1996 22.02 1998

Vol.22 n°2 february 1997

Vol.22 n°2 february 1997

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COVER STORY

COVER STORY

p.66 Your E-Mail Is Obsolete

p.66 Your E-Mail Is Obsolete

Internet-based messaging could make your current system outdated. Here's help for surviving the transition to Net mail technology.

[author : Michael Nadeau]

EDITORIAL

EDITORIAL

p.14 Cadillacs or Cherokees?

p.14 Cadillacs or Cherokees?

It's wise not to confuse newness with appropriateness.

[author : Mark Schlack]

INBOX

INBOX

p.19 BYTE readers write about Copland, network computers, impolite robots—and users, and our 64-bit future.

p.19 BYTE readers write about Copland, network computers, impolite robots—and users, and our 64-bit future.

BITS

BITS

p.26 Just How Fast Are Those New MMX Chips?

p.26 Just How Fast Are Those New MMX Chips?

p.27 Best of Comdex

p.27 Best of Comdex

p.28 The Networked House

p.28 The Networked House

p.30 Unhinged Notebooks

p.30 Unhinged Notebooks

p.32 Bad News for Broken Portables

p.32 Bad News for Broken Portables

p.34 Internet Faxing

p.34 Internet Faxing

p.36 Better Backbones

p.36 Better Backbones

p.38 Improbable Research

p.38 Improbable Research

p.40 Lessons in Data Mining

p.40 Lessons in Data Mining

STATE OF THE ART

STATE OF THE ART

p.82 CTI Matures

p.82 CTI Matures

Integrating computers and telephones is still tricky, but new hardware and development tools are making the job easier.

[author : Alan Joch]

p.85 CTI, Piece by Piece

p.85 CTI, Piece by Piece

These basic building blocks can help you launch a successful CTI implementation.

[author : John Silling]

p.91 Tools for Telephony Apps

p.91 Tools for Telephony Apps

Here's how to find the right telephony development tools, for your needs and skill level.

[author : Michael Nadeau]

SPECIAL REPORT

SPECIAL REPORT

p.123 Share the Wealth

p.123 Share the Wealth

p.125 Which OS?

p.125 Which OS?

p.131 Suite and Sour

p.131 Suite and Sour

p.133 Power to the Server

p.133 Power to the Server

EVAL

EVAL

p.40A On TV: The Set-Top Morphing PowerPC

p.40A 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.

[author : Peter Wayner]

p.42 Delphi Does C++

p.42 Delphi Does C++

Borland's popular RAD tool sheds its Pascal beginnings and gets a new name: C++ Builder.

[author : Rick Grehan]

p.47 3-D Mighty Mite

p.47 3-D Mighty Mite

Dynamic Pictures' Oxygen 202 is a single-slot PCI card that can compete with 3-D graphics accelerators.

[author : Robert L. Hummel]

p.48 Your PC's Ringing—Answer It!

p.48 Your PC's Ringing—Answer It!

With EtherPhone, you can turn your Ethernet LAN into a phone system easily and inexpensively.

[author : Barry Nance]

CORE

CORE

p.51 Fault Tolerance for Windows Applications

p.51 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.

[author : João Carreira and Diamantino Costa and João Gabriel Silva] [theme : Operating systems]

p.55 Building Bridges and Secure Connections

p.55 Building Bridges and Secure Connections

A look at the Point-to-Point Protocol and how it fits into the corporate network.

[author : Jeffrey Fritz] [theme : Networks]

p.59 The Mac Goes Multiprocessor

p.59 The Mac Goes Multiprocessor

A new library and API enable preemptive multitasking and multiprocessing on Mac OS machines.

[author : Tom Thompson] [theme : CPUs]

p.63 Python Does Scripts and Objects

p.63 Python Does Scripts and Objects

Python is a platform-independent OOP language with capabilities ranging from simple scripting to sophisticated object libraries.

[author : Jeffrey P. Shell] [theme : Programming]

LAB REPORT

LAB REPORT

p.100 13 Graphics Cards for Business

p.100 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

[author : Dorothy Hudson, Jim Kane and John McDonough] [theme : Hardware]

p.108 Present a Businesslike Slide Show

p.108 Present a Businesslike Slide Show

Present your case more effectively with one of these five graphics packages.

[author : David Seachrist] [theme : Software]

WEB PROJECT

WEB PROJECT

p.117 NT Security

p.117 NT Security

How to make Windows NT a secure Internet platform.

[author : Jon Udell]

COMPARISON

COMPARISON

p.141 All 12X CD-ROM Drives Are Not Equal

p.141 All 12X CD-ROM Drives Are Not Equal

A look at the first four 12X CD-ROM drives.

[author : Jacqueline Emigh]

REVIEWS

REVIEWS

p.140 Eudorable Web Mail

p.140 Eudorable Web Mail

Eudora has a new, 32-bit Windows client and enhanced filtering options..

[author : Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols]

p.145 Tune In, Turn On the Web

p.145 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.

[author : Pete Loshin]

CHAOS MANOR

CHAOS MANOR

p.149 Of Bug-Hunting and a New Frontier

p.149 Of Bug-Hunting and a New Frontier

Jerry offers his opinions on what's best for the desktop in the new age of graphics.

[author : Jerry Pournelle]

WHAT'S NEW

WHAT'S NEW

p.182 Two things for the modern Jack Kerouac to take on the road: DeLorme's Tripmate satellite navigator and Millenia's Email Reader.

p.182 Two things for the modern Jack Kerouac to take on the road: DeLorme's Tripmate satellite navigator and Millenia's Email Reader.

CODE TALK

CODE TALK

p.192 Java's RAD Route to Data Access

p.192 Java's RAD Route to Data Access

Developing distributed data access applications? Visual Café Pro can handle some of the ugliness for you.

[author : Rick Grehan]

SERVICE

SERVICE

Reader service

Reader service

Inquiry Reply Cards: 144A-B, 144C-D, 176A-B

Index to Advertisers

Index to Advertisers

p.176 Alphabetical Order

p.176 Alphabetical Order

p.178 Product Category

p.178 Product Category

p.180 Editorial Index by Company

p.180 Editorial Index by Company

Program listings

Program listings

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