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...Apple Computer will be able to export machines ten times as powerful as older units that may now be shipped without special approval. But the sale of top-of-the-line models, notably the Macintosh II and IBM models equipped with the high-speed Intel 80386 microprocessor, will still be subject to strict controls...
Moreover, the newest workstations contain microprocessor chips endowed with an advanced technology called RISC (reduced instruction-set computer). Because the instructions embedded in the circuitry of the streamlined chips are simpler and relatively few in number, they take less time to execute. The computers that have RISC chips are faster and more powerful than standard models. One result is that a workstation can produce graphics that are far more detailed than those generated by personal computers...
Major players in the RISC-chip business include Sun Microsystems, MIPS, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola. Last week Intel, the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, put its seal of approval on the workstation revolution by introducing a million-transistor chip that incorporates RISC technology...
Home automation took a major step forward last week, when the Electronic Industries Association/Consumer Electronics Group -- a trade organization that includes such giants as Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Tandy, Mitsubishi and RCA -- unveiled a new wiring standard called the Consumer Electronics Bus, or CEBus. CEBus will enable microprocessor-equipped appliances built by one company to communicate with those built by any other. In the first public demonstration, at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, enthusiastic manufacturers showed off a prototype CEBus-controlled home of the future packed with high-tech features. When a telephone rings in a CEBus home...
...Mach, a variation on AT&T's popular Unix system. (In addition to its other virtues, Mach is designed to allow computers that have been hooked together to share seamlessly one another's processing power.) The core of Jobs' computer is the Motorola 68030, the most advanced general- purpose microprocessor chip on the market. That device's prodigious capabilities have been further enhanced by an array of custom-made chips that are not only state of the art but also artfully laid out. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has described the NeXT machine as the most beautiful computer ever built...