The floppy drive in the C.I.A.'s computer was obviously superior to the one in my Pentium system, which is about as silent as a garbage truck.

"You'll see much lower prices on Pentium systems in the fourth quarter," which will force lower prices on Compaq's 486 systems, putting a squeeze on profit margins, he said.

"Seven months after introduction, there are more than 100 manufacturers of Pentium processor-based systems on the market."

By this afternoon we'll have some of those F1s plugged into our fastest Pentium systems at FTI.

Newer computers are more likely to have been designed for an easy transition to the next century, but tests have shown that even some newer Pentium systems are affected.

This was the first novel I wrote completely on Windows 95 and Word 7 on my new Pentium system.

Pentium systems are new and in short supply, but an Intel i486 DX2 chip running at 66 megahertz can in some cases perform almost as fast.

A doctor whose children enjoy programming said his teen-agers had demanded a fast Pentium system at home to replace the aging Mac.

On Pentium systems (data bus width of 64 bits), two 72-pin SIMMs are required.

However, some Pentium systems have support for a "half bank mode", in which the data bus would be shortened to only 32-bits to allow operation of a single SIMM.