INTEL TO BUILD XGA CHIPS FOR
Intel Corp. has joined IBM in trying to establish XGA as the next standard for PC graphics.
Under a technology licensing agreement announced by the two firms last week, Intel will develop XGA chips offering increased graphics performance, as well as other devices based on IBM’s XGA technology.
The first produce will be an XGA chip that [...]
ISDN LEADING THE NEW WAVE OF COMPUTING
ISDN is a technology that has the potential to revolutionise telecommunications the way the
chip revolutionised computing. But what exactly is ISDN and what can users get out of it?
This article discusses some of the exciting applications.
ISDN, or Integrated Services Digital Networking, has been hailed as the new type of information communications network.
ISDN allows the digital [...]
A REVIEW OF A TRANSACTION MODEL FOR DISTRIBUTED OBJECT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Mustafa Rafiqul Islam
This article describes the transaction model of a Distributed Object Management (DOM) system. The DOM is a distributed active object-oriented environment in which autonomous heterogeneous systems can be integrated and new (non-traditional) applications can be developed. A DOM system appears to be homogeneous distributed object system, in which all objects are expressed in [...]
IBM NCR 3330
IBM NCR 3330
A Powerful Desktop
NCR has enhanced its AT bus product line with the addition of the NCR 3330, a powerful desktop computer that delivers superior upgradability. The NCR 3330, based on industry standard AT-but architecture and Intel486 microprocessor technology, contains two processor sockets and is upgradable through the entire i486 family. [...]
THE INTEL 80860 RISC PROCESSOR
Originally Published in 1991 (Computer Jagat Magazine)
M. Lutfar Rahman and M. Alamgir Hossain
INTRODUCTION
The 80860 microprocessor manufactured by Intel Corporation of USA is the world’s first 64-bit single chip microprocessor. It is also Intel’s first reduced instruction set computer (RISC) microprocessor. This chip is likely to provide supercomputing power to the desktop personal computers.
The 80860 microprocessor [...]
Birth of a Software: GIS
originally published in 1991 (Computer Jagat Magazine)
— Zaved Iqbal
DataBases are complicated things. They scare the typical end-user: Words like RDBMS & SQL are not everybody’s cup of tea. So database designers try to make programs as user-friendly as possible. The result is windows, Mac-OS, GUI.
Now lets try to put this into database terms. As a [...]
University of Asia Pacific (UAP) donated warm clothes among the destitute people
Every year in Bangladesh, especially in winter season, many poor people suffer in the cold weather because of the scarcity of warm clothes. Being conscious citizens of this country, we cannot let this happen in front of our eyes.
In order to help the severely affected people in winter season, Department of Computer Science and [...]
Events held on the 5th day of SoftExpo 2010
On the last day of the SoftExpo 2010 on February 14, three seminars and two technical sessions were held at the venue of the expo at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.
The titles of the seminars were: i) Collaboration between Government, Industry and Academia in IT Projects: Defense – A Case Study ii) e-Commerce Readiness for SMEs, [...]
BASIS SoftExpo 2010 Closing Ceremony
Closing Ceremony of SoftExpo 2010 was held in the evening on February 13, 2010 at Harmony, Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.
Lt. Col. (Rtd.) Muhammad Faruk Khan, MP, Hon’ble Minister, Ministry of Commerce, Govt. of Bangladesh, was the chief guest in the ceremony while Mr. AKM Abdul Awal Mazumder, Secretary, Ministry of Science & ICT, Mr. [...]
Events held on the 4th day of SoftExpo 2010
On the fourth day of the SoftExpo 2010 on February 13, three seminars and four technical sessions were held at the venue of the expo at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.
The titles of the seminars were: i) A2I: Roadmap to Digital Bangladesh, organized by BASIS ii) Financial Inclusion Using Mobile Technology, organized by BASIS and Grameenphone [...]