Word: compact
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...question: How much computing power can be packed onto a desktop? Last week the company gave a startling new answer by delivering its lowest-cost and most compact computer yet, the SPARCstation 1. The machine is priced at $9,000, about the same as a top-of-the-line Apple Macintosh, yet Sun claims the SPARCstation 1 has more than five times the power. The Sun machine's main operating unit is only the size of a pizza box; older units with equivalent power were too big to fit on a desktop. Two years in the making, SPARCstation...
...when Sun's workers turn to business -- producing workstations, which are high-powered computers in compact packages -- they are all business. Already Sun has eclipsed Apollo Computer, once the dominant force in the booming workstation marketplace. Now Sun is crowding Digital Equipment, a company 25 years its senior and more than six times its size. This year, as Sun approaches $2 billion in annual sales, even IBM can no longer ignore its rise. Says Robert Herwick, who follows the industry for the investment firm Hambrecht & Quist: "Clearly, Sun is the answer to a question...
Only one sleep technique has worked. Each night I program a sequence of soothing music which delivers me into a deep and peaceful slumber. As soon as the sequence ends, however, I'm up. Without input from the compact disc player, the speakers pick up a local rap radio station...
...backlog has created a perfect opening for Fokker, which started producing the compact Fokker 100 jetliner in 1987. The company scored a major coup last week when American Airlines announced plans to buy 75 Fokker 100s, to be delivered in the next six years, and an option to purchase 75 more later on. The American deal, worth as much as $3 billion, is the largest foreign contract ever won by a Dutch company...
...most important, a decrease in the Soviet military presence -- whether in garrisons on the outskirts of East bloc capitals or over the horizon in the U.S.S.R. itself -- may induce those regimes to rely less on the threat of force and more on a genuine social compact between a government and its citizens...