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Dates: during 1980-1989
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April Tue, 4 MIT 8:00 p.m. Fri, 7- HARVARD INVT'L 6:00 p.m. Sat, 8 (at Blodgett Pool) 11:00 a.m. Sat, 15- at Brown Invitational -- Sun, 16 (at Providence, R.I.) -- Sat, 22- at MIT Invitational -- Sun, 23 (at Cambridge, Mass...
...Easterns -- Sat, 6 (at Bucknell) -- Fri, 19- at Nationals -- Sun, 21 (at Santa Barbara...
...swiftly on the CFC problem may be that the threat is indisputable. Strong evidence of the effect emerged in 1985, when British researchers announced the existence of a seasonal "hole" in the ozone layer over Antarctica. That was worrisome: ozone between ten miles and 30 miles up absorbs the sun's ultraviolet radiation, which has been linked to cataracts, skin cancers and weakened immune systems in humans and other animals, as well as to damage to plants. Data-gathering flights in the Antarctic in 1987 made the connection between CFCs and ozone destruction all but certain. After a similar expedition...
...Data General may have started a price war by introducing a workstation for $7,450, far less than the typical $20,000 $ cost. Meanwhile, industry giants IBM and Digital Equipment were trying to rev up interest in their latest models. All these competitors are trying to knock off Sun Microsystems, the clear leader in the workstation business. Launched only in 1982, the Mountain View, Calif., firm has become a billion-dollar company on the strength of the new machines...
Major players in the RISC-chip business include Sun Microsystems, MIPS, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola. Last week Intel, the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, put its seal of approval on the workstation revolution by introducing a million-transistor chip that incorporates RISC technology...