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David Egan Publisher's Letter . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Letters: Readers describe solutions
using agent technology and express
frustration with TCP/IP addressing . . . 18
Anonymous What Notes Users Want: As great as Lotus
Notes is for deploying
productivity-enhancing applications
throughout a company, it still suffers
from numerous weaknesses. Here's what
users want and a hint of things to come
from Lotus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
R. Dobson and
D. Andrews What Notes users want (groupware
requirements and prospects) . . . . . . 24--25
Anonymous End-User Windows Databases Take Off:
BYTE looks at three Windows database
offerings --- Microsoft Access 2.0,
Lotus Approach 3.0, and Alpha Software's
Alpha Fiver for Windows --- that claim
to be the best end-user database
available . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Infrared Gets Real: The Infrared Data
Association's new standard has vendors
getting on board the infrared bandwagon 30
Anonymous 15 MB in a Matchbook: The storage
capacities of personal communications
devices, pagers, and digital cameras
could improve greatly in 1995 thanks to
a 32-Mb new flash memory device called
CompactFlash from SunDisk . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Professional Video Prices Drop: Powerful
desktop computers combined with new
video editing programs are delivering
professional video editing to the PC,
Mac, and Power Mac platforms . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Indexing Gets Smart: Information
publishers are turning to a new breed of
smart indexing tools that can
automatically summarize and condense
huge documents without human
intervention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous The Next On-Line Wave: On-line services
are responding to the enormous demand of
users for Internet accessibility by
incorporating Internet access and tools 40
Anonymous Blasts from the Past: Highlights from
two decades of covering the PC
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Andrew Singleton and
Russell Kay Books and CD-ROMs: Creating Life in a
Computer: A look at books on artificial
life and genetic programming and a CD-
ROM on warplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Dennis Barker 1994 BYTE Awards: BYTE editors pick the
50 outstanding products or technologies
of the past year . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Andy Reinhardt Solutions Focus: The Newton Goes
Vertical: Why a maker of phone-testing
equipment chose to repackage the Apple
Newton MessagePad as its solution for
client/server-based automated field
service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
A. Reinhardt The Newton goes vertical (phone testing
equipment: automated field service) . . 64--66, 68, 70, 72
John Vacca Mosaic: Beyond Net Surfing: This GUI
navigator is also a tool for doing
business on the World Wide Web . . . . . 75
Russell Kay Matching Colors: Getting the color you
want without unpleasant surprises is no
simple trick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Michael Sugihara Consistent Color: New software standards
help manage color for consistent and
accurate reproduction . . . . . . . . . 93
Bill Hilliard On-Screen Color: Today's crop of
monitors are producing better color than
ever. Here are some tips on how you can
pick the best monitor and video card to
get the kind of color accuracy you need 101
Michael Weiss Final Output: Color printers, more
affordable than ever, hold out the
promise of better color . . . . . . . . 109
Paulina Borsook and
Michael Nadeau Small-Office Computing . . . . . . . . . 120
Andrew Singleton The Virtual Storefront . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous Making the Internet Connection . . . . . 126
Anonymous One Person's Internet Business . . . . . 132
Stan Miastkowski Curing the Windows Fax Blues . . . . . . 133
Andy Reinhardt Doing It All on One Line . . . . . . . . 145
Gilbert Amine and
Annette Riggio and
Ellis Hill Caller ID Goes to Work . . . . . . . . . 149
Ken Sheldon High-Tech Bookkeeping . . . . . . . . . 155
K. M. Sheldon High-Tech bookkeeping (personal computer
applications) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155--156
Michael Nadeau Quad-Speed CD-ROM Delivers: Four new
quad-speed CD-ROM drives are affordable
if you work with high-speed video or
animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165--167
Trevor Marshall Lively Pictures: HSC Software's Live
Picture is an impressive image editor
for the Power Mac . . . . . . . . . . . 171
T. Marshall Lively pictures (Power Mac image
editing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172, 174
Raymond Ga Cote Apple's Workgroup Server 9150: Apple
presents its top-of-the-line
PowerPC-based system as an application
server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175--176, 178
Raymond Ga Cote Prograph CPX: Purely Visual: Macintosh
programmers have access to a powerful
visual-programming environment --- and
it's not from Microsoft . . . . . . . . 179
Susan Yeaton Software Roundup: Powerful Presentations
for Windows: The traditional slide-show
leaders --- Charisma, Harvard Graphics,
Lotus Freelance Graphics, and Microsoft
PowerPoint --- concentrate on power and
usability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
S. Yeaton Powerful presentations for Windows . . . 183--184, 186--188, 190
G. Armour Van Horn Audience Share: As more people
incorporate sound and video in their
presentations, projection panels must
keep up. Proxima's new Ovation+
active-matrix LCD projection panels
support 24-bit color and stereo sound 191
G. Armour van Horn Audience share (Ovation+ projection
panels) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191--192
Jim Carls dBase Does Windows: The Windows version
of dBase makes all the right noises in
object orientation and ease of use, and
it knows how to read old dBase files . . 193--194, 196
Ben Smith Internet with Style: Netscape
Communication's free Mosaic browser is
optimized for 14.4-Kpbs modem
connections. Versions of its commercial
Mosaic server offer security features to
enable commerce on the Internet . . . . 197
Evan Yares Bringing 3-D Modeling to PCs: Autodesk
releases AutoCAD Designer 1.0, a 3-D
solid-modeling program . . . . . . . . . 201
Anonymous Lab Report: 62 Big, Beautiful Color
Monitors: BYTE/NSTL searches for the
best 17-, 20-, and 21-inch monitors,
using an extensive battery of tests to
measure image quality, sharpness,
contrast, convergence, legibility, power
consumption, and distortion. We also
evaluate ease of setup, controls, power
management, and documentation. The Best
17-inch Monitors; How We Tested; The
Best 20-and 21-inch Monitors; Honorable
Mentions; Dubious Achievements . . . . . 204
A. J. Lennon 62 big, beautiful color monitors . . . . 204--206, 209--210, 212, 215--216, 218--221
Oliver Sharp FPU Precision: A simple comparison
program can help programmers who grapple
with FPU imprecision . . . . . . . . . . 223
Floyd Goodrich AMD's 29030 Microprocessor: A flexible
bus interface and the ability to sustain
high performance with low-cost memory
make the 29030 a good choice for the
embedded market . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Dick Pountain The Oberon/F System: Niklaus Wirth's
Oberon/F is a lightweight, portable,
object-oriented component framework for
the Windows and Mac environments . . . . 227
Stan Miastkowski Daisy-Chain Ethernet: Bring the
legendary simplicity and flexibility of
PhoneNet to the twisted-pair Ethernet
LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Communications Issues: Jerry
discusses modems and networking . . . . 231
Anonymous What's New: The PN60 prints color
anywhere; CalcPac calculates in Windows;
Duet puts a Mac voice in PCs; and more 240
Richard Jennings Commentary: Who Needs the Internet:
Heresy or a cogent view? . . . . . . . . 296
Raphael Needleman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: February letters cover platform
debates and programming issues . . . . . 18
Anonymous Visual Pascal with a Punch: Borland's
Delphi unites a visual design
environment with the industrial strength
of Borland's Pascal compiler and
database connectivity engines . . . . . 22
Anonymous LexMark Delivers Outstanding Resolution:
Lexmark's new 1200-dpi printer delivers
excellent quality when printing
gray-scale images, such as photographs.
But when printing standard text, the
differences between 1200 and 600 dpi are
not as noticeable . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Notebooks, NT Clusters Capture Awards:
BYTE editors searched throughout the
convention halls of Fall Comdex 1994 for
innovative new products that had been
publicly announced within 30 days of the
show and that would have a strong
influence on business computing . . . . 24
Anonymous High-End Portables Take Off: High-end
notebook computers are accounting for an
increasing percentage of portables sales
thanks in part to a higher demand by
businesses for desktop PC replacements.
Here's what to expect from new product
introductions in 1995 . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Rewritable Drive Integrates Two Optical
Technologies: Phase change promised much
as a rewritable medium, but high costs
have kept it out of the mainstream.
Matsushita hopes to change that . . . . 28
Anonymous Brooktrout Cuts the Cost of Internal
Faxing: A new device from the Brooktrout
Networks Group could save you a lot of
money on intracompany fax phone calls 32
Anonymous Blasts from the Past: Highlights from
two decades of covering the PC
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Jon Udell and
Rick Grehan and
Rex Baldazo Books and CD-ROMs: A Savvy Guide to
Client/Server Computing: Programming
CD-ROMs, LANs, and the development of
Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Jon Udell Novell's Campaign: Novell is embarking
on a grand strategy to get 1 billion
users and devices connected to NetWare
by the year 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Oliver Sharp The Grand Challenges: Researchers are
beginning to tackle problems in
geography, weather, and other areas that
require more computing capability than
today's most powerful computers can
muster. Here's a look at the biggest of
these challenges and the ways in which
scientists are attacking them with
supercomputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Mark Clarkson Solutions Focus: Moody's Evolving Help
Desk: A distinctly different approach to
departmental scheduling uses genetic
algorithms to maximize productivity . . 76
M. Clarkson Moody's evolving help desk (financial
services agency) . . . . . . . . . . . . 76--78, 80
Anonymous Piecing Together Puzzles: Finding and
understanding patterns in data are key
to creating mainstream applications for
speech-and handwriting-recognition or
machine-vision systems . . . . . . . . . 82
Edmund X. Dejesus Face Value: New facial-recognition
research is yielding fast, accurate, and
commercially viable algorithms for a
variety of applications . . . . . . . . 85
Mark Clarkson Eyes, Ears, and Brains on a Chip:
Economical pattern-recognition
horsepower comes to the desktop thanks
to the latest generations of DSPs
(digital signal processors) and
dedicated processors. Here's how systems
developers are using this power in
commercial products . . . . . . . . . . 91
John L. Cuadrado Mining Statistics: Statistical-pattern
analysis provides the technical
underpinnings to make many types of
recognition systems more accurate . . . 97
Peter Wayner Agent-Enhanced Communicator: Sony's
Magic Link provides phone, modem,
sendfax, E-mail pager, and infrared
communications abilities . . . . . . . . 103--104
Stanford Diehl and
Greg Loveria Video for Free: High-performance desktop
systems, graphics-chip innovations, and
the new DCI (Display Control Interface)
software layer will soon make digital
video a standard feature for Windows
graphics cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
David S. Linthicum Make Bulletproof SQL Queries: Software
AG's Esperant, a front end for SQL
database querying, uses an SQL
``expert'' to guard against
syntactically flawed queries . . . . . . 111
Steve Apiki Simple, Scalable RAID: Micropolis makes
RAID both scalable and multiplatform
with the Raidion LTX, a modular RAID
system that works with any SCSI host . . 115
Tadesse W. Giorgis Software Roundup: Networks for the
Enterprise: Heterogeneous enterprise
networks require a robust, reliable, and
secure software environment. NSTL
evaluates the major server-based network
operating systems, including OS/2 Lan
Server, Windows NT, and two flavors of
NetWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Barry Nance File Transfer on Steroids: LapLink for
Windows includes some additional
features beyond simple file transfers,
including remote access, file
synchronization, a chat facility,
file-delta transfers, and security
features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129--130
Bill Esposito On-Line Service on the Cheap: Mustang
Software's popular Wildcat BBS software
gets increased capacity, customizable
menus, V.34 modem support, and an
optional utilities suite that includes a
QuickBasic-like language . . . . . . . . 131
Anonymous Lab Report: True-Color Graphics
Accelerators: PCI cards are finally
delivering on earlier promises. Our
custom tests find the fastest PCI
graphics accelerators under Windows, as
well as some hot new Macintosh cards.
The Best Graphics Accelerators for
General Business; Graphics Glossary;
Video Tests; The Best PCI Graphics
Adapters for Drafting; How We Tested;
The Best Graphics Accelerators for
Macintosh NuBus Systems; Video Glossary;
Honorable Mentions . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Dick Pountain Transport-Triggered Architectures: The
ultimate expression of the RISC
philosophy is the Transport-Triggered
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Tom Yager The Great Little File System: Flexible
and secure, Veritas sets the standard
for Unix file systems . . . . . . . . . 155
Dick Pountain Constraint Logic Programming: CLP's
power to tackle difficult combinatorial
problems may make it the most
significant commercial programming
paradigm over the next five years . . . 159
William Stallings The PGP Web of Trust: Managing public
keys with the PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
web of trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Software-Installation Hell:
Jerry finds installing software a pain 165
Anonymous What's New: The CruisePad provides
wireless control locally; Process
Charter for Windows does smart
flowcharting; WinDD puts Windows on
Unix; and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Ezra Shapiro Commentary: Needed: A GUI Revolution:
GUIs have become fat --- and not very
intuitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Raphael Needleman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous New PowerPC Standard Supports Macs:
While still in its early stages, the new
CHRP (Common Hardware Reference
Platform) standard promises to let
PowerPC systems freely use different
operating systems . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous You're Saving Money when the Meter's
Running: Software metering programs,
which were originally designed to
enforce concurrent licensing agreements
and prevent liability for inappropriate
use of software, are now being used to
cut software costs . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Dialects of the Web: A future version of
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) could
ensure that simple and complex Web
documents can be read by any Web user.
In this vision, the Web will use an
object-oriented model: the core classes
--- basic headings, paragraphs, and
links --- will be understood by all
browsers, but richer ``subclass''
distinctions would be allowed for use by
more sophisticated browsers . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Internet Publishing Tools Proliferate:
The best World Wide Web publishing tool
for you, whether it's a word processor
add-on or a relational database/SGML
hybrid publishing tool, depends in part
on how often you'll need to update the
information that you're publishing on
the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Developers Catch the 3-D Wave: For the
last five years, computer users who
demanded sophisticated 3-D graphics
turned to high-end workstations. Now the
computer industry is preparing to bring
this level of performance to low-end
desktop systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Blasts from the Past: Highlights from
two decades of covering the PC
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Jon Udell and
Tom Thompson Books and CD-ROMs: A Model for Future AI
Research: An AI model from Douglas
Hofstadter, a Star Trek technical
manual, and an unauthorized look at
Windows 95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Andy Reinhardt New Ways to Learn: As networking,
multimedia, and better software
converge, corporations and schools will
be offering much-improved ways of
learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Anonymous Seven New Ways to Learn . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Starting from Scratch . . . . . . . . . 62
Anonymous When Money Is Plentiful . . . . . . . . 66
Rick Grehan BYTE's New Benchmarks: The benchmark
picture just got a whole lot brighter:
BYTE has released new cross-platform
benchmarks, the BYTE Native Mode suite,
for testing CPUs and FPUs. And NSTL has
released its InterMark suite for testing
hardware under Windows . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous NSTL's New InterMark Suite . . . . . . . 80
Randall D. Cronk Solutions Focus: The Net That Manages
the Mail: A new, traffic-oriented
network of multimedia, multiprocessor
workstations with integrated telephony
gives the U.S. Postal Service the
ability to handle bad weather, deal with
unforeseen operational contingencies,
and manage the flow of mail based on
real-time information . . . . . . . . . 84--86, 88, 90, 92
Anonymous Agents of Change: Agents and smart
software are still works in progress.
Security and interoperability define the
leading edge of development for these
industries software tools . . . . . . . 94
Kurt Indermaur Baby Steps: They may not fulfill our
dreams yet, but agents and smart
software are beginning to help us find
information and do our jobs more
effectively . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Peter Wayner Free Agents: A new generation of
light-weight, multithreaded operating
environments provide security and
interoperability for agent developers 105
Steve Apiki and
Rick Grehan Fastest NT Workstations: Windows NT 3.5
opens up your options for choosing a
high-end Windows system. BYTE reviews
seven NT speed demons --- comparing
Alpha, Mips 4400, and Pentium
workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--120, 122
Rex Baldazo and
Stanford Diehl Workgroup Conferencing: A look at two
new groupware solutions for Windows:
Collabra Share and Attachmate's
OpenMind. Both products deliver an
effective conferencing system to large
and small workgroups. OpenMind also
includes document management and OLE
Automation features . . . . . . . . . . 125
R. Baldazo and
S. Diehl Workgroup conferencing (groupware for
Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126, 128
Rex Baldazo Tru Multimedia Road Warrior: IBM's
latest ThinkPad with CD-ROM,
motion-video support, and Mwave DSP
brings multimedia to the road warrior.
