The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

January 1995

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to come to trial in the United States. She is part of

the thousands of workers, operators, and journal-

ists who are suing various computer manufactur-

ers, including IBM, NCR, Apple, Atex, and Wang.

Currently, there are 44 lawsuits pending in New

York and at least 20 pending in Minnesota. Since

this case is the first to come to trial, it will bear

watching.

Elsewhere, the California Supreme Court handed

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) a big victory

in its long-running dispute with Intel Corp. over a

1982 cross-licensing agreement between the two

companies. The court, in a 4-3 decision, reversed

an appeals court decision and upheld an

arbitrator’s 1992 ruling that gave AMD the rights to

all Intel intellilectual property needed for the manu-

facture of microprocessors compatible with the

Intel 386 chips. Since that technology is now

outmoded, about the only net effect the decision

will have will be to remove the threat that AMD

would owe Intel millions of dollars in back royalties.

However, there are still three other federal cases

regarding the licensing agreement between these

two companies.

That ruling is unfortunate for Intel, since the chip

giant could have used the money to fund the

replacement of all those faulty pentium processors,

rather than take a hit in the credibility category.

Can you imagine having to prove that you needed

the floating-point processing capabilities in order to

receive a replacement chip from Intel? Give me a

break.

Lastly, DevCon is upon us and yours truly is eating

a little crow. It seems that all that talk on C’Serve

about attendees receiving a beta copy of Visual

FoxPro is true, as confirmed by Cris Wittrous (MS)

at our last meeting. But given the circumstances,

and the chance to walk away from DevCon with

the beta, I don’t think crow ever tasted so good.

Coming Next Month...

Visual FoxPro

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dBASE for Windows

What We Know So Far

Time Trakker

by Barry R. Lee

“Time Trakker allows you to easily keep track of time

spent on clients & jobs for billing purposes. Using a

Time Clock metaphor you can Punch In/Out or use

manual entries to log time. Flexible reports allow you

to get detailed information about the time spent.

Supports user defined bill types, multiple users, mul-

tiple open enthes, a calendar and much more

"TT features Standalone & Sysmenu operation, full

DOS/Windows support, source code and easy integra-

tion into your own apps. TTRAK.TXT for more info.

“Fully functional shareware.”

That’s the description as it appears in CompuServe’s

MS Fox Users Forum (3rd Party Products) for Time

Trakker v3.72. At 1250 downloads, since 12/16/94,

it’s one of the more popular FoxPro-related shareware

programs to come along in the last three months.

Time Trakker uses familiar metaphors to guide you

through the process of logging in and keeping track of

the hours billed against your clients. We’ve been

using it for the last 2-1/2 months (we started with

v3.71) to monitor the hours spent in bringing a project

for a major client to completion.

“Punching in” (see Figs. 1 & 2) is as simple as double-

clicking on the client’s name, clicking on the

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