September 1995 / Reviews

Gateways to the Internet Where to Find The Big 3 of Net Surfing Convenience, but at What Price? Big 3 Co st Comparison	America Online, CompuServe, and Prodigy offer Web browsers, FTP, and more, but these services aren't for everyone - by George Bond
Turning an Ugly Duckling into a Hollywood Swan Where Winsock Fits In MSN: Desktop Internet Where to Find The Microsoft Network: Desktop Internet	To seamlessly integrate the World Wide Web into its existing service, CompuServe faced two technical challenges: supporting the Internet protocols and getting the software front ends (i.e., the CompuServe access software and the Web browser) to talk to each other.
Presentation Quality Product Information ThinkPad Does Double Duty Double Your Pleasure	Snap-on, snap-off: IBM's slick new screen technology turns the ThinkPad 755CV into a remote-control color presentation panel - by Edmund X. Dejesus
Networking at Warp Speed Product Information New Software Turns People into Peers The Networking Difference Sniffing Out LAN Hardware Better Than a Bloodhound	Easy LAN installation and peer services make IBM's OS/2 Warp Connect a serious network contender - by Barry Nance
To Print a Rainbow Product Information Truly Heavy Printers Squeezing Colors from Pixels Laser Technology Smooths the Grade	Next-generation color lasers from Apple and Tektronix set high standards for print quality, connectivity, and convenience - by Tom Thompson
3-D Graphics Go Zoom Product Information Viewperf OpenGL Results High-Performance That Won't Break the Budget A Whole Lotta Buffers GLZ2 Not Just Glitz	Intergraph and Omnicomp offer different routes to speedy 3-D - by Greg Loveria

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