Bad code can lead to disaster. Here's why there's a software crisis. And here's what you can do about it.
Three-dimensional games have changed enormously since the days of Atari Battlezone.
[author : Rex Baldazo]
A look at the technology behind the scenes of two dazzling, movie-like adventures: Phantasmagoria and Buried in Time.
[author : Tom R. Halfhill]
Microsoft's Win32 development kit will help make designing games for Windows 95 a less-scary adventure.
[author : John Montgomery]
All work and no play at Chaos Manor? Not hardly.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
Our Webmeister explains the Perl and HTML programming tricks under the hood of the new Virtual Press Room.
[author : Jon Udell]
Star Trek officers talk to their computers. Here's how we can, too.
[author : Judith Markowitz]
G-men get a new weapon. The FBI's DNA database is helping police nab suspects.
[author : Peter Wayner]
[theme : COMPUTER-CONTROLLED MANUFACTURING]
Big changes on the factory floor. New technology for data acquisition is changing the way that manufacturing works.
[author : Edmund X. Dejesus]
Manufacturing execution systems unite factory computers from the planning level to the machine level.
[author : Jim Esch]
Ready to turn your operation over to a bunch of algorithms? Neural networks and fuzzy logic are helping to control complex manufacturing processes.
[author : Lawrence Gould]
With ruggedized computers and PC Cards you can computerize collection of data in the factory or field.
[author : Claire Tristram]
The planned merger between Netscape and Collabra will result in a Notes-killer of an application, some say.
[theme : ON-LINE COLLABORATION]
Software houses are adding much more to their Windows communications programs than just data comm and fax.
[theme : WINDOWS ON THE WEB]
Organizations with beaucoup lines of COBOL code can now wrap it all in OLE controls and bring it into the world of Windows.
An update to our tests of the P6 chip.
[theme : BENCHMARK]
New x86 microprocessors will integrate DSP functions.
[theme : MEDIA PROCESSORS]
Developers claim 300-to-1 compression.
Previews of HP's CopyJet color printer/copier and Delrina's WinFax Pro for Windows 95.
CD-QuickShare speeds up your shared network CD-ROM drives.
[author : Rex Baldazo] [theme : NETWORK SOFTWARE]
HTML authoring and editing tools promise to make your documents Web-ready in no time. But few live up to their claims.
[author : Rex Baldazo and Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols] [theme : NEW-MEDIA TOOLS]
Microsoft Office 95 moves up to true 32-bitness, provides full OLE 2 support, and introduces the Bindery for mixing data from different applications.
[author : Stan Miastkowski] [theme : PRODUCTIVITY SOFTWARE]
Microsoft's new version of Access gets more than just the Windows 95 look. Replication technology helps coordinate changes.
[author : Rick Dobson] [theme : DATABASE SOFTWARE]
Symantec's new object-oriented compiler lets you distribute compilation jobs across the network.
[author : Raymond Ga Cote] [theme : PROGRAMMING TOOLS]
ObjecTime can reduce development time.
[author : Mike Bienvenu] [theme : PROGRAMMING TOOLS]
Some RAM doublers can help Windows 3.x manage physical and virtual RAM. And some can't;
[author : John M. Goodman] [theme : MEMORY MANAGERS]
Arbor Software's Essbase adds multidimensional analysis to familiar front ends, such as Lotus 1-2-3.
[author : Edmund X. Dejesus] [theme : INFO ANALYST]
SoftWindows 2.0 puts a 33-MHz 486 inside your Power Macintosh.
[author : Tom Thompson] [theme : OS EMULATOR]
Can't get enough speed? We test the latest 120-and 133-MHz Pentium machines using new Windows 95-based benchmarks.
[author : Anthony J. Lennon and John McDonough] [theme : HIGH-SPEED DESKTOP]
FreeBSD is fast and open, it runs powerful applications, and it won't cost you a cent.
[author : Jordan Hubbard] [theme : OPERATING SYSTEMS]
IBM and Motorola rev up the 603 and 604 and reduce their chips' hunger for power.
[author : Tom Thompson] [theme : CPUS]
With a bit of Visual Basic code, the author builds his own weather channel in a flash.
[author : Brett Glass] [theme : PROGRAMMING]
The Fast Ethernet standard specifies a variety of cabling types used in 100-Mbps networks.
[author : Paul Cunningham] [theme : NETWORKS]
Jerry provides advice for dodging a new breed of virus and then returns to his explorations of Windows 95.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
A wealth of detail on how Microsoft operates; plus, a CD-ROM satire on bad art.
You don't have to be a giant to succeed.
[author : James Martin]
[author : Raphael Needleman]
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