October 1995 / News & Views

Intel's Rivals Ready to Exploit P6 Weakness Poor, Poky P6	Benchmarks run on an early reference system confirm that the P6 is not the best chip for running 16-bit software. AMD and Cyrix say they won't have the same problem. - by The Byte Staff
Coming: A Better Multimedia Platform Future Windows 95 Multimedia Schedule	Windows 95 includes numerous multimedia technologies, such as 32-bit video codecs, integrated MIDI and WAV audio, and support for enhanced audio CDs. - by Dave Andrews
New Replication Options in Access, Oracle, and Notes Access 95 It Won't Replicate New Computers, But Your Files Will be in Great Shape	The new 32-bit version of Microsoft's Access for Windows 95 database, which is slated to ship this fall, offers a host of new features. - by Rick Dobson
Whatever Happened To...	OS/2 for PowerPC? - by Dave Andrews
Run-Time Error Checking Comes to Compilers This Professional Knows All Boundaries CodeGuard Hooks C++, Avoids Ticking Crocodile	The familiar programmer's grind -- compile, run, debug, and repeat as necessary -- will have another major step added to it if proponents of run-time error checking have their way. - by Steve Apiki
We Plugged, but They Didn't All Play Floppies or CDs: APC Handles Them with Ease No Performance Anxiety for Future Domain	Windows 95 brings together a variety of components to make installing new peripherals in a PC as easy as upgrading a Mac. - by Rex Baldazo
Help Gets Natural Ask a Simple Question	To learn how to use the software they depend on, computer users have for years either dialed up technical-support lines or asked friends and coworkers. - by Chris O'Malley
Options Increase, Prices Drop For Mac Add-Ons Options Increase, Prices Drop for Mac Add-Ons	Mac users will find a wide variety of options this fall when choosing gra phics accelerators for their PCI Power Macs.
A New Age for OS/2 Programmers Visual A ge Makes All Components Converge in Harmony	A new version of IBM's Visual Age C++ development environment for OS/2 combines visual development tools with a compiler that generates executable programs comparable to those generated by Watcom's C/C++. - by Rick Grehan
Radio Comes to Cyberspace Internet Audio Applications	The golden days of radio are behind us, but a new era in audio broadcasting on the Internet is just beginning. - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
3-D Images That Float in Air 2-D and 3-D Working in Tandem	A newly developed system, called the High Definition Volumetric Display (HDVD), can pr oject images from a PC so that they appear to be solid objects suspended in the air. - by Wayne Kawamoto
Coming: (Almost) Free Internet E-Mail E-Mail Adoption Will Outpace Videoconferencing	When someone offers you something for nothing, there's usually a catch. - by Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols

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