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...have unwittingly spawned the clones. When the company began producing its first personal computer in 1981, it designed the machine around two widely available components, the Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS DOS) and the Intel 8088 microprocessor chip. Reason: IBM wanted to use standard equipment so that software companies would write programs for its computer. The only element of the PC that IBM copyrighted was the integrated circuit called the Basic Input Output System (BIOS), which controlled how the software interacted with the hardware. But by building circuits that simulated the BIOS, enterprising computer jocks created machines that could legally...
...thanks for running that Dos Gusanos ad, you know, the tequila ad with the beautiful girl wearing the black shirt and...uh...is she wearing anything else? Really emphasizes your editorial stand on women's issues...
Perhaps that's why we were puzzled to see that the Crimson, self-proclaimed champion of women's rights, had been running a rather interesting tequila advertisement. It pictures a semi-dressed buxom blonde with her tongue hanging out, and proclaims: "You'll Love My Dos Gusanos!" "Dos what?" we thought, but were informed (in small print) that dos gusanos means "two worms." How silly...
...Epstein object is ideology at either the heart of a novel or the core of criticism. Borrowing Clauswitz's definition of war, he accuses Doctorow and Coover of using literature to wage "politics by other means." He devotes four essays to rehabilitating the reputations of James G. Cozzens, John Dos Passo Var. Wyck Brooks, and Willa Cather, all of whom be considers unjustly neglected by the prejudice of liberal critics. Cather he "rescues" from the crown of lesbianism...
...Harp too often limits itself to predictable externalities. Potok relies heavily on the imagination of other artists: the explanation for Davita's father's alienation from his timber- tycoon forebears, for example, is that he witnessed a real-life scene of antiunion violence that is vividly evoked in John Dos Passos' 1919, and Davita comes to understand him by reading the book. He also introduces a surrogate uncle to Davita, a refugee writer whose fables are full of images that heavy- handedly foreshadow Picasso's Guernica. Then Davita's father dies as a hero during the bombing at Guernica. Soon...