The 1994 Fall Comdex in Las Vegas featured scads of sleek new notebooks, numerous Internet-navigation programs, and the commercial debut of the 32-bit Windows NT Workstation 3.5 and OS/2 Warp operating systems.
High-end notebooks, which pack performance and multimedia capabilities in about a 7-pound package, are accounting for an increasing percentage of portable sales.
- by Dave Andrews
Optical phase change has promised the most as a rewritable medium, but high hardware and medium costs have kept it out of the mainstream.
- by Michael Nadeau
In rare instances, I have the privilege of working with packages void of feature-bedecked user front ends that need a CD-ROM's worth of documentation to master.
- by Rick Grehan
The integration of CD-ROM jukeboxes (i.e., changers) and towers on a network is becoming more seamless, thanks to new hardware and software products for LAN administrators.
- by Salvatore Salamone
In January 1990, a group of major U.S. semiconductor and computer firms, including Advanced Micro Devices, DEC, HP, IBM, Intel, LSI Logic, and National Semiconductor, announced plans to form a new independent company called U.S. Memories.
- by Nick Baran
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