June 1996 / Bits

Pentium Pro Moves to the Desktop Four Paths to a Less Expensive Pentium Pro Geek Mystique	With Pentium competition increasing, Intel is now preparing to make its Pentium Pro THE desktop PC processor by late 1997. - by Tom R. Halfhill and Dave Andrews
ActiveX Chases Java	Sun Microsystems' Java is gaining popularity among Web publishers and has an early lead over Microsoft's new ActiveX. - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Yeah, But	Microsoft has rebounded strongly from a slow initial start in recognizing the importance of the Internet.
Tool Makers Take It to the Net	New components from Centra Software, Microsoft, Spyglass, and others provide Web-browser functions and lower-level Internet access that developers can integrate directly into their applications. - by Steve Apiki
Bug of the Month Indeterminate but Annoying	A Better UAE Than GPF
Portable Devices H ighlight Best of CeBIT Best of Cebit Finalists	Portable computing devices with built-in connectivity took top honors in BYTE's second annual Best of CeBIT awards.
Future Watch	Compression may relieve the demands on Internet bandwidth.
NT Notebooks Get Plug and Play--Sort of	Notebook vendor Digital Equipment is adding limited support for Plug and Play-like functionality to its Windows NT notebooks to please businesses that want NT on all their desktop and portable PCs.
Real Classes for Visual Basic A Touch of VB Class	Visual Basic 4.0 added a touch of class to its environment, but the implementation was incomplete. - by Rick Grehan
Survey What Java Developers Want Vital Statistics: Java Developers	Java developers want sample code. Based on responses we collected from a survey of visitors to BYTE's Web site (http://www.byte.com), respondents are excited about new Java-related programming opportunities, but they also need to increase their Java expertise.
How Java Can Pay the Rent	Developers eyeing Java development as a modern-day gold rush need to carefully weigh the pros and cons of marketing their wares. - by Robert L. Hummel
Book Review	A Gosh-Wow Look at the Future - by By Rick Cook
IBM to Improve Enterprise Support in OS/2 Warp Server Enterprise Server Support	IBM hopes to improve upon an already-solid server OS by adding support for multiprocessing as well as directory and security services to OS/2 Warp Server later this year. - by Deborah Hess
Faster, Fatter CD-ROM Titles on Hold	Although the next wave of CD-ROM drives promises higher performance than today's quad-speed and x6 drives, developers say that they will wait for the next CD-ROM standard, Digital Videodisc (DVD), to arrive before they release the next generation of "edutainment" titles. - by Dave Andrews
CD-ROM Review Computer-Assisted Musical Instruction	Personal Guitar Tutor - by Rich Friedman
A Road Map to Better Bandwidth Vinton Cerf, VP, MCI	Widely known as the father of the Internet because of his pioneering work in creating TCP/IP, Vinton Cerf, senior vice president of data services architecture at MCI, comments here on technologies that will improve Internet bandwidth.

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