AN OLYMPIAN UNDERTAKING.If all goes according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. plan, there will be millions of different Olympics on the Internet this summer, says Jose-Luis Iribarren. Each will be packed with photo finishes, statistics and interviews, each the private creation of an Internet user Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f somewhere on earth. On the other hand, the interactive edition of the Summer Games This article is about the Epyx video game series. For the international multi-sport event, see Summer Olympic Games. Summer Games is a sports video game developed by Epyx and released by U.S. Gold based on sports featured in the Summer Olympic Games. could just as easily turn out to be a high-tech false start: erratic, slow and successful only in sending on-line fans screaming for their television sets. ``We're designed to handle 10 million visits a day,'' says Iribarren, the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) executive in charge of the official Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Internet site. ``The problem is that we don't have anything to base these projections on. They're anybody's guess. ... It could be 3 million, it could be 20 million. And then we'd have trouble.'' Iribarren is an optimist. The fact that IBM's French Open site recently drew twice as many visitors as his staff had projected doesn't keep the 45-year-old Spanish native from talking up the Olympics site. Some of its features are already available; the rest will kick in when the Games begin. Among them: Official results just seconds behind their posting to the internal ACOG ACOG American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. ACOG American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists computer network and the Games' media center. Some 300 Olympic photos a day, culled from those taken by credentialed photographers. Live video feeds from cameras at 40 venues. Tickets, those that remain, available for electronic purchase to anyone with a Visa card and security-enabled browser software. Games trivia, from the number of volleyballs that competitors will use (750) to the number of magnolias planted around the various venues (1,500). Some 80 employees, many at an IBM computer center in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , will work on the site during the Games, not to mention 53 computer processors and more than 40 industrial-strength, T-1 data transmission lines. So far, the effort has produced a workmanlike work·man·like adj. Befitting a skilled artisan or craftsperson; skillfully done. workmanlike Adjective skilfully done: a neat workmanlike job Adj. 1. site that is fairly easy to navigate, doesn't take forever to download and has been tested by outside security experts. The ACOG site: http://www.atlanta.olympic.org. |
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