Word: processor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designing a supercomputer and getting it to market are two different things, and with his latest machine Cray may have pushed the technology one step too far. Not only does the 16-processor Cray-3 contain four times as many central calculating units as the Cray-2 (an increase that more than quadruples its complexity), but it relies on an as-yet-unproved technological advance: replacing silicon chips with faster ones made of gallium arsenide. Add to Cray's headaches the fact that his new computer is so compact that assembly by hand is difficult. Before production could begin...
...only Bellow could have staged a literary coup by sneaking a brilliant work into a 100-page paperback. Instead, it looks as if Bellow should have followed the publishers' advice and left this one on his word processor...
...Harvard University's confusing and archaic computer system. I see no sense in having to know the eight steps to print a program on a system that I will probably never want to use again. I have to remember only one button to press on my IBM-compatible word processor and on my roommate's MacIntosh to print something...
...visit foreign cities, or even many domestic ones. Fourteen honorary degrees have come his way; he has turned down many others because he hates to travel to any college or university beyond a 400-mile limit from New York City. But this unwillingness to venture far from the word processor also gives the explainaholic a few benefits: more work hours and more books. "My pace has increased through the years," he says. "In the decade from 1950 to 1960, I wrote 32 books. From 1960 to 1970, I wrote 70; from 1970 to 1980, 109 books; and in the current...
...float along one side while automobile traffic skitters by on the other. Just past Grant's Tomb on the Hudson it looms: seven city blocks of arched white concrete with miles of pretzeling pipes and a sprouting of cylindrical smokestacks. This is the North River Water Pollution Control Plant, processor for a billion gallons of sewage a week and a monument in its own right. For decades, pols, bureaucrats and engineers here tangled over how to deal with so many people flushing and washing and whatnot. While they jawed, everything went straight into the Hudson River...