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Apple unleashes a host of new products, including the first
   PowerPC 604-based Macintosh and a bevy of new printers. We also
   bring you news on the much-dreaded Communications Decency Act
   passing the U.S. Senate, an in-depth review of the Power
   Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible, and finally the second part
   of Luciano Floridi's paper on the Internet and how we think
   about knowledge.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/19-Jun-95
    Apple Introduces First 604-based Power Macintosh
    It's a Mac. It's a PC. It's DOS-Compatible!
    The Internet & the Future of Organized Knowledge: Part II of III
    Reviews/19-Jun-95

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**"Decency" Act Passes Senate** -- On 14-Jun-95, the
  Exon/Gorton/Coats Communications Decency Act (see TidBITS-263_ and
  TidBITS-279_) was attached to the Telecommunications Reform bill
  and will soon go before the U.S. House of Representatives. The
  bill seeks to criminalize many forms of online communications and
  place culpability in the hands of service providers. If passed,
  the legislation could have a repressive impact on American
  business interests on the Internet, as providers and companies
  take their businesses and services (and money!) overseas where
  such content-based restrictions don't exist. In addition, costs of
  insurance and litigation may well drive providers out of the
  country or out of business, and U.S. taxpayers could be made to
  support a potentially enormous government bureaucracy with
  regulation and enforcement responsibilities. [GD]

http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/
http://www.cdt.org/cda.html


**Apple Releases Bevy of New Printers** -- Apple today announced
  not one, not two, but _three_ new printers. At the high end, the
  Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS is a 600 dpi, PostScript color laser
  printer with an Apple Price of $6,989, designed to produce high-
  quality photographic output in mixed-platform environments. In the
  middle, the LaserWriter 4/600 PS delivers 600 dpi, PostScript
  printing for less than $1,000. Finally, for the executive who must
  have everything, there's the Color StyleWriter 2200, a portable
  color inkjet printer weighing in at just over three pounds,
  capable of printing a color page in about three minutes, and with
  an Apple Price of $419. [GD]

http://www.info.apple.com/productinfo/datasheets/im/colorlw12-600.html
http://www.info.apple.com/productinfo/datasheets/im/personallw4-600.html
http://www.info.apple.com/productinfo/datasheets/im/colorsw2200.html


**WebSTAR Demo** -- We're working on a complete article discussing
  StarNine's new WebSTAR software (a vastly upgraded commercial
  release of MacHTTP), but didn't want to delay telling everyone
  that StarNine is offering a free demo copy that will run through
  the end of June. [MHA]

http://www.starnine.com/


**Retrospect 2.1 Updater** -- Thinking of buying a new PCI
  Macintosh? Be sure to grab the Retrospect 2.1 Updater, which works
  on the new PCI Macs. It updates any language version of Retrospect
  2.1 or 2.1A and also fixes a problem with launching Retrospect on
  a volume with more than 2 GB of free space. [GD]

ftp://mirrors.aol.com//pub/info-mac/disk/retrospect-21-updt.hqx


Apple Introduces First 604-based Power Macintosh
------------------------------------------------
  by Geoff Duncan <[e-mail]>

  Apple has introduced the Power Macintosh 9500, the first Macintosh
  based around the PowerPC 604 processor, and also the first to
  include the PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus, a
  standard in the Intel world that will replace NuBus expansion
  slots. Codenamed Tsunami, this six-slot tower Macintosh runs at
  120 or 132 MHz, is rated as much as twice as fast as previous
  Macs, and is aimed at high-end publishers, engineers, and
  computing-intensive users. The Power Mac 9500 also introduces new
  architectural elements that will become standards as Apple evolves
  the Power Mac line; however, starting at an Apple Price of $4,999,
  these new machines aren't for the faint of wallet.

http://www.info.apple.com/productinfo/datasheets/dt/pm9500.html


**New PCI Bus** -- The Power Macintosh 9500 will either leave you
  drooling for its power or moaning about the expensive toys you
  _can't_ bring over to it. First gone is NuBus: the Power Mac 9500
  is the first Macintosh to incorporate the high-performance PCI
  bus. In theory, PCI should make it simpler for manufacturers to
  produce expansion hardware for Macs, since different driver
  software should be all that's required for a Mac or a PC to use
  the same card. If you must take NuBus cards over to PCI, Second
  Wave offers a few pricey solutions that let you use up to eight
  NuBus cards with a PCI Mac.


