February 1998 / Bits

Windows Slimfest Thin Windows Solutions at a Glance MultiWin: More than One Way to Skin a Cat	Several forthcoming products promise to bring thin-client computing to today's Windows applications, but experts warn: Look (and test) before you leap. - by Dave Andrews
Geek Mystique Does High Tech Move Too Fast for the Average Joe?	Enhanced Mystique - by Dave Andrews
Future Watch Mainstream Adoption by Mid-1998 How Important in 1998?	Java, NCs, MultiWin Rank High Among Top Technologies for 1998
I2O Getting Ready to Go A Symbiotic Relationship to Fibre Channel	As vendors continue to prepare and test forthcoming I2O software and hardware, the I2O special-interest group (SIG) is considering making additions to the current standard to make it more appealing to enterprise computing. - by Dave Andrews
Bug of the Month	Your CPU could Be Turned Against You - by Jason Krause
Survey What App/OS Is the Highest Security Threat?	Windows 95 Ranks Low in Security
USB Products Arrive in Force Serial Devices Can Be USP'd, Too More USB Plugs All the Time New or Old, It Doesn't Matter to USB	Months after the first PCs with universal serial bus (USB) ports started shipping, peripherals for the low-to-mid-speed peripheral-connection bus are finally becoming widely available. - by Dave Andrews
DSL Gets Consumer-Friendly Consumer-Friendly DSL	An emerging new version of the digital subscriber line (DSL) technology promises to deliver faster Web access in a package that's easy for consumers and service providers alike to implement. - by Dave Andrews
Book Review: A Computer to Love	Affective Computing by Rosalind Picard; The MIT Press, 1997; 275 pages; ISBN 0-262-16170-2; $27.50 (cloth) Imagine you're nervous about an upcoming presentation. - by Stanford Diehl
Blasts from the Past February 1993 February 1988 February 1983 February 1978	5 YEARS AGO IN BYTE Prices have dropped by a few thousand dollars since we wrote about the first "affordable" CD Recordable (CD-R) drives, which sold, with recording software, for $8995 and up.
Unified Software Building Blocks Jerry Rudisin, Rat ional Software	Rational Software's Jerry Rudisin discusses the present and future of component-based development. - by Dave Andrews

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