This new machine also moves laptops a
step closer to desktops . . . . . . . . 129
Barry Nance Big Blue's Speed Trip: Behind all the
hype about OS/2 Warp, we found a stable,
fast operating system that sports an
updated GUI, improved hardware support,
and a Bonus Pack loaded with useful OS/2
applications. But is it good enough to
displace Windows? . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Stan Miastkowski Peer Power Upgrade: If your LANtastic
peer-to-peer network is running out of
steam, Artisoft's CorStream adds a
NetWare 4.01 server wrapped in a
familiar interface . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Barry Nance Roundup: Network Storage Economizers:
Previously available only on
minicomputers and mainframes, HSM
(hierarchical storage management) is an
increasingly popular way to economize on
network storage. We took a look at three
HSM products for PC LANs . . . . . . . . 137
Anonymous Lab Report: 26 Safeguards Against LAN
Data Loss: BYTE/NSTL selects the best
single-medium tape drives for backing up
midrange networks. We tested tape
subsystems in a range of environments,
including server-based,
workstation-based, and Windows NT
configurations. 4-mm DAT Drives; QIC
Drives; 8-mm Videocassett Drives; DLT
Drives; Honorable Mentions; Dubious
Achievement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
T. W. Giorgis and
J. McDonough 26 safeguards against LAN data loss
(single-medium tape drives for backing
up midrange networks) . . . . . . . . . 144--148, 150, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160--161
Tom R. Halfhill The Truth Behind the Pentium Bug: How
often do the five empty cells in the
Pentium's FPU lookup table spell
miscalculation? . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Jon Udell A Warped Perspective: IBM says Warp is
for end users. Wrong. It's an
integrator's dream . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Steve Apiki OLE Controls from the Ground Up: OLE
Controls are the technology of choice
for lightweight software components
under Windows. Building one is easy
using the Control Development Kit, but
starting from scratch provides an inside
look at the underlying technology . . . 169
Peter Wayner Network-Ready Computer: Forget the CPU
and clock speed; network I/O capacity
may be the new measure of a desktop
system's performance . . . . . . . . . . 171
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Unexpected Adventures: The
simplest things can be an adventure . . 175
Anonymous What's New: The Doubleplay Series I
doubles your PC storage; the JetEye
ESI-9580A provides wireless printing;
English Wizard translates English into
SQL; Cruiser takes you down a virtual
hallway; and more . . . . . . . . . . . 186
George Bond Commentary: Bosnia On-Line: The Internet
is becoming populated with enclaves of
xenophobic, crabby egotists . . . . . . 250
Raphael Needleman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: Information overload and
Apple's Newton MessagePad . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Mac Clones --- finally: The first
Apple-sanctioned Mac OS-compatible
systems have finally arrived . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Low-End Servers Grow Up: Features
associated with high-end PC LAN servers
are migrating to the low end . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Faster Graphics Cards on the Horizon:
Better graphic performance thanks to new
kinds of graphics memory . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Free Rides Are Disappearing: Features of
the Internet that users currently use
for free may cost them in the future . . 26
Anonymous Microsoft Furthers NetWare-to-NT
Transition: Microsoft's File and Print
Service for NetWare eases the transition
to Windows NT Server . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous The Net's Next Big Thing: Virtual
Reality: VRML (Virtual Reaity Markup
Language) could make navigating on-line
a snap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous PerfectOffice a Strong Contender:
WorkPerfect's new applications suite is
powerful . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Legal Land Mines Cloud Multimedia: Legal
problems lurk behind multimedia
development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Anonymous Blasts from the Past: Highlights from
two decades of covering the PC
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Rich Cook and
Rich Friedman and
Brenda Daunt and
Matt Trask Books and CD-ROMs: Is There a God: An
original work of theology, a CD-ROM to
help you redesign your yard, and
graphics file formats . . . . . . . . . 37
Tom R. Halfhill Intel's P6: A worthy successor to the
Pentium, the P6 furthers blurs the
already fuzzy boundaries between CISC
and RISC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous The Shape of Systems to Come . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Smarter, More Powerful Systems . . . . . 56
Christine White Solutions Focus: On-Road, On-Time, and
On-Line: Satellites and computer-based
communications helps a trucking firm cut
costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
C. White On-Road, on-time, and on-line (trucking
company: global positioning system) . . 60--62, 64--66
Lenny Tropiano and
Dinah McNutt How to Implement ISDN: Knowing the
fundamentals of ISDN costs and service
options can help you save money and
avoid frustration . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68, 70, 72, 74
Salvatore Salamone Control Software Costs: An efficient
software-monitoring strategy can save
organisations thousands of dollars in
unnecessary licensing fees . . . . . . . 75--78, 80, 82
Bob Friesenhahn Build Your Own WWW Server: Setting up a
WWW server offers real benefits for many
organizations, and it's probably easier
to accomplish than you think. Here's a
look at what's involved . . . . . . . . 83
Russell Kay Barricading the Net: Finding a safe path
through the potential minefields of the
Internet calls for planning . . . . . . 89
John Bryan Build a Firewall: Protect your networks
from unwanted intruders --- build a
firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
J. Bryan Build a firewall (networks protection) 91--94, 96
John Bryan Firewalls for Sale: Here's a look at
five different firewall products and
services that you can install today . . 99
J. Bryan Firewalls for sale . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100, 102, 104
Robert Orfall and
Dan Harkey and
Jeri Edwards Intergalactic Client/Server Computing: A
look at four dominant client/server
paradigms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Jim Gray and
Jeri Edwards Scale Up with TP Monitors: How TP
monitors enable client/server
applications to scale up . . . . . . . . 123
Jonathan Mackenzie Document Repositories: With Notes, users
can build client/server document
repositories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
J. Mackenzie Document repositories (product review) 131--132, 134, 136--138
Edmund X. Dejesus Dimensions of Data: Tools that bring
multidimensional analysis to the
client/server world . . . . . . . . . . 139
Robert Orfali and
Dan Harkey Client/Server with Distributed Objects:
CORBA 2.0 mechanisms and services pave
the way for client/server computing with
distributed objects . . . . . . . . . . 151
Tom Thompson One Box, Two Computers: If you want to
run both PC and Mac applications,
Apple's DOS-Compatible Power Macintosh
offers the best of both worlds . . . . . 165--166
Steve Apiki Visual C++ Goes Multiplatform: With
versions on Intel, Mips, and Alpha; a
slick, well-designed integrated
environment; class-library enhancements;
and a Macintosh cross-development
package, Visual C++ is an impressive
package. But be prepared to jump into
32-bit development with both feet . . . 167
J. Bruce Dawson Intrusion Protection for Networks: The
Internet is a two-way street that can
let unauthorized users into your
network. CheckPont's FireWall-I software
monitors your gateways for such security
breaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171--172
Kevin Sven Berg Business Objects Done Right: Using
object-oriented tools to capture
business processes and data is a hot
trend in client/server computing. Next's
Enterprise Objects Framework is among
the best at exploiting this potent
application of the object paradigm . . . 175--176
Rick Grehan Radical Xbase Objects: CA-Visual
Objects, Computer Associate's classy new
entry into the Windows
application-development field, is also a
migration path for DOS-based Clipper
developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Ben Smith Server with a Slot: Microplex's M204
multiprotocol print server is winning
the features-for-the-price war among
stand-alone print servers, and it has
little to do with the unit's PCMCIA
network adapter design . . . . . . . . . 181
Scott Higgs Sofware Roundup: Project Management for
Windows: While supporting time-honored
models, such as Gantt and PERT charts,
the current generation of projects
managers also use newer E-mail and
workgroup concepts to involve groups of
people in project tracking . . . . . . . 185
S. Higgs Project Management for Windows (software
review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185--186, 188, 190, 192
Anonymous Lab Report: 30 No-Compromise Notebooks:
We run 30 active-matrix, 3.3 volt 486DX4
and Pentium notebooks through extensive
benchmarks and choose the best Windows
and DOS portables for power users. We
also report on Apple's PowerBook 540c
and compare the performance of AST's
66-MHz Ascentia 810N to the 75 MHz
486DX4 notebooks. Best 386DX4-based
Notebooks; How We Tested; Best
Pentium-based Notebooks. Honorable
Mentions; Dubious Achievements . . . . . 194
A. J. Lennon and
J. McDonough 30 no-compromise notebooks (review,
testing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194--196, 199--200, 202--204, 206--209
Tom Thompson New PowerPCs for Notebooks and PDAs: The
602, 603, and 603e PowerPC processors
zero in on both camps in the low-power
market: the low-cost, single-user
segment and the long-battery-life,
high-performance group . . . . . . . . . 211
John Sontag HP-UX 10.0: Hewlett--Packard's new HP-UX
10.0 will be faster, more reliable, and
easier to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Rick Grehan The Software Stopwatch: Optimize
time-consuming routines with
high-resolution software timers . . . . 215
Tim Winston Create More IP Addresses: Network
managers facing IP address change have
many options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Orchids and Onions: Part 1:
What Jerry liked and didn't like in 1994 221
Anonymous What's New: The PowerLite 85 notebook
offers Micro Sparc II performance, Limur
includes Unix source code; DragStrip
organizes your Mac programs; and more 232
Sal Salamone Compatibility Testing: Will computers
replace singles bars? . . . . . . . . . 286
Raphael Needleman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Letters: This month's letters discuss
computers in education, Internet
attitudes, and SGML, as well as clarify
results in our Lab Report on tape drives 17
Anonymous Desktop Databases Pack More Power: PC
database vendors are touting their
products' ability to scale from the
desktop to the enterprise. But vendors'
definitions of scalability vary widely 22
Anonymous Pentium Dream Systems Arrive: An early
look at two of the first 120-MHz Pentium
machines reveals more than just a fast
processor inside the box . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous VR Can Improve Your Health: Virtual
reality is fundamentally altering and
improving the way medical care is taught
and delivered . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Compaq Reduces Cost of Ownership: Compaq
Computer is making it easier for LAN
management software vendors with its new
line of Deskpro PCs . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous RISC Invades the School and Home:
Apple's Power Mac 5200 beefs up the LC
line for the school and home with a new
PowerPC processor . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Byte Picks CeBIT's Best: BYTE editors
scoured the CeBIT show for the best in
new international products . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Companies Cut Phone Bills: Companies are
starting to use the Internet as a
pseudoprivate backbone to carry fax and
voice traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous OCR Fuels Slow Paper Burn: OCR is
getting easier, and who knows, maybe the
elusive paperless office will one day
become reality. Naaaaah . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Blasts from the Past: Highlights from
two decades of covering the PC
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Russell Kay and
Rich Friedman and
Tom Thompson Books and CD-ROMs: Risky Business and
Private E-Mail: An on-line forum in book
form, secure communications, a CD-ROM to
help you travel in Europe cheaply, and a
major work on Mac programming . . . . . 43
Andy Reinhardt Your Next Mainframe: PCs are becoming as
powerful as mainframes, and mainframes
are being made from PC parts. But the
mainframe of the future won't be a
gigantic PC; it will be software and a
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--52, 54, 56, 58
Dick Pountain Solutions Focus: The British Library's
Catalog Is On-Line: The British Library
computerizes its paper catalogs . . . . 62
D. Pountain The British Library's catalog is on-line 62--64, 66, 68, 70
Anonymous 1995 Readers' Choice Awards: BYTE
readers anoint the best hardware and
software on the market today . . . . . . 75
Tom R. Halfhill See You Around: A look at how the
panoramic-video technology used by
Apple's QuickTime VR and Microsoft's
Surround Video can open up a wraparound,
photo-quality, virtual-reality world
right on your computer screen . . . . . 85
Alan Joch Beyond Hollywood: It's getting easier to
bring digital video to your desktop . . 95
Stanford Diehl BYTE's Video Workshop: BYTE sets up a
digital video studio to test the
viability of corporate video production
on the PC desktop. Using Windows tools
for digital and analog video production,
we address the major issues of
developing and deploying video content 97
John Bryan Compression Scorecard: Compression's
more efficient than ever if you pick the
right code. Our scorecards compare
compression quality and speed of seven
leading choices . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Jeffrey Fritz Video Connections: Isochronous Ethernet
and ATM race to bring video to your
desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Alan Joch Incredible Expanding Keyboard: IBM's
revolutionary ThinkPad 701C fits a
full-size keyboard and a 10.4-inch LCD
screen into a subnotebook. You must see
it to believe it . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Ethan Wilansky The Benefits of Recentralization:
There's a move to consolidate network
management tools. Microsoft fields a
powerful entry in Systems Management
Server, which rounds up and controls
network resources multiple vendors . . . 121
Tom Yager Small-Scale Telephony: Multifunction
telephony cards can cost-effectively
make your small business sound big. We
test six . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
T. Yager Small scale telephony (digital signal
processors) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--128
Tom Thompson Apple's Improved MessagePad: With bug
fixes, more memory, and third-party
support, Apple's new MessagePad 120
strengthens its position in the PDA
marathon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Anonymous Ga Cote, Raymond: With its quick
object-oriented Pascal compiler,
extensible development environment, and
integrated database access, Borland's
Delphi is a powerful base for
prototyping and developing applications 133
Doug Tamaanis Mathematica Meets Warp: It's no surprise
that the new OS/2 version of Mathematica
runs faster than the Windows version on
IBM's 32-bit OS . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
David Seachrist Software Roundup: Document Image
Managers: NSTL surveyed eight document
image managers for converting paper
documents into electronic form and found
promising programs with much room for
improvement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
D. Seachrist Document image managers . . . . . . . . 143--144, 146, 148, 150, 152
Anonymous Lab Report: 29 Printers That Mean
Business: Acquire speed and pizzazz with
printer from this month's Lab Report. We
test color ink-jets, 6-to 10ppm laser
printers, 11-to 30-ppm lasers for
networks, and a few select color lasers.
11- to 30-PPM Laser Printers; Honorable
Mentions; 6- to 10-PPM Laser Printers;
Color Ink-Jet Printers; Color Laser
Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
M. Guy and
J. McDonough 29 printers that mean business
(evaluation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154--158, 160--162, 164, 166, 168, 170--171
Joe Circello ColdFire: A Hot Architecture: A new
architecture for 68000 processing means
low cost and high power for embedded
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Barry Nance NetWare 4.1 Forges Ahead: Can NetWare
4.1 stand up to strong competition from
NT Server 3.5 and LAN Server 4.O? . . . 175
Tom Thompson Adding Apple Events to Your Mac
Applications: Part 1: How to make your
application a good neighbor to other
applications --- and thus of value to
your customer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Salvatore Salamone Virtual LANs Get Real . . . . . . . . . 181
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Prizes and Surprises: A visit
to Microsoft finds Jerry coming away
favorably impressed . . . . . . . . . . 187
Anonymous What's New: The PageCard Wireless
Messaging System keeps you up-to-date
anywhere; PaperPort 2.0 for Windows
converts documents into editable text;
and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Jessica Keyes Commentary: So Where's the IT Payoff:
Flawed technology and advice can
seriously affect the bottom line . . . . 260
Raphael Needleman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters: Letter on Intel's P6,
Microsoft's Bob, and personal quandaries 18
Anonymous Chip Wars Drive Down PC Prices: Four
companies are scrambling to put the
fastest and lest expensive x86 chip in
you PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous PowerPC Tidal Wave: Apple and IBM will
make major PowerPC-related announcements
this spring and summer . . . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous Color Encroaches on the Desktop: Over
the next several years, technological
advances will accelerate the use of
color printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Service Providers Consolidate: The day
of numerous, tiny Internet service
providers may be over . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Pentium OverDrive = Moderate Upgrade:
Intel's Pentium OverDrive processor puts
a rocket in your socket, but the upgrade
has a 32-bit 486-style I/O bus --- not
the 64-bit bus of a Pentium . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Vendors Ride Bus to Better Telephony: A
new Universal Serial Bus that supports a
maximum 12 Mbps could become standard PC
connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Getting Clear About Fuzzy: What do
pension plans, elevators, and battery
charges have in common? Each is an
application of fuzzy logic . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Windows 95 Sees Better Future: Microsoft
says it will work to improve Window's
support for blind users . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Blasts from two decades of covering the
PC revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Andy Reinhardt and
Rich Friedman and
Edmund X. Dejesus Books and CD-ROMs: Word Overload,
Information Shortage: Four books about
the Internet, CD-ROMs for learning
applications and computer languages, and
Nicholas Negroponte's experiences,
insights, and predictions . . . . . . . 45
Michael Nadeau Solutions Focus: Not Lost in Space:
Xerox's entire sales force will soon be
working from virtual offices . . . . . . 50
Tom Thompson Apple completely redesigned its Mac OS
to provide a growth path to the future
while continuing to support the existing
software base . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Andrew Singleton Cash on the Wirehead: Six new pavement
systems aim to move your money across
the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Peter Varhol Windows for Control Freaks: QNX's Photon
kernel gives developers welcome control
over windowing programming . . . . . . . 83
Brett Husselbaugh Break Up Your Network: Dividing your
network into two or more parts can boost
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Andy Reinhardt From Here to Mobility: What you need to
know to hit the road . . . . . . . . . . 100
Salvatore Salamon Radio Days: Wireless links are expanding
--- despite obstacles . . . . . . . . . 107
Chris Chinnock Color to Go: New display technologies
are coming, but LCD is still king . . . 115
Gil Bassak Brainy, Brawny Batteries: Battery
technology for mobile computing is at a
crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Jon Udell You Can Take It with You: What does
Windows 95 offer users on the go? . . . 145
Michael Nadeau PDAs Bounce Back: PDAs finally evolve
into useful business tools for mobile
workers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Raphael Needleman Tales from the Trip: Tip from a savvy
world traveler on getting on-line from
anywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
R. Baldazo Red-hot 100 MHz portable Pentium
(Tadpole P1000) . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Rex Baldazo Red-Hot 100-MHz Portable Pentium: The
Tadpole PI000 -- screaming performance 167
Doug Tamasanis RISC for the Road: The SparcBook 3XP ---
A workstation to go . . . . . . . . . . 171
Dave Andrews Pentium Power Without Sticker Shock: The
Eurocom --- lots of features but short
battery life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Rex Baldazo Portable Multimedia: Satellite Pro ---
power at the right price . . . . . . . . 173
D. Andrews Not flashier, but faster (AT&T Globalyst
250P notebook) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
Dave Andrews Not Flashier, but Faster: The Globalist
250P --- good for heavy-duty number
crunching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Russell Kay Improve Your Memory: Sorting out the
dazzling variety of new memory
technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Peter Wayner New chips and new technologies compete
for adoption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Anonymous Flash Memory Looks Bright . . . . . . . 188
Anonymous Is Cache Losing Its Cachet? . . . . . . 191
Anonymous One Machine, Many RAMs . . . . . . . . . 192
Rick Cook More Memory in Less Space: Packing
silicon wafers tightly creates compact
new memory devices . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Rex Baldazo Local Air Networks: With roaming-enabled
access points, good range, and high
throughout, WaveLAN-base wireless LANs
are the ones to beat in North America 201
Peter Wayner Oracle Hits the Road: Oracle In Motion's
agents take over network housekeeping
chores, virtually eliminating the
wireless performance penalty . . . . . . 207
Bill Lawrence Hands-Off Backup: Bundled with
Palindrome's automated backup software
for NetWare, HP's SureStore Tape 12000e
DAT Autoloader can provide weeks of
unattended network backup . . . . . . . 209
David Essex Better Business Processes: Scitor links
an optimized spreadsheet to flowchart
objects, and --- presto! --- an instant
simulator that most anyone can use . . . 211--212, 214
Daniel Gasteiger Wanted: A Good OS/2 Spreadsheet: In the
OS/2 spreadsheet duel, upstart Mesa 2
has the advanced GUI features that 1-2-3
should have . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
Charles Vogt Software Roundup: Simple SQL: SQL
front-end tools empower nontechnical
managers to make informed, time-critical
decisions by giving them direct access
to client/server databases . . . . . . . 217
Anonymous Lab Report: 32 V.34 Modems Answer the
Call: V.34 represents the best and
fastest modem technology available
today. NSTL evaluates 32
state-of-the-market modems for
throughout, reliability, robustness, and
compatibility. External V.34 Modems; How
We Tested; Pick a PC Card; Honorable
Mentions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
J. Kane and
H. Holzbaur 32 V.34 modems answer the call
(28.8-Kbps external and PC Card modems,
review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224--228, 230--232, 234--237
Bruce Faust Designing Alpha-based Systems: Digital's
three CPUs bring powerful possibilities
to desktop and workstation systems
design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Standford Diehl Windows 95 Graphics Architecture:
Windows 95 will eventually unify a
series of graphics APIs --- for video,
games, and 3-D --- using a new set of
device-driver interfaces . . . . . . . . 241
Tom Thompson Adding Apple Events to Your Mac
Application: Part 2: This month, we
write the event handlers and the
dispatch table . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Salvatore Salamone Simplifying Remote Management: Remote
monitoring lets managers find out what's
going on at distant locations . . . . . 245
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Privacy and Liberty: AAAS's
annual meeting and Washington, DC,
highlight Jerry's month . . . . . . . . 249
Anonymous What's New: A 100-MHz Pentium notebook;
wireless infrared printers from
Hewlett--Packard; the latest version of
Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit; and
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Ted Prince Commentary: ATM = After the Millennium:
Don't blindly jump on the bandwagon . . 306
Raphael Needleman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Raphael Needleman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Radical Databases --- Windows desktop
databases, such as Microsoft's FoxPro,
must compete with Rapid Application
Development tools . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous RADical Databses: Windows desktop
databases, such as Microsoft's FoxPro,
must compete with Rapid Application
Development tools . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Notebook Hard Drives Hold More . . . . . 25
Anonymous Notebook Hard Drives Hold More: Gigabyte
drives for notebooks will be standard
this fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous Apple's Tsunami: PCI Power --- BYTE
takes a close look at the first
PCI-based Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Apple's Tsunami: PCI Power: BYTE takes a
close look at the first PCI-based Mac 26
Anonymous Notes Meets the Internet --- New
products and services that link Lotus
Notes to the Internet are expanding the
uses of Lotus's groupware platform . . . 26
Anonymous Notes Meets the Internet: New products
and services that link Lotus Notes to
the Internet are expanding the uses of
Lotus's groupware platform . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Oracle Releases 64-Bit Database Bullet
--- High-end network servers offer an
alternative to mainframe systems when
combined with new 64-bit relational
database management software from Oracle 30
Anonymous Oracle Releases 64-Bit Database Bullet:
High-end network servers offer an
alternative to mainframe systems when
combined with new 64-bit relational
database management software from Oracle 30
Anonymous 6X Yields Better Software MPEG and
Networking --- Move over quad speed, a
new CD-ROM performance king has arrived 40
Anonymous 6X Yields Better Software MPEG and
Networking: Move over quad speed, a new
CD-ROM performance king has arrived . . 40
Anonymous Blasts from the Past --- Highlights from
two decades of covering the PC
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous Blasts from the Past: Highlights from
two decades of covering the PC
revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Edmund X. Dejesus and
Rich Friedman and
Doug Tamasanis Books and CD-ROMs: Impossible-to-Use
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Edmund X. Dejusus and
Rich Friedman and
Doug Tamasanis Books and CD-ROMs: Impossible-to-Use
Software: What's wrong with computers, a
CD-ROM for real golf fans, and ---
believe it or not --- a Unix book that's
fun to read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
John L. Cuadrado Optimize Database Queries . . . . . . . 51
David S. Linthicum How Best to Migrate to Windows 95 . . . 51
David S. Linthicum How Best to Migrate to Windows 95:
Slowly, very slowly . . . . . . . . . . 51
Anonymous Windows 95 Migration Planning Kit . . . 52
John Cuadrado Optimize Database Queries: Optimizing
complex queries on distributed databases 57
Salvatore Salamone Solution Focus: Pruning Branch-Office
Problems: The payoff is big if you
replace an SNA backbone with
access-routed networks . . . . . . . . . 64NA4
Salvatore Salamone Solutions Focus: Pruning Branch-Office
Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64NA4
Nicholas Baran The Internet: The Greatest Show on
Earth: Ten tips for using the Internet
as a strategic business tool . . . . . . 69
Jon Udell Hello, World: Jon Udell, executive
editor for new media, launches a monthly
column, The BYTE Network Project, to
help you mine the opportunities of
business-to-business networking . . . . 87
Edmund X. Dejesus 3-D Graphics Technology . . . . . . . . 101
Edmund Dejesus 3-D Graphic Technology: 3-D graphics is
becoming essential in applications from
financial analysis to entertainment, and
new standards support the trend . . . . 101
Grant S. Boucher Desktop Hollywood F/X ---
Hollywood-style computer-generated 3-D
special effects are no further than your
desktop computer . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
David Baum Assets in Wonderland: Financial traders
can operate almost anywhere with new
data-analysis software and
virtual-reality interfaces . . . . . . . 111--116, 118
John Foust 3-D Step Forward: New 3-D standards will
enhance the applications --- and even
the OS --- you'll be using . . . . . . . 123
John Foust 3-D Steps Forward --- New 3-D standards
will enhance the applications --- and
even the OS --- You'll be using . . . . 123
Stan Miastkowski Weeding Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Stan Miastkowski Weeding Windows: Six new uninstaller
utilities take the pain and suffering
out of removing Windows applications . . 133
Ben Smith Short-Order Internet Access: Sun's Netra
and Performance Technology's Instant
Internet can both get your LAN onto the
Internet fast . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Ben Smith Short order Internet Access . . . . . . 139
Scott Higgs Software roundup: Windows to the
internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Scott Higgs Software Roundup: Windows to the
Internet: Five all-in-one packages make
it easy to get on the Internet, but not
without some bumps along the way . . . . 142
Steven Baker The power of X for Windows NT . . . . . 149
Steven Baker The Power of X for Windows NT:
Hummingbird's eXceed delivers native X
Window System to Windows NT . . . . . . 149
Rex Baldazo Color and a Pentium to Go: Toshiba's
T4900CT lightweight, low-voltage Pentium
powerhouse makes a great traveling
companion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Barry Nance A Whole Other Galaxy: quickly develop
object-oriented applications without the
shortcomings of high-level abstraction 155
Doug Tamasanis A Less Wobbly Wabi . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Doug Tamasanis A Less Wobbly Wabi: Wabi 2.0 makes Unix
more Windows-friendly . . . . . . . . . 159
Anonymous Lab report: 29 Switching hubs save the
bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Anonymous Lab Report: 29 Switching Hubs Save the
Bandwidth: Looking for more bandwidth?
