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pages,or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) at 11.74 million worldwide on 103,059 Web servers.Lycos notes that Web servers are coming online at a rate of 6,000 per month, adding more than 1.1 million URLs every month.

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Reporting from San Jose, California, United Press International quotes SIA as predicting the rate of increase will cool down in 1997 with an 18.1 percent gain to $218.6 billion and pick up slightly in 1998 with a 19.6 percent rise to $261.5 billion.

s Europe will increase by 26.6 percent to $36.2 billion. s The Asia-Pacific region, not including Japan, should post a gain of 32.9 percent to $40 billion, UPI notes that the estimate for worldwide increasecomes on theheels ofa projected 43.7 percent gain this year to $146.4 billion and 31.8 percent last year to $101.8 billion.

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The trade group said sales of memory chips will rise 40.6 percent to $76 billion in 1996, while microprocessors will grow 22.4 percent in 1996 to $41.2 billion. Sales of logic chips will increase 16.8 percent to $23.3 billion next year.

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Let me return to my story. Having described to my satisfaction the computer that I wanted, I asked myself where I might buy it. The options seemed to be five. I could buy a computer at a computer-shop, at a computer and electronics store with a service department, at a computer and electronics store without a service department, From a mail-order house, or at a super grocery store. I thought that my best bet was probably

term.) One of the two shops called to inquire whether I had any questions about its response. I was impressed, but I knew that I did not have enough quotations to judge the going price for the system that I wanted. I then visited some

of the shops inperson and, by that means, I obtained three more quotations. Some of the shops were not willing to meet my specifications; some were too busy talk to me at the time of my visit. As a result of my visits, and as a result of some calls I made to other shops, I learned that the monitor I wanted was not easily had. One shop said that I might have to wait several weeks for that

to contact those computer-shops which advertised in papers such as Computer Player. By using such papers, I made a list of six shops that I thought might be able to customize a system for me. I sent the shops my list of specifications and a monitor. One shop said that I might have stamped, self-addressed envelope. I to wait for several months. Another shop asked them to send me their price with said that the monitor was just not availcomments about my specifications. Two able. They all said that if I would take a shops responded. (I may have written to less desirable monitor, they could prothem at a busy time, just when univervide me with a system in 3 to 5 days. In sity and school were entering the fall pursuit of that monitor, I contacted a

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not have done that! Now, when I boot in Windows 95, Ihe system shuts off my monitor. When I called the manufacturer,

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you will, but do yourself a favour and pay heed to the five S's: service, speed, screen, soibvare, and service. 0

less than the computer-shop is that they make no provision to provide support, but support is critical for the novice user, the technically inept, and the crazybusy! I noted that I did not fit into any of those categories, but I was reluctant

to buy outside of the lower mainland because I know how readily things will go wrong with computers.

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Smearing spreads a colour into adjacent colours. Click the Smear Tool in the Toolbox. In the Tool Settings roll-up, choose the tool Size. Click the Edge drop-down list. Choose Softfor a feathered edge. Enter a number for Density. The higher the Density,the more the smeared colour willspread.Enter a Transparency value. The lower the Transparency value the more the smeared colour will cover other colours.

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Is it compatible with previous Intel Architecture processors? What is the Pentium Pro processor? The PentiumProprocessoristhe nextgeneration processor family from Intel, The Pentium Pro processor includes significant architectural innovations and enhancements, like Dynamic Execution. The result is a significant boost in system performance — especially with 32-bit software. The first Pentium Pro processor is manufactured on the same silicon process as today's volume 100MHz Pentimn processor.

dependent upon data availability. This means that the Pentium Pro processor performs well on any code designed to run on previous generation 32-bit Intel processors. The Pentium Pro processor will also execute 286-targeted code, but the performance gain will not be as high. While all Intel Architecture-compatible software, particularly 32-bit software, benefitsfrom Pentium Pro processor performance,thereare stepssoftware developers can take to get full advantage of the

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is the Pentium Pro processor real? The Pentium Pro processor is very real. Technology demonstrations have been shown with the Pentium Pro processor running a variety of operating systems and applications. Systems were shown at CeBIT (an industry tradeshow) and ISSCC (a technical conference), Currently, the demonstrated system Irequency has been at !33MHz.

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How much will the Pentium Pro processorcost? Intel haven't yet disclosed initial pricing.

