Word: processor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hardwaremakers are also being hurt because softwaremakers aren't producing the power- and memory-sucking innovations that made consumers and businesses race out to upgrade their machines. The next big app, Microsoft's Windows 2000, is likely to require only a 300-MHz processor, already standard in today's bargain-basement PCs. So M. Lewis Temares, vice president of information technology at the University of Miami, figures that besides a few university officials who need high-octane processors for such things as complex med-school accounting software, his people are fine with the hardware in place...
...seem that long ago that a good deal on a computer meant a new PC that sold for under a grand. Now the cheapest PC practically pays for itself. The $299 Webzter Jr. desktop from Microworkz Computer Corp. packs a surprisingly powerful punch with its 300-MHz Cyrix processor, 32 megabytes of memory and 3.2-gigabyte hard drive. Like every other sub-$1,000 PC, it comes without a monitor, but it does give you one year of free Internet service from Earthlink, a $240 value...
...trumpet well enough to join a neighborhood Mexican band. He grows six inches in a summer and stops being fat. He takes a job spraying concrete for a construction firm. Loses job. Is last seen swinging a sledge with his dad, breaking truck tires loose from rims. Gets word processor (we guess), writes all this stuff down to see whether it makes sense. No, but it makes a life, or the rowdy first part of one, and a better-than-fair first novel. Onward...
Break out the college-ruled notebook paper and a number two pencil. Try to emulate twelve point Times New Roman. Bold, italic, cut and paste...all the functionality of a real word processor. You can even buy a supply of paper clips to talk to when you need help. Can't find a pencil sharpener? Jab yourself with a sharp stick and write that Sophomore essay in your own blood. Looks like Microsoft is going to bleed you dry eventually anyway...
...Break out the college-ruled notebook paper and a number two pencil. Try to emulate twelve point Times New Roman. Bold, italic, cut and paste...all the functionality of a real word processor. You can even buy a supply of paper clips to talk to when you need help. Can't find a pencil sharpener? Jab yourself with a sharp stick and write that Sophomore essay in your own blood. Looks like Microsoft is going to bleed you dry eventually anyway...