Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fractal algorithms" on Macintosh computers. Even in jest, comments like this distort reality. Macs are not relevant only to impractical deadbeats. Most of us know that if you want an elegant computer that is easy to set up, operate and maintain, you buy a Mac. Otherwise you get a PC. ALAN THOMPSON San Mateo, Calif...
...Intel, Net-surfing hardware for Microsoft's WebTV and cell phones and pagers with San-Diego-based Qualcomm Inc. Sony factories are churning out a wave of digital-based products, from high-resolution videodiscs and video-game machines to passport-size video and still cameras that plug into a PC...
From that came the VAIO, an Intel-produced, Sony-designed line of computers introduced last year that hasn't exactly wowed the digerati. Some analysts complain that Sony's PC offers too little value and is priced too high to compete with established makers like Gateway 2000 and Compaq. Sony contends that the VAIO is simply spearheading a long-term attempt to get a lucrative piece of the multimedia home computer market. For that, Sony has much to offer. "The next growth market is digital imaging for PCs," says the Tokyo analyst. "And connecting digital cameras and computers...
...original markup language made it easy for humans to read Websites; XML makes it easy for machines to read them. Think of XML as doing for the Web what Windows and the Mac did for personal computers. When you click on a document on a Windows-based PC, the operating system is smart enough to recognize that you've selected a word-processing document or a spreadsheet or a piece of E-mail, and to launch the appropriate application. XML makes Websites smart enough to tell other machines whether they're looking at a recipe, an airline ticket...
...used keyboards to interact with computers for decades now, ever since punch cards went out of style in the 60s. For many people, it's hard to imagine any other means of inputting data into a PC...