permanent staff and hence the "phone"
line 021-7826.329 is usually fax only. Orders are processed twice or thrice
weekly - whenever my full-time workload allows. All mail and fax queries will
be answered - the easy ones first. Our fee structure remains as it was, but we
may have to increase our order handling fee further in the near future.
Warm regards from Fish Hoek
Jean-Paul Van Belle
One-liners
These are
(some of) my personal favourites of the taglines from volumes 4250 and 4251...
A clean
desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
A friend
in need is a PEST indeed...
A friend:
someone who likes you even after they know you.
A man
needs a good memory after he has lied.
A seminar
on Time Travel will be held two weeks ago.
A single
fact can spoil a good argument.
Ah, come
on, just this one last little feature.
All
programers are optimists.
Always
proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Circular
Definition: see Definition, Circular.
Committees
keep minutes and lose hours.
Corrupt
REALITY.SYS: Reboot Universe (Y/n)?
Discoveries
are made by not following instructions.
Don't
steal. The government hates competition.
Don't take
life too seriously...it's not permanent.
Eschew
obfuscation!
Ever stop
to think, and forget to start again?
Experience
is a good teacher but her fees are high...
Go
shopping. Buy Stuff. Sweat in it. Return it the next day.
I refuse a
battle of wits with an unarmed person!
I used to
be indecisive. Now I'm not so sure.
I tried to
drown my problems but they can swim!
I'd like
to live like a poor person with lots of money.
I'm
fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.
I'm not
dead. I'm electroencephelographically challenged.
I'm not
lost! I'm "locationally challenged."
I'm not
paranoid! Which of my enemies told you this?
I've used
up all my sick days...so I'm calling in dead!
If I save
the whales, where do I keep them?
If I save
time, when do I get it back ?
If I were
you, who'd be me?
If there's
one thing I can't stand, it's intolerance.
If you
hear an onion ring please answer it.
It's dj
vu all over again.
It's
easier to obtain forgiveness than permission.
Junk:
stuff we throw away. Stuff: junk we keep.
Life -
brief interlude between nothingness and eternity.
Luxuriantly
hand-crafted from only the finest ASCII.
Make me an
offer. I have a computer to support!!
Make up a
language and ask people for directions.
Meditation
is not what you Think.
Meet the
new Boss--same as the old Boss...
Minds are
like parachutes, they only work when open.
No one
ever said "if I'd only spent more time in the office"
Nothing is
so smiple that it can't get screwed up.
Now that
I've given up hope I feel much better...
OK, I'm
weird! But I'm saving up to be eccentric.
Old age is
better than the alternative.
One is
never as happy or unhappy as one imagines.
One
tactical thermonuclear weapon can ruin your whole day.
Optical
mice have no balls!
Plasma is
another matter.
Power
corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
Prejudice
is the reason of fools. - Voltaire.
Press
<CTRL>-<ALT>-<DEL> to continue...
Press any
key to continue or any other key to quit
Program
too small to fit into memory.
Reality is
for people who can't handle Star Trek.
Sector Not
Found (A)bort, (R)etry, (C)offee?
Set laser
printers to "stun".
Shareware:
forget the manual...phone the author at home!
Shell to
DOS...come in, DOS...do you read...over?
Show me a
sane man. I'll cure him for you.
Smile...
people will wonder what you've been up to.
Some days
you're a bug, other days a windshield.
Stupidity
got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?
SYSTEM
ERROR: press F13 to continue...
Tagline
Lotto: ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓<- Scratch here
for prize.
The
backup's not over 'til the FAT table sings!
The future
is like the present, only longer.
The future
isn't what it used to be.
The irony
of life is that no one gets out alive...
The lab
called: your brain is ready.
The man
who begins many things finishes few.
The only
thing shorter than a weekend is a vacation.
The PARITY
CHECK is in the E-MAIL...
The worst
thing about censorship is █████████.
This
message is SHAREWARE! To Register, send $5.
Those who
can, do. Those who can't, supervise!
Two most
common elements: hydrogen, stupidity.
UNNAMED
LAW: If it happens, it must be possible.
Vuja De -
The Feeling You've Never Been Here
Watch
where you go...remember where you've been...
We all
live in a yellow subroutine.
We're
lost, but we're making good time.
What
happens if you .ARC de Triomphe?
What if
there were no hypothetical situations?
What's
another word for "thesaurus"?
When I
want your opinion I'll give it to you!
When I was
a kid, I was an imaginary playmate.
