April 1994 / News & Views

Intel Pushes the 80x86 Envelope	In terms of sheer processing power, Intel is behind the RISC curve. Its next-generation Pentium, the P6, may only keep the gap from widening even further. But for Intel, that may be enough. - by Dave Andrews
Apple Opens the Mac OS	After years of carefully guarding its Macintosh system software, Apple (Cupertino, CA) is taking steps to spread the Mac OS to several different platforms, including the unprecedented step of licensing System 7 to third-party clone makers. - by Tom R. Halfhill
Apple's 680X0 Emulation For Unix	Licensing System 7 to third parties isn't the only part of Apple's spread-the-Mac strategy. - by T.R.H.
Video Acceleration in the Fast Lane Video Fast-Lane Lineup	When designing multimedia PCs, systems engineers face a number of factors that conspire to make digital-video-capable PCs pricey while limiting their digital-video playback to quite unexciting, often postage-stamp-size movies. - by Russ Lock wood
35mm-Size Display Has VGA Resolution	It may not be long before you can wear a head-mounted display that's about the size of a 35mm slide yet sports 640- by 480-pixel VGA resolution. - by Nicholas Baran
Motif Offers Variation on LCD Theme	It's been a scant eight months since the Clinton administration repealed the anti-dumping tariff on imported active-matrix LCDs. - by Ed Perratore
Mad Macs and the Code Warrior	Lately, a great deal of attention has been focused on all the new CPUs supporting (or promising to support) Windows and Windows NT. - by Rick Grehan
Sun Aims High in First "Mobile" System	Until now, Sun Microsystems has been content to let companies such as RDI Computer (San Diego) and Tadpole Technologies (Cambridge, U.K.) sell portable, Sun-compatible systems. - by Andy Reinhardt
Six Accomplishments of AI	1. AI software, and software in general, is now much faster, more accurate, and more logical than most humans. - by Joseph Weintraub (joweintraub@delphi.com)
C rossTies Breaks New PIM Ground	In an industry riddled with buzzwords, the term object-oriented is one of the most abused. - by Stan Miastkowski
TI Charges into the Notebook CPU Wars	What do you want from a notebook chip set? Texas Instruments is betting that it's PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus speed combined with 3.3-V, clock-doubled 486 power and extremely low power consumption. - by Alexis Tannenbaum
New Access Targets Wider Audience	Although Access 1.0 did an admirable job of allowing developers to write applications without having to delve into code, Microsoft's $99 introductory price tag attracted many end users who were overwhelmed by the program. - by Selinda Chiquoine
Access 2.0 Highlights for Programmers	Subforms Although not new to Access 2.0, the subform feature lets you show an embedded subform on a main form. - by Rick Mara
Banyan Breaks Out	Banyan is expanding beyond the NOS (network operating system) business and bringing its Enterprise Network Services to other leading platforms.

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