November 1996 / Bits

Windows for Tiny PCs Windows CE Highlights	Seamless information synchronization with desktop PCs will highlight Windows CE. - by Dave Andrews
Geek Mystique Net Access Joins Mom and Apple Pie	Surf Now, Fly Later - by Dave Andrews
Web Info the Way You Want It Au Courant and Customized	The strength of the Internet -- its vast collection of information -- is a double-edged sword. - by Dave Andrews
Yeah, But	The Internet is growing so fast that we can't keep up with it.
Cyrix 6x86 Bug Puts Brak es on NT 4.0 NT Slow on Some Cyrix 6x86 Chips	Cyrix has apparently fixed a bug in its flagship 6x86 processor that results in sluggish performance of Windows NT 4.0, but not before chips affected by the bug reached the market. - by Robert L. Hummel
Future Watch	Cruising Twenty-First Century Style - by Dave Andrews
CD-ROM Weds the Web CDs Say "I Do" to Web Access	Although digital videodisc (DVD), the impending new CD-ROM standard, is currently attracting much attention, another important trend in optical storage is the marriage of the CD-ROM and the Internet's World Wide Web. - by Dave Andrews
Bug of the Month Even Authenticated Controls Can Explode	Be Careful Out There!
FlashPix: Future Graphics Lingua Franca?	It isn't often that a file format generates much excitement or offers much to end users, but the new FlashPix architecture may be the exception. - by Jon Pepper
Survey Web Commerce: One Strategy Does Not Fit All	Web-Commerce Polarization
Java Forms: Better than HTML	Now that forms vendors have tackled the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) problem, they are addressing the next step in Internet forms software, the incorporation of Java. - by Dave Andrews
Book Review: What Was the Question?	The Robot's Dilemma Revisited: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence edited by Kenneth M. Ford and Zenon W. Pylyshyn; Ablex Publishing Corp., 141 pages, ISBN 1-56750-143-5, $22.95 The most obvious problem with this collection of nine essays on the frame problem in AI is that it does not tell you exactly what the frame problem is. - by Edmund X. DeJesus
Book Review: Deluxe Digital-Electronics Primer	Bebop to the Boolean Boogie (An Unconventional Guide to Electronic Fundamentals, Components, and Processes) by Clive Maxfield; High Text Publishers, 471 pages, ISBN 1-878707-22-1, $35 Having picked up digital electronics on my own, I've always looked for a book that could fill in the holes in my piecemeal self-education. - by Dave Rowell
Datapro Report Real and Perceived Obstacles Compared	Wanted: Client/Server Expertise - by Dennis Byron
Notebook Screen Future: Bigger and Wider Sharp Widens Your View	Major suppliers of LCD panels -- including Sharp, NEC, and Mitsubishi -- are developing displays that are larger and more advanced than today's 12.1-inch thin-film-transistor (TFT) standard. - by Jon Pep per
New PowerPCs Boost Macs New Power for the Mac	Results from BYTE's cross-platform BYTEmark benchmark indicate that the latest PowerPC-based Macs give users a significant performance boost. - by Tom Thompson
CD-ROM Review: Architecture Bible on CD-ROM On the Right Track, Hasn't Arrived Yet	Moving a venerable reference book onto a CD-ROM can be either a waste of plastic or a huge step forward in terms of usefulness. - by Jason Krause
Beyond R2D2: Robots Evolve Takeo Kanade, director of the Robotics Institute	Takeo Kanade, director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, reveals how robots will make our world better and more entertaining. - by Dave Andrews

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