When it
comes to humility, I'm the very BEST there is!
Whoever
named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy!
Why can't
women put the toilet seat back up?
Winning
isn't everything - but losing SUCKS!
You're
never a loser until you quit trying.
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Understanding
the IBM Compatible
Or
How to do it yourself and leave me alone
by DJ Elliott
[Ed.: This
info taken from BILDIT - A guide to current PC technology including how to
build your own PC (up to Pentium) - Our volumes 5198ABC]
COMPUTER JARGON FOR
BEGINNERS
Here is
the copy of an actual computer ad. Below it is a quick and dirty summary of
what the jargon means.
VESA LOCAL
BUS
486DX2/66
MHZ
80486DX2-66
CPU
4MB RAM
plus 256K Cache
1.2 and
1.44 FDD
210 MB IDE
HDD
32bit VESA
Local Bus 1 MB
14"
SVGA Monitor .28DP 1024 x 768
101 Key
Keyboard
DOS 6.22
(or 5.0), WIN 3.1, Mouse
ZIF Socket
- Pentium Ready!
80486DX2-66
CPU - This computer is based on an Intel 80486DX CPU chip (the heart of the
computer) whose speed has been doubled from 33Mhz (it's rated speed) to 66Mhz,
but only for internal operations (it won't make your hard drive or video run
faster). This is currently "top of the line" reasonable for home
systems. [Ed.: now - 5 months later - go for a DX4-100 at least, or better yet
an AMD or CYRIX 586 eg 133MHz.]. There are suddenly lots of players in this
Market. TI, CYRIX, AMD, etc. Expect to pay a 10 - 25% premium for Intel.
4MB RAM
plus 256K Cache - There is 4 Megabytes of Random Access Memory built in. DOS
uses the first 640K (64/100 of a Megabyte) for programs, the next 360K for
loading programs high (out of your way) and 3 Megabytes of XMS (which smart
programs like Windows use to hold stuff in extended memory while you aren't
using it). 4 meg is OK, a bit skimpy for a 486DX. 256K cache is a memory
speeding scheme. Certain operations which are in line for the CPU to work on
will stand in line in the Cache rather than main memory having to fetch them -
which is hence freed to do other stuff.
1.2 and
1.44 FDD - 1.2 Meg capacity 5 1/4 inch floppy drive and a 1.44 Megabyte
capacity 3 1/2 drive. If you want to drop ANY option, drop the 5 1/4. It's
dead. RIP.
210 MB IDE
HDD - A 210 Megabyte Hard Disk Drive, used for storage of programs and data -
IT IS NOT MEMORY. A megabyte is 1,024,000 bytes. A byte is akin to a word in a
book. 8 bits make up a byte. A bit is akin to a letter in a word. (OK, OK, so
I'm simplifying...) 1K is 1,024 bytes. A page of text is about 1K. 210
Megabytes is 210,000,000 bytes plus (somebody took my calculator). Windows 3.1
takes 5-25 Meg of hard drive space. 210 Meg is an OK size drive, but increasing
to a 540 Meg drive is no big expense. IDE is the "format" of the hard
drive - stands for Imbedded Drive Electronics. This is the current standard.
High end systems will have SCSI drives, and used systems will have MFM or RLL.
IDE is fine. ZIP drives (removable 100 Meg disks) are coming on strong. [Ed.:
210MB is now (a couple of months later) considered "minimal" - go for
at least 410MB.]
32bit VESA
Local Bus 1 MB - The Video Card in the system is VESA Local Bus - It has three
connectors at the bottom. The first connector is 8 bit (OK for a serial port
card) , the second is the 16 bit connector (OK for normal AT class cards) and
the third, extra connector is 32 bit, which gives it priority with the CPU. It
doesn't have to wait in line behind the floppy drive formatting a disk. It
communicates with the CPU directly. This board has 1 Megabyte of Memory of it's
own, so that the image going to the Monitor is pre-processed so the CPU doesn't
have to do it.
14"
SVGA Monitor .28DP 1024 x 768 - This is a 14" (just like your TV is
20" or 27") Super Video Graphics Array Color Monitor. Super VGA means
it shows lots more colors and lots more information than standard VGA. The
difference is akin to the difference between a color picture in the newspaper
and an actual photograph. 1024 X 768 is the maximum resolution - there are 1024
pixels (dots) across the screen and 768 dots up and down. There is more
information and colors than you would have at standard resolution, 640 across
and 480 up and down. .28 is the dot pitch - the smaller the dot pitch, the
clearer the picture. A .39 Monitor will ruin your eyes. Everything appears
cloudy.
