GIF News Issue 12

January / February 1991

GN9101.TXT

Hsiao & Hunter, Inc.'s

GIF News


Well, the January/February issue is here. This issue has

articles on: Another new 9600 Baud standard - V.32bis, IBM's

new XGA, possible features of Origin's Wing Commander ][,

Lotus' plans for a controversial CD-Rom, a look at Electronic

Art's latest game "Hard Nova", and alot more. Thank you for

taking the time to download GIF News. Please feel free to

upload it to other BBS's in your local calling area.


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All you need is a UUDECODER to do so. Also, your mail handler

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in the /pub directory on wuarchive and the /incoming on clarkson.

GIF News welcomes all our new worldwide readers from the net. You

can always recognize which GIF News issue is up by the filename.


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GIF News comes out every other month so look for gn91-03.zip

in March. If you want back issues, let me know or send me a

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disk). gn90-09.zip, gn90-07.zip, gn90-05.zip should be up on

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7 Fair Way

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Special note: Alternate US Mail address - this address will reach

me quicker if you plan on mailing me sometime between the dates

1/15/91 to 5/1/91:


Eric Hsiao

406-A BARH

RPI

Troy, New York 12180-3590


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Editor of GIF News


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