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...harsh sight for a freshman's eyes. In the common room buzzed two printers. In the bedroom sat Zach, frantically typing footnotes. He did not look up from under a three-day beard. Gil had been working on the bibliography at another Mac. Potato chip bags lay open on the bed; random chocolate chip cookies spotted the wood floors...
Major players in the RISC-chip business include Sun Microsystems, MIPS, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola. Last week Intel, the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, put its seal of approval on the workstation revolution by introducing a million-transistor chip that incorporates RISC technology...
Like the genes in a living cell, the microcodes on a computer chip carry the instructions that control the chip's functions. Manufacturers safeguard the valuable microcodes with copyrights, but their legality has been a vexing question. No longer. In a landmark ruling last week in San Jose, Federal Judge William Gray upheld a microcode copyright used by Intel Corp., the world's largest producer of microprocessors. The decision came in a dispute that began in 1984 when Japan's NEC challenged the copyright. Intel responded that NEC had illegally used the code in its own products. But while Gray...
...when appliances incorporating the CEBus standard begin to appear later this year, homeowners will be able to build their own home-automation systems at a fraction of the previous cost. Several manufacturers, including Texas Instruments, CyberLynx and AISI, have announced plans to shrink the CEBus electronics into a chip that can be embedded at the factory into everything from air conditioners to toaster ovens. Says Les Larsen, president of Boulder- based CyberLynx: "This will allow homeowners to control their environment to a degree not possible before...
Oreos? Chocolate chip? Fudge Stripes? Donato didn't have time to tell. All he saw was Melrose rushing into the zone, wanting the puck...