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...Macintosh, for instance, some programs add new extensions to the System Folder. While an extension by itself is a small file, each one gets run by the system at startup, forcing you to wait impatiently while several rows of icons fill the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen...

Author: By Kevin S. Davis, | Title: Dusting Off The Virtual Cobwebs | 11/25/1997 | See Source »

...take exception to the offhand comment that by 2001 everyone will be using computers with Windows 2001 and that the only holdouts will be "aging potheads still designing really cool fractal algorithms" on Macintosh computers. Even in jest, comments like this distort reality. Macs are not relevant only to impractical deadbeats. Most of us know that if you want an elegant computer that is easy to set up, operate and maintain, you buy a Mac. Otherwise you get a PC. ALAN THOMPSON San Mateo, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 24, 1997 | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...access Microsoft's popular online gaming site, the Zone, using Netscape's browser or a Mac machine for a taste of the power Gates could eventually wield. "We're sorry," reads the otherwise blank page. "The new Zone doesn't currently support Microsoft Windows 3.x; or Apple Macintosh or Unix (R) operating systems, or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 2.0 or Netscape Navigator browsers." Resistance is futile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL RENO BRAKE WINDOWS? | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

John Chuang '87, president and founder of MacTemps Inc., started a small desktop publishing service with two classmates as a junior at Harvard. He said his entrepreneurial spirit carried him through to create a leading international staffing company, supplying Macintosh and PC/Windows experts, with 7,000 employees...

Author: By Jie Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Entrepreneur's Panel Kicks-Off Fall 1997 Career Week | 10/15/1997 | See Source »

...happy running his animation firm, Pixar, the wizards behind "Toy Story." And Apple experts always assumed he preferred running the company from behind the scenes, which Jobs (who was exclusively profiled recently in TIME) has in effect been doing since his triumphal return last December. Many among the Macintosh faithful wanted Jobs to assume the mantle of supreme charismatic dictator for life, but up until now he has shunned the Napoleon role to work from the backroom on such "insanely great" things as August's Microsoft deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRIDAY: Jobs to Keep Apple Throne? | 10/10/1997 | See Source »

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