101 Key
Keyboard - BigFD. All keyboards that meet standard for 80286 and up are 101.
This is akin to Ford saying all of it's cars are equipped with a 360 degree
round steering wheel. Avoid BTC keyboards. Spend an extra 20 bucks for a Focus.
I think BTC stands for Better Type Carefully. Brand new keyboards may have Windows
95 keys also.
To test a
keyboard, forget 'click' - hit the keyboards A-S-D-F keys simultaneously with
your left hand fingers three times. If the keyboard bends, jumps, skitters,
moves or otherwise shows itself to be the piece of crap it is, move up. IBM and
Compac make great keyboards. A used keyboard from an obsolete IBM PS/2 is a
great buy. (You will need a three dollar adapter).
DOS 6.22
(or 5.0), WIN 3.1, Mouse - They are providing the operating system - MS DOS
version 6.22, or, if you are one of those ninnies who hates the latest and
greatest, they'll give you 5.0; they are also providing Windows version 3.1 and
a mouse.
Pentium
Ready! - means that you can swap out the 486 chip with a 586. You won't want
to. Trust me. Would you swap out the 4 cylinder engine in your 1989 car for a
1994 8 cylinder engine or buy a new car? An Overdrive processor will cost you
almost as much as a new motherboard and CPU.
ZIF is
zero insertion force. The CPU is clamped rather than forced into the socket on
the motherboard using a lever that makes the whole thing look suspiciously like
the paper cutter you use in work. It also works great as a guillotine for
roaches. This whole schlemiel is put here at your expense in case the day ever
comes that you need to pop out the CPU.
SOME COMMON COMPUTER
PROBLEMS
[...]
8)Oops,
what do I do now? (MS-DOS)
OK, so
before I read that, my computer said 'not enough memory', so I deleted the
files on my hard drive; now it says "non- System Disk or Disk error when I
try to boot up.
You need a
boot disk. Find a friend who knows about DOS and computers and get some help.
Almost everybody does something like this at least once. The boot disk should
contain the system files, undelete, SYS, format and F Disk. The mistake is
usually in the panic reaction to it. DON'T PANIC! Do nothing until you
determine what is wrong. First, get your hands on a boot disk. Second, swear
you'll have one at the side of your machine forever more. Boot from the disk.
Go over to C: and try to do a directory. If you can, you are in pretty good
shape. Try to go to the DOS subdirectory. If it is still there, and has lots of
files, you are in real good shape. Copy COMMAND.COM to the root and try to boot
from the hard drive. If you can, read up on undelete and unformat commands and
good luck. All you did was wipe out the root directory, and all you have lost
is those files, including COMMAND.COM and your start up files, but not the
hidden files (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS). Now you know why they hide them.
If you
still cannot boot from the hard drive, but can read other sub-directories, you
have managed to erase MSDOS.SYS and IO.SYS. Running the SYS command from the
DOS directory might put you back up. If not, running SYS from a floppy might
put you back up. If you do manage to boot from the hard drive, run some DOS
commands (like formatting disks, etc.) to see if you get Incorrect DOS Version
messages. In that event, the restore has caused a mixed DOS version. You need
to reinstall DOS from the floppy disk set as soon as possible. Don't do any
real work until then. At the end of your fix, search the drive for copies of
COMMAND.COM, EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.SYS and only keep the versions which match
the version in the restored DOS subdirectory.
If all
else fails and you cannot read from the hard drive after booting from disk, get
help from a nerd. You need to run Fdisk, and if it reports OK, reformat the
disk. If it cannot read the disk partition, you are in for a low level format
and partition job. Get help here - you cannot use most shareware low level
formatters on today's drives.
9)My mouse
doesn't work since I added a modem, and, for that matter, neither does the
modem.
They are
camping on the same IRQ, or com-shift has occurred. Read the relevant section
in this book and reset your COM ports accordingly.
10)What
are bits and bytes, and why should I care? Remember your old math class when
they taught binary math? Well, you didn't care then either. Everything a
computer does is based on 0's and 1's, because a computer cannot think... it
can only interpret on and off (the absence or presence of current). Bits
(on-off switches) get together in groups of 8 to form bytes - humans get
together in groups of 8 and call it a Mormon marriage - never mind. Anyway,
these bytes make up numbers and letters, e.g. 0000 0100 is the number 4, and
they add a ninth bit that is like a political officer from the KGB in 70's
Russia - it's job is to report any deviant behavior of the first 8. This is
called the parity bit. A 3 1/2 HD diskette holds 1.44 Megabytes, or roughly
1,440,000 bytes. So if a letter or number is one byte, that disk can hold some
1,440,000 characters of data, such as a document.
