They did this by putting pieces of silicon or one of a number ofother solid materials inside a shoe-box-sized cavity and zapping the materialwith microwaves from a metal tip.

You’d see it in commercials, they’d demo it in stores, and it seemed to represent a sort of shift where the TV image was no longer strictly confined to the solid frame of the box it came in.

In the lab test, the computer was totally saturated -- in the lower right-hand corner of Figure 1 the solid blue box is a CPU utilization graph maxxed out at 100%.