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...deliver the first models sometime before summer (having missed | a self-imposed deadline last month). And this week a company called General Magic, which has been surrounded with breathless secrecy since it was founded three years ago by ex-Apple employees -- including two of the brightest lights on the Macintosh design team, Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson -- will finally reveal what it has up its sleeve...
Enter competition in recent years mouse wielding of Macintosh users have become accustomed to making daily choices among typefaces. Do-it-yourself desktop publication of resumes, business cards, newsletters, and reports prevents trained specialties from exercising any control over the look of many typeset document...
...Houghton exhibit indicates that digital democracy has served typography well. Such exhibits as "About face" can ensure that consumers and designers use democracy's energies properly, constumers will learn that the history of type began long before Apple began bundling bitmaps of "Times," "Helvetica" and "Palatine" with Macintosh will be able contract the wild modern early periods with the stodgy lay in between...
...Nevertheless, cyberpunk may be the defining counterculture of the computer age. It embraces, in spirit at least, not just the nearest thirtysomething hacker hunched over his terminal but also nose-ringed twentysomethings gathered at clandestine RAVES, teenagers who feel about the Macintosh computer the way their parents felt about Apple Records, and even preadolescent vidkids fused like Krazy Glue to their Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis games -- the training wheels of cyberpunk. Obsessed with technology, especially technology that is just beyond their reach (like BRAIN IMPLANTS), the cyberpunks are future oriented to a fault. They already have one foot...
...standard operating system runs only on computers built around Intel's computer chips, Apple's software runs only on Motorola's chips. Although IBM has pledged that the new system will eventually run on a variety of machines, it will initially run only computer programs written for Apple's Macintosh or IBM's OS/2. Its competitive juices now flowing, IBM last week announced that it and Apple Computer will deliver the operating system in 1994 -- a year ahead of schedule...