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...test his theory, Ellison has commissioned Acorn, a British computer maker, to help design a "networked computer" to his specifications, with a keyboard, a processor, some random-access memory, a communications link and not much else. Meanwhile, nearly every other major computer maker, from Apple to IBM, claims to have something similar in the works. Sun has teamed up with Japan's Fujitsu on a machine they are calling (not surprisingly) the "Java terminal...
...from it." So have his successors, who have continued to make the Bettmann credit line ubiquitous in print. Now a few taps on the computer keyboard will bring it to the screen. That prospect pleases the 92-year-old Bettmann, who pronounced himself delighted "to have seen my original acorn nourished and cultivated into a formidable digitized...
...boom abroad may be quieting. "Of course it won't keep up," says Ralph Wanger, manager of the Acorn International Fund, up 35% to date. "Thirty percent returns are much higher than anybody has any reason to expect...
...funds with redemptions. Unlike mature exchanges in New York, London or Tokyo, many young foreign bourses may not be able to handle a big sell-off. "It's as if you walk into your neighborhood Burger King at 11:30 and say, 'I would like 400 hamburgers, please,' " quips Acorn manager Wanger...
Deepak Bhargava, ACORN legislative director, says such "prescreening" discourages applicants from initiating a mortgage application process...