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...face the dilemma of having to eliminate a system. But more important for AT&T, the addition of NCR would enhance the company's position in its ongoing battle with IBM to establish Unix as the industry standard. Both companies want to replace the technically outdated standard known as DOS. IBM's entry, called OS/2, appears to be the stronger contender. While Unix has been gaining market share, AT&T lacks the credible , machines to exploit the system's rising popularity. Instead, other computer makers using Unix, including Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment, have cashed...
...approached NCR in 1988, but the response was the same as today's: no, thanks. NCR only recently revamped its product line, shifting from computers using its own software system to machines that run Unix and DOS. "We didn't want AT&T's computer mess dumped on us then, and we don't want it now," says Charles Exley, NCR's chief executive. In discussions last week with AT&T's chief executive, Robert Allen, Exley warned of the history of failed computer marriages, such as Sperry and Burroughs or IBM and Rolm: "The industry graveyard is littered with...
...mountainous southeastern state of Minas Gerais is commonly known as the terra dos machoes, or land of the machos. "Here, if a man sleeps around with other women, it's a sign of masculinity," says Elaine Matozinho, a policewoman in Belo Horizonte. "But if a woman is an adulteress, it's a different story: she pays with her life...
...list of heroic women in the Bible by terming them "weak and feeble." The U.S. bishops did not dispute the text's predictable conservatism on controversial moral issues like birth control, but they did urge that such subjects get a "more positive" treatment rather than an inflexible listing of dos...
Such hairsplitting is sure to keep judges, local politicians, priests and rabbis scratching their heads over Yuletide and Hanukkah dos and don'ts for many holidays to come. But far more than cradles and reindeer is at stake after last week's decision. The creche and menorah case, County of Allegheny v. A.C.L.U., saw the emergence of an outspoken bloc of four conservative Justices, just one vote shy of a majority, who are openly intent on challenging long-established views on the separation between church and state. The creche dissent in the Allegheny decision brought together Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin...