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...particular, Gilder's analysis attacks the conventional view that the U.S. blundered in letting Japan take over the market for mass-produced memory chips. As he points out, the key component for a computer is not hardware but software, the instructions that make the machine work. When programs like Lotus 1-2-3 made the personal computer a runaway success in the early 1980s, IBM and other firms made a strategic decision to let Japan supply the demand for memory chips that U.S. chipmakers could not meet. The Japanese built costly factories to fabricate an enormous supply of chips...
...research-and-design center in California, where planners foresaw demand for a car reminiscent of the European roadsters of the 1950s and '60s. Miata's original designer, Mark Jordan, whose father is head of design at GM, drew his inspiration from such legendary nameplates as M.G., Austin-Healy and Lotus...
...computer software is more popular than Lotus 1-2-3, the electronic spreadsheet program that has sold 5 million copies since 1984. But Lotus Development Corp.'s domination of the $600 million U.S. market for such software has been threatened by an 18-month delay in the company's production of an improved program called Release 3. When the company, based in Cambridge, Mass., finally began shipping Release 3 last week, many experts realized that the program is essentially a new product rather than a simple upgrade. Boasts Lotus chairman Jim Manzi: "There's nothing like it on earth...
...primary advance of Release 3, which sells for $495, is its ability to link as many as 256 spreadsheets in one computer file, creating an almost three-dimensional effect in the way they can be combined to make different calculations. Lotus plans to offer a simpler version, called Release 2.2, within a few months...
...some degree, a new start. The pleasure was in the freshness. What is the central shape so comfily enclosed within the framing edges of Buddha's Court, 1964? A fat little figure, but vaguely so; the Rothko-like bars of color could indicate someone squatting in the lotus position. Yet it cannot have started from a figure: it is the sensation of calm presence that comes off the blues, in their association with tan and brown edges, that generates the "subject" of the painting. You still feel that Frankenthaler found something she was not looking...