Profiles March 1987
Robert J. Sawyer returned to provide the cover story for this issue. He started off noting the superiority of laser printers to daisywheel printers, the previous premium option for producing "respectable output, like you'd get from a typewriter," but then supposed dot matrix printers remained more economical and capable of higher volumes of printout, while noting "300 dots per inch" still wasn't anywhere near what typesetting offered. One article noted how Lisp and Prolog, the two most popular programming languages for "the fancy stuff: expert systems, natural language interfaces, everything that computer buffs call 'artificial intelligence'" were both available for CP/M.