Our BYTE/NSTL Lab rport describes how we
tested 29 Ethernet switching hubs. We
provide the data and the analysis ---
you make the choice. Store-and-Forwards;
Cut-Throughs; How We Tested; Hub
Glossary; Honorable Mentions; Dubious
Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Dick Pountain HP's Speedy RISC . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Dick Pountain HP's Speedy RISC: HP's PA-8000 employs
multiple function units and a radical
out-of-oder execution strategy aimed at
creating the fastest RISC yet . . . . . 175
Tom Thompson Copland: The Abstract Mac OS . . . . . . 177
Tom Thompson Copland: The Abstract Mac OS: The next
generation of Macintosh OS has been
delayed until early 1996 so that Apple
can implement a Hardware Abstraction
Layer --- which should help support a
Mac clone market . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Rick Grehan Casting Arrays --- Sometimes a wrong
answer to a programming problem leads
you to the right answer . . . . . . . . 179
Rick Grehan Casting Arrays: Sometimes a wrong answer
to a programming problem leads you to
the right answer . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Salvatore Salamone ISDN and Analog Access in One Package 181
Salvatore Salamone ISDN and Analog Access in One Package:
For users who need both an ISDN link and
a traditional analog phone line, the new
hybrid ISDN/analog modems may be the
perfect solution . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Windows 95 Arrives . . . . . 183
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Windows 95 Arrives: Windows
95 comes to Chaos Manor, and Jerry gets
yet another lesson in networking . . . . 183
Anonymous What's New --- AST Research's Ascentia
950N notebook offers full-motion video
and graphics; Xerox improves the OCR
accuracy in TextBridge Professional
Edition 3.0; ViewSonic's 15GA and 17GA
monitors include built-in speakers; and
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Anonymous What's New: AST Research's Ascentia 950N
notebook offers full-motion video and
graphics. Xerox improves the OCR
accuracy in TextBridge Professional
Edition 3.0; ViewSonic's 15GA and 17GA
monitors include built-in speakers; and
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Arun Mehta Commentary: Radio Free Usenet . . . . . 242
Arun Mehta Commentary: Radio Free Usenet:
Broadcasting Usenet can help avoid the
problems of cost and censorship . . . . 242
Raphael Needleman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters --- Huzzahs for heuristics, plus
comments on mobile computing . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Videoconferencing's Achilles' Heels ---
Videoconferencing won't be used widely
in business until two things change:
interoperability improves and ISDN
becomes more available . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Hot Chips, Tough Choices --- A new wave
of multimedia processors will rely
heavily on software support . . . . . . 25
Anonymous Apple's New Multimedia Macs --- At
Boston MacWorld Expo this August, Apple
is expected to introduce a new line of
Power Macs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous 3.5 Will Get You 100 --- Two
technologies are vying to become the
next 3.5-inch floppy drive standard for
holding 100 MB or more . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous BBSes to Provide Local Web Access ---
BBS software vendors are bringing Web
capabilities to their products . . . . . 30
Anonymous WinSock 2 Enhances Connectiviy --- The
new WinSock promises to liberate network
applications from dependency on a single
transport protocol . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Blue Laser, Bright Future --- Recent
breakthroughs in blue laser diodes and
blue LEDs portend higher-capacity CD-ROM
discs and brighter projection displays 34
Anonymous Color Lasers: Faster, Easier, Cheaper
--- A second generation of color laser
printers is due soon . . . . . . . . . . 40
Dennis Barker Blasts from the Past --- Highlights from
two decades of the PC revolution . . . . 41
Rowland Aertker Books and CD-ROMs: Big Blue: An
Insider's View --- An insider's look at
IBM's history, and information
technology reports on CD-ROM . . . . . . 45
Peter Wayner Machine Learning Grows Up --- What's the
difference between Elwood and Jake? The
right algorithm can tell you . . . . . . 63
David S. Linthicum The End of Programming --- It's over.
Finis. Kaput. You'll never have to write
another line of code ever again. Yeah.
Right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Edmund X. Dejesus Solutions Focus: Big OOP, No Oops ---
Moving to object-oriented development
can be like diving into shark-infested
waters. GTE took the plunge. Here's what
happened . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Alan Joch Herd Instincts --- Groupware's technical
problems are huge, but they're being
solved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
David Marshak Competing Platforms --- now do Notes,
Exchange, and GroupWise compare today?
How will they compare tomorrow? . . . . 84
David Yavin Replication's hst (??) Track ---
Large-scale data replication becomes
less daunting with the right scheduling
and systems management. Light at the End
of the Tunnel, or an Oncoming Train?
Strained Relations. How Exchange Handles
Replication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Kelly Trammell Under Construction --- Have pity on
groupware developers. They've got some
serious problems to deal with. Doin' the
LN:DI. Telephony's Wake-Up Call . . . . 93
Jon Udell Live wire --- BYTE's new 56-Kbps link to
the Internet sparks concern over public
versus private IP addressing . . . . . . 103
Tom Thompson Building the Better Virtual CPU --- How
Apple revved up its 680x0 emulator . . . 149
Salvatore Salamone Novell Builds a NEST. Novell's vision of
pervasive computing requires NetWare to
move beyond traditional networked
computers. Embedded Systems Technology
brings NetWare to the broader market for
controllers and embedded devices . . . . 151
Kevin Thompson PostScript Sins --- Errors in PostScript
files are becoming painfully plentiful.
Here are some of the most common ones 153
Salvatore Salamone Merging ATM and Ethernet --- Combining
ATM switches with Ethernet switching
hubs economically increases network
bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Windows 95 Pastiche --- Jerry
continues to pry the seams of Windows 95 159
Anonymous What's New --- Gateway 2000's 133-MHz
Pentium PC is a tower of multimedia
power; PhoneKits turns your PC into a
personal phone manager; plus more . . . 168
Nick Baran Commentary: Stop, Look, and Listen! Just
because you can put it on-line doesn't
mean people want it . . . . . . . . . . 218
Raphael Needleman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous P6 Weakness Revealed . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous PC Power Comes to the Calculator . . . . 25
Anonymous Delphi and VB Turn 32 . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous New 486 Chips Deliver Inexpensive Power 30
Anonymous Interactive Music Videos Arrive for Macs
and PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Tom Thompson and
Alan Joch and
Rich Friedman Books and CD-ROMs: How to Optimize Your
PowerPC Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Anonymous Assets on the Line Salvatore/Salamone 37
S. Salamone Assets on the line (computer asset
management) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--38, 40
Jeffrey Fritz You Can Take It with You . . . . . . . . 41
Russell Kay Collision! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
James Burton Standard Issue . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
J. Burton Standard issue (computer telephony
integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201--204, 206, 208
Anonymous Strategic Industry Alliances . . . . . . 203
Anonymous A Checklist for Making CTI Decisions . . 206
James Burton Building Telephony Applications . . . . 211
John P. Mello, Jr. Telephony's Killer App . . . . . . . . . 215
Anonymous Wildfire: One Wild and Not-So-Crazy
Helper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Jon Udell Web Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Anonymous Convenience, but at What Price? . . . . 229
George Bond Gateways to the Internet . . . . . . . . 229--231
Anonymous MSN: Desktop Internet . . . . . . . . . 231
Edmund X. Dejesus Presentation Quality . . . . . . . . . . 233
E. X. DeJesus Presentation quality (IBM ThinkPad
755CV) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Barry Nance Networking at Warp Speed . . . . . . . . 235
Tom Thompson To Print a Rainbow . . . . . . . . . . . 239
T. Thompson To print a rainbow (colour laser
printers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239--240
Greg Loveria 3-D Graphics Go Zoom . . . . . . . . . . 243--244
Anonymous Lab Report: 16 Fast, Reliable RAID
Subsystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
M. Guy 16 fast, reliable RAID subsystems . . . 248--252, 254, 256, 259--261
Anonymous How Error Corrections works . . . . . . 250
Anonymous File Servers with RAID . . . . . . . . . 252
Anonymous How we tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Anonymous Software RAID Solutions . . . . . . . . 256
Anonymous Helpful Hints . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Anonymous Honorable Mentions . . . . . . . . . . . 259
William Stallings Endian Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Dick Pountain The Joy of J . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Doug Tamasanis Springtime at Sun . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Jeffrey Fritz Tuning In to ISDN . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Of COM Ports and Digital
Frogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Anonymous What's New . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Douglas Engelbart Commentaly: Dreaming of the Future . . . 330
Raphael Needleman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Letters --- Readers write about our
coverage of Windows 95, Microsoft, OS/2,
and RAD; an Amiga update; and more . . . 20
Anonymous Coming A Better Multimedia Platform ---
Several multimedia components for Win 95
won't be available for months . . . . . 21
Anonymous Intel's Rivals Ready to Exploit P6
Weakness --- Intel's rivals say their
next chips will be better than the P6
running 16-bit software . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous New Replication Options in Access,
Oracle, and Notes --- Access for Windows
95 acquires a compelling feature . . . . 30
Anonymous Run-Time Error Checking Comes to
Compilers --- Borland, Microsoft, and
Nu-Mega are . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous We Plugged, but They Didn't All Play ---
Tests of several new Plug and Play
devices show that unless you have all
the required pieces in your system, you
can expect to do a lot of work . . . . . 36
Anonymous Radio Comes to Cyberspace --- A new era
in broadcasting begins on the Internet 46
Anonymous 3-D Images That Float in Air --- A new
system can project images from a PC so
that they appear to be solid objects
suspended in air . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Dennis Barker and
Jeff Macclay Books and CD-ROMs: Working in the Code
Mine: A novel about working at
Microsoft. Plus, a Marilyn Monroe CD-ROM 49
Tom R. Halfhill The New PC --- Despite faster and faster
chips, today's PC is basically
yesterday's AT. But that's about to
change. Here are the technologies that
will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous ATX Motherboards . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Intel and Microsoft: The Agents of
Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Anonymous Archistrat 4s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous 120-MB Disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Anonymous Integrated Telephony . . . . . . . . . . 64
Andrew W. Davis Face to Face --- Videoconferencing
systems from different vendors can now
wor together, thanks to the H.32x
standard. Plus, some products that let
you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Peter Wayner Picking the Crypto Locks --- With
today's hardware and a new technique
called differential cryptanalysis. it's
getting easier for data burglars to
crack your safe. What can you do to keep
them out? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Factoring in Public-Key's Future . . . . 78
Salvatore Salamone Olympic-Size Data Pool --- Athletes
aren't the only ones in training for the
Olympic Games in Atlanta. Technology
jocks have been running around to set 80
Edmund X. Dejesus Data Mining --- There's gold in those
hills of data . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Sara Reese Hedberg The Data Gold Rush --- Here's how
corporations, researchers, and
scientists are using data-mining
techniques to discover everything from
new customers to new galaxies . . . . . 83
Karen Watterson A Data Miner's Tools --- You can dig it
with query-and-reporting programs,
multidimensional analysis software, and
intelligent agents . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Anonymous Index to Advertisers by Inquiry Reply
Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96A
Cheryl D. Krivda Data-Mining Dynamite --- Supercharge
your data-mining projects with data
cleansing, data warehouses, parallel
processing, and mega-storage . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Data-Warehouse Construction Tips . . . . 102
Jon Udell BOMB's Away --- How we built a Web-based
survey to get feedback from readers. And
how you can turn your Web server into an
application server that connects you to
customers, suppliers, and business
partners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Anonymous Anatomy of the Web BOMB . . . . . . . . 106
Stanford Diehl Windows 95: The Numbers --- The new
Windows architecture delivers enhanced
performance, but as BYTE testing
reveals, there are strings attached . . 113
Stanford Diehl Applications 95 Arrive --- Programs that
make Windows 95 worth the wait . . . . . 117
Tom Thompson Power Mac Gets PCI --- Apple's Power Mac
9500 delivers great performance and the
promise of fast, low-cost PCI
peripherals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Kenneth M. Sheldon Au Revoir, Mon Ami --- Ami Pro gets a
major upgrade, new workgroup features,
and a new name, Word Pro . . . . . . . . 127
Alan Morgan and
Scott Wallace Digital Cameras for Real Work --- New
digital cameras from Apple, Kodak, and
Logitech find a balance between price
and image quality . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Rick Grehan Let's Get Small --- A remarkably
complete embedded development system . . 133
Rex Baldazo and
David Essex and
Stan Miastkowski Software Roundup: Industrial-Strength
Fax Servers --- After some hair-pulling,
teeth-gnashing installations, we test
network-based faxing software that can
handle the heavy loads of a workgroup 137
Trevor Marshall and
John Davey Is There a GLINT in Your Future? ---
3Dlabs' chip produces fast 3-D graphics.
Here's how it does those dazzling
displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Shashi Prasad Weaving a Thread --- Solaris and Windows
NT bring the power, speed, and
efficiency of multithreading and
symmetric multiprocessing to the desktop 173
Alexander Stepanov The Standard Template Library --- How do
you build an algorithm that is both
generic and efficient? . . . . . . . . . 177
Stephen Cobb Internet Firewalls --- An industry group
is attempting to bring order to
firewalls, demand for which is spurred
by intrusions, building real-time error 179
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Death Swoops and Upgrades ---
Jerry witnesses several test flights.
First the DC/X spacecraft, and then a
new Pentium, a new hard drive, and
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Anonymous What's New --- Apple's PowerBook 5300c
combines RISC processing power with
great battery life; Intuit's QuickBooks
Pro manages your business finances; plus
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Anonymous BUYER's GUIDE --- Mail Order.
Hardware/Software Showcase. Buyer's Mart 201
Anonymous Index to Advertisers by Product Category 246
Jacques Leslie Commentary: Ambiguity Machines ---
Computers are better at poetry than
mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Raphael Needleman Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Letters --- Readers write about our
anniversary edition, OS/2, RAD, the BYTE
Web site, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous P6 Expands PC Spectnum --- Thought the
first P6 systems would be big servers,
did you? Many companies are actually
preparing to ship desktop boxes first,
some for less than USD4000 . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous End Migration Headaches --- Upgrading
from NetWare 3.x to NetWare 4.x can be
less painful with these NDS migration
utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Still a Work in Progress --- Windows 95
brings benefits to network managers, but
some of the best stuff is yet to come 34
Anonymous Flat Displays Squeeze Bulky CRTs --- Big
screens, small space-coming soon to a
desktop near you . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Phone Lines Stymie V.34 Modems --- That
spiffy new V.34 modem may feel like a
station wagon instead of a turbocharged
racer. Here's why . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous CodeTalk: Watcom C/C++ Gets Visual ---
The new version of one of Rick Grehan's
favorite compilers offers a much more
visual development environment . . . . . 47
Anonymous Vendors Rally for 64-Bit Unix --- The
list of backers is impressive, but we
might not see the results of a new
64-bit Unix initiative for a couple
years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Anonymous Bank Robbers Go Electronic --- Citibank
admits it's been robbed, but the alleged
crooks use PCs, not shotguns . . . . . . 48
Caren D. Potter Kaboom, Inc --- Whether it's a factory
explosion or James Dean's fatal car
crash, the computer-toting detectives
from Failure Analysis find out what went
wrong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
John Montgomery and
Edmund X. Dejesus and
Jeff Macclay Books and CD ROMs: Batlle of the Sexes,
Part II --- The confusion of a digital
culture, computer ``minds,'' and two
CD-ROMs on getting back to nature . . . 49
Paul Korzeniowski Needle Hunting --- You can't tell the
baseball players without a scorecard.
And you can't find network users without
a directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Anonymous X.500: The Once and Future Answer . . . 52
Udo Flohr Hyper-G Organizes the Web --- This could
be the next big thing on the Web: a new
hypermedia architecture that makes it
easier to find what you're looking for 59
Anonymous Why the Web Won't Work . . . . . . . . . 60
John R. Vacca Faking It, Then Making It --- Simulation
software helped design production flow
in Siemens Solar's new clean room . . . 66
Anonymous Learn by Doing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Operating Systems --- Hot new
developments in the software that runs
the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Smooth Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous OS Paradise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Filling in Windows Blanks . . . . . . . 103
Anonymous Not That DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Anonymous Sincere OS Flattery . . . . . . . . . . 119
Anonymous Inquiry Reply Cards . . . . . . . . . . 122
Anonymous OO Meets OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Anonymous And One for All . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Anonymous Crashing the Party . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Alan Joch Heartthrobs --- The next generation of
processors are guaranteed to get your
heart, and your computer, pumping . . . 169
Tom R. Halfhill and
John Montgomery Chip Fashion --- You ain't seen nothing
yet. New multimediachips, appearing in
products next year, will power
eye-popping graphics . . . . . . . . . . 171
Dick Pountain and
Tom R. Halfhill CPU Scorecards --- Technical details on
nine next-generation chips, including
three Intel challengers from AMD, Cyrix,
and NexGen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Anonymous MIPS' next generation: R10000 . . . . . 190--190
Linley Gwennap Why the 615 Matters --- Here's our
design for how IBM could build a PowerPC
chip that runs x86 software . . . . . . 198
Anonymous Alternate Views of the 615 . . . . . . . 200
Anonymous RFC 1597 Revisited . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Jon Udell Global Groupware --- BYTE implements the
virtual press room, a Web archive where
companies can publish press releases and
users can find out about the latest
products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Anonymous NT Roars on the 604 --- Our tests of new
systems from Austin Direct, IBM, and
Motorola show that the PowerPC 604 chip
makes for a mean Windows NT workstation 209
Anonymous Alpha Stays Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Barry Nance Enterprise Database Managers --- The
latest versions of DB2\slash 2, Oracle,
and SQL Server are strong enough to
support a business, but they differ in
reliability and scalability . . . . . . 213--214, 216
John Montgomery Organization Made Loud and Clear ---
NetManage's ECCO Pro 3.0 offers clever
OLE 2.0 integration and a compelling
outline metaphor for the
organizationally challenged . . . . . . 217--218
Steve Gillmor Storming the Enterprise --- Microsoft
bolsters Visual Basic 4.0 with
distributed-object technology and
enhanced OLE automation. But, as our
reviewer explains, not all objects are
alike . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Rex Baldazo and
Rick Grehan and
Dave Rowell Sudden Darkness --- When the lights go
out, which uninterruptible power supply
is going to keep your network running?
We test 31 UPS models to find the best 227
R. Baldazo and
R. Grehan and
D. Rowell Sudden darkness (uninterruptible power
supplies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227--231
David Seachrist Software Roundup: Virtual Whiteboards
--- Desktop-conferencing ---
whiteboarding --- software is often a
more viable solution than
videoconferencing. BYTE and NSTL pick
the best from seven Windows programs . . 233
D. Seachrist Virtual whiteboards (desktop
conferencing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233--234, 236--237
Anonymous Lab Report: 12 Network Printers Set the
Pace --- We test networked laser
printers with fast engines, built-in
Ethernet, large paper capacities, long
life, and security features . . . . . . 238
Anonymous Test: 16-to 20ppm Printers . . . . . . . 241
Anonymous Test: 30 to 32-ppm Printers . . . . . . 243
Anonymous Honorable Mentions/Dubious Achievement 244
Anonymous Network-Printer-Management Software . . 244
Anonymous How We Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Anonymous Roll Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Dick Pountain PixelFlow: Scalable Image Processing ---
This new chip architecture takes an
innovative approach to generating
photo-realistic images. Here's how this
rapid renderer works . . . . . . . . . . 249
Mark Feniello Open(ing) VMS to Win32 --- Adding Win32
support to Digital's OS means good news
for developers: They can build for both
OpenVMS and NT machines . . . . . . . . 251
Shashi Prasad Windows NT Threads --- A multithreaded
application may actually run slower on
an SMP machine than on its
single-threaded equivalent. Here's how
to avoid that . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Rex Baldazo ATM with a Twist of LAN --- ATM must
interoperate with legacy systems,
especially LANs. LAN Emulation might do
the trick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Digital Models --- Jerry
returns from SIGGRAPH, explores
mountains of CD-ROMs and, yes, manages
to find one more problem with Windows 95 257
Anonymous What's New --- Intel's newest OverDrive,
which is faster and less expensive than
the company's first Pentium OverDrive,
is a bargain upgrade; askSam is . . . . 262
Ted Nelson Commentary: Things to Come --- The
inventor of hypertext makes his
forecasts on the future of computing and
the human race . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Raphael Needleman Editorial: The Butterfly Effect . . . . 10
Rick Dobson Access 95 Advances Database Design ---
Microsoft's new version of Access gets
more than just the Windows 95 look.
Replication technology helps coordinate
changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Groupware Taps the Internet --- The
planned merger between Netscape and
Collabra will result in a Notes-killer
of an application, some say . . . . . . 24
Anonymous BYTEmark Bug Bashed --- An update to our
tests of the P6 chip . . . . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous New Suites Embrace the Web --- Software
houses are adding much more to their
Windows communications programs than
just data comm and fax . . . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous New Suites Embrace the Web --- Terminal
emulation is dead. Well, not quite. But
vendors are adding much more to Windows
communications programs than just data
comm and fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous Tools Cover Big and Little Iron --- New
enterprise client/server programs
provide tools for writing applications
that span mainframes, workstations, and
personal computers . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Multimedia x86 CPUs Coming in 1996 ---
New x86 microprocessors will integrate
DSP functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Multimedia x86 CPUs Coming in 1996 ---
Thanks to upcoming chips with integrated
DSP functions, your next PC could be a
real smoker when it comes to running
mixed-media applications . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Memory Price Relief to Come in Late 1996
--- If you've been holding out for lower
prices before buying more memory, that
hungry little beastie inside your
Windows PC will have to wait a while for
its next feeding . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Wavelets Challenge MPEG, Fractals ---
Developers claim 300-to-1 compression 34
Anonymous CodeTalk: New Micro Focus Tool Converts
COBOL into Components --- Something old
--- COBOL --- meets something new ---
Windows 95--in Micro Focus's Visual
Object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Code Talk: New Micro Focus Tool Converts
COBOL into Components --- Organizations
with beaucoup lines of COBOL code can
now wrap it all in OLE controls and
bring it into the world of Windows . . . 36
Anonymous Books and CD-ROMs: How Microsoft Works
--- A wealth of detail on how Microsoft
operates; plus, a CD-ROM satire on bad
art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Alan Joch How Software Doesn't Work --- Bad code
can lead to disaster. Here's why there's
a software crisis. And here's what you
can do about it. (How to Build Reliable
Code p 50) (Make Quality Job 1 p 54) . . 48
Edmund X. Dejesus Manufacturing Data --- Big changes on
the factory floor. New technology for
data acquisition is changing the way
that manufacturing works . . . . . . . . 63
Jim Esch A Fine MES --- Manufacturing execution
systems unite factory computers from the
planning level to the machine level. (A
New Dimension in Bar Codes p 68) . . . . 67
J. Esch A fine MES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68, 70, 74, 76
Lawrence Gould If Al Ran the Zoo --- Ready to turn your
operation over to a bunch of algorithms?
