June 1995 / News & Views

Chip Wars Drive Down PC Prices The x86 Race Intensifies Chips To Die For	Prices will drop and performance will increase as Intel faces some strong competition in the x86 microprocessor arena - by Tom R. Halfhill
PowerPC Tidal Wave	This spring and summer, Apple, IBM, and other companies will introduce the first Macs based on the PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus, the first PowerPC-based ThinkPad, and new PowerPC systems from IBM. - by Dave Andrews
Color Encroaches on the Desktop Color Splashes from the Desktop	Technological advances should accelerate the use of color output in both the home and the office over the next several years. - by Jon Pepper
Service Providers Consolidate	The days of numerous tiny ISPs (Internet service providers) may be ending. - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (sjvn@access.digex.net)
Vendors Ride Bus to Better Telephony SERIAL BUSES COMPARED	A new USB (universal serial bus) that supports a maximum of 12 Mbps could become a standard PC connector next year and eventually eliminate the mess of cables found behind today's PCs. - by Matt Tra sk
Pentium OverDrive = Moderate Upgrade PENTIUM OVERDRIVE YIELDS MODEST GAINS	Intel's Pentium OverDrive processor is a compromise design. - by Tom R. Halfhill
Getting Clear About Fuzzy Fuzzy Logic Can Illuminate Modeling and Design	What do pension plans, elevators, and battery chargers all have in common? - by Randy Cronk
An Early Survey of Windows 95 Plans	It's starting to look like Microsoft will release Windows 95 this August.
ANSI C Anywhere	Some time ago, a fellow BYTE editor loaned me his notes and documents from a conference on how to retarget GCC, the GNU C++ compiler. - by Rick Grehan
Windows 95 Sees Better Future	Windows has been a mixed blessing for disabled computer users. - by Joe Lazzaro
Whatever Happened To...	Hewlett-Packard's Kittyhawk? - by Nick Baran
Whatever Happened To...	IBM's Workplace Shell for DOS? - by Dave Andrews
Caching Could Stall Internet Commerce INTERNET INDEX	A technique used by service providers to give their users fast access to World Wide Web pages could stymie the plans of companies who want to rent out electronic-store space on the Internet. - by Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols

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