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...course, it depends on what speed processor and how much memory you have in your computer. There is a required minimum of 2Mb RAM, but only someone who's never heard of Microsoft would use it with less than 4 Mb RAM, especially if you want to take full advantage of system 7 features. As 7.1 is an odd release, you should feel fairly secure that Apple has fixed most of the problems of the earlier model...
...closely watched video-game event of the season is not a game at all, but the arrival of a new game player. Next week Panasonic will introduce a VCR-size black box called REAL Multiplayer, designed by the hot Silicon Valley start-up company 3DO. With a 32-bit processor, packing twice the punch of the 16-bit Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis systems, and two special-purpose graphics chips, the Multiplayer is the most powerful video-game system ever marketed to the home. That in itself is no guarantee of anything. Other companies have tried and failed...
...designing even the simplest of microprocessors is no easy task. The processor requires the ability to compute (of course!) and reason. You have to make sure it can remember reliably what it takes in as input. And--here's the tricky part--you have to build special circuitry that understands the different instructions and knows what to do if something unexpected occurs...
...Pentium is considered an engineering feat not only because of its complexity, but also because the more transistors are squeezed together, the harder it becomes to dissipate heat generated by these tiny electrical switches. Too much heat may cause the processor to fail...
...design the Pentium, Intel assembled a team of engineers with expertise in computer architecture (how the processor should work), system programming (how it could be used by programmers) and chip design (how the circuits should be laid out). The entire design and testing process took almost four years and cost tens of millions of dollars...