Word: computerdom
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...usual, very advantageous to Apple). And though he went on to become, for a time, the golden boy of Silicon Valley--in 1981 Apple's $334 million in sales dwarfed Microsoft's puny $15 million--it was Bill Gates who became the emperor of all computerdom...
Nowadays a zippy chorus or two of Happy Days Are Here Again would not be out of order either. After its initial burst of prosperity, the computer industry | fell into a two-year slump that some feared might signal a permanent slowdown in growth. The good news in computerdom is that the sluggishness appears to be over and many makers of personal computers are once again registering record revenues and plump profits. The companies' stock prices have recovered, and some firms are hiring factory workers and sales people after a long spell of layoffs and attrition. Best...
Along with Luke, Darth Vader will be back, as menacing as ever, as will Princess Leia, Han Solo, the Wookie Chewbacca and computerdom's cutest robots, Artoo Detoo and Threepio. There will also be several new characters, "of various genres," as Creator George Lucas phrases it, together with "aliens, robots and others, including humans." What about Obi-wan-Kenobi, the role that last week brought Alec Guinness an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actor? Lucas is suddenly circumspect. "Obi-wan's aura will be there," he says cautiously, "his essence, if you like...
...enough to give a submarine skipper the shakes: the U.S. Navy announced that it is adding to its arsenal the Mark-46 torpedo, a solid-fuel missile with an underwater speed faster than the newest nuclear subs. Thanks to the wonders of computerdom, the Mark-46 also has a built-in, all-but-infallible killer's instinct...
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