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...acquisition would also give Sun a major headache, because Apple is arguably one of the worst-managed companies in the industry. Apple has a host of problems that need to be addressed immediately to ward off the doom that many people have predicted for years. Cleaning up that mess would tax Sun's management team, possibly beyond its capabilities, and could distract it from Sun's own successful business. Even if Sun could figure out how to solve the short-term problems, it would inherit all the bigger conundrums that have bedeviled Apple for most of its brilliant, exasperating life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APPLE OF SUN'S EYE | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

CASTLE GRANDE Trailer park of doom joins Whitewater in atlas of Clinton woes

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WINNERS & LOSERS: THE WHITE HOUSE FOLLIES | 1/22/1996 | See Source »

...overcame my DIMS. And immediately contracted an acute case of DAS--Doom addiction syndrome. In the space of a week, I was late for two meetings, canceled three lunches and spoke curtly to friends and family. Worse, my trigger finger has begun to itch when, in real life, I round the corner to the coffee machine. The demons, I fear, are everywhere. I plan to worry about that later, after I escape from Level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A REVENANT ON MY BACK | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...appointment I did keep was with John Romero, co-founder of a company based in Mesquite, Texas, called Id Software, which created Doom. I called him at 2 p.m., as arranged, but he wasn't there. I recognized the symptom. Later Romero explained how he handled appointments while living in Doomspace: "I try not to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A REVENANT ON MY BACK | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...that looks like a fever-dream parking garage in which I'm pinned down by a pair of lethal skeletons. The Wad Master nods thoughtfully, then gives me a closely guarded five-letter password that, when typed, will bring me every weapon and secret key. I will be a Doom god. In the elevator back to my office, my fingers twitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A REVENANT ON MY BACK | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

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