A-T's New PC Utility Customizes, Analyzes, Organizes
 
Microbytes Daily News Service Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Ashton-Tate yesterday announced a software utility package that does a little
organizing, does a little customizing, and does a little diagnosing of a PC.
The new Control Room program looks something like the Norton and Mace
utilities, Quarterdeck's QRAM, Power Meter, and a DOS shell all rolled into
one, and then enhanced by an online documentation fanatic.
 
Control Room, priced at $129, starts out looking at your computer from the
inside and cataloguing everything you've got, then reporting it all back to you
in plain English (with online help and definitions). Then it lets you customize
your machine with simple special features, such as keyboard enhancements, disk
caching, and screen blanking. The program then saves all your customizations in
the smallest TSR it can manufacture.
 
Control Room also tests CPU and subsystem performance, keeps a running
inventory of your equipment, tracks memory usage, scans for viruses, and lets
you undelete files and backup your "setup" settings, among other things. You
can find out what any program function does by clicking on it with a mouse.
 
Contact: Ashton-Tate, 20101 Hamilton Ave, Torrance, CA 90502; (213) 329-8000.
 
                              --- Frank Hayes
 
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