Neural networks and fuzzy logic are
helping to control complex manufacturing
processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--83
Anonymous Keep the Data Moving --- Handy
Intel-based computers and PC Cards are
helping mobile data collectors who work
in rugged environments. Plus, tips on
buying a hand-held computer . . . . . . 87
Claire Tristram Keep the Data Moving --- With ruggedized
computers and PC Cards you can
computerize collection of data in the
factory or field. (Buying Rugged
Hand-Held Computers p 90) . . . . . . . 87--88, 90, 92, 94, 96
Salvatore Salamone Untangling Wireless --- Advice on
choosing the right technology and
service for your unplugged applications 96NA1
Anonymous Talking to Machines ---
``Wuzzatdoonear?'' Your PC might not
understand that question, but some
speech-recognition products would
recognize ``What's that doing here?'' 97
Judith Markowitz Talking to Machines --- Star Trek
officers talk to their computers. Here's
how we can, too. (Speech-Recognition
Products p 98) (Hidden Markov Models p
100) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous DragNET --- G-men use a network of
databases and POTS to track down public
enemies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Peter Wayner Solutions Focus: DragNET --- G-men get a
new weapon. The FBI's DNA database is
helping police nab suspects. (DNA by the
Numbers p 110) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous The BYTE Network Project: Perl Magic ---
Have you visited BYTE's Virtual Press
Room and wondered how we built it? . . . 115
Jon Udell Perl Magic --- Our Webmeister explains
the Perl and HTML programming tricks
under the hood of the new Virtual Press
Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Anonymous 3-D Action --- A look at the making of
two slick games for the Mac: Dark Forces
and Marathon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Anonymous 3-D Action --- The latest DOS and
Windows shoot'em-up games show how far
we've come since Battlezone . . . . . . 123
Rex Baldazo 3-D Action --- Three-dimensional games
have changed enormously since the days
of Atari Battlezone . . . . . . . . . . 123
Tom R. Halfhill Multimedia Masterpieces --- A look at
the technology behind the scenes of two
dazzling, movie-like adventures:
Phantasmagoria and Buried in Time . . . 129
Anonymous The Games People Write --- Microsoft's
new Game SDK takes some horror out of
designing for Windows 95 . . . . . . . . 135
John Montgomery The Games People Write --- Microsoft's
Win32 development kit will help make
designing games for Windows 95 a
less-scary adventure . . . . . . . . . . 135
Jerry Pournelle I'm Game --- All work and no play at
Chaos Manor? Not hardly . . . . . . . . 139
Anonymous Virtual CDs on the LAN --- CD-QuickShare
offers a cost-effective alternative to
hanging gangs of CD-ROM drives off your
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Rex Baldazo Virtual CDs on the LAN --- CD-QuickShare
speeds up your shared network CD-ROM
drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Anonymous 16 Pentiums High on Win 95 --- If you've
upgraded to Windows 95, you might want
one of these speed demons to go along
with it. We test the latest 120- and
133-MHz Pentium PCs . . . . . . . . . . 156
Anthony J. Lennon and
John McDonough Lab Repoet: 16 Pentiums High on Win 95
--- Can't get enough speed? We test the
latest 120-and 133-MHz Pentium machines
using new Windows 95-based benchmarks.
(120-MHz Pentiums p 158) (32-Bit
Performance Advantages p 158) (133-MHz
Pentiums p 160) (Triton-based Pentiums p
161) (Honorable Mentions p 161) (How We
Tested p 164) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Anonymous Web Publishing Made Easier --- A review
of Cyberleaf, HotMetal Pro, HTML
Assistant Pro, and Spider . . . . . . . 170
Rex Baldazo and
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Software Roundup: Web Publishing Made
Easier --- HTML authoring and editing
tools promise to make your documents
Web-ready in no time. But few live up to
their claims . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Anonymous The Penthouse Suite --- Forget the
Windows 95 hype for a while Office 95
really delivers: true 32-bit code, full
OLE 2 support, better integration, and a
great way to mix files from different
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Stan Miastkowski The Penthouse Suite --- Microsoft Office
95 moves up to true 32-bitness, provides
full OLE 2 support, and introduces the
Bindery for mixing data from different
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Anonymous Access 95 Advances Database Design ---
Combine the Windows 95 Briefcase with
Access 95's powerful replication
features and you can take your corporate
databases to the remotest places . . . . 181
Anonymous Symantec C++ Differences --- The latest
edition of Symantec's C++ package adds
network-distributable compiling and an
object-oriented editor. Version 7.2
ensures Windows compatibility via MFC
3.0, ODBC, and OLE 2 . . . . . . . . . . 183
Anonymous Symantec C++ Differences --- The new
edition of Symantec's C++ for the
Macintosh supports the PowerPC . . . . . 183
Raymond Ga Cote Symantec C++ Differences --- Symantec's
new object-oriented compiler lets you
distribute compilation jobs across the
network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Anonymous Systems Design in ObjecTime --- With
this modeling program, you can build an
object-oriented system from the top
down. ObjecTime runs on workstations
from Sun and Hewlett--Packard and the
IBM RS/6000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Mike Bienvenu Systems Design in Object Time ---
ObjecTime can reduce development time 189
Anonymous More RAM for Win 3 Holdouts --- If you
like Windows 3.x but not its memory
confusion, maybe it's time to buy one of
these RAM doublers . . . . . . . . . . . 191
John M. Goodman More RAM for Win 3 Holdouts --- Some RAM
doublers can help Windows 3.x manage
physical and virtual RAM. And some can't 191
Anonymous Data to the Nth Dimension --- This
drill-down info analyzer works with a
variety of DOS and Windows front ends,
including Excel and 1-2-3 . . . . . . . 193
Anonymous Data to the Nth Dimension --- You can
soup-up Excel for the Mac with the
high-end data-analysis and development
capabilities of Arbor's Essbase Analysis
Server 3.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Edmund X. Dejesus Data to the Nth Dimension --- Arbor
Software's Essbase adds multidimensional
analysis to familiar front ends, such as
Lotus 1-2-3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Anonymous The Better Virtual PC --- If you need to
run Windows applications but would
rather use a Power Mac, Soft-Windows 2.0
will let you do it . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Anonymous The Better Virtual PC --- Insignia
Solutions' SoftWindows 2.0 lets you run
DOS and Windows applications on your
Power Mac in a networked PC environment 195
Anonymous The Better Virtual PC --- SoftWindows
2.0 not only puts a 486 inside a Power
Mac; it gives DOS and Windows programs
access to the Mac's Ethernet port . . . 195
Tom Thompson The Better Virtual PC --- SoftWindows
2.0 puts a 33-MHz 486 inside your Power
Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Anonymous Pournelle: A New Mutation --- Jerry gets
a hesitation problem in his DOS word
processor. To solve it, he decides to
install his shrink-wrapped copy of
Windows 95. Adventure ensues . . . . . . 197
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: A New Mutation --- Jerry
provides advice for dodging a new breed
of virus and then returns to his
explorations of Windows 95 . . . . . . . 197
Anonymous Not Just Another Free Unix --- FreeBSD
can be used for everything from
commercial Internet service to a
home-desktop solution, running on
relatively inexpensive PC equipment . . 207
Jordan Hubbard Not Just Another Free Unix --- FreeBSD
is fast and open, it runs powerful
applications, and it won't cost you a
cent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Tom Thompson Two Turbocharged PowerPCs --- IBM and
Motorola rev up the 603 and 604 and
reduce their chips' hunger for power . . 209
Anonymous How to Build an Internet App --- Brett
Glass explains how to take a bit of
Visual Basic code, some knowledge of
Internet protocols, and build an on-line
application --- during your lunch break 211
Anonymous How to Build an Internet App --- Thanks
to the Net's protocol suite, it's not as
hard as you might think . . . . . . . . 211
Brett Glass How to Build an Internet App --- With a
bit of Visual Basic code, the author
builds his own weather channel in a
flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Anonymous Untangling Fast Ethernet Cables --- This
faster standard will run over a variety
of wires. We help you sort them out . . 213
Paul Cunningham Untangling Fast Ethernet Cables --- The
Fast Ethernet standard specifies a
variety of cabling types used in
100-Mbps networks . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Anonymous What's New --- Previews of HP's CopyJet
color printer/copier and Delrina's
WinFax Pro for Windows 95 . . . . . . . 216
James Martin Commentary: CyberDavid Rocks Goliath ---
You don't have to be a giant to succeed 268
R. Mauth A consultant in your PC . . . . . . . . IS40/5--6, IS40/8, IS40/10--11
K. Gaida Interactive highway . . . . . . . . . . IS40/17--18, IS40/20
Raphael Needleman Editorial: Web Sites: Don't Blink . . . 10
Anonymous How the Web Will Change Computing . . . 24
Anonymous Intel Beats the Clock\ldots Again . . . 25
Anonymous Better Tools Reduce Clutter . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Higher Data Speeds Coming for Plain
Phone Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous PDA Vendors Improve PC Links . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Coming Thousands of Internet On-Ramps 36
Anonymous Code Talk: A Programmer Needs a Mais . . 38
Anonymous The Best of Comdex . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Tom R. Halfhill and
Rick Cook and
Jeff Macclay Books and CD-ROMs: Pentium Pin-Out
Signals and More . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Tom Thompson The World's Fastest Computers . . . . . 45--47, 50, 52, 54, 58, 62, 64
Tom R. Halfhill AMD K6 Takes On Intel P6 . . . . . . . . 67--68, 70, 72
Andrew Singleton Wired on the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78, 80
Cate T. Corcoran Installations: Unix Takes Off . . . . . 80
Alan Joch Killer Components . . . . . . . . . . . 81
David S. Linthicum Integration, Not Perspiration . . . . . 83--84, 86--88, 90, 92, 94, 96
Tom R. Halfhill and
Salvatore Salamone Components Everywhere . . . . . . . . . 97--98, 102, 104, 106
Jon Udell Server Management . . . . . . . . . . . 107--108, 110
Rick Grehan New Media Is the Message . . . . . . . . 113
R. Grehan New media is the message . . . . . . . . 113--114
Chandrika Mysore Lab Report: 20 Big-Picture Monitors . . 116
Stanford Diehl and
G. Armour Van Horn Sumo Graphics Giants Weigh In . . . . . 129--130, 132
David Essex and
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Self-Serve Information . . . . . . . . . 133
D. Essex and
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols Self-serve information [fax-on-demand] 133--134, 136
D. Rowell 3-D without RISC . . . . . . . . . . . . 137--137
Ben Smith Ultrafast UltraSPARCs . . . . . . . . . 139--140
Dave Rowell Best Low-Cost Printer on the LAN . . . . 141
David S. Linthicum Power Tools for Data Drilling . . . . . 143--144, 146
Tadesse W. Giorgis Software Roundup: Tame the Network . . . 147
T. W. Giorgis Tame the network [network management
tools] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147--148, 150--151
Dick Pountain StrongARM Tactics . . . . . . . . . . . 153--154
Dan Thomsen and
Winn Schwartau Is Your Network Secure? . . . . . . . . 155
D. Thomsen and
W. Schwartau Is your network secure? . . . . . . . . 155--156
Justin Miller Clean Up: C++ Garbage Collection . . . . 157--158
Salvatore Salamone More Control, Fewer Headaches . . . . . 159--160
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Dead Chickens and Portable
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Anonymous What's New --- Gateway's Solo V120 is a
zippy little Win 95 notebook: Lotus
Approach 96 makes database work a
breeze; plus more . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Bruce F. Webster Commentary: The Real Software Crisis . . 218
Raphael Needleman Editorial: Not Till It Flies! . . . . . 10
Anonymous Win 95 Roars with Pentium-Class PCs . . 24
Anonymous PowerPCs Still a Spec on the Horizon . . 25
Anonymous Web Forces Change . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous Alternative Input Spells Relief . . . . 26
Anonymous Notebooks Take on Rugged Challenges . . 30
Anonymous Au Revoir, Overheads . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Home PC Sales Pass Peak . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Year 2000 Promises Strange Days Ahead 36
Anonymous Code Talk: Add Spreadsheets, Charting to
Programs with Ease . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous New Docks Improve Commuter Computers . . 38
Anonymous Coming Faster, Cheaper Optical Data
Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
John Montgomery and
Rick Grehan Books and CD-ROMs: Take Home ---
Takedown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous 1995 Editors' Choice Awards . . . . . . 43
Edmund X. Dejesus Toss Your TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--54, 56, 60, 62, 64
Anonymous Get Real-time . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Anonymous We Don't Need No Stinking Computers . . 54
Anonymous Playing MIME Games . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous Anyone Connected to the MBone? . . . . . 60
Anonymous AT and T Paradyne's Bandwidth Revolution 60
Anonymous Tour the Sites and Sounds . . . . . . . 62
Tom R. Halfhill Agents and Avatars . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70, 72
Christine White Installations: DMV Hits Pothole . . . . 72
Salvatore Salamone Merging Voice and Data . . . . . . . . . 73
Salvatore Salamone ISDN: Give Up and Go? . . . . . . . . . 75--76, 78, 80
Nathan Muller Dial 1-800-Internet . . . . . . . . . . 83--84, 86, 88
Christine Heckart and
Beth Gage Voice Gets Framed . . . . . . . . . . . 89--90, 92, 94, 96
Anonymous Net Programming for the Masses . . . . . 101
P. Wayner Net programming for the masses . . . . . 101--102, 104
Anonymous Stack Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
S. Salamone Stack attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106, 108
Anonymous Windows without Walls . . . . . . . . . 109
D. Haskin Windows without walls . . . . . . . . . 109--110, 112, 114, 116
Anonymous SunSoft's Object Lesson . . . . . . . . 117
J. Montgomery Sunsoft's object lesson . . . . . . . . 117--120, 122
T. Yager Linux matters . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123--124, 126--128
Jon Udell Damn Lies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Jim Kane and
John McDonough Lab Report: 18 Graphics Cards Quick on
the Draw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
J. Kane and
J. McDonough 18 graphics cards quick on the draw . . 142--145, 148, 150--151
Anonymous The Best in Ultrafast Graphics Adapters 144
Anonymous MPEG: Pay for Play . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Anonymous Diamond's New Edge . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Anonymous Elsa Incorporates Glint Chip for
Accelerated 3-D . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Anonymous How We Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Selinda Chiquioine and
Dave Rowell Pentium Pro Makes NT Fly . . . . . . . . 155
S. Chiquoine and
D. Rowell Pentium Pro makes NT fly . . . . . . . . 155--156, 158, 160, 162
Steve Gillmor Enter the NetWare Impostor . . . . . . . 163
Andrew Froning CD-ROM Has a New MO . . . . . . . . . . 165
Raymond Ga Cote OpenDoc: Small Is Beautiful . . . . . . 167
R. Ga Cote OpenDoc: small is beautiful . . . . . . 167--168
Peter D. Varhol OOP from the Guy Who Wrote the Book . . 169--170
Kelly Trammell Prospero's Magic Application Integrator 173--174
George V. Kinal Where on Earth am I? [GPS] . . . . . . . 175--176, 178
David Seachrist Software Roundup: Desktop Publishing
Photo Finish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
D. Seachrist Desktop publishing photo finish . . . . 179--180, 182, 184
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: SuperCow on the Beach . . . . 185
Kurt Westerfeld Extending the OS/2 Interface . . . . . . 193
K. Westerfeld Extending OS/2's user interface . . . . 193--194
Tom Thompson An Alpha in PC Clothing . . . . . . . . 195--196
Dick Pountain What's the Future of Dylan? . . . . . . 197--198
Bob Schoettle IP Address Management on LANs . . . . . 199
B. Schoettle IP-address management on LANs . . . . . 199--200
Anonymous What's New --- Previews of a pointing
device and AT and T's PC Phone, as well
as lots of new hardware and software . . 202
Wade Riddick Commentary: From Copyrights to
Telerights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
A. Hars Organizing Babylon . . . . . . . . . . . IS40/11--12, IS40/14, IS40/16, IS40/18
B. Emmerson and
D. Greetham GSM's extraordinary growth . . . . . . . IS40/21--22, IS40/24
Raphael Needleman Editorial: Keep Your Eye Off the Ball 12
Anonymous Virtual Reality Goes to Work . . . . . . 26
Anonymous New Batteries Will Keep You Running . . 27
Anonymous Multimedia Tools Animate the Web . . . . 28
Anonymous I'll Talk to You Soon . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous On-line Shoppers: ``Just Looking,
Thanks'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Get Smart --- Wear a PC . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Codetalk: Symantec Pours Java into Its
Development Environment . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Users Like SmartSuite's Team Computing 38
Anonymous Finally,Push-Button PDA-to PC
Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Dave Andrews and
Tom Thompson and
Rowland Aertker Books and CD-ROMs: The Future, According
to Bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Tom R. Halfhill Inside the Web PC . . . . . . . . . . . 44--48, 50, 52, 54, 56
Anonymous Four Key Technologies . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Inside the Pippin . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Udo Flohr Put the space in cyberspace [Virtual
Reality Markup Language] . . . . . . . . 61--62, 64
Salvatore Salamone Opening PBX Doors . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Salvatore Salamone Make Multimedia Happen . . . . . . . . . 65
Salvatore Salamone What's the Story? . . . . . . . . . . . 67
S. Salamone What's the story? [multimedia project
development] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68, 70
Nathan J. Muller Multimedia over the Network . . . . . . 73--74, 76--78, 80, 82
Robert A. Delrossi Learn the Lingo . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
R. A. Delrossi Learn the lingo [multimedia authoring
tools] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86, 88, 90
Jon Udell Web Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Rex Baldazo Navigating with a Web Compass . . . . . 97--98
Russell Kay Big, Bright, and Beautiful . . . . . . . 101--102
Bill Lawrence NetWare Mirror with a Twist . . . . . . 103--104
Stanford Diehl The Paperless Cubicle . . . . . . . . . 107--108
Rick Grehan Compiling Convenience + . . . . . . . . 109--112
Chris O'Malley CD-ROM changers: the inside story . . . 113--114
Tom Yager Windows --- built for Unix power . . . . 115--116
Mark Hettler Software Roundup: Smart Forms for the
Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
M. Hettler Smart forms for the enterprise . . . . . 119--120, 122--123
Chandrika Mysore and
Brent Melson 6 Servers Tangle on the Web . . . . . . 124--128, 130, 132--133
Anonymous BYTE Best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous Netscape's Navigator 2.0 Adds? Security
and Interactive Multimedia . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous Honorable Mentions . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Anonymous Service Instead of Server? . . . . . . . 128
Anonymous How We Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: An Upgrade for Mrs Pournelle 137
Paul Fillinich Plan 9: Feature Film to Feature-Rich OS 143--144
Tom Yager Bringing Benchmarks Up to SPEC . . . . . 145--146
Rick Grehan Bug-Free Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . 149--150
Salvatore Salamone Internet-Aware Applications - . . . . . 151--152
Anonymous What's New --- Apple's QuickDraw 3D
Accelerator Card promises more realistic
3-D imagery: Lotus cc:Mail for Macintosh
Release 3 helps you automate handling;
plus more new hardware and software . . 154
Curtis Franklin, Jr. Commentary: Oh, Grow Up . . . . . . . . 216
Rapahel Needleman Editorial: But Sir, I Have No
Pornograph! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous First Web PCs Arrive . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Java Chips Boost Applet Speed . . . . . 25
Anonymous R5000 Cuts 3-D Cost . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous New CPUs Signal Bener Multimedia PCs . . 30
Anonymous New NT to Offer Win 95 Look, Internet
Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Phar Lap's Embeddable Kernel . . . . . . 38
Rex Baldazo and
Stanford Diehl and
Rich Friedman Books and CD-ROMs: Baby's First Java
Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Tom Thompson When Silicon Hits its Limits --- What's
next? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous Creating Holographic Storage . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Whatever Happened to Josephson
Junctions? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Kelly Trammell Work Flow Without Fear . . . . . . . . . 55
Dick Pountain The Word on VLIW . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
David W. Baum Installations: When COBOL Is Cool . . . 64
Edmund X. Dejesus The Middleware Riddle . . . . . . . . . 65
John R. Rymer The Muddle in the Middle . . . . . . . . 67
Salvatore Salamone Middle(ware) Management . . . . . . . . 71
John Kador The Ultimate Middleware . . . . . . . . 79
Jon Udell E-Mail Adventures . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Andrew Singleton A Hot Cup of Java . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Steve Gillmor Notes 4.0: Now It's Webware . . . . . . 133
S. Gillmor Notes 4.0: now it's Webware . . . . . . 133--136
Peter Wayner E-Mail Without Wires . . . . . . . . . . 138--139
Peter Wayner Hey Baby, Call Me at My IP Address . . . 142
Anonymous Inquiry Reply Cards . . . . . . . . . . 144
Ben Smith Holes in the Neural Network . . . . . . 145
Brett Glass Visual Toolkits for Audio Apps . . . . . 147
G. Armour Van Horn One Gig to Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Tadesse W. Giorgis Software Roundup: Big Decision: Warp vs.