**New RAM** -- Next gone are your SIMMs. The Power Mac 9500 is the
  first Mac to use 168-pin DIMMs (Dual Inline Memory Modules). DIMMs
  provide a 64-bit bus, which eliminates the hassle of installing
  Power Mac SIMMs in pairs. However, the 9500 supposedly takes
  advantage of identical paired DIMMs, treating them as a 128-bit
  memory bank and gaining another 10 percent or so performance
  improvement. For the memory-hungry, the 9500 is a dream machine,
  with _twelve_ DIMM slots and a capacity of 768 MB of RAM with 64
  MB DIMMs. Newer Technology is reportedly developing a conversion
  unit to allow 72-pin SIMMs to be used in a 9500. The 9500 has _no_
  RAM soldered onto the motherboard (except for a 512K cache), so
  the DIMMs provide all of the memory. The hassle? Rumor has it that
  the entire motherboard must be removed to add or remove RAM.


**New Emulator** -- Next gone? The old emulator that allows Power
  Macs to run 68K applications. The Power Mac 9500 incorporates the
  long-rumored 68K emulator that's supposed to be 15 to 30 percent
  faster than the emulator shipping in current Power Macs. Though
  floating point operations in 68K code are still reportedly
  relatively slow, Macworld's tests indicated that the emulator
  outperformed high-end 68040 Macs.


**CPU on Daughterboard** -- The Power Mac 9500 has its CPU on a
  small daughterboard that can be easily replaced. Thus, when 150
  MHz 604 chips become available, upgrading a Power Mac 9500 should
  be straightforward and relatively inexpensive. Also, upgrading the
  daughterboard may improve the video, SCSI, memory performance, and
  increase internal bus speed up to as much as 50 MHz.

**Networking & SCSI** -- The Power Mac 9500 comes with both an
  AAUI Ethernet port _and_ a 10Base-T connector, so there's no need
  to buy a transceiver to hook up to a 10Base-T net. Also, the 9500
  ships with Open Transport, providing a more robust implementation
  of AppleTalk and TCP/IP (and probably breaking programs that do
  impolite things with MacTCP, like SurfWatch). Apple says the Power
  Mac 9500 also supports SCSI-2 Fast and has sustained transfer
  rates over 6 MB per second.


**System 7.5.2** -- The Power Mac 9500 also ships with System
  7.5.2, which is significant for some people. First, System 7.5.2
  includes new PowerPC native system software components, including
  the SCSI Manager, the Resource Manager, the Ethernet driver, and
  Open Transport. In addition, System 7.5.2 blows away the four GB
  volume size restriction present in System 7.5 - the new maximum
  volume size is a Copland-like two terabytes. Also Copland-like is
  the Driver Services Library, which allows PowerPC native device
  drivers and a standardized technique for graphics acceleration.
  There's no word on when or if System 7.5.2 - or portions of it -
  will be available separately, and the new 68K emulator is unlikely
  to make it to existing Power Macs.


**What's Missing?** -- With all this, what doesn't the Power Mac
  9500 have? For starters, there's no built-in video - you need a
  PCI video card. Apple's base configurations will ship with a
  24-bit accelerated mach64 PCI video card from ATI Technologies.
  People familiar with the Windows world might wince at that,
  because though ATI is generally well-regarded for its hardware,
  their video drivers have been hounded by compatibility problems.

  There's also no AV option for the Power Mac 9500. Though its audio
  support is good - 16-bit, 44 MHz stereo playback and recording -
  the only way to do digital video or voice recognition will be
  through a PCI card. At this time there's no information on whether
  Apple will make an AV card for PCI Macs. However, the PCI market
  for video digitizers and similar products should prove robust -
  especially if there's real compatibility with hardware from the PC
  world - and companies like TrueVision and Avid have announced
  plans to support PCI Power Macs.


