October 1997

Editorial	Industry Warfare: What's Up With That?
Inbox	Letters to the Editors
Bits	AGP: Who Needs It? • File Servers Get Thinner, Cheaper • Ink-Jets: No Longer Just Low-End • Better Networks Through Accounting • More...
Core Technologies	Farming the Web • A New Epoch for Hand-Helds • Smarter and Faster IP Connections • Keeping It Simple • Programming in Limbo
Cover Story	ATM's Shrinking Role • Preparing for Gigabit Ethernet • Batter Up for Broadband
Features	Java Gets Down to Business • CORBA, Java, and the Object Web • Debunking Object-Database Myths • Data Networks Speak Up • I'm Failing and I Can't Boot Up!
Web Project	Next-Generation Servers
Javatalk	Rebuilt Parts
BYTE Hardware Lab Report	Bandwidth on a Budget: 34 Fast Modems
BYTE Software Lab Report	The Object Is to Manage Data
Eval	First 6x86 PC: Generally a Winner • JBuilder Makes Java a Piece of Cake • The Best ThinkPad Gets Better • A New MeetingPoint for Videoconferencing
Reviews	Web Servers Get Skinny • Three for Speed • Novell's Internet/IntranetWare Connection
Pournelle	Virtual Publishing -- and Virtual Travel
What's New	Information on New Products
Improbable Research	Advances and Retreats in Computing
International Bits	Taiwan Gets Asia's First Satellite TV Service • Make Digital Signatures More Secure • Hand-Held PCs Wait for Localization
International Features	VPNs Proliferate • Fast-Forward to Fast Ethernet • Speak Naturally
International What's New	Information on New Products
Reseller	A Major Switch in Network Design • The Server that Wouldn't Die

Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it is theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.

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