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Focuses on the PCI Hot Plug Specification. Expected availability date; Overview of the system; Purpose of the standard; Elements of the standard.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including one about the helmet art portfolio in the October 2010 issue, "Showdown at Dai Do" in the June 2010 issue, and "Arsenal" in the February 2011 issue.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including one about the Sport/Utility of the Year test, "My Wish List" and one about the Chevrolet S-10.

Reports on thin servers, also known as network drives or direct-attached storage devices. The features and capabilities of the servers; The benefits of the thin servers being a new type of network-ready-storage products; How the servers are used; Such servers at Creative Design Solution's Plug & Stor.

Reports on the plans of Intel to prepare low-cost desktop versions of its Pentium Pro. Code of names of the new processors; Competitors of Intel; Challenges to overcome before the Pentium Pro can make the transition to mass-market desktop personal computers. INSET: Four paths to a less expensive Pentiuim Pro..

Focuses on business process reengineering (BPR) computer programs. Process-mapping applications; Features; Applications; Feedback from industry executives.

Reports on the 100-Mbps Ethernet competition. IEEE 802.3 committee's decision to proceed with two separate and competing proposals; The 100BaseVG proposal's discarding the traditional Ethernet's CSMA/CD data-transmission technique; Second proposal supported by 17 companies; Grand Junction's FastSwitch; Advice to network administrators; Projected increase in Ethernet installations.

Discusses Microsoft's development of a 32-bit version of MS-DOS, codenamed Chicago, which will tightly integrate it with Windows. Goals of the combined DOS/Windows operating system; How Microsoft plans to evolve DOS into Windows; Implications for Microsoft's Windows NT; More.

Reports on Digital Equipment Corp.'s (DEC) first Alpha `PC' system, the Alpha AXP PS. Tower system; Price range; Performance compared to Intel Pentium-based systems; Desktop systems to be released later in 1993; DEC's focus on high-end PC market; Little Alpha-specific design incorporated in the PCs; Benefits of supporting Intel's future PCI bus; More.

Reports on advances in Lotus Development Corp.'s Lotus Notes. Growth of the software into a leading groupware platform; Use for storage of unstructured data; Access to multiple databases of documents.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "Time Warner Cable Helps Establish Retrans' Critics Coalition" in the July 5, 2010 issue and "Linear TV's Dead and Other Cable Worries" in the July 13, 2010 issue.

Discusses the demand for computer experts in 1998. How the rapid pace of technological development in the computer industry is increasing the demand for people who can use and maintain that technology; Expectations that the acquisition of new technology will increase; Predictions about the number of information technology jobs unfilled by the end of the year.

Presents two graphs showing the top uses for the Internet and for the World Wide Web among small and mid-sized companies in 1997. The growing percentage of companies using the Internet.

Focuses on thin client computing. Microsoft's Bill Gates acknowledging that customers wants a thin client that is very simple; Microsoft and Citrix collaborating on adding support for Windows terminals to a future version of NT; Operating systems in which WinFrame clients are available.

Spotlights the near-field recording mass-storage technology being developed by theTerastor company. Their expected marketing of various products from this technology in early 1998; How near-field recording works; The prediction that it will replace a host of storage media currently used for a variety of applications, including tape or archiving.

Looks at cybrid CD-ROMs from the Graphix Zone as a possible holiday gift in 1996. The combination of multimedia elements with links to related on-line Web sites; Herbie Hancock Presents Living Jazz; Willie: The Life and Music of Willie Nelson; Bob Marley: Soul Almighty; Contact point; Price; Features.

Announces that multidimensional-database product vendors are improving their programs' abilities to deliver enterprise-level data analysis. Multidimensional DBMS (MDDBMS) use of specialized data structures; Aggregation of data and its results; Challenging assumptions of large-scale on-line analytical-processing (OLAP) applications. INSETS: OLAP tools tackle tackle bigger tasks;yeah, but. . ..

Discusses the Cyrix 6x86-P200t, Dell Dimension XPS P200s, and Dell Dimension XPS P90c processors. Comparisons between the three models; Tests in application performance with Cyrix being the leader.

Evaluates IBM's new ThinkPad 560, a notebook computer. Lack of multimedia extras; Features; Cost; Contact point.

Announces that a new round of desktop and notebook systems with 200 MHz processors will arrive throughout the second half of 1996 for personal computer (PC) systems and the Mac. Low priced but powerful processors; Better performance of the Motorola/IBM 603e and 604e models over Intel's 200-MHz Pentium; Specific pricing information to be determined.

Reports on the Digital Light Processing technology developed at Texas Instruments (TI). Use of mirrors in the creation of images; Use of the technology in computer projection systems; TI's Digital Micromirror Device as the basis of the system; Advantages of the technology over liquid crystal displays; Other uses for digital mirrors.

