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Windows for PC A West German software house is entering the UK microcomputer market with two products - Open Win-

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dow and Tex Ace Window which run on the IBM PC, Apricot and Olivetti M24. Open Window is a window

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An application can open and close windows on the screen as well as control their size, position and colour. A Mask Management routine can prompt the user to input data required and make semantic and syntactic checks on the data. Any mistake by the user generates a call to the error handling system which displays an explanatory error message in a separate window on the screen. Open Window aims to make simple the time consuming and often complicated routines running on many machines. The package is priced at &399 for a one-time charge and &60 for runtime. Tex Ace Window has already been marketed in the UK under the name Alphatext. By incorporating it with Open Window, the user has a wordprocessor and file management together. Features include invoicing, mailing lists as well as wordprocessing capabilities. Tex Ace runs under CP!M, CCPiM and MS/DC IS. A Xe nix and Unix version will follo IW in tht r near future. End user price is x390. Both software package es are available in English, German, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian and French. In the UK the software will be marketed and developed by Softsell and Software Ltd. (Bondriven software development garts & S&m& ~~~a~e~~~~k tnoi for the creation of a Stan- GmbH, Universitatsstrasse 74, dardized user interface for $630 &chum 1, w Gemany, application programs. Avail- Tel (02) 34 376 96) n

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