August 1996 / Reviews

Mainstreaming Pentium Pro Ratings NT Performance Buy MS-T for Me	With a new Intel chip, AST's Bravo MS -T 6200 is a high-end PC with a low-end price. - by Selinda Chiquoine
Navigator Turns 3.0 Ratings Something Old, Something New Where Plug-Ins Connect Plugged Into Communication	Netscape throws everything but the kitchen sink into the new upgrade of the Web's premier browser. - by Rex Baldazo
ThinkPad Proves You Can Be Too Thin Ratings The Screen's the Heavy More Than Width is Lost	IBM's new ThinkPad 560 packs a lot of features and power into its sleek frame -- but not without compromise. - by Dave Andrews
Move Aside, Mac Ratings BYTEMark 2.0 A Towering Dream	Power Computing's 180-MHz Mac clone reveals the power of RISC. - by Tom Thompson
UltraSCSI Doubles Speed Weighing the Features Ratings Discussion Technology: UltraSCSI Performance Adaptec BusLogic QLogic Setting Priorities SCSI ID Priority On the OEM Front It's Everywhere! It's Everywhere!	Wide UltraSCSI host-adapter cards double your bandwidth to 40 MBps. - by Robert L. Hummel
SQL Server: The Sequel's Better Ratings SQL Server 6.5 Making Book on SQL Server 6.5 SQL Server 6.5 Row Locking vs. Page Locking The Locking Competition	Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 aims high -- and usually hits the mark. - by Mark Het tler
Microsoft's Suite Victory Best Overall: Microsoft Office Professional Performance Features Overall Performance Load/Access/Print Applied Strength Creates Winner	Office 95 loses some battles but wins the war against Corel WordPerfect Suite and Lotus SmartSuite 96. - by David Seachrist and Russell Kay
Containing the Compound Document Compound Document	In a sense, computer users have always had compound documents incorporating text, graphics, tables, and spreadsheet data.

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