5th September 1999 Archive

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Seven Dramurai™ ride two memory standards at once

They were out in the desert on a horse with no name...

Just a few days after Intel lined up major memory manufacturers to support Rambus to say they will make RIMMs cheaper, six of the Seven Dramurai™ have said they will support PC-133 and Double Data Rate (DDR) in a year's time -- using Reliance chipset technology. And major PC manufacturers, including Dell, are voting with their …

Business 5 Sep 1999, 05:47
Floppy disk on last legs as Concept PCs arrive

Intel Developer Forum Backup your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile smile

A track at last week's Intel Developer Forum is sounding the death knell for the good old floppy disk. Developers were told to prepare for the day when PCs no longer used the cheap device. At the same time, consumers could face pay through the nose when expensive items such as printers they bought for older systems will no …

Business 5 Sep 1999, 07:13
Microsoft collaborating with US spymasters

Or not....

There are few populations as eager as Americans to ascribe superhuman intelligence, incomparable organizational skills, and indefatigable malevolence to their government bureaucracies. It should surprise no one, then, that a newly-discovered crypto key in Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT, unfortunately named NSAkey, has American …

Business 5 Sep 1999, 08:26
Intel shifts to 133MHz bus, AGP 4x for notebooks next year

Intel Developer Forum But first moves to 100MHz bus, PC100

Notebooks next year will adopt AGP 4x and a 133MHz equivalent of the front side bus, according to Intel. In a presentation at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Bill McAuliffe, who heads up the notebook unit in the US, also said that notebooks will use a type of Rambus memory called the SO-RIMM. As this slide shows (84K), …

Business 5 Sep 1999, 10:19
Merced: a system overview

Intel Developer Forum How the systems look in detail

One of the tracks at IDF gave a system overview for the Merced family, due for release next year. There are many interesting slides in this series, which we've taken the time to capture and incorporate in a Powerpoint presentation. You can download the slides here. Be warned, it's a 666K zipped file... The slides contain …

Business 5 Sep 1999, 11:39