Design Features: December 8, 1994
| Cover Story | |
| Tech Toys | Our selection of tech toys ranges from the inherently practical to merely fun.
-- Anne Coyle, Associate Editor |
| Design Features The hottest new technologies and the latest design techniques to help you work efficiently and effectively. | |
| 100 Hot Products of 1994 | We've tracked the hottest new products of the year, based on your votes. Take some time to review the best of the best; you never know what you might have missed. |
| PCI bus speeds peripheral communications | High-speed peripherals must get on a high-speed highway to make use of all their capabilities. The PCI bus is one such highway, but on-ramps in the form of off-the-shelf, general-purpose PCI I/O controller chips are few and far between.
--John Gallant, Technical Editor |
| Draw workstation graphics into mainstream PCs | As PC-display resolutions increase and color depths bloom, higher refresh-rate monitors are becoming more common. A graphics design based on the traditional VGA architecture cannot begin to handle the data-transfer bandwidth required for such high-resolution, "true-color," high-refresh-rate displays.
--Rhett Saugier, AT&T Microelectronics |