The Diamond Multimedia Kit 6000 ($399) combines an IDE quad-speed CD-ROM drive, a 16-bit stereo-quality sound card, speakers, automatic installation software, and six finance and office-productivity applications. The CD-ROM drive provides a 600-KBps transfer rate, an access time of 230 ms, and a buffer size of 128 KB.
Contact: Diamond Multimedia Systems, San Jose, CA, (800) 468-5846 or (408) 325-7000.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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