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Matt Howitt is correct ("Tech Talk," Apr. 26) in noting that preemptive multitasking "has existed for a long time," but he omits mentioning IBM's Time Sharing System (TSS) Model 360/67, which used a multitask environment, and paging of memory to create virtual memory. It too was created in the 1960s...
...legal terms, the two cases are quite different. In one, Microsoft has been accused of unfairly using its dominant position in operating systems (some 8 out of 10 IBM-compatible PCs run on Microsoft's software) to help it enter new markets. In the other, Microsoft is trying to buy dominance in a market where it was losing money and where Intuit had a 70% share. In fact, the company was doing so poorly with its Microsoft Money program that when the merger was announced, Gates offered to give it to archrival Novell in a deal one pundit characterized...
...hopes of starting his project this summer, Bonfili has already contacted companies including IBM, Macintosh and Microsoft for resources. But he emphasizes that help from nearby businesses is most important because they have "more incentive to invest in their community...
What's preemptive multitasking? It's the second major architectural improvement to win 95. Like the 32-bit model, this feature has also existed for a long time, first appearing in the 1960's in the UNIX world and then finally migrating to the IBM personal computer platform in the early...
...IBM has been exonerated in a second suit charging that keyboards marketed by the company causecarpel tunnel syndrome. A U. S. District Court held that neither production defects nor design flaws in keyboards marketed by IBM and Atex were responsible for reporter Larry Lewis' carpel tunnel syndrome. Last month IBM won a similar decision from a Minnesota jury. Lewis, who has been a reporter for 30 years, said he wanted to show that "you can get carpal tunnel from a computer." However, hand surgeon Dr. Morton L. Kasdan says that will be a difficult thing to prove. He says that...