PCs and workstations

Article Abstract:

Computer manufacturers must adjust to a changing market that could be fundamentally different in the year 2000 from the way it was in 1992. DEC, HP and Silicon Graphics are in direct competition with Sun Microsystems, the market leader in engineering workstations. Bull, Compaq, DEC, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Olivetti and Siemens/Nixdorf had to restructure and reduce engineering jobs in 1992 due to low corporate earnings. These companies now have less money to spend on research and development. Apple Computer sold 400,000 PowerBook portable computers for earnings of $1 billion, within nine months of the product's introduction. The Sparcstation 10, from Sun Microsystems, was introduced; this is the world's first commercial parallel-processing desktop workstation. The first multimedia alliance, First Cities, was formed in 1992 by several vendors.

Computer industry, Profits, Cover Story, Professional associations, Trade associations, Business conditions, 1992 AD, Trade and Professional Associations, Market Analysis, Vendors, Reorganization, Profit, Review of Past Year

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Software on the brink

Article Abstract:

Computer companies are developing software packages for supercomputers that will facilitate the use of massively parallel machines. Academic researchers and major corporations are collaborating to produce software that can be used by the scientific and business communities. The software development focuses on creating a universal standard operating system based on Unix that will work with any machine. Manufacturers have largely abandoned any plans to develop one high-speed processor and instead are working to link multiple processors for large data jobs. Compiler and application development software programs are also needed to facilitate the potential usage of supercomputers in competitive industries.

Software, Standard, Standardization, Industrial research, Supercomputers, Supercomputer, Applications programming, Research and Development, Product Development, Software packages

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Coping with a flexible architecture

Article Abstract:

The PowerPC architecture, developed jointly by IBM, Motorola and Apple at their Somerset Design Center, Austin, TX, will have the capacity to unify architecture for various applications as well as hardware in platforms offered by various computer concerns. The Apple-IBM-Motorola trio is planning on initiating a reference platform to usher in high-performance, compatible computers.

Innovations, x86 compatible computers, Compatible computers, Computer architecture

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