Reader Karl Richards asked in your June Letters section whether a 100-MHz Pentium actually runs at 99 MHz. That assumes the main bus runs at 33 MHz, but I have seen hundreds of so-called 33-MHz 486 CPUs and system boards marked as 33.3 or 33.33 MHz.
William Tsui
Destiny Software Productions, Inc.
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++.
BYTE Digest editors every month analyze and evaluate the best articles from Information Week, EE Times, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Network Computing, Sys Admin,
and dozens of other CMP publications—bringing
you critical news and information about wireless communication,
computer security, software development, embedded systems,
and more!
Give or Take a Megahertz
