And Bill Machrone came in, and he brought in the new Pentium.

Late next year, it plans to offer high-performance machines that link as many as 32 of Intel's new Pentium Pro processors.

They had three computers - moderately new Pentiums for Mom and Dad and a nine-year-old 486 SX25 for their three children.

And he can't say enough on behalf of his new Pentium.

The new Pentium 4, a 4-gigahertz microprocessor, had already slipped off schedule, with its original sales date shifted from the end of this year to some time in early 2005.

Bob and John Nolan stated that the game is "the ultimate show off piece for your new Pentium.

But it is, alas, last year's model in I.B.M.-style computers, a step behind the new Pentium (smarter and faster), which he covets.

In Nasdaq trading, Intel led in volume and rose 2, to 72 7/8, a day after it introduced its new Pentium Pro chip.

On a new Pentium 200, movie and word processor coexisted happily.

Windows 95, despite its "32-bit" fanfare, contains so much vestigial 16-bit code that it makes Intel's new Pentium Pro processor look bad.