Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many companies are enlisting technology to get a jump on competitors. To bring inventories closer into line with sales, a growing number of retailers are using the bar-code system pioneered more than a decade ago by the grocery industry. As each item is rung up on the cash register...
Using a computer, Rivlin created "a microsimulation model" of the population to examine the cost and effects of various types of health financing plans until the year 2020 for people of means. She says her model took into account such personal characteristics as income, assets, pension rates and disabilities.
At the center of the conflict is the part of a computer that is most visible to the user: the words and pictures that appear on the screen and the commands by which the machine can be made to do one's bidding. Conventional computers, including the industry-standard IBM...
Apple's success with the Mac inspired a host of imitators who incorporated elements of the computer's visual display into their own systems. At the heart of the current dispute is Apple's charge that Microsoft, with a program called Windows 2.03, and Hewlett-Packard, with NewWave, took imitation...
But the timing of Apple's action suggests more specific motives. Apple's archrival, IBM, is currently demonstrating to dealers and software developers a third program, called Presentation Manager, that is intended to be the software centerpiece of its new PS/2 line of personal computers. Presentation Manager is virtually identical...