Michael Lombardi's article "Keeping Time on Your PC" (October 1993) was interesting, although I believe this quest for the most exacting universal time is only worthy of Don Quixote.
In "The State of Multimedia" (October 1993), Jerry Pournelle hit it right on the head when he said, "students will always be successful if you redefine success.
I have a big 486 with many bells and whistles--including one of the best video cards, a caching disk controller, 8 MB of memory--and I've run into a performance barrier.
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