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...that moment, a new era of high-speed computing began. The Cray-2 has the world's largest internal memory capacity (2 billion bytes) and a top speed of 1.2 billion FLOPS (floating point, or arithmetical, operations per second), six to twelve times faster than its predecessor, the Cray-1, and 40,000 to 50,000 times faster than a personal computer. It outdistances the world's half-dozen other supercomputers -- machines specially designed to carry out vast numbers of repetitive calculations at incredible speeds -- and is expected to make short work of problems that have vexed scientists and engineers...
While General Motors went shopping last week for a high-tech aircraft and ) electronics manufacturer, R.J. Reynolds seemed convinced that plenty of money could still be made on cookies and crackers. Reynolds, the second largest U.S. cigarette maker, agreed to buy Nabisco Brands, the fifth biggest food manufacturer, for $4.9 billion. The merged company will have annual sales of more than $19 billion, making it the largest consumer-products firm...
...last Thursday, police at Hong Kong International Airport seized a young man in a well-tailored business suit. He was, it turned out, no ordinary criminal, but one of Hong Kong's most prominent businessmen: Patrick C.T. Chang, 35, chairman of Overseas Trust Bank (OTB), the colony's fourth largest bank (deposits: $1.2 billion). Less than three hours before the arrest, the bank had suddenly closed down, declaring itself "insolvent...
...make high tech their No. 1 target. It is U.S. computer technology that the Soviets truly covet, for the ability to process masses of information in milliseconds is what makes modern weapons so deadly. Says FBI Counterintelligence Chief Ed O'Malley: "Science and technology is the KGB's largest growth industry...
...today. Following a decline in 1983, export orders more than doubled last year, to about $6.66 billion, a record, and this year's orders show promise. "The government's instructions to the defense sector are sell, sell, sell," says a Western diplomat. France is now the world's third largest arms dealer, behind the U.S. and the Soviet Union...