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version 3.0. The NTdevelopment team was led by Dave Cutler, a well-known operating-system developer from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). The first Version, released as NT 3.1, used the popular Windows 3.1 user interface, but replaced that system’s reliance on DOS with a more robust, fully 32—bit base, providing powerful security and multitasking, along with long file-names, and an optional NTFS file system. NT 3.1 was criticized for high hardware demands‚ slow performance, and for a scarcity of native applications. Perfonnance was improved with versions 3.5 and 3.51, which retained the Vlfindows 3.1-styIe interface. On the other hand, even in the Initial Version, NT was designed to support multiple processors,
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Shut t h e Wlndows I’m going to ignore thc sct of Windows programs, a5 Smartsuite 4.0 is old news, and focus on the nativc OS/2 programs. Lotus claims (hat Smartsuite 96 i5 ‘TheDesktop Solution For You And Your Team,” and a5 such includes Team Computing fcaturcs such a5 TcamMail (lctting you mail a file from an directly application), TcamRevicw (lctting you control rcvicws of documcnts and prescntations), TcamConsolidatc (a mcthod of combining thc rcvicws into onc filC), and Tcamsecurity (allowing the author to control who has acccss to a Word P r o documcnt).
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at a yearly price to pro/vide betxer comparison of rates, although it can be mfely assumed that monthly rates an also bc had. Most ISPs now include some form of set-up Charge. On average, the typical set-up fec averages somewhere between S2025. Note, however, that those ISPs listed with “Yes” in thc sct-up Charge cotumn do not necessarily Charge set-up fecs in all cases-if set—up clmrges applied to the majority of pricing packages listed, a “Yes” was added to the columnffhis does not take into account any pricing specials, which an: numerous. Connection spceds are fastcr than ever before, reflecüng the rapid advance of modern technology. Most ISPs offcr their customers 33.6 Kbps diaI-Ixp speeds, and a numbcr of ISPs began 1o inuoduce 56.6 Kbps diaI-up Service over the course of this survey. If you are inter-
esfted in ISDN Services, an mcreasirlg numbcr of oficr direct ISDN connections, as Well. {Thafs not to say that all things are rosy in
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Halrdly a day goes by without some kind of an jimportant” announcement. Strategie alliances are being formed every hour‚ Weeklonglevents are dedicated to it‚ and the popular Ltechno-presss vocabulary is laced with refenences to agents, channels, subscribers, narmwcasting, and so on. You may sometimeis feel that unless you jump on the bandWagon, you will be hopelessly left behind as
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The endangered species are the thirdparty vendors, such as Pointcast, who gave us “push” in the frst place. They will have to offer value-added Services to remain in the game, Strategie alliances notwithstanding. Pointcasfs release 2.0 (now in beta) does just that: it irltroduces “Connections,” whercby any aspiring Web site can become a channel provider on their system, gaining access to the company's alleged 150,000 subscribersThey will also provide rating of contenLWatch the marketing gurus salivate over this one.
a modern day Intemet-Neandertltal. Welcome to the mining of the click-stream. Push technology has artivcd in earnest.
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some infonnation is pushed out to suppliers and qustomcrs on a selective basis. Bau? why is it so significant? Quite simply becaose it pnomises to transform the Internet as we have known itfIhe emphasis is shifting to busirxless and thertin lies the big danger. unlike market research, where advertising is basecl on statistical averages and cxuapolation, with ‘push they can base it all on youfipersonal profile,” so thcy can pinpoint their target marketing with laser-sharp accumcy. lt a big deal, not for you and me‚but for i5; the push-vendors. For us, the absence of a permaneht connection to the Net can easily outweigll the benefitsYou have to p u t up with perioädic updates, downloaded to your desktop atgreat expense of you:- computers prospeed. Still, it is convenient and you have nothing to do-except Watch the commerckals, which soon will look very similar to meirTV Cousins, thanks to streaming Video. Early push embryos were the e-mail alerts and in-boxes where hyperlinks gave you to sites directly from the mcssage access bodvThcn along came Pointcast and gave us the SLCYCCIISHVCI’ advcrtising, a whole new dimension where newsbits were pushed onto vom dcsktop at regular intervals, selected fmm a few“channels." Of eourse, Pointcast didn't do it for you; they did it for their sponsors and the content they delivemd was brimming with Commercial mjessages.
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