W On Newsstands Now Issue 4.11 | Nov 1996  PC of the Future?
Printing? Use this version Prez Wants Privacy(But Only for
Himself)  Machiavelli Telly  Planned Obsolescence? Or Recycling
Opportunity?  Seize the Desktop  Five Percent Wiretap-Free
(Guaranteed!)  Politics 1996/2000  The Bells' Toll  I Want My
WebTV  When Worlds Collide  anon.penet.fi RIP  PC of the Future?
The Nintendo 64 has arrived, its guts the most powerful to hit
the gaming market. But now that it's here, what will Nintendo do
with a US$200 machine that outperforms most PCs?With so much
power under the hood, possible N64 add-ons include modems and
storage devices, perhaps even a Java cartridge or an Excel 64
spreadsheet. And behind the curtain, third parties are clamoring
to build extensions. But Nintendo, for the moment, is
concentrating on making sure its baby sells.  CPU: The 64-bit
custom-designed Silicon Graphics's MIPS CPU runs at 93.75 MHz,
which puts it in the class of low-end PowerPCs - but with much
less operating system overhead.