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Jim Kane and
John McDonough Lab Report: 13 Notebooks with Video
Muscle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
J. Kane and
J. McDonough 13 notebooks with video muscle . . . . . 158--162, 164, 166--167
Anonymous BYTE BEST . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Anonymous Zoom in on High-Quality Video . . . . . 162
Anonymous How We Tested . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: The Fragrant and the Foul . . 169
John Hyde How to Make Pentium Pros Cooperate . . . 177
Tom Thompson How Copland Communicates . . . . . . . . 179
Terry Frederick Windows NT Event Logging . . . . . . . . 183
Jeffrey Fritz and
Salvatore Salamone Marrying ISDN to the OS . . . . . . . . 185
Anonymous What's New --- Sys Technology's 200-MHz
Performance Pro 200 workstation proves
that two disks are better than one: the
latest version of Symantec's Act! gives
Psion 3A users contact management and
scheduling capabilities: plus more new
hardware and software . . . . . . . . . 187
Bob Logue Commentary: A Word Is Worth a Thousand
Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Raphael Needleman Editorial: While You're Waiting for the
Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous New PCs Improve Your Image . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous Inside the Ultimate Web Site . . . . . . 26
Anonymous On-Line Information Services Deliver
Disaster Recovery for Small Business . . 30
Michael Shoffner Java's Busting Out All Over . . . . . . 32--32
Anonymous Better Replication Coming for Databases 36
Anonymous Code Talk: Write Windows 95 Virtual
Device Drivers on Higher Ground . . . . 38
Anonymous WordPerfect Losing Ground to Microsoft 38
Anonymous Watch Out: 500-MHz PowerPCs Planned for
1997 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Books and CD-ROMs: The Art of Software
Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Tom R. Halfhill Which side are you on? . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Unix vs. NT: The (Edited) Vendors' View 44
Anonymous A Vote for Unix . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous A Vote for NT . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Unix vs. NT: Technical Head-to-Head . . 50
David S. Linthicum Make Voice Response Sing . . . . . . . . 53
Andrew W. Davis A DSP Sampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Salvatore Salamone The Lines Unleashed . . . . . . . . . . 57
Salvatore Salamone The New WAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Index to Advertisers by Inquiry Reply
Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Liza Henderson The Price of WAN Connectivity . . . . . 65
Lane F. Cooper Playing the ATM Card . . . . . . . . . . 71
Jon Udell Let's Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Perfect-Fit Portables . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous Reach Beyond Win 95 . . . . . . . . . . 91
Anonymous Stay Connected . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous Well-Connected PDAs . . . . . . . . . . 103
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Spinning the Corporate Web . . . . . . . 113
Robert L. Hummel Browse This Color Laser . . . . . . . . 119
Tom Thompson Newton Reborn . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Peter Wayner New Videophones Starved for Bandwidth 125
Steve Gilmor Reinventing SmartSuite . . . . . . . . . 131
Barry Nance Workgroups Dock at IR Port . . . . . . . 135
Peter Wayner Don't Lose Your Crypto Keys . . . . . . 137
David Seachrist Software Roundup: Help-Desk Helpers . . 138
Chandrika Mysore Lab Report: 16 Drives for Fast Data
Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle: Of Cables and Cards . . . . . 153
Tom R. Halfhill Mips R5000: Fast, Affordable 3-D . . . . 161
Rex Baldazo The Be-All of Operating systems . . . . 163
Alexandre Alves Parallel Computing --- Windows Style . . 169
Doug Anderson Fibre Channel: Fast and Flexible . . . . 173
Anonymous What's New --- The EpixPro digital
camera makes it easy to zap photos into
your PC; DeltaPoint's QuickSite software
lets you do your own Web pages . . . . . 176
Anonymous Buyer's Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Anonymous Alphabetical Index to Advertisers . . . 222
Anonymous Index to Advertisers by Product Category 224
Anonymous Editorial Index by Company . . . . . . . 226
Bob Emmerson Commentary: Wake-Up Call . . . . . . . . 228
N. Beard Doctors go on-line . . . . . . . . . . . 7--8
S. Tomkowiak and
P. Hofland A computer in your wallet . . . . . . . 11--12, 14, 16
Raphael Needleman BYTE's --- New Interface . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous We get mail about our Webserver review,
the future of computing, and our cover
story on the Web PC . . . . . . . . . . 19
M. LaPedus Future notebooks . . . . . . . . . . . . 19--20
Anonymous Pentium Pro Moves to the Desktop . . . . 26
Anonymous How Java Can Pay the Rent . . . . . . . 27
Anonymous IBM to Improve Enterprise Support in
OS/2 Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Anonymous A Road Map to Better Bandwidth . . . . . 27
Anonymous Tool Makers Take It to the Net . . . . . 31
Anonymous Portable Devices Highlight Best of CeBlT 32
Anonymous Codetalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Faster, Fatter CD-ROM Titles on Hold . . 46
Peter Wayner Crave the RAVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
Salvatore Salamone How to Put Mainframes on the Web . . . . 53--54
Tom Thompson Two, Two Chips in One! . . . . . . . . . 59--60
Rick Grehan VxDs in Windows 95 . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
Selinda Chiquoine NT Flies at 333 MHz . . . . . . . . . . 65--65
Susan Colwell Big picture, little box [NEC's LCD300
monitor] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--66
Stephen Satchell and
H. B. J. Clifford Internet Video: Small Isn't Beautiful 69--69
G. Armour Van Horn Apple's Desktop Replacement . . . . . . 70--70
Udo Flohr Electric Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--78, 80, 82, 84
Edmund X. DeJesus A Place for Everything . . . . . . . . . 88
E. X. DeJesus A place for everything [data storage] 88--89
Edmund X. DeJesus Irresistible Drives . . . . . . . . . . 91--96
Rick Cook The Way of All Flash . . . . . . . . . . 99--100, 102
Jason J. Hyon and
Michael D. Martin CD It for Yourself . . . . . . . . . . . 105--106, 108, 110, 112
Jim Kane and
Dorothy Hudson 12 Ink-Jet Printers for Quality Color 114--118, 120, 122--123
Mark Hettler New Leaders of the Client/Server
Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124--126, 128, 130
Jon Udell Web Conferencing . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Tom Thomson Must-See 3-D Engines . . . . . . . . . . 137
T. Thompson Must-see 3-D engines . . . . . . . . . . 137--138, 140, 142, 144
J. N. Fritz Building bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . 146--148, 150
Steven J. Vaughan- Nichols Exchange: E-mail on Steroids . . . . . . 153
S. J. Vaughan-Nichols Exchange: e-mail on steroids . . . . . . 153--154
Jerry Pournelle Pournelle --- When D Equals E . . . . . 157
Anonymous What's New --- Pick your CPU for this PC 216
Anonymous Toys --- Virtual Reality . . . . . . . . 224
Anonymous Reader Service --- Inquiry Reply Cards 1
36A-D, 208 A-B . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
E. Gronert Global mobile communications . . . . . . IS40/6--8
B. Emmerson and
D. Greetham Teamwork on the net . . . . . . . . . . IS40/9--12
M. LaPedus Motherboards smarten-up . . . . . . . . IS40/13--17
Mark Schlack Triumphant Technologists . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Readers write ahout Unix and NT, the Web
PC, and how Microsoft blew it with ISDN 19
Anonymous Richer, Thinner Notebooks Arrive . . . . 26
Anonymous Geoprocessing Goes Prime Time . . . . . 27
Anonymous Better Images through Micromirrors . . . 28
Anonymous OpenDoc: A Better OLE Than OLE? . . . . 30
Anonymous Codetalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous ISDN: The Good, Bad, and Ugly . . . . . 32
Anonymous Ten Reasons to Buy Duplex Printers . . . 32
Anonymous RoboCop, Meet Robo Fire Fighter . . . . 34
Anonymous How NT 4.0 Merges Win APIs\ldots Right! 36
Anonymous HP Takes the Lead in Workstation
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Raymond Ga Cote The New OS in the Blue Box . . . . . . . 41
Rohit Khare The Next Big Thing on the Web . . . . . 42
William Zhao Solving the Chinese Puzzle . . . . . . . 47
Peter Wayner PDA Packs Power in Your Pocket . . . . . 48
Emily R. Vander Veer OpenDoc says OLE to developers
[operating systems] . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
Salvatore Salamone Life in the fast LANE [ATM application] 53--54
Tom R. Halfhill x86 Enters the Multimedia Era . . . . . 59--60
Barry Nance Diagnosing Token-Ring Ailments . . . . . 63
B. Nance Diagnosing token ring ailments . . . . . 63--64
Bill Roberts Groupware Strategies . . . . . . . . . . 68--72, 74, 76, 78
Alan Joch Brave New Interface Worlds . . . . . . . 80
Tonl R. Halfhill GUIs Get a Facelift . . . . . . . . . . 83--84, 86, 88, 90
Dick Pountain VR Meets Reality . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94, 96, 98
Alan Jock What Pupils Teach Computers . . . . . . 99
A. Joch What pupils teach computers . . . . . . 99--100
Jim Kane and
Dorothy Hudson and
J. McDonough and
M. Bender and
S. Colwell 5 Reliable Servers for Remote Access . . 102--108
Tadesse W. Giorgis Six Comm Programs That Speak Windows 95 110--114
Jon Udell Lessons Learned . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Anonymous NT Everywhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Anonymous 4.0 Isn't for Everyone . . . . . . . . . 121
D. S. Linthicum 4.0 isn't for everyone [Microsoft NT 4.0
release] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121--122, 124, 126
Anonymous NetWare: Fight or Switch? . . . . . . . 127
S. Gillmer NetWare: fight or switch? . . . . . . . 127--128, 130, 132
Anonymous NT and the Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
T. Yager NT and the Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133--134, 136
Anonymous NT Server's Growing Pains . . . . . . . 137
B. Nance NT Server's growing pains . . . . . . . 137--140
Tom Thompson The 1996 Readers' Choice Awards . . . . 145
Tom Thompson The Network in the Server . . . . . . . 151--154
Rex Baldazo Battle of the Web Site Builders . . . . 157--158
Rick Grehan Womb-to-Tomb C++ Development . . . . . . 159--160
Stanford Diehl Forging a new medium [Strata's
MediaForge 2.0 multimedia authoring
tool] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161--162
Anonymous Comments on Code --- Why C is a
disaster, and other ruminations on
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Anonymous Index To Advertisers by Alphabetical
Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Anonymous Index To Advertisers by Product Category 210
Anonymous Editorial Index by Company . . . . . . . 212
Anonymous Previews of an urban navigator and a
Macintosh ISDN pod . . . . . . . . . . . 214
Anonymous Digital Imagery --- New digital cameras
from Kodak and Polaroid . . . . . . . . 220
D. Pountain Best CASE scenario: choosing OO methods IS40/11--15
M. LaPedus Asian Internet fever . . . . . . . . . . IS40/16--20
Mark Schlack Weird, wacky, and wonderful . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Raders react to our stories on Unix vs.
NT and works flow, and write about
problems with the year 2000 . . . . . . 19
Anonymous New desktop standard: 200 MHz . . . . . 26
Anonymous Vendors Eye Internet telephony standard 27
Anonymous Stratus PC server Wins Best of COMDEX 28
Anonymous Java business applications arrive . . . 30
Anonymous Codetalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous How te create a network security policy 36
Anonymous Lower prices, modularity lead notebook
trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous The interviews: MOLAP,ROLAP, overlap . . 40
Selinda Chiquoine Mainstreaming Pentium Pro [Bravo MS-T
6200] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Rex Baldazo Navigator turns 3.0 . . . . . . . . . . 42--42
Dave Andrews ThinkPad Gets thin . . . . . . . . . . . 47
D. Andrews ThinkPad proves you can be too thin . . 47--47
Tom Thompson Move Aside, Mac . . . . . . . . . . . . 48--48
Jim Reynolds Air-tight Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . 51--52
William Stallings Patching the cracks in SNMP . . . . . . 55
W. Stallings Patching the stacks in SNMP . . . . . . 55--56
Tom Thompson The Power PC goes consumer . . . . . . . 59
T. Thompson The PowerPC goes consumer . . . . . . . 59--60
Jonathan Khazam and
Bev Bachmayer Programming strategies for Intel's MMX 63--64
Jon Udell Your Business Needs the Web . . . . . . 68--70, 72, 74, 76, 78, 80
Tom Thompson The elements of design . . . . . . . . . 80
Alan Joch Is ATM ready to catch fire? . . . . . . 82--83
Lane F. Cooper Are you ready for ATM? . . . . . . . . . 85--86, 88, 90
Alan Joch Virtually well connected . . . . . . . . 93--95
Barry Nance Teach your apps to speak ATM . . . . . . 97--101
Jim Kane and
Dorthy Hudson and
Maggi Bender LAB report: Hardware 12 tape libraries
for network backup . . . . . . . . . . . 102
J. Kane and
D. Hudson and
M. Bender 12 tape libraries for network backup . . 102--106, 109--111
David Seachrist and
Russel Kay LAB Report: Software --- Microsoft's
suite Victory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
D. Seachrist and
R. Kay Microsoft's suite victory [Office
95/Office Professional] . . . . . . . . 112--116
Rex Baldazo JavaScript adventures . . . . . . . . . 117
Rich Grace Beyond benchmarketing . . . . . . . . . 121
Robert L. Hummel Double-speed SCSI . . . . . . . . . . . 126
R. L. Hummel UltraSCSI doubles speed . . . . . . . . 126--128, 130
Mark Hettler SQL server: The Sequel's better . . . . 131--132
Jerry Pournelle Adieu, pentafluge\ldotshello, cyrus . . 133
Anonymous What's new --- A preview of AMD's
5K86-P75 CPU, plus a look at
Micro-Help's zip file utility . . . . . 182
Anonymous Web phones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Anonymous Reader Service --- Inquiry Reply Cards 1
28A-B, 21 2A-B . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
Mark Schlack Smart, Fast, and Well Connected . . . . 14
Anonymous INBOX --- BYTE readers sound off on
electric money, Internet commerce and
privacy, programming for Intel's MMX,
and praise the core of BYTE . . . . . . 19
Nelson H. F. Beebe Letter to the Editor: Web Lessons
Learned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 22
Anonymous Cyrix 6x86 vs. Pentium . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous SSA Drives Arrive . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Smarter Radar Detectors . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous BYTE's Best of PC Expo . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous New PowerMacs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Objects and the Web . . . . . . . . . . 36
Don Knuth Interview: Knuth Comments on Code . . . 40--40
Rex Baldazo Microsoft Catches Up with Netscape ---
Microsoft's latest Web browser matches
Netscape Navigator feature for feature,
plus adds some tricks all its own . . . 41
Russell Kay Adobe's Finally the Managing Type ---
Get unified font management on the Mac
and Windows PCs with Adobe's new ATM 4.0 42
Robert L. Hummel Quality Printing, Fast and Cheap ---
NEC's SuperScript 860 combines great
features with Adobe PrintGear technology
for good Windows performance in a
low-cost laser printer . . . . . . . . . 47
Barry Nance You Talk, Warp Listens --- Thanks to
VoiceType technology, you can tell the
new version of OS/2 where you want to go 48
Vik Sohal and
Mitch Bunnell A Real OS for Real Time --- LynxOS
provides a good, portable environment
for embedded applications . . . . . . . 51
William Stallings The New and Improved Internet Protocol
--- Additions to the Internet Protocol
ensure future growth and new functions 55
Andrew Shaw How PrintGear Works --- Adobe's custom
processor implements a print
architecture for high-performance,
low-cost laser printers . . . . . . . . 59
Peter Wayner Better Java Programming: Knowing how
Java's dynamic linking works can help
you improve a program's performance . . 63--64
Tom R. Halfhill Break the Bandwidth Barrier --- New
technologies will deliver an
unprecedented amount of speedy on-line
bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Edmund X. DeJesus Control Quality --- Maintaining software
quality when developing client/server
applications requires new tools--and new
concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Edward Yourdon When Good Enough Is Best --- When
designing client/server systems, ``good
enough'' is best, says the software guru 85
Charles D. Knutson Developing Quality --- Advice on
developing those scary distributed
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Stephen R. Quinn and
Muralidhar Sitaram Testing, Testing --- Simplify testing
client/server applications with
shrink-wrapped and custom tools . . . . 97
Maggi Bender and
Dorothy Hudson and
Jim Kane and
John McDonough 10 Multifunction Telephony Boards ---
NSTL tests all-in-one boards that let
you dial up, dial in, send faxes, browse
on- line, and do voice mail . . . . . . 104
Mark Hettler Serving Up Data on the Web --- We take a
close look at three Web-server programs
designed to deliver database access to
your browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Jon Udell Push Me, Pull You --- How to combine
e-mail push and Web pull with Next's
WebObjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous Convergence Strategies . . . . . . . . . 123
Anonymous Data's New Voice . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Anonymous Global Video Village . . . . . . . . . . 137
Anonymous Forms Follow Function --- Peter/Jerram
Electronic forms linked to Web front
ends could help replace those zillion
pieces of paper . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Dave Rowell and
Peter D. Varhol Powerhouse Pentium Pros --- We test the
fastest Intel boxes on Earth: 200-MHz
quad-Pentium Pro servers from ALR and
Compaq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Robert S. Hummel A High Five for the Latest LaserJet ---
Hewlett--Packard's LaserJet 5 is an
impressive workgroup/network printer . . 167
Jerry Pournelle A Little Taste of Crow --- Jerry tracks
down the real reason his new Cyrix
machine crashed and finds an answer in
an unexpected place . . . . . . . . . . 169
Anonymous de lorme's Map'n'Go makes an excellent
traveling companion; Gateway's newest
Pentium machine has more than just a
zippy CPU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
Dave Andrews Wearable Pentium --- What Claudia
Schiffer might wear while
troubleshooting a nuclear reactor . . . 228
Mark Schlack Wanted: New Software --- HTML converters
for five-year-old applications: Is this
the best we can hope for? . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous BYTE readers write about new server
architectures, Windows NT issues, MMX
programming, and ``free PCs'' . . . . . 19
Anonymous Tech-Support Software . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Aerial Telecommuting . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous New Face of Security . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous The Next Internet File System . . . . . 32
Anonymous Dirt-Cheap Color Printers . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Unix Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Network Cameras Go Mobile . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous Reader Service --- Inquiry Reply Cards 44A-44B, 200A-200B
Anonymous Entomophagous Bruce Brown . . . . . . . 48
Steve Gillmor Notes Opens Up to the Web --- Lotus
Domino delivers Notes databases to Web
clients and powerful tools to Notes
developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Peter Wayner XTerminal + Browser + Java = Web PC ---
HDS's (a) workStation is a lowcost box
for Web access, Java applets, and
Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
G. Armour Van Horn Road-Show Romance --- Proxima's Desktop
Projector 4100Z sets a new standard for
direct digital projection . . . . . . . 55
Selinda Chiquoine Alpha Learns to Do Windows --- Digital's
clever technology lets you run 32-bit
x86 code on an Alpha machine . . . . . . 56
Joseph J. Lazzaro Windows 95: Aiding the Disabled ---
Computer users with disabilities need
support from their OS to accomplish
tasks independently . . . . . . . . . . 59
William Stallings The Backbone of the Web --- HTTP 1.1 is
a much-needed standard for the growing
Internet. Here's what it does and how it
works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Tom Thompson The Server's Helper --- Intel's new i960
RP intelligent VO processor simplifies a
server's architecture while also
improving performance . . . . . . . . . 67
Rick Dobson Make Access and the Web Work Together
--- How to use Microsoft Access and ODBC
drivers to produce interactive Web pages
and on-line databases. notebooks are
expensive, but testing shows they're
worth it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Udo Flohr 3D for Everyone --- Coming soon to a
screen near you: low-cost 3-D graphics.
But first, some technical difficulties 76
Rick Grehan NT in Real Time --- Embedded-systems
developers can now add Windows NT to
their list of real-time OSes . . . . . . 88
Edmund X. DeJesus How to Tame Big Networks --- It's easier
when you use intelligent design,
simulation, and maintenance tools . . . 90
Nathan J. Muller Design and Conquer --- Intelligent tools
can validate your network design and
gauge its performance before you buy a
single piece of equipment . . . . . . . 93
Charles D. Knutson Building the Model Network --- Modeling
and simulation provide a cure for pain 101
Tim Wilson See the Big Picture --- Software that
helps manage mega-size networks . . . . 107
Maggi Bender and
Jim Kane and
John McDonough 19 Pentium Portables Do Multimedia ---
The current crop of Pentium . . . . . . 114
Robert L. Hummel Running on NT --- NT 4.0's Win 95
interface and leading-edge connectivity
features make for a valuable upgrade ---
but beware those nasty installation
glitches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Jon Udell Web Surveys --- With properly designed
forms, the Web becomes a valuable
resource for data collection . . . . . . 133
Tom R. Halfhill CDs for the Gigabyte Era --- Thanks to
DVD technology, next-generation optical
discs will hold 25 times more data than
current CD-ROMs . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Net Saviors --- Two backup products take
very different approaches to saving
network data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Volker Weber and
Hans-Jochen Schmitt Enterprise Visual Basic? Almost ---
ComUnity OT Framework, Siemens Nixdorf's
software for augmenting Visual Basic
with business logic and client/server
tools, falls short of its goal . . . . . 149
Rick Grehan A C++ Tool That Cures VB Envy ---
Drag-and-drop C++ programming doesn't
get any better than Powersoft's slick
Optima++ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Dave Rowell Notebook Under Construction --- You can
reconfigure Compaq's Armada from a
5-pound notebook to a full-featured
multimedia machine . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Jerry Pournelle Of Zip and Spam and NT 4.0 --- Jerry
finds uses that go beyond backup for
Iomega's Zip drives and takes a first
look at the Windows NT 4.0 beta version 157
Anonymous What's New --- A preview of Matrox's
Mystique PCI graphics board, plus a look
at Microsoft's Outlook 97 . . . . . . . 208
Rick Grehan Beyond the Bouncing Heads --- Rogue
Wave's JFactory can get you started
building Java applications quickly . . . 216
Mark Schlack Computing Crossroads: Will it be Intel
inside or Java everywhere? . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous INBOX --- BYTE readers write about our
Web coverage, NT security, the on-line
future, and more . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous The Return of Hand-Held Windows . . . . 26
Anonymous Web Info Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Anonymous Cyrix 6x86 Bug . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Post-Millennium Cruising . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Plugged-In CD-ROMs . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous FlashPix Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Survey: Web Commerce . . . . . . . . . . 36
David L. Andrews Java Forms: Better than HTML . . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Future Notebook Screens . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous New PowerPCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Anonymous Flying Robots . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Tom Thompson Componentized WAV of the Future ---
Digital Harhor's WAV word processor is
among the first OpenDoc components for
the Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Robert L. Hummel Waterproof Color That Lasts --- The Alps
MD-4000 prints smudge-proof color images
and razor-sharp text. It's also a
600-dpi color scanner . . . . . . . . . 50
Steve Gillmor GroupWise Sends a Message --- Novell's
Release 5 makes the choice of groupware
a tougher decision . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Jon Udell Hybrid Web/CD-ROM: Do It Yourself ---
What bandwidth problem? WebCD lets you
publish your Web site on CD-ROMs that
retain live Internet links . . . . . . . 54
Ben Smith VMS: Alive and Well --- A young horse is
fast, but an old horse knows what's
going on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Bob Friesenhahn A File System for the Web --- A modified
version of Sun's NFS can deal with large
amounts of Web data . . . . . . . . . . 63
Tom Thompson The Consumer PowerPC Revisited ---
Motorola's slimmed-down PowerPC could be
the brains of your next hand-held PC . . 67
Dick Pountain Parallel Processing in Bulk --- A new
programming model offers hope for
solving problems of complexity . . . . . 71
Alan Joch Tomorrow's CPUs --- They just keep
getting faster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Peter Wayner Sun Gambles on Java Chips: Are Java
chips better than general purpose CPUs?
