December 1996 / Core Technologies

A RISC OS for All Seasons RISC OS Service Calls Dynamic Management	Acorn's OS is ideal for embedded applications, yet it scales up to operate desktop computers. - by Stewart Palmer
The Complete ISDN Telecommuter The Analog Solution The ISDN Conversion Solution The Hybrid Solution	A look at several techniques for getting the remote office worker connected via ISDN. - by Jeffrey N. Fritz
Super Mario Chip The MIPS R4300i Architecture The Nintendo 64 System Design	The 64-bit MIPS R4300i RISC processor powers a compute-intensive consumer game system. - by Satya Simha
Direct3D Revealed Direct3D Data Structures Direct3D Device Abstraction	Microsoft's 3-D API provides device-independent access to acceleration hardware. Here's how it works. - by Stephen P. Johnson

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