May 1996 / Core Technologies

Mips R5000: Fast, Affordable 3-D R5000 at a Glance Inside the R5000	Mips has optimized its latest CPU for the single-precision floating-point math operations common in 3-D graphics - by Tom R. Halfhill
The Be-All of Operating Systems How Developers Interact with the Be OS BS Evolves into the New Be OS	Be, Inc., hopes that abandoning legacy systems to create a modern OS will draw developers to the BeBox computer - by Rex Baldazo
Parallel Computing -- Windows Style How to Fake a Parallel Machine NAS Benchmarks Performance	A cluster of PCs working in parallel can speed up some operations - by Alexandre Alves
Fibre Channel: Fast and Flexible Pick Your Protocol Five Problems Fibre Channel Solves	While it's still ideal for connecting high-speed peripherals, Fibre Channel now fits into many high-speed network architectures - by Doug Anderson

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