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Ever since IBM began losing sales to low-cost domestic and Asian knockoffs of its original IBM PC, the companies that made the clones -- and millions of PC users -- have been awaiting Big Blue's response. At the gala unveiling, IBM introduced more than 100 interconnectable hardware and software products, including four models that IBM Group Executive Edward Lucente called the "next generation in personal computing...
...This week Apple Computer unveiled its Mac II, a spiffy unit priced at $3,899 (monitor not included). Yet the Mac II is most notable for a departure from Apple's previous products: with the proper accessories, it can run the huge library of software written for the IBM PC. Says Apple Chairman John Sculley, who bucked ten years of go-it-alone tradition to make Big Red compatible with Big Blue: "This is no longer a religious issue here...
...difference is that the new machines cannot do such high-tech jobs as number-crunching calculation and communication with other computers. Instead, the personal writers perform only routine editing and writing tasks -- at a stripped-down price of around $800, vs. more than $1,500 for a typical IBM PC...
...PC software collection offers much greater potential. Statistical packages such as Statpro and SPSS-PC provide almost all the number crunching/manipulating possibilities of a mainframe statistics package. Rather than spend several c-notes for a program which might be used only for one chapter of a senior thesis, students can simply use the program...
...surprisingly the largest number of programs are the word processing packings; there are more than eight different ones available. Thus students can try out Microsoft Word, PC Write, Readwriter, Volkswriter and several others before deciding which...