By darth-azrael on Skatehive
Cover of the April 1993 issue of Byte Though off of its peak, Byte still had a respectable page count in the early 1990s with the April 1993 issue weighing in at over 300 pages. It had become somewhat less technical by this point but that was the way the market was going. This issue includes: News Microbytes - The Casio/Tandy Zoomer pen computer being released to compete with the upcoming Newton from Apple; Microsoft working on combined 32-bit DOS/Windows code-named Chicago; DEC releases Alpha; HP and AMD working together on new chip technology; first simultaneous voice and data transmission carried out over GSM; Next abandons hardware business (of course, Steve Jobs would be back with Apple in a few years); and more. Report From Croatia: Recovery Though Technology - The computer industry was one of the fastest recovering industries in Croatia. First Impressions: Easy Does It with MS-DOS 6.0 - A look at the new features of MS-DOS 6.0 including its compression and memory management feat