Word: pentium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-old Jerry's digs are West Coast Donald Trump. Filo's office is truly a Goodwill collection truck of a workspace, with dirty socks and T shirts jumbled in with books, software and other debris. Even more startling is his office computer: a poky clone running an outdated Pentium 120 chip. Why wouldn't the chief technologist of the Internet's No. 1 website use the top of the line? Filo just shrugs. "Upgrading is a pain...
Still, whoever gets the job will find the mood inside Apple considerably improved. Last month Jobs announced the company's first back-to-back profitable quarters since 1995, and employees are buzzing about the new ad campaign tweaking Intel's Pentium chips. Executives are talking hopefully of wooing back the software developers who gave up on the Mac market, and everybody hopes that the consumers who shied away from buying Macs because of concerns about the company's health will now give them another look. "Apple is back," insists senior vice president Mitchell Mandich. "Morale's up, and people...
...Worried about Asia? Take heart: South Korea's government announced plans for a $3.5 billion equity fund that will be used to purchase stock of troubled companies and keep their employees working -- and that of course means more spending money to buy stuff like Pentium chips and Nike sneakers. Heck, even Kodak had a good quarter...
...astonishment, these claims actually understated Opera's speed. On my Pentium 200 with 64 megabytes of RAM, the ABC News web site took 13 seconds to load in Navigator 4.0. Opera handled the page equally well in an astonishing four seconds. PC World magazine loaded in Opera in seven seconds (versus Netscape Navigator's 22), and Time-Warner's Pathfinder site took a blazingly-quick three seconds in Opera instead of Netscape's 12. What's more, all of these pages were rendered properly by Opera, whose authors boast full HTML 3.2 compliance...
...Pentium II chip can process 500 million instructions every second. Here...