Or will new compilers make them
obsolete? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79, 80, 82, 84, 86
Tom R. Halfhill The x86, Faster with Age --- A guide to
the PC chip choices you'll face in the
next year . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Tom R. Halfhill PowerPC Regroups --- The PowerPC may
break the 300-MHz barrier before the
Pentium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Anonymous Reader service --- Inquiry Reply Cards 104A--B, 232A--B
Jeffrey N. Fritz From LAN to WAN with ISDN --- ISDN can
extend your LAN to the Internet, remote
users, and enterprise networks. An
expert examines the technologies, the
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Peter Wayner Inside the NC: Are network computers
just stripped-down terminals? No way.
The official NC platform covers
everything from a set-top box to a Cray 105, 106, 108, 110
Maggi Bender and
Dorothy Hudson and
Jim Kane and
John McDonough Eight Twin-Engine Pentium Pro
Workstations --- Our tests point out the
peak performers and the best buys . . . 112
David Seachrist How Multimedia Multitools Compare ---
NSTL tests four authoring programs for
building mixed-media applications . . . 122
Jon Udell On-Line Componentware --- Here's how you
can turn your Web site into a flexible
software component to build new
applications quickly . . . . . . . . . . 129
Dick Pountain Your Next OS --- Six key issues to
consider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Laurent Lachal Unix Leads the 64-bit Charge --- 64-bit
OSes are moving from the horizon to the
desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Mark Minasi Unearthing Cairo --- Follow the signs to
Cairo to get a glimpse of NT's future 145
Tom Thompson Copland, Revisited --- A look at the
current state of Apple's next OS . . . . 151
Barry Nance Keep Networks Safe from Viruses ---
Networks put you at risk from viruses,
an enterprise-wide strategy can help
keep you safe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Mark Hettler Upgraded C/S Tools: How Much Better?
Evaluating new versions of two
client/server toolkits: Power-Builder
and Centura Team Builder (the program
formerly known as SQLWindows) . . . . . 177
Rick Crehan Real-Time RAD --- Verilog's ObjectGeode
does a decent job of marrying realtime
control to OO-modeling standards . . . . 181
Robert L. Hummel Ditto Your Data --- Iomega's Ditto 2GB
External drive delivers everything you
expect from a portable backup unit:
convenience, low cost, ease of use . . . 184
Jerry Pournelle Don't Swap--Network! Jerry offers advice
on upgrading and engages in another
struggle over IRQ assignments, this time
under Windows 3.11 . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Anonymous WHAT'S NEW --- Fractal Design's
Expression goes beyond standard
vector-drawing packages; Gateway's Solo
2100 S5-120 combines raw power and good
looks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
Rick Grehan Visual Age for BASIC\ldots Sort of ---
Visual Age for BASIC has more in common
with Visual Basic than with the other
Visual Age products . . . . . . . . . . 248
Mark Schlack Peace on the Wired Planet --- Flaming's
one thing, but the lack of civility
on-line is getting out of control . . . 14
Anonymous INBOX --- BYTE readers write about that
bandwidth barrier and the future of the
Internet, Web conferencing, and the
search for killer software . . . . . . . 19
Michael Moncur Letter to the Editor: Adventures in
JavaScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Double Trouble for 56-Kbps Modems . . . 27
Anonymous Call Centers Deliver Data . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Holiday Gift Sampler . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous BYTE Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Digital Cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Apple's New Notebooks . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Browsers for the Blind . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Banking On-line . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Tuned Into the Web . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Peter Wayner An Open Window for OpenDoc --- The
promise of platform-independent reusable
components comes closer to reality with
the second beta of the OpenDoc toolkit
for Windows 95 and NT . . . . . . . . . 41
Steve Gillmor Toward a More Productive Office in '97
--- Microsoft's Office 97 sets a new
standard in applications software suites 42
Tom Yager The Power of Fusion --- Need to manage a
mixed Unix/Windows environment? Ross's
SPARCplug helps by combining a
SparcStation and a Pentium PC . . . . . 47
Joy-Lyn Blake A (Re)Touch of Genius --- Image
manipulation gets easier and more
powerful with Adobe's Photoshop 4.0 . . 48
Stewart Palmer A RISC OS for all Seasons --- Tired of
OSes that require acres of memory and
huge hard drives? Acorn's multifaceted
RISC OS fits in ROM and runs in just 4
MB of RAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Jeffery N. Fritz The Complete ISDN Telecommuter --- A
look at connection issues of using an
ISDN line to support the home office . . 53
Satya Simha Super Mario Chip --- Inside the 64-bit
RISC processor that powers the new
Nintendo game machine . . . . . . . . . 59
Stephen P. Johnson Direct3D Revealed --- Microsoft's
Direct3D API allows 3-D applications to
run on a wide variety of PCs. A seasoned
programmer of device drivers explains
how to accomplish this task . . . . . . 63
Peter Wayner How Chips changed the world --- 10 ways
in which that silver of silicon altered
the course of Planet Earth . . . . . . . 68
Linley Gwenmap Birth of a Chip --- A brief history of
the microprocessor, from the 4004 to
today's nitro-burning rockets . . . . . 77
Robert Hummel Eight Ways to the Future --- Technology
experts agree: Change is the only sure
thing about computing in the next decade 85
Tom R. Halfhill PowerPC Speed Demon --- Bipolar
transistors give Exponential's 533-MHz
PowerPC chip the performance of an Alpha
at an affordable price . . . . . . . . . 88NA1
Dorothy Hudson and
Jim Kane and
John McDonough Six Laser Printers for Workgroups --- We
test six of the latest 17- and 24-ppm
network laser printers for workgroups 100
Mark Hettler Lotus Notes vs. Microsoft Exchange ---
Our testing shows that Lotus Notes
remains a generation or two ahead of
Microsoft Exchange, its closest
groupware competitor . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Web Development --- This month we take
an indepth look at the technologies that
will shape the Web of tomorrow . . . . . 118
Jamie Lewis LDAP Unites the Internet --- New
directory services, especially
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol,
extend the directory metaphor to the
Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
William Stallings Internet Armor --- Secure IP lets you
use the open Internet with privacy and
confidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Dave Kosiur E-Mail Grows Up --- IMAP will provide
e-mail services and options impossible
with the current POP . . . . . . . . . . 135
Jon Udell Dual-Mode Conferencing --- The BYTE
Webmaster explains how to bring both
news-style conferencing and Web-style
conferencing to your site . . . . . . . 141
Rob Hummel Affordable 3-D Workstations --- With
dual Pentium Pros and accelerators,
these PCs bring 3-D graphics down to
earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Richard Cranford The Spreadsheet War, Revive --- Lotus's
release of a 32-bit version of 1-2-3 for
Windows revives the spreadsheet fight,
but not for long. Our reviewer examines
why . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Anonymous Reader Service --- Inquiry Reply Cards 152C--D, 192A--B
Jerry Pournelle A Hot Night at the Opera --- A disk
error on Cyrus's hard drive forces Jerry
to reach for several of his favorite Win
95 utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Anonymous WHAT'S NEW --- A preview of Psion's
Siena hand-held information manager,
plus a look at Macromedia's FreeHand
Graphics Suite 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Rick Grehan Visual Programming for Science --- Rick
checks out Visual Science, a
mathematical programming and simulation
tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Mark Schlack Editorial: Living Dangerously: The
computer industry is engaged in a
platform war. Which side should you be
on? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--14
Anonymous INBOX --- Readers react to our stories
on 64-bit OSes, WebNFS, network
computers, on-line help, and more . . . 19
Anonymous Better Web Tools on the Way . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Smart Netcards Coming to America . . . . 28
Anonymous Wireless PDAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous BYTE Survey: Data Warehouse Woes . . . . 32
Anonymous Internet and Outernet . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Security Wake-Up Call . . . . . . . . . 36
Jon Pepper Corel PDA to Bundle Java Suite . . . . . 38--38
Anonymous Interview: Why Java Won't Repeat the
Mistakes of Unix. Scott McNealy,
chairman and CEO of Sun Microsystems,
talks about how Java will change
computing and the computer industry . . 40--40
Dave Rowell Silicon Graphics' Wintel Killer --- Just
when NT-based Pentium Pro PCs are
starting to look like hot 3-D machines,
SGI introduces the cool blue 02 . . . . 41
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Local AltaVista Searching --- AltaVista
now lets you aim its popular Internet
search engine at your PC and LAN. But
you need big metal for good performance 42
Raymond G. A. Cote Multiplatform CodeWarrior ---
Metrowerks' CodeWarrior 10 hits the
scene with development tools for some
PDAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Anonymous Reader Service --- Inquiry Reply Cards 48A--B, 176A--B
Stan Miastkowski World's Fastest Disk Drive --- Seagate
makes a giant leap in hard drive speed
with the 10,000-rpm Cheetah . . . . . . 48
Jim Mohr The State of Linux --- An update on this
32-bit Unix-like OS, with pointers to
even more Linux info . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
Tom Yager Client/Server Magic --- Remote procedure
calls provide seamless data exchange
among applications across a network,
regardless of the platform . . . . . . . 53
William Chien Video for Everyone --- C-Cube's low-cost
MPEG encoder can turn a desktop PC into
a video-editing station . . . . . . . . 59
Gary McGraw and
Edward Felton Java Security and Type Safety --- Java's
sophisticated security mechanism
performs run-time safety checks before
it allows a downloaded applet to execute 63--64
Tom H. Halfhill Today the Web, Tomorrow the World. Is
Java a serious programming language?
Yes. Will it become a Windows killer?
Maybe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68--71, 74, 76, 78, 80
Anonymous Data Warehouses --- How to build the
best facility for your information, and
how to help users find the data they
need right now . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Jay-Louise Weldon Warehouse Cornerstones --- An expert in
database management explains how a
well-designed data warehouse leads to
smarter decisions . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Alan Simon Better Clients, Better Decisions --- The
right tools can turn all that data into
useful information . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Mike Hurwicz Take Your Data to the Cleaners ---
``Dirty'' data could bring your
warehouse tumbling down . . . . . . . . 97
Dorothy Hudson and
Jim Kane and
John McDonough LAN Report: Hardware --- Big Screens for
Big Jobs --- We pick the best of the
big-screen monitors . . . . . . . . . . 104
Tadesse Giorgis 8 Tools for Weaving Your Web Site ---
Build your Web site with one of these
authoring tools . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Jon Udell Search Again --- Our Webmaster explains
how to move beyond basic search-engine
capabilities to make your site more
informative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Peter Wayner At Last: Pocket PCs That Run Windows ---
New hand-held PCs bring Windows to the
palmtop. We test three HPCs built around
Windows CE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Steve Gillmor Dial 411 for Directory Assistance ---
Novell's latest NetWare release bets big
on Java and the intranet . . . . . . . . 137
Russell Kay Hot Sauce for Cooking Up Databases ---
If you've got Salsa, you don't need to
understand database theory to build an
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Jerry Pournelle A Hard Drive and a Hot Santa Ana ---
It's a month of disasters at Chaos
Manor: Jerry has to replace a baked hard
drive, and Cyrus needs internal surgery
after taking a fall . . . . . . . . . . 141
Anonymous What's New --- Design Intelligence's
i-publish helps you turn ideas into
compelling documents; the Tektronix
Phaser 350 rivals fast color laser
printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Rick Grehan You Can Start Developing Now --- Moss
Micro's programming tool guides you down
the path of Visual Basic . . . . . . . . 192
Mark Schlack Cadillacs or Cherokees? --- It's wise
not to confuse newness with
appropriateness . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous BYTE readers write about Copland,
network computers, impolite robots ---
and users, and our 64-hit future . . . . 19
John Navas Letter to the Editor: The Java Race . . 20--20
Tom Thompson How to Make the World's Fastest CPUs:
Enter a world where dust is your enemy,
day and night run together, and
blazingly fast CPUs are born . . . . . . 20--20
Anonymous Better in Fits and Starts --- We test a
new Pentium hopped up with Intel's MMX 26
Anonymous Just How Fast Are Those New MMX Chips? 26
Anonymous Best of Comdex . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Anonymous The Networked House . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Unhinged Notebooks . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Bad News for Broken Portables . . . . . 32
Anonymous 57 Varieties of Internet Faxing --- Now
you can do it without a Net connection 34
Anonymous Better Backbones to Shoulder Bigger
Network Burden --- New high-speed links
and services are on the way . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Improbable Research . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Lessons in Data Mining . . . . . . . . . 40
Peter Wayner On TV: The Set-Top Morphing PowerPC ---
Bandai Digital's set-top box, a nice
implementation of Apple's Pippin
technology, is a Mac-based Web browser 40A
Rick Grehan Delphi Does C++ --- Borland's popular
RAD tool sheds its Pascal beginnings and
gets a new name: C++ Builder . . . . . . 42
Robert L. Hummel 3-D Mighty Mite --- Dynamic Pictures'
Oxygen 202 is a single-slot PCI card
that can compete with 3-D graphics
accelerators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Barry Nance Your PC's Ringing --- Answer It! ---
With EtherPhone, you can turn your
Ethernet LAN into a phone system easily
and inexpensively . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Joao Carreira and
Diamantino Costa and
Joao Gabriel Silva Fault Tolerance for Windows Applications
--- Here's a utility that provides fault
tolerance so that mission-critical
32-bit Windows applications can run
reliably and continuously . . . . . . . 51
Jeffrey Fritz Building Bridges and Secure Connections
--- A look at the Point-to-Point
Protocol and how it fits into the
corporate network . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Tom Thompson The Mac Goes Multiprocessor --- A new
library and API enable preemptive
multitasking and multiprocessing on Mac
OS machines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Jeffrey P. Shell Python Does Scripts and Objects ---
Python is a platform-independent OOP
language with capabilities ranging from
simple scripting to sophisticated object
libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Anonymous Your E-Mail Is Obsolete --- The impact
of the Internet on your proprietary
e-mail system? It's probably obsolete
now. Here's how to get back up to speed 66
Alan Joch CTI Matures --- Integrating computers
and telephones is still tricky, but new
hardware and development tools are
making the job easier . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous CTI, Piece by Piece --- Setting
communications standards throughout an
enterprise is one of the most,
fundamental yet contentious tasks in a
CTI launch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous CTI, Piece by Piece --- The scalability
and reliability of Unix make it the
traditional choice for running CTI
servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous CTI, Piece by Piece --- Wider
applications support and open APIs are
making more companies consider Windows
NT for CTI systems . . . . . . . . . . . 85
John Silling CTI, Piece by Piece --- These basic
building blocks can help you launch a
successful CTI implementation . . . . . 85
Anonymous Tools for Telephony Apps --- Building
CTI applications requires choosing among
three classes of CTI development tools,
which offer varying degrees of control
and difficulty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Michael Nadeau Tools for Telephony Apps --- Here's how
to find the right telephony development
tool for your needs and skill level . . 91
Dorothy Hudson and
Jim Kane and
John McDonough 13 Graphics Cards for Business --- We
test 13 high-end graphics cards that can
really speed up the Windows interface
and even have some low-end 3-D features 100
David Seachrist Present a Businesslike Slide Show ---
Present your case more effectively with
one of these five graphics packages . . 108
Anonymous NT Security --- Windows NT security
isn't perfect. This month's Web Project
offers seven ways to make NT safer . . . 117
Jon Udell NT Security --- How to make Windows NT a
secure Internet platform . . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous Share the Wealth . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Anonymous Which OS? --- NT Server offers an
ever-growing base of applications that
leverage the multiprocessing nature of
the OS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous Which OS? --- Sun's Solaris is easily
customizable, which means you can create
applications servers that are tuned to
your particular needs . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous Which OS? --- Warp Server provides solid
applications-server capabilities, file
and print services, management tools,
remote connectivity, and backup and
recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous Suite and Sour --- BackOffice slugs it
out in the features war with IBM
Software Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Anonymous Suite and Sour --- The nine server
components within IBM Software Servers
let you scale a client/server
implementation to your particular needs 131
Anonymous Power to the Server --- For performance
and reliability, RISC servers running
Unix excel as applications servers . . . 133
Anonymous Power to the Server --- SMP and
economical prices are turning NT and x8
6-based machines into decent
applications servers . . . . . . . . . . 133
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Eudorable Web Mail --- Better POP and
MIME support, plus new filtering
plugins, make the new Windows 95 version
of Eudora well worth paying for . . . . 140
Jacqueline Emigh All 12X CD-ROM Drives Are Not Equal ---
A look at the first four 12X CD-ROM
drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Anonymous Reader Service --- Inquiry Reply Cards 144A--B, 144C--D, 176A--B
Pete Loshin Tune In, Turn On the Web --- Marimba's
Castanet aims to solve the Web's
bandwidth problems by ``broadcasting''
pages and applets over a distributed
transmission system . . . . . . . . . . 145
Jerry Pournelle Of Bug-Hunting and a New Frontier ---
Jerry offers his opinions on what's best
for the desktop in the new age of
graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Anonymous Two things for the modern Jack Kerouac
to take on the road: DeLorme's Tripmate
satellite navigator and Millenia's Email
Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
Rick Grehan Java's RAD Route to Data Access ---
Developing distributed data access
applications? Visual Café Pro can handle
some of the ugliness for you . . . . . . 192--192
Mark Schlack Apple's Opening Move --- The IT
community does indeed have an interest
in seeing a revived Apple . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous INBOX --- BYTE readers sound off on
Moore's Law, Windows NT network
architecture, e-mail standards, and more 19
Anonymous PCs: The Road Ahead . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous New PC Phones . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Building a Better Error Trap . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Five Guides to Better Site Construction 34
Anonymous NT Suits Up for Enterprise Computing . . 36
Anonymous Improbable Research . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Microsoft Promises Fewer Headaches . . . 40
Rick Grehan Web Server Activator --- Microsoft's
Visual InterDev provides the means for
building Active Server-based Web sites 41
Tom Thompson The MessagePad Makeover --- The newest
Newton puts a big screen into a smallish
package and a fast StrongARM CPU inside.
It's the best one yet . . . . . . . . . 44
Stan Miastkowski This Cartridge Is Loaded --- SyQuest
reaches a new milestone in fast,
cost-effective, removable-media drives 48
Rick Dobson A Visual Basic for Web Work --- A
variant of Visual Basic allows you to
script and control objects on a Web page 51
Tom Yager Unix and Windows Dance the Samba --- The
Samba suite of utilities enables Windows
clients to access Unix servers . . . . . 55
Mike Phillip Zen and the Art of Cache Maintenance ---
Proper understanding and use of on-chip
cache can improve an application's
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Andrew Taylor and
Raymond G. A. Cote Enhancing Netscape with Plug-Ins --- A
how-to guide to the tricks and traps of
writing a Netscape plug-in on the
Macintosh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Jon Udell Net Applications: Will Netscape Set the
Standard? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66--69, 72, 74, 76, 80, 82, 84
Mike Hurwicz Superfast Peripherals --- SCSI is
nearing its limits, and serial is going
to eat its breakfast . . . . . . . . . . 89
Jim Mohr Linux in a Gray Flannel Suit: It's
powerful. It's open. It's free. That's
why this Unix is entering corporate IS 96NA3, 96NA6, 96NA8
Holly Hubbard Preston and
Udo Flohr Globalizing Software: Global from Day
One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97, 98, 100, 102, 104
Ken Fowles Globalization Software: Unicode Evolves:
Worried about localization problems?