11)Why is
my 9600bps modem only downloading at 1200bps? Because they use the same stupid
letters for two different things. Your Modem is 9600 bits per second, and the
download rate reported by Zmodem and your com software is in BYTES per second.
8bits x 1200bytes per second = 9600 bits per second. If your modem AND the
other guys modem are advanced enough, you may be able to use compression and
bi- directional transmission to speed this up.
12)I tried
to move my hard drive to another machine, the Auto detect IDE worked, but the
drive won't run. Why? Because the drive reports it's DEFAULT parameters to the
BIOS, not the ACTUAL. Go back to your old machine and read the Cylinders, Heads
and SPT from the old USER settings, and put them in manually in the new SETUP.
Write the numbers and HD capacity on top of the drive in indelible Marker for
the next time.
13)Auto
detect didn't work 1 - It's not an IDE drive (manually configure) 2 - The cable
is backwards (is power plugged in?) 3 - Try unhooking the data controller
cable, reboot, wait through the errors, go into setup, rehook the cable and try
again 4 - Make sure it is set properly for Single, Master or Slave.
14)I'm
getting bogus, ever changing numbers in CMOS Setup - or - I got cute and
changed some CMOS stuff. First, print out or write down the current CMOS
settings, especially for the hard drives. As a last resort, on most machines,
if you put a jumper over pin three and four of the battery connector, turn the
machine on and off and put it back to it's original position, the CMOS will
reset and you can start over. See your manual.
15)I put a
password into my AMI BIOS, now I can't get in!!!!!!! Send me five bucks, then
read on. 99% of these calls turn out to be a FAILED password setup. If you
don't follow directions to a T, the password resets itself to the DEFAULT
rather than NO PASSWORD. The default password is AMI.
TECHNOLOGIES DEBUTING
WITH THE PENTIUM
The
Pentium and the Pentium Pro (P6) The first Pentium systems were basically a 486
Motherboard re-engineered to take the Pentium Chip. Very soon after release,
adding PCI slots became a standard. We must credit the Industry with not making
MCA type moves, telling you to throw away all your existing hardware, to rebuy
everything from your Modem to your controllers to run the architecture.
Tapping
the power of the Pentium Chip, however, necessitates some re-engineering to
take advantage of the speed of the Pentium. Leaving the Motherboard essentially
a 486 is easy on the manufacturer, and initially pleasing to the customer
because the technology is familiar. Soon after purchase, though, the user
realizes that his new motherboard is not much faster than the old 486.
Taking
advantage of the Pentium requires a rethink of the major subsystems which
support the processor: RAM, ROM, Cache Hard Drive and Video.
It makes
sense when you think about it - if the processor is moving that much faster,
the RAM and other components are still moving at speeds more suited to 486s.
In
addition to raw speed enhancement from, say, a DX2/66 (which is actually a
33Mhz processor) to a Pentium 100, the real departure of the CPU is in the
following areas:
Superscalar
Architecture The Pentium uses two side by side pipelines, enabling the
processor to execute two instructions at once. It begins executing the first,
and at the end of the first cycle, begins executing the second if there are no
conflicts (such as the result of the first determining the action of the
second).
Floating
Point Unit The three most common floating point instructions (multiplier,
divider and adder) can be executed in the same clock cycle, improving speed by
up to five times.
Branch
Prediction A small cache called the Branch Target Buffer, which predicts the
way an execution will branch (90% accuracy)
64 bit bus
The size of the bus is doubled and a burst mode added.
Cache
Memory Two on chip 8K caches (code and data write back) with 95% efficiency.
The system
itself needs to change, or the CPU will be doing all this speed freaking just
to dump the result back out 2o a hopelessly backed up system.
Some
common sense changes were made to the architecture of the Motherboard,
including putting Hard Disk/CD Rom IDE controller, Floppy Controller and I/O
(com and lpt) onboard, as these had become a defacto standard of the IBM Compatible
PC.
Here are
the other major changes to the standard ISA Motherboard which are becoming
standards themselves - that is, if you pay to have this as part of your Pentium
(586) or Pentium Pro (P6) Motherboard, the hardware will be supported
throughout the Industry. Hardware and Software will be written to `expect' this
technology.
