Word: beepings
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Even Richard Stallman cannot abide by this high standard. To do anything more than beep when it is turned on, a computer needs an operating system. PCs require DOS, Macs use System 7, and workstations and mainframes use UNIX...
...HAPPENED IN MAYBE A MILLION TELEVISION shows: the monitor above a critically ill patient's bed goes beep, beep, beep . . . beeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Doctors and nurses rush to the bedside. The patient's heart has stopped, and the medical professionals go into a frenzy trying to start it up again...
...discovered we can't go near the Science Center because the beepers don't work around there. When we finally called in, they told us they'd tried to beep us with two calls," he said...
...discreetly dash off a message: "Running late. Be patient." With the tap of a pencil-like stylus, your note is beamed through the ether to the other side of town, where it lodges in a similar device, stowed in your daughter's book bag, and sets off a little beep. She hauls out her notepad, reads your message on the screen, scrawls across the bottom, "Cool. I'll hang out," and beams it back to your screen. It's now 5:32. You breathe a little easier and start to listen to what the man behind the desk...
...BEGINNING WAS THE BEEP -- simple, utilitarian and sufficient to alert a computer user that his machine had been turned on or that a floppy disk had failed. Then came the Macintosh, with its built-in sound chips and an onscreen control panel that enabled Mac enthusiasts to replace the beep with a boing, a clink-clank or a monkey's chirp. Finally, last spring Microsoft put sound- control software in the latest version of its Windows program, extending the power to customize a computer's noises to the 90 million owners of IBM PCs and compatible machines...