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Digital Research Isv Forum DIGITAL RESEARCH ISV FORUM Vol. 3, No. 2 A quarterly newsletter for Independent Software Vendors May 1983 DRI announces techilica I sup porlt fi)r 1ISV S ^ igital Research now offers tronic bulletin board service, provid­ tion notes, programming tips, known ■ a technical support pro- ing helpful Digital Research bugs and workarounds, plus other gram for ISVs that will allow addresses and phone numbers, DRI technical information. them to improve on current and future product overviews, retail price lists, a In addition, a toll-free 800 number products by staying fully aware of all description of the overall technical will be available on an “ unlimited, but the latest information on our software support program, a referral list for reasonable” basis, according to Hug. and help them solve any problems Additional phone lines will be dedi­ they encounter with our software or cated to the exclusive use of ISVs. documentation," said Nancy Hug, “We have been planning this These phones, open to ISVs from 7 manager of the Technical Support program for a long time and a.m. to 5 p.m. PST, will be manned by Department at DRI. software specialists with a high "We have been planning this pro­ we think now we have just degree of knowledge and experience gram for a long time and we think what ISVs want.” with all DRI products. A staff of nine now we have just what ISVs want. By technical specialists, all experienced July 15, they will be able to receive software engineers, are ready to fast response telephone support, answers to possible later questions respond to queries from ISVs. access to THE SOURCESM, a regular and the contents of the Technical Support is crucial technical newsletter, and other kinds Newsletter. “We realize that our ISV customers of assistance that will help them do a Technical newsletter planned depend on our software for their live­ better job of writing applications using Included in the same $250 fee is a lihoods," Hug said, “and we feel an DRI products,” Hug continued. subscription to the printed version of obligation to provide them with the For a base subscription fee of the Technical Newsletter, which will highest quality service. Support is $250, ISVs will be given the ability to include discussion of technical prob­ crucial when your application pro- use THE SOURCE, a national elec­ lems and solutions, patches, applica­ see support, page 6 Graphic products available for 8- and 16-bit worlds are re­ viewed ...................................................page 2. Four recent DRI products will help ISVs speed development of applica­ tion programs.................................page 3. CP/M'">'83 will stage repeat perfor­ ISV FORUM looks at products that mance—with enhancements—in allow your terminal to communi­ Boston Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 . page 6. cate with remote computer sys­ tems .......................................................page 4. Third edition of CP/M Compatible Seminars for ISVs hit the road in Uni­ Software Directory will be aid to ISVs ted States; first European session and end users.................................page 5. attracts 500 IS V s ..........................page 8. More microcomputer manufacturers DRI announces support of hard disks Copyright 1983 by Digital Research Inc., are added to list of OEMs supporting with CP/M-86 ® and Concurrent P.O. Box 579, Pacific Grove, CA 93950. Concurrent C P /M ...................... page 7. CP/M ™ for IBM PC/XT_____ page 5. (408) 649-3896. TWX 910 360 5001 Graphics products offered for 8- and 16-bit worlds Hardware OEMs DRI GRAPHICS SOFTWARE PRODUCTS The following checklist of graphics microcomputers to sign contracts software products for use with the emulate the Tektronix CP/M family of operating systems 4010 terminal family, should be of Interest to ISVs who wish providing access to for software to add graphics capabilities to appli­ mainframe and mini­ cations already written or planned for computer graphics igital Research’s graphics pro­ the future. applications. ducts, still relatively new In the 8-bit world, DRI now offers: In the 16-bit world, DRI offers the Dadditions to the company’s GSX-80: a set of graphics same wide range of graphics pro­ product line, have already attracted extensions to 8-bit ducts, Including GSX-86 and GSX-86 strong attention from a growing operating systems. for the IBM PC, as well as KERNEL, number of hardware manufacturers. KERNEL: a library of commands PLOT and ACCESS 10 which will be The list of signed contracts with for drawing lines, available In June. hardware OEMs continues to grow. polygons and text. The subroutine library packages “We are pleased with the accep­ PLOT: a library of commands can be linked with 8-bit and 16-bit tance of our GSX™ graphics exten­ for creating bar and versions of Digital Research’s lan­ sions to the CP/M operating system pie charts, histograms guages, including the CBASIC® family, and with the acceptance of and scatter plots. Compiler™, Pascal/MT+™, PL/I