QuickRing (see ``Fast Transit,'' October 1992 BYTE)
When BYTE first covered QuickRing, it was as a potential local-bus architecture that could compete with PCI and VL-Bus. PCI has since gained momentum as a system bus; however, expect a number of vendors to announce QuickRing products this fall that complement today's PC architectures by moving large amounts of data over the top of the system bus via card-to-card interconnects or between computers using copper cable.
QuickRing supports sustained data transfer of 150 to 180 MBps. Companies such as Ariel (Highland Park, NJ) and CSPI (Billerica, MA) say they will use QuickRing as a high-speed data highway to interconnect DSP-based boards. Other companies like Matrox (Dorval, Quebec, Canada) will use QuickRing as a backbone to interconnect the company's PC-based Ethernet switchin
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Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
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is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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