June 1997 / Bits

Pentium II: King of the x86 Hill The Finishing Touches	Intel's latest processor edges AMD's K6 in x86 performance, but it's a photo finish with the PowerPC. - by G. Armour Van Horn
Geek Mystique	State of the Int ernet
HyperWave Wins Best of CeBIT Award Best System Catch the Wave Best of CeBIT Awards Contact Information CeBIT Awards Contacts	HyperWave, an innovative information server that solves many of the problems associated with electronic publishing on the Internet and intranets, won BYTE's third annual Best of CeBIT award.
Future Watch	Video Marries Hypertext
Bug of the Month	OverDrive in Reverse - by Robert L. Hummel
MMX OverDrive = Expensive Upgrade OverDrive vs. RAM	Intel's latest OverDrive processor boosts your system's business applications performance while adding support for multimedia extensions (MMX) technology. - by Robert L. Hummel
Survey	Vendors Ready HTTP 1.1 Products - by Kerry Hickox
Video Highway On-Ramps	Ever wish that all these videoconferencing codes and acronyms (ISDN, ITU, H.320 , H.324, H.323, IETF) would just disappear? - by Christine Perey
Datapro Report Criteria for Considering an NC	Users Give a Qualified Yes to NCs - by John MacGilvary
Book Review: CodeWarrior's Reach Gets Bigger	Mastering CodeWarrior for Windows 95/NT by Jim Trudeau, Sybex, ISBN 0-7821-2057-1, $39.99 Long ago, in 1994, only Mac programmers knew about CodeWarrior. - by Tom Thompson
Book Review: Insider's Guide to the Pentium Pro	Pentium Pro Processor System Architec ture by Tom Shanley, MindShare, Inc., Addison-Wesley Developer's Press, ISBN 0-201-47953-2, $34.95 You don't feel like reading Intel's Pentium Pro manuals? - by Dave Rowell
CD-ROM Review: What's the Point? Poor VizAbility	Good idea, bad execution. - by Jesse Friedman
Blasts From The Past June 1992 June 1987 June 1982 June 1977	5 YEARS AGO IN BYTE "Managing Infoglut" discussed several text search-and-retrieval systems, electronic books, paperless documents, and SGML, the forerunner of the wildly popular HTML that is used on the Web today.
Internet Gatekeeper	Gil Shwed, CEO, president, and founder of Check Point Software Technologies, discusses future trends in firewalls and Internet security. - by Tania Hershman

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