August 1996 / Bits

New Desktop Standard: 200 MHz PowerPC and Pentium Results	Power users rejoice! Advances in processor technology bring new levels of affordable performance. - by Dave Andrews and Tom Thompson
Geek Mystique	Watch your notebook; it's become a popular target for thieves.
Vendors Eye Internet Telephony Standard	The best things in life are free, and, for now, so is making phone calls over the Internet. - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Yeah, But	Inconsistent availability of ISDN prevents this useful technology from ever becoming as popular in the U.S. as it is in Europe.
Stratus PC Server Wins Best of Comdex Best of Comdex Contact Information	Stratus Computer (Marlboro, MA, 800-RADIO PC; http://www.stratus.com) and its fau lt-tolerant RADIO PC server that supports N-way clustering under Windows NT won BYTE Magazine's Best of Show and Best System awards at COMDEX Spring '96.
Future Watch	New RAM technologies are almost as plentiful as ticks on a hound in August, but one that's gaining momentum is the new synchronous D RAM (SDRAM) standard.
Java Business Applications Arrive Wall Street Web	When many people think of Java, they think of window dressing for Web pages. - by Michael Shoffner
Bug of the Month The Web Can Be a Bumpy Ride	Look Out for the Guardrails on the Information Highway
Forget $500 P Cs: How About Free Ones?	Those $500 network PCs may be a bit overpriced. While industry leaders from such companies as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft debate the merits of networking-centric computers (aka Web PCs) that sell for $500 or less, others are creating products and services that assume widespread availability of ubiquitous "free" PCs. - by Gary W. Tripp
Look, It's VB -- No, Wait -- C++	It had to happen: a visual development environment undergirded by C++ yet so similar to Visual Basic that you have to stop and look closely to distinguish the two. - by Rick Grehan
Surv ey Where ISDN Is Used Hourly Tariff	ISDN at Home in the U.S.
Book Review	Unpredictable Discoveries - by Craig Nova
Windows 95 Stymies Blind Users	Despite promises to make Windows 95 more accessible to developers who create adaptive technology for the blind, much-awaited technology remains in Microsoft's labs and is still months away. - by Joseph J. Lazzaro
Lower Prices, Modularity, Lead Notebook Trends	What's next for PC notebooks? The answer is either not very much or a lot, depending on how far out you look. - by Jon Pepper
CD-ROM Review Easy Does It	One-Stop Convergence Infomart - by Rich Friedman
Notebooks: Weak Link in Ergonomics	Ergonomics is a hot topic among computer vendors and users, but the term notebook ergonomics remains an oxymoron.
MOLAP, ROLAP, Overlap Jeff Stamen, senior vice pres., Oracle	Jeff Stamen, senior vice president of Oracle's OLAP division, discusses the convergence of multidimensional and relational OLAP databases. - by Dave Andrews

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