Word: processor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...monstrous with every upgrade, why not let the Internet be your hard drive? The World Wide Web contains more data than you'll ever use. Java, in theory, can retrieve all the software you need when you need it. All your computer really has to have is a fast processor, a good Internet connection and a few built-in programs to handle E-mail and word processing. If the price is right, predicts Larry Ellison, chairman of software giant Oracle and one of the idea's chief promoters, "everyone will have one of these things...
...test his theory, Ellison has commissioned Acorn, a British computer maker, to help design a "networked computer" to his specifications, with a keyboard, a processor, some random-access memory, a communications link and not much else. Meanwhile, nearly every other major computer maker, from Apple to IBM, claims to have something similar in the works. Sun has teamed up with Japan's Fujitsu on a machine they are calling (not surprisingly) the "Java terminal...
...tale's prevailing oddity is that Caroline is not convincingly female. Not that she should cry or lose earrings, but as things are, she is simply a stick-figure lawyer who happens to have a woman's name. Had Patterson hit the replace key on his word processor and swapped "George" for "Caroline" just before finishing his final draft, it would be fairly hard to tell there had been a change (excepting the fact that the book would then become a gay romance...
...course, these problems are merely symptomatic of the larger problem of these technothriller novels: self-absorption on behalf of the author. We can imagine the writer, typing away at his word processor (another spur to novel-writing these days: anyone with WordPerfect and memories of comic book adventures can churn out a 400-pager in a few days and modem it away) loath to omit any bit of abstruse technological research accrued over many sleepless nights of study. Perhaps the MA's are the breaks he allows himself. Perhaps Death By Fire is another example of how movies have infiltrated...
...networked computer supposedly won't need a lot of hard disk space, and hard disks are cheap these days anyway. A 500 megabyte hard drive costs a little over $100. A good keyboard costs about $70. A cheap processor costs around $100. A decent Ethernet card costs around...