News Briefs

Intel's successor to the Pentium, code named the "P6," has been officially christened the "Pentium Pro" and is slated to ship this quarter. Likewise, Cyrix plans to release its "M1," a competing processor, within the next few weeks.

With the announced breakup of AT&T, Bell Labs will be part of an unnamed new company that focuses on telecommunications equipment research and manufacturing. Bell Labs, one of the world's leading research facilities and the birthplace of UNIX, C, C++, Plan 9, and the like, holds more than 25,000 patents.

In a last minute reprieve, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) database of corporate records, will survive on the Internet. Disclosure Inc., a value-added provider of EDGAR data, announced it would provide free Internet access to raw data and sponsor the site, which was previously managed by NYU and the Internet Multicasting Project.