The
Changing Face of RAM:EDO RAM
As
recently as 1994, EDO (extended data out) DRAM was impractical because chip-set
support was lacking. It is becoming standard in higher end systems, adding a.5
percent speed gain over PCs with standard DRAM. The price premium for EDO has
just about gone away, and if you and your supplier believe it will be around,
there's no reason not to use it if your motherboard's chip set supports it. EDO
extends conventional DRAM by shortening its paging cycle, which is the time
memory chips need to fetch data and put it on the bus. It works by extending
the time during which data can be read from memory; the available read time
doesn't become invalid until an additional signal is sent to the chip.
Conventional DRAM normally discharges its contents after each read and must be
refreshed before another read can occur.
Systems
vendors are using EDO DRAM in many Pentium desktop systems. Intel's Triton Chip
Set uses EDO DRAM. Other DRAM schemes include EDRAM and CDRAM, but the Market
power of Intel makes EDO the safer bet. Another player is Rambus Inc., who has
proposed RDRAM, which uses a proprietary RAM bus channel rather than a standard
memory bus. This scheme would necessitate another radical redesign of the
Motherboard.
The
fastest machines in recent testing articles combined synchronous L2 cache with
EDO (extended data out) DRAM to minimize wait states. They .discovered that
omitting L2 cache altogether can have a devastating effect, dropping
performance by half. Eliminating EDO SRAM, however, showed only a 5% loss. The
price/performance ratio suggests that money is not well spent on EDO unless it
becomes a defacto standard.
PIPELINE
CACHE
The
classic way to reduce wait states on a 486 board is to install a bank of fast
Memory, which we usually called External Cache (SRAM) on the Motherboard. This
Cache memory is usually 15 or 20ns, or 3 to 5 times faster than the 60-70ns
SIMMS which we install as DRAM.
Pentium
CPUs, however, operate at just over 15ns, so the Cache memory barely keeps up,
losing in it's goal of increasing the CPU's efficiency by always having the
next instruction ready.
Up to this
point, SRAM operated in an asynchronous fashion, reading and writing the next
instruction sequentially, and finishing one operation before starting another.
The new Cache uses pipelined, synchronous SRAM, which starts the second read
cycle at the same time it performs the first write cycle. This so called
Synchronous Burst Cache can reach a speed of 10ns, 1/3 faster than the speed of
a Pentium running it's bus at 66mhz. Synchronous SRAM, is synchronized to match
the system clock speed--meaning 60-MHz in Pentium/120-based motherboards and
66-MHz in Pentium/133 PCs.
Intel's
Triton Chipset is very popular currently. Triton omits some of Neptune's
features such as support for multiple processors, but incorporates new features
such as built-in support for Bus Master EIDE. Triton also supports EDO memory
and Mode 4 EIDE. Current conventional wisdom claims that for Windows NT and
Windows 95 applications, EIDE is superior to SCSI2 because of the built in 32
bit support that SCSI isn't designed for.
HARD
DISK SUBSYSTEM
The Caviar
of systems in 386-486 land has been SCSI2 for the past few years. That
landscape has changed. In the SCSI2 vs Enhanced IDE war,. at 4.5 MBps, SCSI-2
supposedly blows away EIDE, which clocks in at about 2.0 MBps. Under Win 3.x,
most SCSI disk controllers handle their I/O through a BIOS extension that may
or may not be RAM-resident. Under Windows 95,the disk drivers are all 32-bit,
without BIOS compromises. EIDE drives and controllers can take full advantage
of existing 32-bit file and disk access. You will only see optimal SCSI
performance under NetWare or another 32-bit operating system than you are under
Windows and DOS. On the other hand, EIDE, unlike SCSI, does not allow bus
mastering, command overlapping, and device disconnect/reconnect. For systems
with hard disks and CD-ROMs on the same controller, this is an issue,
especially in a multithreaded environment such as Windows 95. Also, remember
that you can add devices such as tape drives and scanners to your SCSI
interface, while EIDE is for disks only. EIDE is far less costly than SCSI2 and
is more of a ubiquitous standard. Couple that with better performance with 95
and the choice becomes clear, unless you already have a substantial investment
in SCSI.
