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...business and community leaders were invited to accompany a school principal for one day to get better acquainted with the city's schools and their problems. Among the participants: New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Wall Street executive Henry Kravis, NBC newscaster Jane Pauley and senior executives from American Express, Motorola...
...same time, Apple is rumored to be revamping its wildly successful PowerBook series to use newer Motorola 68LC040 CPU technology, rather than the PowerBook for the past two years...
...March 14, Apple Computer unveiled the Power Macintosh series of personal computers, the first fruit of its 1991 alliance with IBM and Motorola. At Apple's recent Seybold Seminars exhibition in Boston I got a chance to kick the machines' tires and take a test drive to see the new "power" for myself...
Without question, these machines are fast. While the Power Macintosh desktop is functionally identical to that of the typical Motorola 68040-based Mac, under the hood the new series is fueled by the PowerPC 601. This is a RISC (reduced instruction set computing) microprocessor that claims to yield "two to four times the performance of today's Intel 1486 and Motorola 680x0-based personal computers," according to an Apple press release...
Gates demonstrated the scope of his goals once more last week by taking on Motorola with his Teledesic proposal. Motorola has announced plans for its own satellite-linked worldwide system, through a new firm called Iridium. While Iridium is designed for portable devices such as phones and hand-held computers, Teledesic is intended for fixed locations, such as offices. Both ventures will compete with the U.S. phone companies, which are busily laying cable for a fiber-optic system costing at least $100 billion that will carry video signals and data as well as voice communications. Both systems will also require...