September 1996 / Bits

Cyrix 6x86 Matches Pentium Cyrix Leads in Application Performance	Application benchmarks show that Cyrix's new 6x86 processor deserves its "200" label. - by Dave Andrews
Geek Mystique	We know that movies with great special effects involving aliens from outer space require their audiences to suspend their disbelief to at least some degree.
Data Analysis Goes Upscale	Vendors of multidimensional-database products, seeking to address the complaint that their products can't effectively manag e databases larger than 10 GB, are improving their programs' abilities to deliver enterprise-level data analysis. - by Dave Andrews
Yeah, But	Because they operate more directly on relational databases without requiring a separate multidimensional database for on-line analytical processing (OLAP), re lational OLAP (ROLAP) products, such as Informix Software's Metacube, can manage much larger data volumes for applications.
OLAP Tools Tackle Bigger Tasks	Company, Product, and Highlights Planning Sciences' Gentia 3.0 Phone: 508-898-9510 Fax: 508-898-9511 Internet: http://www. gentia.com Now manages "up to 16 TB" per database; incremental data refreshes; centralized metadata layer for easier management.
SSA Products Deliver Better Storage	Next-generation disk-storage systems based on the Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) technology have arrived for desktop computer s ystems, offering numerous advantages over today's UltraSCSI solutions. - by Robert L. Hummel
Future Watch	A consortium of radar-detector manufacturers and the Georgia Institute of Technology have teamed up to create a more helpful -- and more useful -- radar detector. - by Jason K. Krause
Compaq Notebook Named Best of PC Expo Best of PC Expo	Compaq Computer's Armada 4100, a modular notebook PC that can morph from a thin, 5-pound notebook up to a full multimedia system, won BYTE's Best of Show and Best Portable awards at PC Expo.
Bug of the Month	U.S. Robotics Fixes Modem Meltdown
Visual RAD Gets Very Small	MP-Driveway plays in the realm populated by "deeply embedded" applications. - by Rick Grehan
Survey Tangled Up in Blue	BYTE Learns a Lesson in Web Surveys
New Macs Feature Latest PowerPCs	A new round of Macintoshes featuring the latest high-performance PowerPC processors was scheduled to arrive in early August.
Book Review	Serious Internet Tools - by Bart Preecs
Japanese PCs, Round Two	They're back. Early in the PC revolution, Japanese electronics giants, such as Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Sony, Toshiba, and others, appeared ready to dominate the U.S. computer market. - by Jon Pepper
CORBA, Java and the Web	Vendors of object development products are using the Web as a transport and communications mechanism for distributed objects and as a front end (via Java-based applets and browsers) for object applications. - by Deborah Hess
CD-ROM Review The Unification of the Trinity	A CASE for Better Multimedia - by Jason K. Krause
New Programs Take Better Dictation Win95 Dictation Highlights	Though not quite there yet, the latest speech-recogni tion programs are closer than ever to reaching the ultimate goal of speaker-independent, continuous dictation. - by Jon Pepper
Knuth Comments on Code Don Knuth	Don Knuth, currently working on volume 4 of his Art of Computer Programming and on Selected Papers on Computer Science, comments on good programming practices. - by Dave Andrews

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