VIDEO
RAM - WRAM Debuts
One new
technology is WRAM (Window RAM), a new type of video memory developed by
Samsung Corp. WRAM is touted as being faster and cheaper than VRAM. Like VRAM,
WRAM is dual-ported, which means that it can move data in and out
simultaneously, enhancing performance. Standard DRAM is single- ported. WRAM
also concentrates more memory on a single chip, allowing manufacturers to use
one WRAM chip instead of two VRAM chips to install the same amount of memory.
The
Pentium Pro
The
Pentium Pro is not designed to run PC Applications (Microsoft Office, Lotus
123, etc.), but is instead designed to attack the Server Market dominated by
players such as Sun and DEC. So if you have been putting off buying a Pentium
to see how the P6 would fall out, you made a good decision in that Pentium
prices fell substantially.
Cache
Memory
Cache is
used a LOT in PCs referring to different things. SMARTDRV is a software CACHE.
There is cache internally in 486DX and above CPUs. A third method of cache is
the on board cache you know of as the 256K Cache or 512K cache in the
advertisements for computers. Cache means the same in any context: I will hold
the last few instructions (SMARTDRV) or the next few instructions (CPU Cache
[internal cache]) and the external cache. These are chips either soldered to or
plugged into the motherboard in a bank, usually in the Southeast corner of the
board, where it's inaccessibility is rarely a problem. These are very fast
chips which pre fetch the next instruction(s) for the CPU so that the CPU does
not waste it's precious time going out and looking for the next request by an interrupt.
They are usually in the range of 20-30 Nanoseconds, compared with DRAM memory
(SIMMS) which are 70-150 Nanoseconds. They are usually long and skinny and have
values like: 8K 8x9 64K; 32K 8x9 256K; 64K 8x9 512K; 128K 8x9 1 Meg.
BUZZWORD
GENERATOR
100 DIM
W1$(16),W2$(16),W3$(16)
170 W1$(0)
= "INTEGRATED"
180 W1$(1)
= "TOTALLY"
190 W1$(2)
= "SYSTEMATIZED"
200 W1$(3)
= "PARALLEL"
210 W1$(4)
= "FUNCTIONAL"
220 W1$(5)
= "RESPONSIVE"
230 W1$(6)
= "SERIAL"
240 W1$(7)
= "SYNCHRONIZED"
250 W1$(8)
= "COMPATIBLE"
260 W1$(9)
= "BALANCED"
270
W1$(10) = "ASYNCHRONOUS"
280
W1$(11) = "SYNCHRONOUS"
290
W1$(12) = "REMOTE"
300
W1$(13) = "PARALLEL"
310
W1$(14) = "INTERNAL"
320
W1$(15) = "SPECIAL"
330
W1$(16) = "AUTOMATIC"
340 '
350 W2$(0)
= "MANAGEMENT"
360 W2$(1)
= "CONFIGURATION"
370 W2$(2)
= "MONITORED"
380 W2$(3)
= "RECIPROCAL"
390 W2$(4)
= "DIGITAL"
400 W2$(5)
= "LOGICAL"
410 W2$(6)
= "TRANSITIONAL"
420 W2$(7)
= "INCREMENTAL"
430 W2$(8)
= "THIRD-GENERATION"
440 W2$(9)
= "TRANSPARENT"
450
W2$(10) = "INTERFACE"
460
W2$(11) = "INTEGRATED"
470
W2$(12) = "PROTOCOL"
480
W2$(13) = "INTERNAL"
490
W2$(14) = "STATIC"
500
W2$(15) = "DYNAMIC"
510
W2$(16) = "POLICY"
520 '
530 W3$(0)
= "OPTION"
540 W3$(1)
= "FLEXIBILITY"
550 W3$(2)
= "CAPABILITY"
560 W3$(3)
= "MOBILITY"
570 W3$(4)
= "PROGRAM"
580 W3$(5)
= "FORMAT"
590 W3$(6)
= "PROJECTION"
600 W3$(7)
= "ACTIVITY"
610 W3$(8)
= "CONCEPT"
620 W3$(9)
= "SELECTOR"
630
W3$(10) = "BUFFER"
640
W3$(10) = "TIME-PHASE"
650
W3$(12) = "MODE"
660
W3$(13) = "CONVERSION"
670
W3$(14) = "CONTINGENCY"
680
W3$(15) = "DISPLAY"
690
W3$(16) = "NETWORK"
800 INPUT
"How many buzzwords required?",NR
810 FOR
I=1 TO NR
820 PRINT
W1$(RND*16));" ";W2$(RND*16);" ";W3$(RND*16)
830 NEXT I
84O END