and KERNEL™, a library of graphics com­ ACCESS 10: software which allows C. mands for drawing lines, polygons and text; PLOT™, a library for creating bar graphics, pie charts, histograms and scatter plots; and ACCESS 10™, Workshop helps manufacturers which allows microcomputers to emu­ late the Tektronix 4010™ terminal fam­ speed up development of drivers ily,” said Russ Weeks, graphics mar­ keting manager. igital Research’s graphics Tektronix, Commodore, Phoenix OEM agreements listed group sponsored a special dis­ Computer Graphics, Vector Graphics, Presently signed up for the use of Dplay device driver acceleration Fujitsu, Tab Products, Visual Tech­ Digital Research’s graphics products, workshop for microcomputer manu­ nology, CPT and Plxellite. In various combinations of 8-bit and facturers, March 14 - 18, at the Mon­ “The workshop was a complete 16-bit products, are Texas Instru­ terey Holiday Inn near DRI’s corpo­ success,” Weeks said. "Everyone ments, NEC, Televldeo, Advanced rate headquarters. who attended left with a running Logic Systems (CP/M Card for Apple The five-day session was designed device driver as a result of the II and Apple II Plus), Xerox, Otrona, to help hardware manufacturers instruction and consulting help we Eagle, NCR, Vector Graphics, Corona “accelerate the development of gave them. Data Systems, Olympia, DEC, device drivers for hardware supported REVENUE-EXPENSE CURVES Toshiba, Fujitsu, Sharp and Phoenix by our GSX operating system exten­ Computer Graphics. A number of sions,” according to Russ Weeks, other major contracts are presently graphics marketing manager. “The being negotiated. program was a part of our overall support effort for graphics; to us, it makes sense to help manufacturers Graphics Extensions for PC speed up the development of drivers Writing applications programs for their machines.” for the IBM PC? Want to incor­ “These sessions not only benefit porate graphics features Into DRI and the hardware manufactur­ your package? Don’t forget that ers,” Weeks pointed out, “but are of The meeting, which combined lec- the new low-cost version of much Interest to ISVs who are writing ture/discusslon sessions with hands- CP/M-86 for the IBM PC application software for specific on Implementation, allowed manufac­ includes (at no extra cost) the machines. We will be announcing turers’ representatives time for GSX graphics extensions to the other such programs for specific intense developmental work using CP/M operating system family audiences in the near future.” equipment they brought to the work­ and a library of device drivers The session was well attended, shop. The lecture sessions covered for a wide range of graphics Weeks said, with nine hardware such topics as the VDI protocol and peripherals. See the story on manufacturers and one graphics con­ its Implementation, color graphics page 3 for more details. sulting firm represented. Among the options and a number of other techni­ group were Control Data Corporation, cal issues. New DRI products speed program development A series of recently announced many popular graphics peripherals, Digital Research operating system including color plotters from Hewlett- and language products are now Packard, and printers from Epson, available from DRI's authorized dis­ Okidata, Printronics, IDS and other tributors. ISVs will find that these manufacturers. Another important products will help speed the devel­ enhancement to the new CP/M-86 opment of application programs. product is a print spooler, giving the PC the ability to print in the back­ ground while other programs are CP/M-86 exercised in the foreground. An enhanced low-cost version of C compiler CP/M-86 for the IBM PC has been released by Digital Research, according to Kevin Wandryk, product “Software authors can now use our Product Marketing Manager marketing manager for operating sys­ new C compiler to write applications Lowell Wolf tems. “This 16-bit version of the compatible with both CP/M and CP/M operating system will cost only UNIX™," stated product manager Ed $60,” Wandryk said. Enhancements Rifkin. The new C compiler was PL/l-86™ to the product include the GSX gra­ designed by Michael Lehman, DRI’s phics extensions and a library of gra­ director of Research and Develop­ phic device drivers. ment, and the author of Pascal/MT+. A 16-bit version of Digital “We recognized that IBM's price of The compiler is for use with 8086 and Research’s native code compiler lan­ $250 was severely limiting our share 8088 based machines and compati­ guage, called PL/l-86, is now availa­ of market,” Wandryk added. “Our new ble with Bell Labs’ UNIX Version 7. ble, said Lowell Wolf, product market­ product is such a value, though, we It is a complete implementation of C, ing manager. expect to sell it in huge volume.” including single and double precision PL/l-86 joins 16-bit versions of The GSX extensions allow users to floating point with 8087 math co­ other popular languages available access and use graphics programs processor support.
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