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...server runs on a Pentium computer in Lin's Leverett room...
Never happy to be upstaged, especially by Sun and Oracle, Microsoft and Intel called a pre-emptive press conference last Monday, one day before Sun's unveiling, to announce their version of a $1,000 network computer--one that runs on Intel Pentium chips, supports Microsoft Windows and Windows NT, and includes a hard drive, just like a standard personal computer. "I call it a PC in a corset," scoffs Sun's McNealy. "They can pull the strings as tight as they want, but it's still a PC." McNealy claims that the Microsoft-Intel initiative was organized over...
...surprising smell emanates from Only the Paranoid Survive (Currency Doubleday; 202 pages; $27.50), a literate new business-technology book from Intel CEO Andy Grove. The first wave comes as he describes how the microprocessor giant narrowly avoided tanking after shipping defective Pentium chips and then ignoring customer pleas for help in 1994. Another whiff drifts by as Grove recounts Intel's stumbling exit from the memory business just in time to avoid becoming lunchtime sushi for chip-dumping Japanese megaliths. And the scent grows stronger as he chronicles his decision not to orient his company to the Internet. The aroma...
...folks wait for the library doors to open each morning--children as young as two, adults older than Bill Gates' parents--that the staff had to put down green tape on the floor to mark off a place to line up for a turn on one of the dozen Pentium-chip computers in the Jell-O-blue reading room...
Intel's 64-bit processor is tailor-made for "tech-heads" who look upon the Pentium as dad's Buick...