The ChemBook Model 5400 and 5d Model 4100 notebooks (from $3450) come with double-speed or optional quad-speed CD-ROM drives, an 11.3-inch dual-scan or 10.3-inch TFT active-matrix screen, a touchpad, a joystick, a Microsoft Sound System- and Sound Blaster Pro- compatible 16-bit stereo sound system with a microphone and speaker, 1 MB of VRAM (expandable to 2 MB), and a 32-bit PCI video bus and Windows accelerator. Standard features include a 75-, 90-, 100-, or 120-MHz Pentium processor; 256 KB of L2 cache memory; 8, 16, or 32 MB of RAM; removable 340-MB, 500-MB, 810-MB, or 1-GB hard drives; a removable 1.44-MB floppy drive (to exchange an MPEG Plus video module); a high-speed serial port; PC Card slots; and power management.
Contact: Chem USA Corp., Hayward, CA, (800) 866-2436 or (510) 785-8080; fived@hoked.net.
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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