Tech Week In Review 2000.11.06 - 2000.11.12 A summary of the past weeks technology news. Updated every sunday. General IT RELATED STORIES: Popular search engine "Alta Vista" signs controversial deal with porn company. IBM show screen capable of showing 200 pixels/inch. Gartner group declared RAMBUS memory "pretty much dead". SGI commits to Linux & Itanium. DRAM prices keep falling. Intel announces 0.13-micron copper technology. Flash memory cards soon to hold full-length video. Bill Joy, SUN co-founder, expresses concern about the dangers associated with the rapid progress of technology. 3 Taiwanese memory makers quit producing RAMBUS DRAM. Quantum computing steps forward at IEDM (International Electron Devices Meeting). CPU Roundup RELATED STORIES: AMD goes 64-bit in 2001, updates roadmap. Transmeta helps AMD to emulate "Sledgehammer"code on Windows. Intel's Almador chip-set to support new "Coppermine-T" Pentium III. Transmeta wins new contracts. Software Roundup RELATED STORIES: Microsoft's Direct X 8.0 ready to ship. Microsoft's OS strategy explained. A review of the first "Whistler" beta release. Linux 2.4 will ship in december (2000), says Linus Torvalds. Microsoft ships early Internet Explorer 6 beta to developers. (S)