Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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It began with an electronic Christmas card that mysteriously materialized last December on terminals connected to one of IBM's research computer networks. Soon after came news that some desktop computers at Hebrew University in Israel were growing more and more lethargic, as if a hidden organism were sapping their...
The computer world has been struck by an epidemic of "viruses," tiny fragments of computer software created by mischievous programmers and hidden within the instructions of a larger program. Like their biological namesakes, computer viruses are characterized by an ability to replicate and invade other software with which they come...
So far, most of the viruses that have come to light this year have been relatively benign, like the strain currently making the rounds of the public computer networks that causes infected machines equipped with voice synthesizers to intone the words "Don't panic." But the epidemic is giving the...
At first glance, the union of the personal computer and the compact disc would seem to be a perfect match. The same CD that holds an hour of Mendelssohn or Madonna can be used to store more information than a thousand floppy disks. But the coupling of the two technologies...
Now there are encouraging signs on both fronts. In the past year, the library of commercially available CD computer programs has doubled, from 150 to more than 300, and the number is expected to double again by the end of the year. Meanwhile, the market for CD players has received...