**In A Nutshell** -- No one in their right mind can call the Power
  Mac 9500 a consumer product: basically, if you aren't certain that
  you need this machine, you don't. However, the 9500 is the first
  "second generation" Power Macintosh, and for people in high end,
  computing-intensive environments, the 9500's performance might
  well be worth the price.

    Newer Technology --800/678-3726 -- 316/685-4904
      316/685-9368 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>
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It's a Mac. It's a PC. It's DOS-Compatible!
-------------------------------------------
  by Steven H. Lee <[e-mail]>

  [This article originally appeared in CLiCKS, the newsletter of the
  Macintosh User Group in Ithaca, New York. In this article, Steven
  shares his experiences with Apple's Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS
  Compatible system, which TidBITS reported on briefly back in
  TidBITS-257_.]

  My family had been strictly Macintosh since we entered the
  computing age six years ago with a Mac Plus. The time came when we
  needed a DOS machine, and to continue the Mac tradition and
  utilize our existing hardware (such as a printer and external hard
  disk), we opted for a Power Macintosh 6100/66 DOS Compatible. The
  computer has a PowerPC 601 processor running at 66 MHz on the
  Macintosh motherboard, and a 486DX/2 running at 66 MHz on the DOS
  card, which occupies the only expansion slot. My configuration
  came with 16 MB of RAM, a 500 MB hard disk, and a CD-ROM drive.

  The computer comes with MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1 (and does not
  "support" versions of DOS before 6.0). It offers SoundBlaster
  compatibility, 512K of video RAM for an optional PC monitor, a PC
  game port, and the ability to share monitor, keyboard, mouse,
  floppy, hard disk, CD-ROM, printers, and so on between the
  Macintosh and the DOS card. The computer also supports a Macintosh
  ODI driver for NetWare IPX and TCP/IP protocols. [Though you
  cannot have active TCP/IP connections from the DOS Compatibility
  Card and from the Macintosh at the same time. -Tonya]

  I chose not to purchase additional RAM for the DOS card, so I
  share the 16 MB between the Macintosh and the RAM-less DOS card.
  Since I only expect casual use on the DOS side, I can get by with
  16 MB and a little help from virtual memory. If you need to run
  Mac and PC applications at the same time, you'll definitely need
  more RAM, and putting a SIMM (up to 32 MB) in the DOS card's
  single slot can improve performance.** **Although the DOS card can
  share RAM with the Mac, the Mac can't use RAM on the DOS card.

  The Power Mac's DRAM-based internal video supports 16-bit display
  (thousands of colors) at 640 x 480 resolution or 8-bit (256
  colors) at 832 x 624 with impressive speed. Although the DOS card
  uses the only expansion slot, sound input, sound output, and
  Ethernet are built into the Mac, so most users in general
  computing situations won't need to further expand the computer.

  All software, including the programs driving the DOS card, is
  pre-installed on the hard disk. After plugging in the peripherals,
  the computer worked fine right out of the box. However, I like to
  partition my hard disk, so I reformatted the disk and started from
  scratch. The C: drive for the DOS card is pre-configured at 80 MB,
  which is hardly sufficient. Installing Microsoft Word 6.0 and
  Excel 5.0 for Windows (along with all that OLE stuff) took more
  than 70 MB of hard disk space! [A source in Microsoft technical
  support suggested that this could be decreased to 40-50 MB for
  typical use. -Tonya] If you don't re-partition the hard disk, at
  least increase the size of the C: drive in the PC Setup control
  panel to something more usable. I set mine to 250 MB.

