July 1994 / Reviews

Network Management Systems The Facts OVERVIEW Highlights	BYTE evaluates the most popular tools for testing and monitoring complex LANs
Easing Windows' Graphics Bottle neck The Facts Performance For 64-Bit Graphics Accelerator Cards	New 64-bit graphics accelerator cards break Windows performance barriers - by Greg Loveria
A Bigger Bus	Generally, an on-board accelerator chip can transfer graphics data between itself and banks of dual-ported VRAM (video RAM) faster than it can with DRAM, and faster over a 64-bit data path than a 32-bit path.
PowerPC Hits the Road The Facts Unix Benchmarks	IBM's high-priced PowerPC notebook makes AIX truly portable - by Bruce Dawson
Friendly Acquisition The Facts	Seven tools for building data acquisition applications in Windows--without writing a single line of code - by Ira Eglowstein
Linking Development Teams The Facts	DEC's CohesionWorX de livers a sophisticated software development environment spanning heterogeneous networks - by Edmund X. DeJesus
Controlling Cross-Platform Objects	DEC's ACAS (Application Control Architecture Services) uses an object-oriented client/server paradigm to handle applications: A client requests services ; a server provides requested services.
Power Workstation at a Pentium Price The Facts Performance Results	HP's 712/60 uses innovative hardware packaging and the superscalar PA-7100LC CPU to achieve a low-cost, high-performance Unix workstation - by Ben Smith

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