Before digital currency can replace paper and coin, four technology issues need to be resolved.
[author : Udo Flohr]
New technologies will raise capacities and lower prices of tomorrow's storage devices.
[author : Edmund X. DeJesus]
Quantum mechanics meets dazzling aerodynamics at 10,000 rpm in hard drives: the next generation.
[author : Edmund X. DeJesus]
Flash memory hasn't replaced the hard disk, but it's showing up in all kinds of devices.
[author : Rick Cook]
What you need to know to record your own CD-ROMs.
[author : Jason J. Hyon and Michael D. Martin]
Comparing a trio of 3-D technologies: SGI's OpenGL, Apple's QuickDraw, and Microsoft's Direct3D.
[author : Tom Thomson]
[author : Raphael Needleman]
Apple's low-level rendering system provides a cross-platform API for 3-D graphics acceleration.
[author : Peter Wayner] [theme : Operating Systems]
Browsers can provide a front end to all that data on big iron.
[author : Salvatore Salamone] [theme : Networks]
A look inside a DSP that's also a microcontroller.
[author : Tom Thompson] [theme : CPUs]
Here's how VxDs cope with Win 95's mix of old 16-bit applications and new Win32 programs.
[author : Rick Grehan] [theme : Programming]
Our Web wizard discusses the good and the bad of Web-based conferencing applications.
[author : Jon Udell]
Polywell's new Alpha workstation is the fastest machine we've ever tested, but its performance drops off in less CPU-intensive tests.
[author : Selinda Chiquoine]
NEC fixed the card-compatibility problems with its LCD300 flat-panel display and slashed price in half.
[author : Susan Colwell]
VDOLive software promises real-time video via the Net. Too good to be true?
[author : Stephen Satchell and H. B. J. Clifford]
Apple jazzes up its diminutive Duo notebook with a 603e chip. Dock it, and you'd think you're running a PowerPC desktop machine.
[author : G. Armour Van Horn]
Inquiry Reply Cards: 136NA 11-12, 208A-B
Microsoft's Exchange Server has gone great e-mail features. But groupware it's not.
[author : Steven J. Vaughan- Nichols]
Our tests of three single-line ISDN adapters—from ADAK, Motorola, and 3Com—prove that low-cost digital connections are finally here.
[author : J. N. Fritz]
[author : Jim Kane and Dorothy Hudson]
Testing of four programs for building Windows client/server applicatons reveals the best tools.
[author : Mark Hettler]
Jerry takes a trip to Baltimore for the AAAS annual meeting. Back home, he installs a removable drive on Pentafluge.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
Stereoscopic headsets and hand-controlled pucks won't be just for games for long.
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