  The main software for configuring the DOS card in the Macintosh
  environment is the PC Setup control panel. The C: and (optional)
  D: drives are huge Macintosh files which the software tricks the
  DOS card into believing are DOS disks. I allotted 8 MB of RAM to
  the DOS card, and that 8 MB appeared to be used by the System
  software in the About This Macintosh window. The PC and Macintosh
  share the keyboard and mouse. There is a video port on the back of
  the DOS card, and you can use a dedicated monitor for DOS
  computing, or you can opt for the cheaper option of sharing one
  monitor between the Mac and the DOS card. A hot-key combination
  (Command-Return by default) toggles the display between the Mac
  and the PC. The DOS card can also print to Mac printers via PC
  Print Monitor whose interface, as its name implies, resembles the
  familiar Print Monitor. I have printed several Word for Windows
  documents to my six-year-old ImageWriter II with acceptable
  quality. Also, you can map the PC serial ports (COM1 and COM2) to
  the printer and modem ports on the Macintosh so you can attach PC
  peripherals.

  Average DOS users should have no problem setting up the DOS card.
  Apple did a good job writing the software interfacing the DOS card
  with the Macintosh hardware. The only problem I encountered was
  the lack of DOS mouse driver (on real PCs, mouse drivers normally
  come with the mouse). Fortunately, the DOS mouse driver for any
  Microsoft or PS/2 mouse should work just fine. [Apple's Tech Info
  Library suggests, "The MS-DOS 6.2 software, which comes with the
  DOS Compatibility Card, does not have drivers for any mouse
  pointing devices. Window 3.1, also included with the DOS
  Compatibility Card, does provide a driver that you can use. The
  driver is located on Windows Disk 4." -Tonya]

  I am quite satisfied with the performance of the DOS card. Because
  I use shared memory, my DOS card runs like a mid-range 486,
  instead of a high-end one equipped with a comparable processor.
  This speed is more than adequate for home and business use. I have
  tried Microsoft Word 6.0 and Excel 5.0 for Windows, the two
  monolithic programs whose Mac equivalents run like molasses in an
  Ithaca January on anything less than a Power Mac. Both programs
  are fast and responsive running on the DOS card.

  The DOS card is not without limitations. Apple named it the DOS
  Compatibility Card, not PC Compatibility Card, because DOS is the
  only operating system it supports. If you need to run other
  operating systems such as Windows NT, OS/2, or Linux, the DOS card
  is not for you. People on the Internet have reported successes
  with beta versions of Windows 95 on the DOS card. However, if you
  want to run other operating systems, a real PC is still the only
  choice for now.

  Unfortunately Apple has discontinued both the Extended Keyboard II
  and the Adjustable Keyboard. The only keyboard Apple offers now is
  the AppleDesign keyboard. The AppleDesign keyboard has all the
  keys of the Extended Keyboard II (at half the price), but it's not
  nearly as responsive. If you are replacing a computer that has an
  Extended Keyboard II, you might want to keep your old keyboard.

  More trouble started the first night. The left Shift key suddenly
  stopped working in the DOS environment. I checked the cables and
  software settings in both Macintosh and DOS environment, but still
  couldn't locate the source of the problem. After I "broke" two
  more replacement keyboards and spoke with three technicians at CIT
  Sales (Cornell University's computer store), someone there called
  Apple. The Apple technician hadn't heard of the problem, but was
  eventually able to confirm that there was a defective batch of
  AppleDesign keyboards which don't work with the DOS card. The
  replacement that Apple sent arrived two days later, and so far has
  worked fine.

  The Power Mac 6100/66 DOS Compatible provides a good integrated
  Macintosh and DOS environment on one machine. If you have a Mac-
  oriented setup and need a DOS machine at minimum cost, I highly
  recommend the machine. If you already have a Power Macintosh 6100
  and nothing in the expansion slot, you can add the DOS card.
  Although Apple doesn't officially support this approach, you can
  also add a DOS card to a Power Mac 8100, Quadra or Centris 610, or
  Quadra 800. Apple also recently introduced a DOS card with similar
  capabilities for the 630-series Macs.

http://www.austin.apple.com/education/630.html
http://www.austin.apple.com/education/6100.html

  [Similar (if not identical) cards for a number of Macintosh types
  are also available from Reply Corporation. Also, if this article
  has piqued your interest in a DOS Compatible system (or raised
  some questions), read the "Pwr Mac DOS Compatibility Card: Read Me
  File" in Apple's Tech Info Library.

