The MPC3-compliant Diamond Power Kit 7000 ($399) combines a 16-bit Wavetable Diamond sound card, a quad-speed CD-ROM drive, speakers, an ergonomic joystick, a microphone, and 22 entertainment and reference titles. The sound card uses advanced data-compression technology to fit 2 MB of prerecorded audio samples into 1 MB of memory. The Photo CD- and Multisession XA-compatible CD-ROM drive transfers data at 600 KBps with an access time of 240 ms and a buffer size of 128 KB. The amplified 15-W-per-channel speakers offer separate volume, bass, and treble controls.
Contact: Diamond Multimedia Systems, San Jose, CA, (800) 468-5846 or (408) 325-7000;
http://www.diamondmm.com
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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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