Content-enabled software, through
Unicode, may be what really matters . . 105, 106, 108, 110
Thom Stark Encryption for a Small Planet --- U.S.
restrictions on encryption exports are
cramping development of secure
international applications. What are
your options for competing in the world
market? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Jon Udell Digital IDs --- Today's digital
identification technologies promise
long-term benefits but currently inflict
short-term pain . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Andrew Froning and
Helen Holzbaur 13 Modems: Fast for the Web --- If you
browse the Web, it's time to upgrade
your 14.4-Kbps modem. We test a baker's
dozen of the first 33.6 Kbps modems . . 120
Mark Hettler OLAP Serves Up Your Data --- Powerful
on-line analytical processing servers
from Arbor Software and Oracle offer
serious enterprise-wide data analysis 130
G. Armour Van Horn Power Macs: Cookin' at 225 MHz ---
Should you buy a clone or stick with the
original brand? We test the latest 200-
and 225-MHz Power Macs to find the best 135
Rick Grehan Client/Server C++: Write Fast, Run Fast
--- Picking a visual tool to program
client/server databases in C++ involves
many trade-offs. We try toolkits . . . . 139
Jerry Pournelle It Was a Great Comdex --- Comdex
according to Jerry: What he liked ---
and a few words of warning . . . . . . . 143
Anonymous What's New --- Adobe's Acrobat 3.0 adds
a hefty list of Web-integration
features. Hewlett--Packard's ScanJet 5p
adds improved image quality, a sleek
design, and Plug and Play installation 178
Rich Grehan Javatalk: Convert Visual Basic to Java 188--188
Mark Schlack Tracking New Technologies . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Inbox --- Readers respond to BYTE . . . 19
David L. Moore and
Tom R. Halfhill Letters to the Editor: On Java . . . . . 19--20
Tom Moran and
Tom R. Halfhill Letter to the Editor: Ada Speaks Java 20--20
Anonymous Apple's Next OS . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Tiniest Weather Station . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Multipoint Videoconferencing . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Replication Everywhere . . . . . . . . . 34
Russell Kay CD-ROM Review: Prevent Java Attacks:
Good explanations but lame advice . . . 38--38
Anonymous Decongesting the Net . . . . . . . . . . 40
Steve Gillmor The Basics of Web Development --- Visual
Basic 5 supports easy component
construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Robert L. Hummel Notebook with a View --- NEC's Versa
6200MX is a natural for presentations 45
Peter Wayner This Hand-Held Stands Out --- The Velo 1
is the best little PC . . . . . . . . . 46
Joseph J. Lazarro Unix Helps the Disabled --- Long-awaited
adaptive technology comes to Unix . . . 51--52
Steen Lohse Reliable ATM Networking --- LAN
emulation links legacy networks and ATM
segments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Tom Thompson First Look at PowerPC G3 --- A new
generation offers speed and low fuel
consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Bob Friesenhahn Expect Offers Unix Scripting ---
Embeddable language offers
pattern-matching capabilities . . . . . 63
Jon Udell Perl's Future --- How to benefit from
Perl and its challengers . . . . . . . . 121
Rick Grehan Javatalk: SuperCede Lives Up to Its
Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125--126
Dorothy Hudson and
Dave Rowell Lab Report: Hardware: Seven Fast Color
Printers: These midrange printers,
though still pricy, give you
business-quality color without trading
off performance . . . . . . . . . . . . 128--135
Steve Mann and
Rick Grehan Hand-Held Development Options --- We
test software for building applications
for hand-helds, including CE-based HPCs 141
Rick Grehan Review: Development Software: Java
Development Kit, Take Two . . . . . . . 145--146
Jerry Pournelle Orchids and Onions Are Blooming ---
Jerry looks back on the hits and misses
of 1996 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Anonymous What's New --- Apple's PowerBook 3400 is
faster, brighter, and better; Adobe's
PageMaker 6.5 has improved power,
flexibility, and electronic publishing 178
Anonymous Advances and Retreats in Computing ---
Internet Barbie, a new threat to data
warehouses, and a request for terabytes
of quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
Mark Schlack Serve 'Em Up Hot . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Balaji Raghunathan Letter to the Editor: Java for C++ . . . 19--20
Anonymous Bits --- x86 Breaks 200 MHz . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Bits --- New Storage Technology . . . . 28
Anonymous Bits --- Fatter, Cheaper Pipes . . . . . 32
Bob Quinn ``Thin'' Windows Firms Up --- Citrix's
WinFrame 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Peter Wayner Real Remote Control from Your Pocket PC
--- Symantec's pcAnywhere CE . . . . . . 42
Steve Apiki C++ on Every Level --- Microsoft's
Visual C++ 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Robert L. Hummel Quick-Striking Mighty Mite --- Avatar's
Shark portable drive . . . . . . . . . . 48
Chris Briggs Smarter and Faster I/O for Servers ---
I2O blasts bottlenecks . . . . . . . . . 51
Selina Lo Inside Gigabit Ethernet --- Ethernet and
Fibre Channel team up for 1-Gb
throughput . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Peter J. Bannon Alpha Arrives at the Desktop --- A
low-cost version brings workstation
power to desktop PCs . . . . . . . . . . 59
Tonya Engst The Internet Robot's Guide to a Web Site
--- How to block Netbot access . . . . . 63
David Chappell Enterprise Ready 5.0 --- Windows NT is
gaining powerful distributed features
for advanced networking . . . . . . . . 66
James Boyle A Blueprint for Managing Documents ---
Ways to find the needle in the gigabyte
haystack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Mike Hurwicz PCs Strike Back --- Armed with Zero
Administration and NetPCs, Microsoft and
Intel counterattack the NC rebels . . . 81
David Baum Intranet Politics and Technologies ---
VARs and integrators are successfully
tangling with the intranet maelstrom . . 88A
Cate T. Corcoran Cutting-Edge Health Care --- Medicine
counts on IT to take the knife to
paperwork and inefficiency . . . . . . . 88M
Dick Pountain Parallel Goes Populist --- Three new
technical trends could push parallel
processing onto your desktop . . . . . . 88NA3
G. McGraw and
E. Felten Avoiding Hostile Applets: They're out
there. and they want to get in . . . . . 89
Dick Pountain The Component Enterprise --- Future apps
will create a more flexible
client/server architecture . . . . . . . 93
John Udell Web Project: JavaScript Revisited . . . 99, 100, 102
Rich Grehan Javatalk: Jet-assisted Java: Optima++
developers will feel at home in
Powersoft's PowerJ for Java . . . . . . 103--104
Robert L. Hummel Multiprocessor Intranet Servers --- We
stress-test six SMP boxes . . . . . . . 106
David Seachrist and
Tom Yager Put Your E-Mail on the IMAP --- These
e-mail servers make for handier
management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Rick Grehan Redesigned Delphi Masters Networked Apps
--- The emphasis is on Web and
distributed applications . . . . . . . . 121
Pete Loshin Netscape's Enterprising Server Upgrade
--- 3.0 has promising cross-platform
directory support . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Russell Kay Color That's Simply Amazing --- Epson's
nifty and thrifty color ink-jet prints
super images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Stan Miastkowski Maximum DAT Backup --- HP's SureStore
DAT24 offers great backup speed . . . . 125
Peter Wayner Throw Me a LifeBook --- Fujitsu squeezes
all the essentials into a 4-pound
package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Jerry Pournelle Two Heads Are Better Than One --- Chaos
Manor gets a new multiprocessor Windows
NT machine for high-end graphics . . . . 127
Anonymous What's New --- NEC's low-cost
SuperScript 660Plus prints 600 dpi;
Corel's Lumiere moves video editing into
the mainstream . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Marc Abrahams Advances and Retreats in Computing ---
The amazing new Content Analyzer; the
fab combo of chips and snacks; and how
Plug and Play has saved lives . . . . . 160
Roger Fedyk Letter to the Editor: Java Unveiled . . 19--19
Gary McGraw and
Ed Felton Letter to the Editor: Lame Review? . . . 20--20
Jon Udell Web Project: Java Servlets: Servlets,
the Java equivalent of CGI applications,
can deliver on many of Java's promises
while dodging some of its worst
limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115, 116, 118
Anonymous Why Interfaces Matter --- Computers are
about to join the Information Age . . . 12
Aaron Irvine and
Ken Fowles Letter to the Editor: Latin-X . . . . . 16--16
Anonymous Natural Dictation . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous 300-MHz Pentium II Tests . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous PCI Hot Plug for Servers . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous New.Domain.Names . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous Clustering Technology . . . . . . . . . 26
Deborah Hess Datapro Report: New Java Tools Cozy Up
to Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Windows 95/Memphis: Ready for the Future
--- The next Windows upgrade . . . . . . 33
Anonymous Upwardly Mobile 3-D Workstation ---
Digital Equipment's dual-CPU machine . . 35
Anonymous Corel's Nearly Perfect Suite Spot ---
WordPerfect 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Alexa Bielefeld and
Rick Martin and
Brian Wachter Using the Web to Maintain Legacy
Databases --- Salvo lets you use
protocols to manage mainframe data . . . 41
Lyle Supp The Heart of Hand-Held PCs --- Hitachi's
SH-3 addresses the demands of hand-held
PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Justin Morgan Cross-Platform Development with Concert
--- Here's a way to rapidly port a Mac
OS application to Windows and Unix . . . 51
Charles Mirho and
Tom Clements JavaOS: Thin Client, Fat Service ---
JavaOS uses a small memory footprint,
yet its network-centric design lets it
access large-scale services . . . . . . 53--54
Jeffrey Fritz Bulletproofing ATM, Part 2 --- How LAN
emulation and proper switch and router
configuration can establish redundancy 55
Tom R. Halfbill Good-Bye GUI, Hello NUI --- The user
interface is about to undergo the
biggest revolution since 1984 --- How
IBM's team defeated the world champ . . 60
Karen Watterson Attention, Data-Mart Shoppers ---
Top-down or bottom-up, building a data
mart gives you the information you value
most . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Mike Hurwicz A Virtual Private Affair --- Finally, a
real way to save money with the
Internet: Virtual private networks . . . 79
Joe Celko and
Jackie Celko Double Zero --- 2000 means trouble for
computers, including --- gulp --- PCs 89
Jon Udell Textbase Tricks --- Some tips on making
good use of all that information on the
Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Rick Grehan Javatalk: Visual Age for Java: IBM's
Visual Age for Java isn't just beans . . 101--102
Anonymous Rebuilding Human Resources --- As HR
departments get smaller, resellers have
more opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . 104K
Anonymous Resellers Learn Wall Street Smarts ---
Custom middleware helps resellers profit
from the financial industry's volatility 104C
Anonymous MMX Power for Desktop PCs: We look at 10
Pentium systems souped-up with MMX
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
David Seachrist and
Stephen Platt Web Applications at Your Service ---
Enliven your Web site with one of these
application servers . . . . . . . . . . 114
Anonymous Faster on the Draw --- AutoCAD 14 . . . 119
Anonymous Dawn of the New Millennium --- Matrox's
upgraded hardware . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Peter Wayner Novera Composes Epic for Java . . . . . 122--123
Anonymous Making Linux More Livable --- Caldera's
OpenLinux Base . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Jerry Pournelle A Web Site for Chaos Manor --- Jerry
builds a Web site, installs an OverDrive
chip in Pentafluge, and pays a visit to
WinHEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous Reader Service --- Inquiry Reply Cards 152A
Anonymous Editorial Index by Company . . . . . . . 154
Anonymous Toshiba's Libretto notebook, Motorola's
300-MHz Mac, Hauppauge's VideoTalk, plus
new development tools . . . . . . . . . 155
Anonymous A Free Java Platform . . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Anonymous Manage Objects in Java . . . . . . . . . 158--158
Marc Abrahams Advances and Retreats in Computing ---
Revenge on junk e-mailers, part 2; plus,
exacerbating the bandwidth crunch . . . 160
Anonymous New x86 Processors . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Recycling Digital Ink . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Faster Mac Bus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Enterprise Apps Use Web . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Lanier on VR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous I Say! An Understanding Application ---
Dragon's Naturally Speaking . . . . . . 33
Anonymous What's in Store for the Web --- Object
Design's ObjectStore 5 . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Laser Color, Inexpensive and Quick ---
Xerox's DocuPrint . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous Never-Ending Power Supply --- APC's
Symmetra UPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Richard Hackathorn Data Warehousing's Credibility Crisis
--- ``We've got a problem: The VP of
finance is questioning our reports'' . . 43
Andy Turk Building a Better Interface with Java:
Internet Foundation Classes lets you
build Java applets with useful features
such as drag and drop . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Jonathan E. Brickman Faster Internet Access --- By caching
name/address translations on your own
system, you can speed your way to Web
sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Dick Pountain Atomic Power Speeds Data into the Home
--- A new family of chips helps handle
Digital Subscriber Line connections
between the central office and the home 51
Rick Dobson Fast and Flexible Access to Databases
--- Microsoft's ODBCDirect gives
programmers better ways of processing
ODBC data sources . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Dick Pountain and
John Montgomery Web Components: Components and the Web
are a match made in developer heaven . . 56--60, 62, 64, 66, 68
Udo Flohr Intelligent Intranets --- Some tips and
products that will help you avoid
anarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anonymous Guaranteed Delivery --- Transaction
processing monitors keep Web servers
humming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Edmund X. DeJesus The Pull of Push --- Five types of
``push'' technology are transforming
info delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Tom Thompson I2O Beats I/O Bottlenecks --- A new
architecture promises a big boost in
server performance but not a big boost
in cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Air War --- TDMA, CDMA, GSM --- from
this alphabet soup will come tomorrow's
wireless network . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Anonymous A Kinder, Smaller Windows --- Porting to
hand-held PCs is nothing to dread . . . 103
John Udell Web Project: Persistent Java: A
servlet-based group calendar becomes a
surprising success and prompts an
exploration of ways to bind Java
programs to persistent storage . . . . . 109, 110, 112
Rick Grehan Javatalk: Write Cosmic Code: Cosmo Code,
soon to be combined with SGI's Cosmo
Worlds 3-D development system, is a
worthy Java IDE on its own . . . . . . . 113--114
Anonymous Burning Paper with Internet EDI --- VARs
are building new models for electronic
commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous CTI Gets Ready for the Masses ---
Commercial middleware helps ring up
profits with telephony . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous IBM Builds a Better DBMS --- IBM's
enhanced DB 2 5.0 . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Anonymous All the Web's a Stage --- Trusted Web, a
one-step authentication server . . . . . 135
Anonymous Speedy File Delivery --- Tumbleweed's
Posta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Anonymous IBM's Digital Shrinkwrapper --- An early
look at Cryptolope . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Jerry Pournelle Some Things Make You Feel Stupid --- Win
95 rains plagues upon Jerry. But
Softimage's graphics wizardry cheers him
up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Anonymous What's New --- AST's quiet Pentium
machine, Kai's PhotoSoap image cleanser,
digital cameras, programming tools, and
more new hardware and software . . . . . 163
Marc Abrahams Advances and Retreats in Computing ---
The programmer's best friend and Cyber
BabeWatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Stan Diehl Java Cyber Class: Java multimedia study
hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--30
David Chappell and
David S. Linthicum ActiveX Demystified: It's invasive. It's
ubiquitous. But what, exactly, is
ActiveX? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--62, 64
Rick Grehan Javatalk: Vibe Java: Feel that
cross-platform Vibe is one thing;
deploying it is something else . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous Visual Java for Visual Basic Developers 145--146
Larry Rau Core Programming: Programming in Limbo 53--54
Robert Orfali and
Dan Harkey and
Jeri Edwards CORBA, Java, and the Object Web: The Web
is in trouble, CORBA and Java are out to
save it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98, 100
Rich Grehan Javatalk: Rebuilt Parts: Parts for Java
delivers an excellent visual programming
environment for Java . . . . . . . . . . 117--118
Mark Schlack Editorial --- Raising the Java Standard 10--10
Anonymous Inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous 600-MHz Alpha . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Socket 7 Successor? . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous 400-MHz Pentium II PCs . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Power Mac Prevails . . . . . . . . . . . 22
David L. Andrews What's Next for Java Office Apps . . . . 24
Stan Diehl Book Reviews: The Bible, Updated . . . . 28--28
Anonymous Number Nine's New Spin: Revolution 3D
--- Fast video playback and your choice
of AGP or PCI . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Anonymous CMOS Gets the Picture --- Using a CMOS
sensor, Sound Vision's SVmini-209
delivers high-quality pics at a low
price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous A Watchamacallit for Words --- Dan
Bricklin's software for making hypertext
documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
William Stallings Adjustable Cell Rates for ATM Networks
--- A new ATM service compensates for
network congestion . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Bob Friesenhahn Autoconf Makes for Portable Software ---
Use of OS features and a freeware
scripting utility solves application
portability across various flavors of
Unix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Stephen R. Gardner The Quest to Standardize Metadata ---
Someday, disparate data manipulation
tools will be able to exchange
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Eric Traut Building the Virtual PC --- A software
emulator transforms the PowerPC into a
Pentium PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Rick Dobson Dynamic HTML Explained, Part 1 ---
Dynamic objects and client-side
processing mean better Web sites and
better browsing . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
John Montgomery Fiber in The Sky --- Broadband satellite
systems are ready to beam data around
the world at multimegabit rates. So
what's the catch? . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Tom R. Halfhill Socket to Me --- The Pentium II's
proprietary slots could mean trouble for
Intel's competitors. What does it mean
for users? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Peter Mudge and
Yobie Benjamin Deja Vu All Over Again --- Those holes
in NT security sure look familiar. No
wonder: Other OSes patched them years
ago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Robert Richardson Components Battling Components ---
Software plug-ins for Windows and
Macintosh can do remarkable things. But
they're also a source of conflict . . . 87
Jon Udell Cascading Style Sheets --- CSS will
change how Web designers work. Here are
some ways to learn and use it . . . . . 97
Rick Grehan An Uncertain Discovery --- Metrowerks'
Discover Programming will give you a
decent introduction to Java, but it can
be annoying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Ilan Greenberg Making Money with Point-of-Sale . . . . 104M
Ilan Greenberg The Universal Inbox . . . . . . . . . . 104S
Alan Joch BackOffice at the Forefront . . . . . . 104C
Pete Loshin Cryptography Gets Personal --- Six
products that promise to secure your
data, both over the Internet and on your
desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Barry Nance Battle of the Network Superservers ---
Netscape's SuiteSpot 3 vs. Microsoft's
IIS 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Jerry Pournelle Fooling Around with the Web --- New
tools help build the Manor's Web site.
Plus, a visit to the world's greatest
graphics show: SIGGRAPH . . . . . . . . 129
Anonymous Reader Service --- Inquiry Reply Cards 156A
Anonymous Editorial Index by Company . . . . . . . 158
Anonymous What's New --- Alpha workstations hit
600 MHz; Unix notebooks; and more new
products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Anonymous Something to STARE at --- 4-D images
arrive (on our very own pages)! Senders
of junk e-mail get hosed . . . . . . . . 164
Anonymous Editorial --- Step Aside, x86 . . . . . 14
Anonymous Inbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Centaur's New WinChip . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Ultraportables Get More Power . . . . . 25
Anonymous Chips Promise Cheaper Modems . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Future Watch: I2O Processors . . . . . . 28
Anonymous DVD: A Moving Target . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Interview: A Voice for Java Developers 44--44
Morgan Stern and
Gary Monti Microsoft Laces Up for the Enterprise
Race --- Enterprise-ready Windows NT 4.0 45
Michelle Campanale Smart Phones Make the Grade ---
Mitsubishi's MobileAccess and Samsung's
Duette . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Colin White Managing Data Transformations --- Data
requires careful control and cleansing
to make it useful for business decisions 53
Joseph J. Lazzaro Speech Enables the Common Desktop PC ---
Powerful processors, cheap memory, and a
hardware standard enable speech
recognition and synthesis on
out-of-the-box PCs . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Jeffrey N. Fritz Demystifying ATM Addressing --- Before
connecting your ATM network to the
outside world, consider its addressing
scheme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Les Kohn and
Greg Efland Making Personal Video a Reality --- A
video compressor/decompresser from
C-Cube enables real-time MPEG-2 encoding
for PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Rick Dobson Dynamic HTML Explained, Part II . . . . 61--62
Anonymous Special Report --- Extending The
Enterprise --- The Extranet Revolution 65
Anonymous Special Report --- Extending the
Enterprise --- Defending from the
Unthinkable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Special Report --- Extending the
Enterprise --- Extranets at Your Service 75
Tom R. Halfhill Beyond Pentium II --- The first detailed
look at the new breakthrough
microprocessor architecture from Intel
and Hewlett--Packard --- and what it
will mean for developers and users . . . 80
Tom R. Halfhill Beyond MMX --- New 3-D power of AMD,
Centaur, and Cyrix chips will challenge
Intel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Mike Hurwicz Reach Out and Touch Everyone --- Global
enterprise directories offer a big
payoff, but the technology's new, and
the integration requires hard work . . . 92NA1
Karen Watterson Commanding the Enterprise --- Soon
you'll be able to manage the network and
all those devices from one console . . . 93
David Ckappell COM+: The Next Generation ---
Microsoft's next Component Object Model
will make it easier to create and use
objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous 1997 Editors' Choice Awards --- We honor
software and hardware that prove
innovation was alive and well in 1997 103
Jon Udell The Value of Free Software --- Freeware
gems like Apache, Linux, and Perl keep
the Web spinning . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Rick Grehan Poet Goes Java --- An OODBMS takes the
plunge into Java . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Anonymous Reseller --- Cashing In on Web Shopping
Sprees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116C
Anonymous Reseller --- Oracle8: Have It Your Way 116K
Steve Gillmor Toolkits for Building Web Applications
--- We look at seven sitebuilding and
maintenance kits to help you choose the
right one . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Michelle Campanale Back to the Future with 9 Network
Computers --- We test the current crop
of thin clients to see what they're good
for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Barry Nance Drive Your Data Through the Middle(ware)
--- We test two middleware programs that
take the muddle out of multiple
databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
David Em and
Alex Pournelle 3-D Animation Blossoms on NT --- Three
high-end programs let you create
Hollywood-quality 3-D animation on an NT
workstation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Peter Wayner The Be-All-That-You-Can-Be OS --- A new
OS offers users a new set of options . . 137
Jerry Pournelle Fire Three for Effect! Building a new
dual Pentium Pro system is a snap, until
you try to put it on the network . . . . 139
Anonymous What's New --- MetaCreations' Ray Dream
3-D, Tektronix's new color printer,
better OCR from Scan-Soft, and more
hardware and software . . . . . . . . . 163
Anonymous Cell Death --- A great new way to
terminate annoying cell-phone calls . . 168
Dave Andrews Java Poison or Just PR? . . . . . . . . 22--23
Jon Pepper Bigger Flat Panels . . . . . . . . . . . 23, 25
Keith Levkoff Remote Access Devices Mix Analog and
Digital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26--27
Tom Thompson Apple Macs Get Faster and More
Affordable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--29
Anonymous Where's NetWare Headed? Eric Schmidt,
CEO and chairman of the board, discusses
the technology directions he's setting
for Novell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--32
Tom Yager Four Tillamooks Face Off --- New 233-MHz
Pentium notebooks from Compaq,
Hewlett--Packard, NEC, and Toshiba . . . 33--34
Anonymous PowerSite Straddles the Object World ---
Sybase PowerSite offers agnostic Web
development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Anonymous Windows CE Goes Global --- With Windows
CE 2.0, you can now put Windows on color
hand-helds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Rick Dobson Dynamic HTML Explained, Part III ---
Data binding utilizes data source
objects that can cache Web pages,
speeding up Internet access . . . . . . 43
Tom Thompson A First Look at Rhapsody --- Apple's
Rhapsody offers modern OS features, but
the UI needs some work, and certain Mac
technologies are missing . . . . . . . . 45
Paul Clip IIOP: The Next HTTP? TCP/IP version of a
messaging protocol enables client/server
communications over the Net . . . . . . 47
Tom R. Halfhill RISC Fights Back with the Mips R12000
--- SGI tweaks its chip with better bus
bandwidth, wider parallelism, and
stronger emphasis on FP performance . . 49
Dale Skeen Enabling the Real-Time Enterprise --- A
new communications infrastructure moves
critical data through intranets at
nearly real-time speed . . . . . . . . . 51
Anonymous Standing on a Moving Platform . . . . . 54
Anonymous The Next Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous CPU Interface Wars . . . . . . . . . . . 58
David S. Linthicum Java Evolves: With solid standards and
tools, Java is becoming important in
enterprise and embedded development . . 60--60
Anonymous Centralized Management for Desktops . . 63
Anonymous Stop the Insanity . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous MultiWin Gets Its Audition . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous Apple Plays a Rhapsody . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Extranets Reach the Spotlight . . . . . 71
Anonymous Serving Up Storage . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous HTML Groupware . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Memories of Things to Come . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Solving for the Year 2000 . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous The Smartcard Invasion . . . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous DVD Stands for DiVideD . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Broadband Goes Guerrilla . . . . . . . . 78
Anonymous Dynamic HTML and Scriptlets Add Life . . 79
Anonymous XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Transacting On the Web . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous The Next Internet . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous I Am Virus: Hear Me Roar . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous Gigabit Ethernet Gears Up . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous When Will E-Cash Jingle in Your
E-Pocket? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Call Control for the Rest of Us . . . . 86
Anonymous Getting the Message . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Actions on All Fronts . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Wherefore Warehouse? The future of data
mining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88NA1
Jon Udell HTTP Authentication --- Worried that
anyone can get into your site?
