Word: pc
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...best friend been complaining about not being connected to the campus data network lately? That may be a hint that she wants an Ethernet card for her computer. Available from the Technology Product Center for between $150 and $250 (and possibly less through mail-order), these devices allow a PC or Macintosh to access the campus network, which has been activated in the Yard and will be available in the Quad in January...
...much education as possible. Never mind the tales of college graduates working as bellboys -- even though such stories are true. On no opinion are the experts so unanimous as that the future belongs to the knowledge worker, master of his PC, fiber-optics whatsit, E-mail gizmo and whatever takes its place. One of the best windows into the future is supplied by an Austin, Texas, company with the rather dull name of Applied Materials Inc. Its founders set out quite deliberately to build a manufacturing facility for the 21st century, and since 1991 they have become the world...
...Jobs' NeXTStep 486. Requiring even more computer power to run than NT, NeXTStep brings the much-acclaimed object-oriented interface of the now-defunct NeXT computer to PCs. While it probably features the best user environment of any computer, its hefty demands on the underlying hardware have kept the PC masses away...
While NT may not be the best operating system for the PC--I would recommend OS/2 2.1 if your computer can run it--it has Microsoft's marketing muscles behind it and stands a very good chance of becoming the next standard of personal computer operating system...
...wide acceptance of NT may be hindered by its high demands on the hardware and the $499 price tag. For most PC users, MS-DOS is still the best environment available...