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...Keep list of "First Lady Dos and Don'ts" for Tipper Gore...
While this may be passed off as a coincidence, the ASCII codes of "MS-DOS 6.31" and "WINDOW95" also...
HomeLink's interface is primitive, harkening back to old MS-DOS terminal programs. Menus are accessed by the keypad on your computer, with little mouse support and no graphics. But BankBoston promises a new, graphically-oriented version later this year. And you can even transfer data between the popular Quicken package and your account...
...million-line program that solidified Microsoft's PC hegemony--Gates worried about what lay ahead. Microsoft had long dominated the world of personal computing by providing the software that controlled the way users interacted with their machines--a program called an operating system. Microsoft's operating systems, first DOS in 1980 and then Windows 10 years later, had given the company intimidating control over PC software. And lush profits, enough to vault Gates to the top of the list of the richest Americans...
...novels, I started John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy and got through the first book (The 42nd Parallel) and half the second book (Nineteen Nineteen) before letting my attention wander. The books are heavily influenced by history and are not quick reads. I'll return to them later in the summer, when my mind will be better prepared to soak them...