Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brand--defines the type of computer on your desk, although some brand-names are strongly linked to a microprocessor--for example, Macintosh is linked to both Motorola's 68000 and the PowerPC chip. When the computer store salesperson says that a computer conforms to the IBM PC standard or is Windows compatible, he or she is really referring to the computer's microprocessor...
...type of reverse racism. In an amazingly ironic twist, the system that was established to overcome the effects of group generalizations now more than ever looks at people solely as members of some larger ethnic community. U.S. News and World Report, in a collection of snippets under the title "PC: Almost dead, still funny" quoted a letter sent to a Hispanic Professor...
Demons is not for the faint of heart. Utterly un-PC, and often grating, it makes fun of everyone from devout Christians to budding feminists. While the script is at times offensive and the acting inconsistant, the play is visually stunning, and, for that reason alone may be worth a short two hour venture into Brustein's own Hell...
...American, portrays a ferociously articulate family of Britons who live in various parts of the U.S. Assembled in a Connecticut farmhouse in the aftermath of their father's suicide, they ostentatiously deplore the English penchant for putting down America, then in the next breath rail at their big, dumb, PC-riddled adopted homeland...
...benefit of Windows users, we've been tapped by The Crimson to review IBM's new operating system, OS/2 Warp. IBM is marketing the product heavily in the face of stiff competition from Microsoft, which virtually monopolizes the operating system market for PC-compatibles...