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What kind of performance can I expect from the Pentium Pro processor? The Pentium Pro processor's performance is estimated at 200 $PECint92 at133 MHz. For comparison, the 100 MHz Pentium processor will deliver 121.9 SPECint92. Other Pentium Pro processor performance numbers will be released later this year.

What are the advantages of an inpackageL2cache? Havingthe L2 cache in the package not only simplifies system design and saves space, italso m eanstheCP U corecan communicate with the L2 cache at full speed. Additionally the cache is non-blocking which means that transactions on the Pentium Proprocessor bus don't stall the processor or block subsequent bus trans-

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4 Cold Shower Turn on a shower first thing in the morning. The water comes out cold. The shower has to run for a minute before it gets hot. Just how long the delay is depends on pipe diameter and distance the pipe is between the water heater and the bathroom. The same problem occurs in electricity and is called capacitance. Turn on a radio, and it may take a second before any musiccomes out.The capacitance of a PC mainboard istiny compared to

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The Intel and AMD CPU chip introduces a minimum 3 ns delay between the clock tick and the time that the address reliably leaves the CPU. The main board adds several nanoseconds while the address flows through the circuits to the last memory socket. There will be a similar delay when the data value travels back from the memory chip to the CPU. The engineers who design the main board take this into account and program wait states to handle the worst case.

Neither the memory nor the CPU know how long the main board delays will be. The water heater does not determine how long it will take for the hot water to reach the bathroom. Installing a larger water heater, or turning up the thermostat on the current heater, will not reduce the amount of time it takes to run the cold water out of the pipes. Using better memory does not change the main board design. The speed by which the CPU references memory is determined by the clock rate and the number of wait states inserted reading or w r i t i ng memory.

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486 can perform the operation in two internal clock cycles (which would correspond to one external clock cycle on a DX2 that "doubles" the main board clock) provided that both numbers are already inside the CPU chip.

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Because it is relatively expensive for the CPU to set up an external memory reference,and because there is a high probability that the next number or instruction needed by the program will be the one immediately following the last number or instruction, the 486 is designed to fetch data from memory in a "burst".The internal cache is arranged in units of 16 bytes. Each unit is called a "line" of cache. Whenever an instruction references data that is not in the internal cache, the chip generates a memory referencefor the four bytes of needed data, and then fetches the remaining 12 bytes of a 16 byte memory area. When data is found in the SRAM second levelcache, there is one external memory cycle to set up the transfer, then thefour bytes needed for the current instruction come in on the second external clock cycle, and the remaining twelve bytes come in the next three clock ticks. AAer five main board cycles, all 16 bytes have been moved into the chip. Without the burst, an old 386 would have used eight clock ticks to fetch the same data, since each individual four byte unit would have required one cycle to set up the transfer and one cycle to receive the data.

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the intensity of the electrical signal does not change, because all of the information is contained in numbers represented by the zeros and ones. When you connect to your Internet provider the sequence of events usually goes something like this: 1. Your computer emits a series of

To understand ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) we must understandthe difference between an analog and digital telephone line. Analog telephones transmit electrical impulses

digital zeros and ones which then go to the modem.

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Q ISDN uses each of the twisted pair of copper lines already in your home to send and receive 64,000 bps of data per line. If you 'bond' the two pairs together you get 128,000 bps. The two lines are called a BRI (Basic Rate Interface) or 2B+D. The 'B' are the bearer or data lines and the 'D' is a logical data line for carrying signaling information the phone systemrequiresin order to set up a call. If your ISP supports ISDN they might have a number of BRI lines installed or they might have paid a lot of money for a PRI (Primary Rate Interface) which is 23 B channels and I D channel combined onto one physical phone line.

To terminate a BRI you require two devices - a Terminal Adapter (TA) and a Network Termination unit (NT1). The NTI supplies power to the line and turns the two wire line into a four wire interface.The TA performs the bonding and other control functions on the line. The ISDN line comes into the NT1 and then goes to the TA and finally is connected either directly to your PC or to a router on a LAN.A PC card with a TA/NT1 costs about $600, while a router which has a built in TA/NT1 can cost as little as $1800. By itself an NT1 costs between $250-$350. So why doesn't everyone use ISDN? BCTel has been much slower to roll out ISDN service than other provinces.

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