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...TALK PERSONAL COMPUTERS AND YOU ARE TALKING microprocessors -- the tiny silicon chips that are the PC's "brains." Talk microprocessors and you are talking Intel. The company, based in Santa Clara, California, is the world's leading PC-brain maker. Part of Intel's success has been its ability to stay a step ahead of the chip manufacturers making cheaper versions of Intel's high- performance product line. One of these is Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), based in nearby Sunnyvale, which has just scored a coup in the constantly changing world of chip competition: a judge overturned a jury...
Wall Street reacted quickly; Intel stock dropped 11% in one day. But the market was clearly overreacting. Intel is still the world's largest 486 maker and will continue to be so -- by far. Given its comparatively modest manufacturing capacity, "AMD is going to be limited to 5% of the market share," predicts Montgomery Securities analyst Thomas Thornhill. Perhaps more important, Intel has already launched the next generation chip, the Pentium, destined to leave the 486 in the dust...
Speaking of microprocessors, you probably have heard a lot of talk about the Alpha chip from the Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), the nation's second-largest computer maker. With an initial clocking speed of 150 MHz (150 million cycles per second) and plans to increase this figure to as much as 200 MHz, the processor is DEC's answer to power computing...
Instead of giving users such long-called-for features as files names longer than the notorious eight-dot-three format and decent multitasking capabilities, Microsoft, the world's largest PC software maker, added features that will give few users a reason to celebrate...
...Hope means something different from what Bill Clinton intended in that brilliantly mawkish convention speech line. Hope is required precisely because Clinton himself is so flawed. Otherwise, we could simply swoon, and hope would be superfluous. But Clinton is a dissembler, like all (successful) politicians. He is a reckless maker of incompatible promises that destine every subgroup of his supporters to feel betrayed about something. He is wrong about some issues, cowardly about others, right on fewer than any individual supporter might wish...