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...voice messages as well as make cellular phone calls. Designed and manufactured by EO, a new Silicon Valley company that is 50% owned by AT&T, the Communicator will have a head start on several rivals expected later in the year, including Apple Computer's similar Newton model and Motorola's Dragon. To celebrate, Warwick gave the team that developed the Hobbit a symbolic gift: a desk clock. "It was to remind us that we received our wake-up call," he says...
...another potentially powerful player in the PC processor market is the PowerPC, jointly developed by IBM, Apple and Motorola. Like the Alpha, the PowerPC belongs to the clan of CPUs that has as its motto "Simple Is Beautiful." Known as reduced instruction set computers (RISC), these systems attempt to execute simple-instructions as fast as possible...
...Pentium and other processors from Intel and Motorola, on the other hand, follow a design philosophy called complex instruction set computing (CISC), aimed at doing as many kinds of tasks on the chip as possible, thereby making the programmer's life easier but costing time with slower instruction execution...
...battle between the two strategies appears to be won by the RISC side, as evidenced by the proliferation of RISC systems and RISC features included in the Pentium and the Motorola 68050, a chip still in development. Despite all the heat in the microprocessor industry, most users need not be concerned since many of the new systems will be able to run software written for rival machines...
HANGING OUT A "HELP WANTED" sign for a new chief executive officer at a company like International Business Machines should have brought a long line of eager job seekers. It did not. Instead many chief executives, including Apple Computer's John Sculley and Motorola's George Fisher, went out of their way to avoid being drafted. The Big Blue board eventually settled on Louis Gerstner, chairman of RJR Nabisco, although he has absolutely no computer- industry experience. Gerstner's main qualification is his ability to turn companies around by cutting costs, but he will have his work...