December 1994 / BYTE Lab Product Report

19 Pentiums	We evaluate 19 high-performance Pentiums for speed, usability, expandability, features, and price - by Chandrika Mysore and John Mcdonough
High-Performance Pentiums For General Business Rankings for This Category The best Pentium for business applications... When expandability is your primary concern... Need a 90-MHz Pentium at a reasonable price?	You might think that buying a 90-MHz Pentium for everyday business tasks such as spreadsheet calculations or word processing is overkill.
90-Mhz Pentiums As SQL Servers Performance of SQL Server Tests	Harnessing the power of a 90-MHz Pentium for SQL Server applications seems like a good idea, but during testing, we were plagued with incompatibility problems--both when installing Windows NT 3.1 and building the SQL Server for N T 4.21 database.
How We Tested	PERFORMANCE We tested each system under Windows 3.1, DOS 6.0, and SCO Unix 3.2.4.
CAD And Graphics Illustration: Graph: Rankings for This Category Great performance and an excellent design Need to upgrade your graphics workstation? A Pentium system priced to sell	The CAD/CAM market is one of the healthiest segments in the computer industry.
Unix Illustration: Graph: Rankings for This Category Digital delivers the best overall Unix box 10 drive bays and slots galore... Hertz scales the price/performance curve	The 90-MHz Pentium market has matured since our last systems Lab Report, but not remarkably so for Unix implementations.
The Dual-Processor Pentium	The latest incarnation of Intel's Pentium processor does more than simply run faster than the older 60- and 66-MHz versions.
Mitsuba's VIP System-90MHZ	Mitsuba's VIP System-90MHZ, the Hertz P90, and Dyna Micro's Dyna System 590 offer the flexibility of VL-Bus and PCI local-bus expansion slots in ISA-based designs.
Tower systems dominate	Tower systems dominate our Pentium roundup, yet we loved the internal design of Zenith Data Systems' Z-Station EX desktop Pentium.
Roll Call Of Pentiums Tested

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