Word: pentium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Voice recognition takes a lot of horsepower on the computer's end, after all, and 386 to 486 class machines just couldn't keep up with the cadence of human speech. But with the proliferation of Pentium technology, home computers have finally become powerful enough to support a more natural rate of speaking...
HITACHI MINI-NOTE: Making its debut in December is Hitachi's Pentium-based, 2.7-lb. "micro-notebook." Ideal for Windows95 users who need to pack a lighter load. $2,499 (estimated...
Enter AMD and Cyrix with their successful Pentium-killers. Thanks to shrewd microcode licensing and intensive R&D work, these companies have developed fifth- and sixth-generation CPUs to compete with the best that Intel's got to offer. Low prices on their competitors' products have led Intel to slash prices on Pentiums by almost 50 percent this year...
...prices are so low that you can get a 180-MHz Pentium-compatible system with a fast modem, huge hard drive, lots of memory, multimedia equipment and a decent monitor for less than $1,000--prices never seen for comparably priced equipment in industry history...
...centerpiece of the museum is the Walk Through Computer 2000, a two-story working Pentium computer with a giant keyboard, trackball and monitor. It's an eerie experience to actually maneuver through a computer like the one you have in your dorm room, down to the pickup-truck sized 3Com card inside...