October 1994 / News & Views

BPR Tools Help You Work Smarter	We've heard about business process reengineering for more than four years. A new breed of affordable applications can help managers analyze and automate businesses. - by John Vacca and Dave Andrews
The Pentium Goes Mainstream Pentium Pricing Scorecard	Pentium-based systems sporting high-capacity enhanced IDE hard drives, fast graphics, and integrated CD-ROM drives will highlight PC announcements this fall. - by Dave Andrews and Jon Pepper
TV Services Add Value to Desktop PCs Did You Know...	Computers from Apple, Packard Bell, and other vendors that combine PC computing and TV reception are now available in the $1500 price range. - by Michael Nadeau
Apple's Affordable Audiovisual Macs	Apple's new 630 series of Macs feature s a modular design that makes audiovisual capabilities like watching TV in a window and recording live video as a QuickTime movie available in systems for under $1500. - by Tom Thompson
``Intel's VDI Speeds Up Video, Miffs Microsoft''	The feud between Intel and Microsoft on how to improve video play back performance in Windows (see ``Intel's VDI Speeds Up Video, Miffs Microsoft,'' November 1993 BYTE).
Taiwanese Vendors Wait for Operating Systems Typical Taiwan New PC Consortium Road Map	IBM is mum about when it will ship its next round of PowerPC machines--the ones that run something other than AIX--and major PC vendors are taking a wait-and-see attitude toward the chip. - by Dennis Barker (John Donovan, a reporter in Hong Kong, also contributed)
Low-Cost Video Acceleration Arrives	New graphics cards that deliver Windows acceleration and improved full-motion video playback are starting to hit the market for less than $500. - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
MoSys Offers Better Memory for Video	A video data stream can move only as fast as the slowest component in its path. - by SJVN
Coming ``Soon'': 3-GB CD-ROMs	A significant limitation of current CD-ROM standards is their inability to allow more than 70 minutes of compressed VHS-quality video on a disc. - by Michael Nadeau and Bram Vermeer
Ethernet Switching at a Fraction of the Cost Ethernet Switching-Hub Cards At A Glance	Even with the benefits of improved network performance, companies hesitate to use Ethernet switching because it appears to be too expensive or unfamiliar. - by Salvatore Salamone
System Commander for Multiple Operating-System Projects	I was at the beginni ng of a protracted development project that would require me to install several operating systems on a single PC. - by Rick Grehan
Software-Key Escrow Emerges	For the last year, the U.S. government tried to convince the country that it should embrace the Clipper encryption chip--the top-secret c hip for protecting secrets that came with a trapdoor that allowed law-enforcement officials to listen in. - by Peter Wayner

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