Word: pcs
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Still, the concept of a radically simpler Internet machine does have a certain seductive appeal. An inexpensive Volkscomputer could bring online millions of people who can't afford today's PCs, offering them access and opportunities now beyond their reach. The stripped-down machines could also fit snugly into phone booths, airplane-seat backs and other public spaces, giving everybody ubiquitous access...
...technology is enabling Ma Bell to muscle back into the local markets turned over to the Baby Bells by the 1984 court-ordered divestiture. It can do this now by offering cellular-phone service and later by setting up networks of PCS (personal-communication services) phones. These are new wireless, portable phones. AT&T might also link up with cable-TV companies to route phone calls over TV cables...
...telecommunications deregulation bill that is awaiting a House-Senate conference would hasten this process. It would require all local telephone companies to open their networks to these new services so that a call placed on a PCS phone could be put through to a conventional phone on an office desk, and vice versa. Ominously to AT&T, the bill would also allow the Baby Bells and other local phone companies to enter the long-distance market...
...whose decision to allow other manufacturers to copy its PCs made economic giants out of Microsoft and Intel, could become a clone maker itself. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple chairman A.C. Markkula said his company has asked IBM to make computers that use the Macintosh operating system. "The IBM name on a computer still means something to a lot of people, especially corporate buyers," says technology correspondent David Jackson. "A machine that would run the Mac O/S with the IBM label is viewed by most analysts as a great combination." IBM officials did not immediately respond...
TheWindows 95 juggernauthas proved too strong for IBM, the last holdout among personal computer manufacturers. After swearing that it would stand by its flailing OS/2 computer operating system, IBM announced that it would include the new Microsoft operating system with some of its PCs. "It took IBM a while, but it was almost inevitable that they would eventually offer Windows 95, too,"TIME's David Jacksonreports from Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where IBM executives attended a launch party for the software. "Any personal computer maker not offering this product is going to have a tough time, at least...