http://www.info.apple.com/til.html

  The document addresses a number of issues regarding networking,
  attaching modems and printers, and more. To find that document
  (and others, including information on TCP/IP connections), search
  on "DOS Compatible" in the Apple Tech Info Library. -Tonya]

    Reply Corporation -- 800/801-6898 -- 408/942-4804
      408/956-2793 (fax) -- <[e-mail]>


The Internet & the Future of Organized Knowledge: Part II of III
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  by Luciano Floridi <[e-mail]>

  [Note: we thank Professor Floridi for kind permission to reprint
  this material, which is a shortened version of a paper he gave at
  a UNESCO Conference in Paris, March 14-17, 1995.]

Part Two: Ideometry - A New Way of Knowing

  In the previous part of this article, I argued that the Internet
  can be understood as a stage in the life cycle of the Human
  Encyclopedia. As such, the Internet has already given rise to
  unprecedented innovations and to new fundamental problems, some of
  which are especially relevant to the future of scholarship and
  organized knowledge. In this part, we begin to examine these by
  developing the concept of ideometry.


**The New Nature of Scholarship** -- When considering the
  innovations that the Internet has brought to the field of the
  production and management of organized knowledge, one might think
  of the reduction of the time-lag between the production and the
  utilization of knowledge, the promotion of international
  cooperation and sharing of information among researchers and
  scholars, or the possibility of remote teaching online. Yet most
  such novelties are actually less radical than they seem, since
  they mainly make easier and quicker what we used to do anyway.

  There are other possibilities, however, which do represent a more
  radical break with the past. For example, the global network is
  weakening the concept of specialization. The book era, providing a
  rigidly structured context, invited specialization. Especially the
  humanities became topic-oriented. The electronic Encyclopedia, on
  the other hand, promotes inter-disciplinary work, i.e. diatopic
  approaches. In fact, it's difficult to restrict oneself always to
  the same limited space when one can navigate so easily to and fro
  across the disciplinary boundaries.

  Now, the most substantial of the radical innovations concerns our
  ability to acquire ever-more-easily further knowledge about the
  Encyclopedia itself. Consider once again the intellectual space of
  organized knowledge. We can distinguish between three different
  dimensions:

* Primary data. This is what we usually perceive as the
  Encyclopedia per se, the principal information we can acquire when
  we have access to the encyclopedia, and it is also the information
  the encyclopedia is generally designed to convey to the user in
  the first place.

* Metadata. These are the secondary indications about the nature
  of the data sets constituting the first dimension. Here we can
  find information, for example, about copyright restrictions, about
  the collocation of our data sets in a physical library or in a
  virtual domain, about the subject covered by the data sets, about
  the quality of the information conveyed, and so forth. You can
  think of metadata as library records.

* Derivative data. These are data that can be extracted from
  primary data sets, when the latter are used as a source for
  comparative and quantitative analysis. This requires a lengthier
  explanation.


**What Derivative Data Is** -- In the book age, primary data sets
  were collected and organized in structures which were necessarily
  rigid and unalterable. The ordering principles behind this
  organization actually limited the range of primary questions which
  could meaningfully be asked. For example, if the ordering
  principle stated that the primary data should be all the poetic
  texts of any time written in English, the final edition in several
  volumes of all English poems provided the means to answer properly
  and easily only a limited range of primary questions, like "who
  wrote what when."

  Information Technology has transformed all this. It is now
  possible to query the digital domain and shape it according to
  principles which are completely different from those whereby the
  primary data were initially collected and organized. The structure
  of our particular set of digital data can be modified to fit an
  infinite number of requirements, and hence provide answers to
  secondary questions which were not meant to be answered by the
  original structure. The new patterns that emerge from the
  application of quantitative and comparative queries may turn out
  to be meaningful and interesting for reasons that are completely
  extraneous to the initial ordering principle.


