What's New in PC Developer Support

Intended for use by system manufacturers and peripheral vendors, the Intel Architecture Labs' Native Signal Processing Program suggests a baseline set of system capabilities that offer scalable performance, multimedia (video, audio, animation), communications (networking, voice, fax/modem), ease of use and manageability (ease of upgrading and system and power management) while maintaining the cost-effectiveness needed for mainstream PCs.
On May 19, 1995 the WinSock Group announced the availability of the API specification for Windows Sockets 2. Winsock 2 offers transport independence so the familiar sockets interface may be used on virtually any network transport such as TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and NetBEUI. In addition, WinSock 2 provides higher performance I/O, shared sockets, quality of service and many other features.
Compaq, Digital, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC and Northern Telecom announce the availability of a new serial bus connectivity standard -- Universal Serial Bus (USB) -- at WinHEC '95.
Intel Corporation announces its support of the new Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard .
See the white paper "Universal Serial Bus: Reinventing the PC Connection " for an overview of the USB and its benefits.