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Vol.19 n°12 december 1994

Vol.19 n°12 december 1994

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News & Views

News & Views

p.26 New Products Help Road Warriors Stay in Touch

p.26 New Products Help Road Warriors Stay in Touch

A new round of telecommunications-savvy products seek to improve the communications of telecommuters and mobile workers.

[theme : MOBILE COMPUTING]

p.27 Sony Releases Magic Cap Device

p.27 Sony Releases Magic Cap Device

Sony's new Magic Link PIC-1000 offers a break from traditionnal computing that at times enables and at other times hinders communications.

[theme : PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS]

p.30 Network Management Gets Physical

p.30 Network Management Gets Physical

To help make management easier for LAN administrators, vendors like NHC Communications are integrating physical network capabilities with their SNMP management programs.

[theme : LAN MANAGEMENT]

p.34 Holiday Gift Sampler

p.34 Holiday Gift Sampler

Holiday gift ideas for the BYTE reader include a build-your-own robot kit; cool CD-ROM games for DOS, Mac, and Windows; 3-D graphics/video accelerator cords; screen savers; and a card that brings 3DO games to the PC.

[theme : ENTERTAINMENT]

p.38 These Maps Lead to the Desktop

p.38 These Maps Lead to the Desktop

Companies are making their geographic information systems products available for personal computers in increasing numbers.

[theme : MAPPING]

p.40 Electronic Banking Faces Numerous Hurdles

p.40 Electronic Banking Faces Numerous Hurdles

The merger between Intuit and Microsoft will align two powerful software compagnies in the personal finance arena. Yet software vendors face numerous hurdles before electronic banking become ubiquitous.

[theme : PERSONAL FINANCE]

p.238 What's New

p.238 What's New

[theme : NEW PRODUCTS]

Cover Story

Cover Story

p.50 Apple's High-Tech Gamble

p.50 Apple's High-Tech Gamble

Apple is betting on three new technologies that it hopes will transform its future. But if Apple guesses wrong, it could finish the decade as a minor player.

[theme : NEW TECHNOLOGIES] [author : Tom R. Halfhill]

p.64 Macs in the Enterprise

p.64 Macs in the Enterprise

p.68 A 110-MHz PowerPC Speed Demon

p.68 A 110-MHz PowerPC Speed Demon

Features

Features

p.74 Solutions Focus: High-Tech Training

p.74 Solutions Focus: High-Tech Training

Computer-based training keeps employees up to speed.

[theme : MULTIMEDIA] [author : Mickey Williamson]

p.89 Write an NT Winsock Service

p.89 Write an NT Winsock Service

The emerging Winsock standard can make writing networked services for Windows NT more palatable. This hands-on guide answers WinSock design questions.

[theme : APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT] [author : Chuck Chan, Margaret K. Johnson, Keith Moore and David Treadwell]

State of the Art

State of the Art

p.104 Network Management

p.104 Network Management

Take a look at how you can sort out the pieces of your network puzzle.

[theme : NETWORKS] [author : Russel Kay]

p.109 Monitoring Your Net

p.109 Monitoring Your Net

You say you don't know what's happening on your network, bucko? What's with every interface card, router, bridge, and hub? Where the bottleneck and problems are? Here's how to find out.

[author : Paul Korzeniowski]

p.117 (Mis)using Bandwidth

p.117 (Mis)using Bandwidth

Increasing network performance tops almost everyone's wish list. But be careful when deciding to use a more glamourous technology just to gain bandwidth. Other factors may have a greater influence over network performance than bandwidth.

[author : Brett Husselbaugh]

p.129 ATM Traffic Control

p.129 ATM Traffic Control

How the ATM traffic cops maintain orderly data flow and guarantee service to high-bandwidth applications.

[author : Mark Juliano]

p.130 ATM with a French Accent

p.130 ATM with a French Accent

Reviews

Reviews

p.139 Low-Cost Color Lasers

p.139 Low-Cost Color Lasers

New laser models offer color-printing quality and per-page costs competitive with the best ink-jet printers but with laser-printer speed and networking capabilities. Tom Thompson reviews the color lasers from HP, QMS, and Xerox.

[theme : PRINTERS] [author : Tom Thompson]

p.145 Simonizing the PDA

p.145 Simonizing the PDA

BellSouth's Simon is here. Able to send and receive E-mail, faxes, and pages, it's easily the most communicative PDA to date.

[theme : PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS] [author : Chris O'Malley]

p.153 Collecting Facts from Fax

p.153 Collecting Facts from Fax

[theme : ELECTRONIC FORMS] [author : Stan Miastkowski]

p.163 SCSI Rides High on PCI

p.163 SCSI Rides High on PCI

SCSI host adapters from Adaptec, BusLogic, and Future Domain bridge Fast SCSI-2 to faster PCI. But performance testing under NetWare shows that all PCI SCSI cards are not created equal.

[theme : INTERFACE ADAPTERS] [author : Steve Apiki]

p.169 Software Roundup: Four Peer Operating Systems

p.169 Software Roundup: Four Peer Operating Systems

Peer-to-peer LANs are now better at managing resources, and file integrity will improve as future OS/2- and Windows 95-based systems emerge. Tests of four top players reveal important differences in speed, compatibility, and security.

[theme : NETWORKING] [author : Barry Nance]

Core Technologies

Core Technologies

p.211 Pentium Chip's Dual Personality

p.211 Pentium Chip's Dual Personality

Here's how the P54C supports dual-processor configurations.

[theme : CPUS] [author : Roeland Van Krieken]

p.213 CTOS Revealed

p.213 CTOS Revealed

CTOS shows the practical business benefits of a microkernel architecture.

[theme : OPERATING SYSTEMS] [author : Dirk S. Faegre and Jon Udell]

p.217 Programming in Tight Spaces

p.217 Programming in Tight Spaces

[theme : PROGRAMMING] [author : Rick Grehan]

p.221 Network Spoofing

p.221 Network Spoofing

Network protocols constantly exchange management information. LAN users normally don't notice the lost bandwidth, but over a slower WAN connection, it can be significant. Worse, WAN connections are often charged on a usage basis. Spoofing is one technique to reduce network overhead.

[theme : NETWORKS] [author : Jeffrey Fritz]

Opinions

Opinions

p.225 Pournelle: Can You Say Network?

p.225 Pournelle: Can You Say Network?

[author : Jerry Pournelle]

p.45 Books and CD-ROMs: Not-So-Successful Reengineering

p.45 Books and CD-ROMs: Not-So-Successful Reengineering

Reengineering, trip-planning CD-ROMs, a multivolume set on BSD Unix, and Unix whiners.

[author : Thornton May and others]

p.292 Commentary: Teach Formal Methods

p.292 Commentary: Teach Formal Methods

A look at the development of safety-critical systems.

[author : John Cuadrado]

p.10 Editorial

p.10 Editorial

[author : Dennis Allen]

p.41 Blast from the Past

p.41 Blast from the Past

Highlights from two decades of covering the PC revolution.

p.18 Letters

p.18 Letters

Plug and Play criticism and the OS/2 debate.

p.234 Reader Survey

p.234 Reader Survey

READER SERVICE

READER SERVICE

p.290 Editorial Index by Company

p.290 Editorial Index by Company

p.286 Alphabetical Index to Advertisers

p.286 Alphabetical Index to Advertisers

p.288 Index to Advertisers by Product Category

p.288 Index to Advertisers by Product Category

Inquiry Reply Cards: 144A, 288A

Inquiry Reply Cards: 144A, 288A

p.247 BUYER'S GUIDE

p.247 BUYER'S GUIDE

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