**What Ideometry Is** -- Ideometry is the study of the significant
  patterns resulting from a comparative and quantitative analysis of
  the field of knowledge - that is, of the clusters of primary data
  like data banks, textual corpora, or multimedia archives.
  Derivative data, the third dimension of the Encyclopedia, are the
  outcome of an ideometric analysis of whatever sector of organized
  knowledge has been subject to investigation.

  An example will clarify the notions of ideometry and derivative
  data together. In 1994 Chadwick-Healey published a database of
  English Poetry on CD-ROMs. The structure of this digital
  collection is thoroughly flexible, and we can reorganize it at
  will. As a simple example, we might wish to study the presence or
  absence of the two popular figures - Heraclitus, the weeping
  philosopher, and Democritus, the laughing philosopher - through
  the entire set of documents.

  A quick computer survey shows that the joint motif of compassion
  for human misfortune and derision of human ambitions was very
  popular between the second half of the sixteenth and the first
  half of the seventeenth century, as it is in this period that we
  find most of the poets using the philosophical couple as a
  literary device. This pattern becomes even more interesting once
  we notice that during the seventeenth century the two Greek
  philosophers were portrayed in many Dutch paintings. Through a
  quantitative and comparative analysis (an ideometric analysis) we
  have made the encyclopedia speak about itself (supply us with
  derivative data).


**Ideometry and The Internet** -- Now, to some extent this too is
  nothing so very new. Ideometry has been popular in many
  disciplines since the 1960's. Lexicography, stylometry,
  prosopography, citation analysis, bibliometric studies,
  econometrics, and quantitative history have all used forms of
  ideometric analysis for investigation. But scholars could perform
  ideometric analysis only on a limited scale and with enormous
  efforts. The trouble was, quite simply, that Information
  Technology was not yet up to scholarly expectations and needs. It
  wasn't that the Humanities were not sufficiently "scientific" to
  allow the application of Information Technology tools, but rather
  that Information Technology was too primitive to be of any real
  service for the highly sophisticated tasks required by scholarly
  research.

  The radical change brought about by the present age of Information
  Technology and the Internet is that an ideometric approach is
  becoming an increasingly easy option for any researcher. It is
  obvious that primary data need metadata in order to be manageable,
  so the second dimension of the encyclopedia can never be really
  separate from the first. Derivative data, however, are not so
  directly available, and the third dimension emerges only when
  large amounts of primary data are collected in digital form, are
  made easily accessible to the user, and can be rapidly queried and
  thus re-structured via electronic tools. Today all these
  conditions are being more and more adequately fulfilled by
  Internet.


**An Electronic Book Is Not A Book!** Ideometry shows that digital
  texts, though they maintain some of the basic features of printed
  books and can therefore be used as surrogates, should not be
  understood as if they were meant to fulfil the same task. We do
  not convert printed texts into electronic databases in order to
  read them better or more comfortably. For this task the book is
  and will remain unsurpassed.

  But we do not spend so much money only to create big electronic
  indexes either. Rather, we collect and digitize large corpora of
  texts in order to subject them to comparative and quantitative
  analysis and extract knowledge they contain only on a macroscopic
  level. What is revolutionary in an electronic bibliography, for
  example, is not that I can find a certain book in a few seconds,
  which is trivial, but that I can ask new questions: I can check
  when books on the history of Analytic Philosophy started to be
  written, for example, and discover how their number increased
  while the movement became more and more scholastic.

  Thus, corpora of electronic texts and multimedia sources are the
  laboratory for ideometric analysis. And (this is where the
  Internet comes in) the larger and more accessible the domain, the
  better it will be, for the ideometric value of an extensive corpus
  is given by the product rather than by the simple arithmetical sum
  of the ideometric value of each single document. Once simple and
  economical tools for studying visual and acoustic patterns also
  become available, ideometric analyses will be extended to the
  entire domain of the enlarged Encyclopedia.

  Thus, electronic collections of data and the Internet have raised
  the level on which we can deal with our data. But the Internet has
  also raised severe problems for scholarship; I shall talk about
  these in the third part of this article.


Reviews/19-Jun-95
-----------------

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