Reports on a possible fix for the bug in America Online's Web browser for the Mac. Use of another browser or another Internet service provide as another solution.

Reports on thin-and-wide notebook computers which will be released in the United States this 1996. HiNote UltraII from Digital Equipment and ThinkPad 560 from International Business Machines Corp. as two examples; Advice on important characteristics to consider when buying these products.

Introduces the QuickSite software for World Wide Web site development from DeltaPoint. Features; Capabilities.

Introduces the EpixPro digital camera from Epix Imaging Systems Inc. Features; Capabilities; Image resolution.

Reviews the computer software Act! for Psion, from Symantec Corp. Version for the Psion Series 3A; Powerful contact-management capabilities for the hand-held device;' Price; Contact points.

Informs that developers of Internet search engines are investigating ways to index Java applets. Goal of making it possible for users to search for and find specific such applets; Difficulties in this investigation.

Focuses on new battery technologies that enable notebook computers run longer without recharge. Lithium metal polymer technology; Technology using solid-state electrolyte and a lithium-ion chemistry; AER Energy Resources' release of prototypes of its zinc-air battery.

Features AT&T Computer Telephone 8130 for Windows 95. Hardware/software combination; Two-line speakerphone; Three advantages of the system.

Features lower priced Pentium-based personal computers running at 166 megahertz from Intel Corp., Cyrix Corp. and NexGen Inc. for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 applications. Intel's Pentium Pro; Cyrix's 6x86 processor; NexGen's Nx586.

Reports that there is a possibility that low-cost devices provided by phone companies may replace the personal computer as a method to get on the Internet. System developed by Philips Home Services with Oracle; Comments from Paul Chapple, spokesman for Philips.

Focuses on the most recent computerized equipment of Intel which is 200-MHz Pentium Pro. What Pentium Pro means to competitors in RISC and CISC camps; Other computer chips released; Functions of Pentium Pro; Selling price. INSETS: Looking good at 200.;P6 competition heats up in 1996..

Reports that data replication is becoming a popular technology among database vendors. High prices of databases that can replicate; Discussion of the features of Praxis's OmniReplicator; Ability to replicate among multiple environments; Ability to support asynchronous replication.

Reports on operating system vendors' endorsement of an initiative to develop a common 64-bit Unix API computer operating system. Planned development of a set of interfaces and a 64-bit C programming model for data representation; Attempt to unify Unix around the Common Operating System Environment.

Reports on Texas Instruments' TI-92 calculator. Capabilities; Specifications; Enhancements; Pricing; Availability.

Features AT&T's Globalyst 250P laptop computer. Capabilities; Specifications; Enhancements; Support; Compatibility; Pricing; Availability; Contact information.

Reports on the trend toward the use of optical character recognition (OCR) scanner in image acquisition. Increased affordability of scanners; Increased demand for scanner solutions brought on by improvements in OCR software features; Applications; Implications of the move toward electronic distribution on OCR and scanner demand. INSET: New OCR products at a glance..

Reports on Compaq's implementation of APIs in the ROM of its Deskpros to address the issue raised by the Desktop Management Task Force (DMTF) on the costs of PC management. DMTF's release of its Desktop Management Interface (DMI); Comment of Anne Gunn, vice president of Compaq partner, Tally Systems on the DMI service layer.

Evaluates the Windows application suite, PerfectOffice, of WordPerfect. Features and specifications.

Reports on developments in the production of quarter-inch cartridge (QIC) tape products. 1995 release of QIC tapes capable of single cartridge storage of 1.6 gigabytes of uncompressed data; Conner Peripherals' TSM4000R drive compliance with the QIC-3080 standard; Advantages of the thin-film magnetoresistive heads of the QIC-3010 and the QIC-3020 drives.

Anticipates the release of the 3-D device driver interface (DDI) computer program from Microsoft Corp. Microsoft's incorporation of the OpenGL API into Windows NT; Set of Microsoft-defined two-dimensional (2-D) graphics functions which can be accelerated by graphics hardware; Compute-intensive functions of OpenGL.

Reports on trends among computer manufacturers in the production of computer notebooks. Introductions by computer manufacturers Gateway 2000, DEC and Hewlett-Packard (HP) of ultraportable notebooks; Absence of CD-ROM and SuperVGA resolution capabilities; HP's OmniBook 600C; Gateway's Liberty PC notebook.

Features the computer program Process Charter for Windows from Scitor. Combination of flowchart tools with the process-analyzing capability through simulation; Use of process engineering tools to analyze costs and resources associated with group tasks; ABC Flowcharter 4.0 from Micrografx.

Features the CompactFlash flash-memory device from SunDisk. Capabilities and functions; Price.

Focuses on the popularity of Intel Corp. Pentium-based systems. Marketing schemes of personal computer vendors; Financial issues; Product support.