Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Windows NT system. "Now it's official -- all of Microsoft's browsers are now under legal assault," says TIME technology correspondent Chris Taylor. "But NT, because it's the core of the soon-to-be-shipped Windows 2000, is really the one that has the most bearing on the PC world...
...years I've wanted to put the operating system known as Linux on my PC. Why? Because I love the idea of it. Linux, which was first released in 1991, is an alternative to Windows and Apple's Mac operating system--though it will run on virtually any PC and most Macs. Supposedly 15 million people use it worldwide. (Since it's available free, no one knows how many copies have actually been passed around.) It's also the poster child of the so-called open-source movement. Unlike Microsoft Windows or the Mac OS, Linux and many...
...called "Thor," a guy in Red Hat's support squad. He checked around and then informed me that I was out of luck. My external CD drive was incompatible with the Red Hat distribution. "Laptops can be a nightmare," he confessed. Bowed, but not broken, I borrowed a desktop PC from the bowels of Time Inc. and set to work partitioning my hard drive so that I could keep Windows on one portion and install Linux on the other. This was grim work, but with Thor on the phone calling the shots, I was able to install...
Naturally, I was among the takers who grabbed a beta copy from www.real.com Installation on my home PC was effortless. I threw a Meat Puppets CD into my disk drive and started listening to the first cut. In the time it took me to play a third of the 4-min. song, the whole tune (all 2.3 megabytes of it) was already neatly recorded and stored on my hard drive. While the sound quality is billed as "near CD," I couldn't tell the difference. I quickly set to work cherry picking our CD collection for my favorite songs...
...splatter game Quake III will be one of the big hits this week at Electronic Entertainment Expo, the big annual trade show where computer- and video-game vendors gather to unveil their whizziest and often most bloodthirsty stuff. But parents hoping to keep guns and guts off their PC and TV screens will have plenty of other choices, judging from the strong lineup of family-friendly fare. Disney will debut its new Tarzan action game for the PC, PlayStation and Nintendo 64. Maxis will present The Sims, a fresh take on the company's SimCity3000 franchise--you still play...