July 1997 / Bits

First 300-MHz Pentium II Results High Five for 300-MHz Pentium II Applications Go Faster at 300	Intel's latest Pentium II processor breaks the 300-MHz x86 speed barrier. - by Dave Andrews
Speak Naturally Enunciation Still Key	For years, the computer industry and hunt-and-peck typists have awaited the day when people could use a general-purpose voice-recognition system to talk to their PCs without having to pause b etween words. - by Joe Lazzaro
Geek Mystique Which Technology Has Had the Greatest Impact?	Most Americans seem to rate the computer as more important than the TV but less important than the automobile, according to a recent poll.
Hot Plug Will Deliver Higher Availability PCI Hot Plug System Overview	A new technology will let PC server administrators expand, upgrade, or replace PCI adapter cards without having to power-down the system. - by Dave Andrews
Future Watch	Thin Is (Soon) In (NT) - by Dave Andrews
Cameras Get Down to Business A Cam in the Hand Not Only Hallmark Will Do	Digital cam eras are moving out of the realm of high-tech curiosity and into the world of everyday business. - by Jon Pepper
Bug of the Month The Ultimate Trade-Off	Substitute Sex for Sleep
The Domain's the Thing	In addition to more bandwidth, the Internet needs more domain names. - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Survey	More Power, Lower Prices - by Jason Krause
Datapro Report The Four Stages of Java Development Tools	New Java Tools Cozy Up to Servers - by Deborah Hess
Book Review	New Money - by Rich Friedman
Book Review	100 Laughs - by Rich Friedman
Book Review	Is Your Web Site Up to Par? - by Joy-Lyn S. Blake
CD-ROM Review A Portent of Things to Come	Where the Past and the Future Meet - by Alan Joch
Blasts From The Past July 1992 July 1987 July 1982 July 1977	5 YEARS AGO IN BYTE Windows NT was slated to enter beta testing and loomed as a threat to Unix a nd OS/2.
More Power to Go Dr. Ted Selker, IBM Fellow	Dr. Ted Selker, an IBM Fellow responsible for innovations such as the Trackpoint III pointing device and the Butterfly keyboard, discusses the current and future state of portable computing. - by Jon Pepper

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