Word: pentium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the weekend, a Sceptre Pentium computer, a Sony Walkman, and a Haynes Smart 2000 Computer, valued at $4,444, were stolen from a secured office...
...have? When I ask a non-technical person the question, the response is a brand-name, like Compaq, Gateway 2000 or Apple. When I ask a "computer person" the question, the response is the name of the computer's central processing unit (CPU), such as 486 or Pentium...
...this may seem just an amusing, if eccentric, tale. But others may find it all too familiar. If you need help, you can send me E-mail; I'm sure I won't be that far away from cyberspace. I still have to finish tuning up my brand-new Pentium 90 speedster with the 2-gigabyte SCSI drive, 32 megs of screaming RAM, a 17-in., 16.7 million color screen, 4x CD-ROM drive, V.34 superdata highway modem. But before taking it out for a spin...
...Microsoft practically giving their hottest product away to any angst-ridden Harvard student just for the asking? After the public relations disaster surrounding Intel's Pentium chip and its inability to perform division on certain rational numbers, Microsoft is making an extra effort to ensure that Windows 95 goes to press with a minimum of bugs. Windows 95 contains a slew of new features-features that could easily translate into new headaches for users; Microsoft wants to avoid problems as much as possible by testing the product on willing guinea pigs...
While researchers at Intel and IBM debated the seriousness of the problem, customers who had bought -- or planned to buy -- Pentium-based computers were confused and often angry. Intel admitted last week that tens of thousands of customers have called about the problem. Easing its earlier hard line, the company agreed to replace a few thousand of the chips for buyers who requested a switch, and it will soon begin selling a corrected model. But to Robert Sombric, the data-processing manager for the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, government, Intel's decision to go on selling the flawed chips for months...