Authentication is the answer, but not
all Web servers do it the same . . . . . 89
Rich Grehan More Java Persistence: A look at another
Java-enable database reveals what's in
store for you . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94
Anonymous Baan Fires Up Rapid Deployment . . . . . 96C
Anonymous Unix's Bum Rap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96I
Michelle Campanale Eight Heavy-Hitting NT Workstations ---
We stress-test 300-MHz PII workstations
with the 440LX chip set . . . . . . . . 98
William Wong Nine Fax Programs to Serve the Internet
--- We wring out nine fax servers for
workgroups and the enterprise . . . . . 108
Anonymous Do You Hear What I Say? Dictation with
continuous speech recognition . . . . . 115
Peter Wayner Making Java Development JSafe --- RSA's
cryptographic toolkit targets Java as
the platform of choice for secured
Internet applications . . . . . . . . . 117--117
Anonymous Cable Modems Take the Early Lead ---
Cable modems live up to their promise of
high-speed access . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Anonymous Which Compiler Is Fastest? Our tests
reveal surprising bugs and
inefficiencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Jerry Pournelle From the Workbench --- Jerry builds a
new system that uses AMD's K6 MMX
Enhanced chip . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Anonymous Index to Advertisers --- Alphabetical
Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Anonymous What's New --- Wintel notebooks from a
former Mac cloner, HP's Kayaks, NT
clustering, Web commerce tools, and more
new hardware and software . . . . . . . 151
Anonymous Pet Sounds --- New technology combines
three of the most annoying things about
modern life: car alarms, barking dogs,
and cell phones . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Anonymous Editorial --- Coping with Change . . . . 14
Anonymous Thin Clients for Windows . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Speedier Server I/O . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Actual USB Devices . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous DSL for Everyman . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Software Building Blocks . . . . . . . . 40
Steve Gillmor Productivity Software --- A Different
Desktop for the Workplace --- Lotus'
eSuite uses JavaBeans . . . . . . . . . 41--41
Anonymous High-Speed Desktops --- Three Vendors
Make an Alpha Bet --- Alpha-powered PCs
from Aspen, Polywell, and Tri-Star . . . 43
Anonymous Performance Analyzers --- Profilers for
a Component World --- NuMega's TrueTime
and Rational's Visual Quantify find
bottlenecks in Windows code . . . . . . 46
Dale Skeen Databases --- Real-Time Queries in the
Enterprise --- New forms of persistent
queries are necessary to handle live
data as it speeds through a network . . 47
Piroz Mohseni Operating Systems --- Glasgow Enhances
JavaBeans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--52
Paul Clip Networks --- Java's Object-Oriented
Communications --- Remote method
invocation is a powerful mechanism that
enables flexible and scalable
distributed communications among Java
programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
Bill Moyer and
John Arends CPUs --- RISC Gets Small --- Motorola's
MCore embedded RISC processor has
low-power modes that enable
battery-juiced products to run for
longer time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--56
Bob Friesenhahn Programming --- Writing JavaScript
Applications --- Some tricks for
building useful applications, and some
ways to get around this language's
limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--60
Tom R. Halfhill Disposable PCs: New technology,
fragmenting standards, and a revolt
against rapid obsolescence will
radically change the PC landscape over
the next two years. Are you ready? . . . 62
Anonymous Jackpot at Comdex --- We check out the
hundreds of new products at the big show
in Vegas and pick the best . . . . . . . 77
David S. Renshaw Building Network Apps --- Making
Components Portable with JavaBeans --- A
key to integrated solutions across
multiple platforms . . . . . . . . . . . 81--84, 86--88
Nigel Pende Managing Data --- OLAP Omnipresent ---
On-line analytical processing is popping
up in spreadsheets, on the Web, and in
other new locations . . . . . . . . . . 88NA1
Daniel P. Dern and
Scott Mace Network Integration --- The Internet
Reinvented --- Changing the way
researcher work and collaborate, newly
minted high-speed networks will also
benefit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Jon Udell In Search of SSL Spidering --- Building
tools that fetch and process secure
pages teaches some painful lessons . . . 97
Rick Grehan The Federated Database ---
Objectivity/DB, a Java-based OODBMS
Plus, Powersoft's component transaction
server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
Michael Hurwicz Swimming the Fibre Channel . . . . . . . 104C
Alan Joch Sales with No Strings Attached . . . . . 104K
William Wong Software --- Team-Building on the Fly
--- We test ``teamware''- programs for
building fast little workgroups across
the Internet and across organizational
boundaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Russell Kay Hardware --- 15 Disks Cover More Data
Than Ever --- Platter clatter: We test
gigabyte disk drives for workstations
and servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Russell Kay Storage --- Part I: 15 Disks Cover More
Data Than Ever --- Platter clatter: We
test gigabyte disk drives for
workstations and servers . . . . . . . . 112
Edmund X. DeJesus Part II: Infinite Space --- Holograms,
molecules, and atoms will be the
components of tomorrow's storage
technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Anonymous Middleware --- Publish and Subscribe
Meets the Internet --- Pull out the old
and push in the new with scalable
publish/subscribe middleware for WANs
and the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous Workgroup Printer --- HP Makes an Even
Better Impression --- The new LaserJet
4000 delivers 1200 dpi, lets you manage
more of the print process from your
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Anonymous CAD Software --- CADzooks! What a Deal
--- We test Visio's IntelliCAD, a
heavy-duty but low-cost alternative to
AutoCAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Anonymous To Cure a Failing Memory --- Jerry's
unending quest for more storage space
and RAM leads him into the thicket of
disk and memory optimization . . . . . . 131
Anonymous What's New --- Compaq's notebook,
Philips' latest Velo, and Accent's
translation software. Plus, IBM brings
its ``giant MR'' technology to a desktop
disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Anonymous Mail Call --- Readers respond to the big
question: Besides Civilization, what is
the Net the end of? . . . . . . . . . . 160
Robert Fink Network integration --- Boning Up on
IPv6 --- The 6bone global test bed will
become the new Internet . . . . . . . . {96NA-3}-{96NA-8}
Anonymous Pentium II in '98 . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Tom R. Halfhill Survey Reveals Java Adoption Plans . . . 26, 30
Anonymous Dual Analog Routers . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous GartnerGroup Report on ERP Software . . 34
Anonymous Wanted: Programmers . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous PENTIUM II PCs --- Shooting the Rapids
at 333 MHz --- we test new systems from
Compaq and HP . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous Remote Terminal Server --- Terminal
Compromises --- Windows-Based Terminal
Server: a leap forward or a step back in
time? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Anonymous NetWare Enters the Nineties --- Netware
5 makes it easy to use TCP/IP for all
network client communications . . . . . 44
Tom Whittaker An OS for Information Appliances ---
Sun's Software Suite is a scalable set
of OS and application components for
hand-held and embedded devices . . . . . 45
Paul Clip DCOM: Microsoft Enhances DCE --- The
Distributed Component Object Model is an
object-oriented RPC architecture that's
built on standards, yet it's extensible 47
Reynaldo Archide A Flexible CPU for Digital Cameras ---
The MIPS processor architecture offers
ways to extend computing power for
custom applications. LSI Logic used it 49
David Orchard Better Performance with Exceptions in
Java --- You can use the language's
runtime error checking to improve a
program's performance . . . . . . . . . 53--54
Daniel Evans The OQL Standard Emerges --- Object
Query Language offers a good solution
for complex data management and
distributed object computing . . . . . . 55
Scott Mace and
Udo Flohr and
Rick Dobson and
Tony Graham Weaving a Better Web --- The Web is
falling apart due to HTML's lack of
essential features. But help is on the
way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Bill Gates VBA and COM --- Gates discusses his view
of the future of application
programmability . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Dick Pountain TeraFLOPS Power --- Big problem to
solve? First you get 9000 Pentium chips 73
Tom Thompson Writing for Rhapsody --- Apple's latest
OS offers a rich set of object-oriented
frameworks for rapidly building GUI
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Joe Celko and
Jackie Celko Stored Procedures: Threat or Menace? ---
Stored procedures are fine --- if you
want to produce slow code . . . . . . . 87
Dick Pountain Amending Moore's Law --- Technology,
finance, and physical law may force chip
transistor density to level off . . . . 91
Anonymous Perl and Apache --- Apache's embedded
Perl interpreter, mod-perl, integrates
Web services with scripting . . . . . . 97
Rich Grehan Object Marries Relational --- Ardent's
Java Relational Binding turns a
relational database into a Java
object-oriented database management
system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101--102
Anonymous Microsoft's Data-Acces Directions --- A
practical look at the giant's strategy 104K
Anonymous Storing Smart Saves Space --- HSM moves
little-used data where it belongs:
elsewhere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104C
Anonymous Multicast Offers Bandwidth Salvation ---
Three for data broadcasting . . . . . . 121
Anonymous If You Build It, Will They Come? ---
Sitara rewrites TCP . . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous Novell's New Directory Direction ---
With NDS for NT, Novell tries to solve a
big problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous OfficeMac: Worth Revisiting in 98 ---
Microsoft restores Mac/Windows file
compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Anonymous Doing Something About Microsoft ---
Jerry has some ideas about how to
resolve the Microsoft/Justice flap.
Plus, another encounter with Plug and No
Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Anonymous Previews of a new Toshiba Satellite and
Softimage's Digital Studio . . . . . . . 153
Anonymous Get to the Point --- A product to end
voice-mail hemming and hawing . . . . . 158
Anonymous New Notes and Domino . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous What's Up with Tape? . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous PowerPC: 400 MHz in '98 . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous GartnerGroup on Remote Access and the
Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous E-Commerce Strategy . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Pretty Thin, Very Wide --- Gateway's
Solo 5100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous Giant Heads, Monster Drives --- IBM's
GMR drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Your Brain in Software --- Natrificial's
The Brain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Anonymous JavaSoft Rides Again --- A peek at the
highlights of the upcoming JDK 1.2 . . . 46
David Wilner 120's OS Evolves . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Randy Sartin HP JetSend: Off-the-Cuff Communications 49
Tom R. Halfhill IBM's Powerhouse Chip . . . . . . . . . 51
Rick Dobson Scriptlets Simplified . . . . . . . . . 55
Bob Breton Reliable Data Replication . . . . . . . 57
Tom R. Halfhill Today's PCs are the most crash-prone
computers ever built Here's why, and
here's how you can make yours more
reliable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Mike Hurwicz Behind the Benchmarks --- Can you really
believe those test results the vendor
gave you? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Scott Mace Commodity Clusters --- The Virtual
Interface Architecture will tie together
clusters from multiple vendors . . . . . 87
Michael Stonebraker Betting on ORDBMS --- Informix's CTO
analyzes the capabilities of
object-relational databases in
line-of-business applications . . . . . 91
Rick Dobson Scriptlets to Energize Your Site ---
This technology could have major impact
on Web developers and their clients. We
look at its strengths and weaknesses . . 96NA1, 96NA4, 96NA6
George A. Stewart Prophetable Software --- Business
forecasting software is using new ideas
in statistics to improve the bottom line 97
Jon Udell Securing Mail and News . . . . . . . . . 105
Rick Grehan Small Footprint, Will Travel . . . . . . 109
Anonymous Help Desks Make the Web Connection ---
Web-based customer service can lower
costs and improve response . . . . . . . 112K
Anonymous Smartcard Invasion Continues ---
Security applications will be the
spearhead for these ``credit cards with
brains.'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112C
Barry Nance Jasmine Challenges Traditional Databases 129
Tom Yager Sun Makes a Desktop Gamble . . . . . . . 131
Tom Shafron Slip into Silverstream's Web App
Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Jerry Pournelle Good Enough Is Good Enough . . . . . . . 135
Anonymous Editorial Index by Company . . . . . . . 162
Anonymous Sony's 3-pound notebook, Dell's speedy
PII desktops, and Compaq's 5-pound
Armada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Anonymous Quality Problems --- An unlikely new use
for toothpaste and a call for Ugly Tech
Building photos . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Dave Andrews and
Jason Krause More PC Power to go: Intel's new mobile
processor brings Pentium II power to
portable PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24--24
Jason Krause Unixes for Merced . . . . . . . . . . . 25--26
Dan Coyle Security for Your Eyes Only:
Iris-Scanning Security . . . . . . . . . 26, 30
Eugene Mondrus How to Build an Electronic Store Fast 32, 36
Michael Gartenberg Gartnergroup Report: Win 98 or NT for
the PC Desktop? It Depends . . . . . . . 38--38
Steve Gillmor Java for Windows: Microsoft's Visual J++
6.0 ties Java ever more tightly into the
Windows platform . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--41
David Em 3D Labs Puts a Glint in Graphics World's
Eye: The first single-chip geometry and
lighting processor, 3D Lab's Glint GMX
2000 screams on Windows NT . . . . . . . 42--42
Barry Nance Unix Gears Up for Merced. SCO's new
UnixWare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--45
Gary Monti and
John Clay SMS: Ready for NT 5.0: Microsoft SMS
(Systems Management Server) 2.0 has
better inventorying and distribution,
but upgrading might be tricky . . . . . 46--46
Robert Krten A Tiny OS That Scales Up: QNX/Neutrino
is a microkernel-based OS suitable for
embedded applications. It can also be
scaled up for bigger jobs . . . . . . . 47--48
James Kempf and
Charles Perkins What's Your Service? The new Service
Location Protocol enables computers to
automatically locate and use resources
on the network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Susan Shimshock ColdFire Revisited: Motorola's
third-generation embedded processor
boosts performance with a RISC core . . 51
Paul Clip Servlets: CGI the Java Way: These
server-oriented Java classes offer
better performance than CGI programs.
They bring system-independence, too . . 55--56
Tony Cox Using Perl with Databases: For a Unix
shop, getting a Windows database
connected to the Web need not be an
expensive and time-consuming task . . . 57
Tom R. Halfhill How to Soup Up Java: Part 1: The rap on
Java is that it's too slow. Proponents
are inventing ways to speed it up,
including better compilers . . . . . . . 60--64, 66, 68, 70, 72, 74
Peter Wayner How to Soup Up Java, Part II: Nine
Recipes for East, Easy Java: A Maturing
Java brings a wide variety of
programming solutions to developers . . 76--80
Russell Kay Computers to Go: What to expect in the
future of portable computing . . . . . . 80
Ken Rudin When Parallel Lines Meet: Parallel
databases can wring the best performance
out of parallel processing hardware . . 81
Scott Mace Breaking Bandwidth Bottlenecks:
Management tools can prioritize traffic,
guarantee bandwidth, and cache data
closer to users . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Bruce Schneier The Crypto Bomb Is Ticking: Cracking
encryption gets easier as computers get
faster and cheaper. Now what? . . . . . 97
Jon Udell Deploying Effective HTML Forms: 10 tips
for creating the best Web forms you can 103
Rick Grehan TopLink Bridges Two Worlds: A pure Java
object-relational database system maps
Java objects to relational databases . . 107--108
Udo Flohr The Smallest Components: Deep inside
IBM's R&D labs, the future of computing
looks nanomechanical and optical . . . . 111
Karen Watterson The road to a Universal Repository:
Components technology heats up an old
idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112S
Michael Hurwicz Cracker Tracking: Tighter Security with
Intrusion Detection . . . . . . . . . . 112C, 112D, 112F, 112H, 112J
Alan Joch IDBC's Growing Pains: Java Database
Connectivity: Developers need more than
promises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112M, 112N, 112P
Dan Tanner 333-MHz Pentium IIs: Slow-Bus Swan Song:
We test 19 NT workstations powered by
Intel's Deschutes processor . . . . . . 114
Robert L. Hummel Cheap PCs: Bargain or Blunder? They cost
less than a grand: are they worth it? 125
William Wong Remote-Control Registry: Key Vision
removes a lot of the hassle and lets you
manage Windows 95 and NT registries from
afar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Michelle Campanale Remote Access for Short Attention Spans:
We check out Covad's TeleSpeed ADSL
service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Jerry Pournelle Four Ways to More Storage: Jerry tests
five methods to increase storage, from
adding disk drives, to RAID, to digital
video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Anonymous Index to Advertisers: Alphabetical Order 152
Anonymous Editorial Index by Company . . . . . . . 154
Robert L. Hummel Big backup on a budget, image editing
tools, easy Web access, and PA-RISC
notebooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Marc Abrahams The Click of Doom: A Delete key that
could save civilization and sanity . . . 160--160
Anonymous Intel's Low-Cost CPU . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Byte's Best of CeBIT . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous GartnerGroup Report: Firewalls . . . . . 34
Anonymous Voice-Mail Purgatory . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Detecting Hackers . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Visual InterDev Grows Up Fast ---
Microsoft's RAD Web tool . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous SmartSuite Heads for the Millennium ---
Lotus adds Web technology . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Qube Is Convenience Squared --- Services
for small LANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Anonymous A Portable Device for
PBX(a)Home-EXTender lets phones roam . . 48
Dinesh Dutt Bringing Quality of Service to IP . . . 49
Tony Cox MkLinux: Linux for the Power Mac . . . . 51
Osman Khan TriMedia Powers a Videophone . . . . . . 57
John Dreystadt Storing Java in a Relational Database 61
Anonymous Win98 roadmap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Ron Fryer Data-Warehouse Scalability . . . . . . . 63
John Montgomery Win98 roadmap . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Tom R. Halfhill Inside IA-64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--88
Cameron Laird and
Kathryn Soraiz Get a Grip on Scripts . . . . . . . . . 89
Marcus Ranum and
Scott Mace Finding Your Firewall . . . . . . . . . 96
Karen Watterson Part I: Enterprise Databases Battle On 97
Barry Nance Part II: Relations with Your Data . . . 100
Barry Nance Relations with Your Data . . . . . . . . 100
Jon Udell Local Web Servers . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Rick Grehan Rapid Java Development . . . . . . . . . 109
Udo Flohr Quantum Leaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Anonymous Buyer's Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112K
Anonymous Hackers in White Hats . . . . . . . . . 112O
Anonymous Sweet Dreams with Embedded Databases . . 112C
Robert L. Hummel Eight-Way Servers Race for the NT Prize 114
Anonymous A Pentium II Notebook That Talks to You:
Digital's HiNote VP 765 . . . . . . . . 122
Anonymous Is That Really You?: Nuance Verifier
knows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Anonymous C++ Forever!: Borland's C++ Builder 3 124
Anonymous 100-MHz: A System Bus for Tomorrow: PIIs
ride a faster bus . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous A ``Box'' Designed for Manageability:
Toshiba's Equium 7000S . . . . . . . . . 128
Jerry Pournelle A Smarter Windows 95 . . . . . . . . . . 129
Anonymous What's new: HP's multifunction machine,
Photoshop 5, graphics accelerators,
do-it-yourself G3 Mac upgrades, PII
servers, and lots of development tools 155
Marc Abrahams An experimental lecture hall and
software for the next celebrity requiem 160
Anonymous Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Better Notebook Screens . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous VPNs for Small Businesses . . . . . . . 21
Anonymous Windows: Fast Ink-Jet Takes on Lasers 24
Anonymous MMX Alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous GartnerGroup Report . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Networks: Windows Terminal Server Gets a
Hand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous A Perl for Web Developers . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Windows Terminal Server Gets a Hand . . 30
Anonymous Future Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Groupware: Browsing Through Notes . . . 33
Anonymous V.90 Modem Sets a Standard . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous Backup Software: Network Backup That
Users Will Like . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Bob Friesenhahn Operating Systems: Real Time Goes
Mainstream. New additions to the Post 39
William Stallings Networks: S/MIME E-mail Gets Secure . . 41
Tom Thompson CPUs: PowerPC Does Blazing Vector . . . 43
Rick Dobson Programming ECMAScript: The Holy
Standard? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
John Fomook Databases: Moving Mission-Critical Apps
to the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous Databases Year 2000 Survival Guide . . . 52
Anonymous Managing PC Costs . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous DSL's Devilish Details . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Web Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Inprise's JBuilder: Take 2 . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Computers with Attitude . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Thin's In: 20 LCD Monitors for Your
Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous When Push Comes to Serve . . . . . . . . 98
Michelle Campanale and
David Essex Hand-held PCs: Computing Out of Your
Palm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Tom Thompson Mac Notebook: The Most Powerful Notebook 107
Barry Nance Workgroup Server: A Server with Headroom 110
Anonymous The Days of Ninety-Eight . . . . . . . . 111
Anonymous Editorial Index (by Company) . . . . . . 138
Anonymous IBM's ThinkPad 600, monster
workstations, a funky desktop machine,
simple drawing software, and a
translation tool for Web sites . . . . . 139
Marc Abrahams A mouse that uses satellite technology,
and lessons in high tolerance . . . . . 144