The New York Times 1992 John Markoff |
Title | Subject | Authors |
3 Western allies seek end to a high-tech export ban. (Germany, the Netherlands and Italy, members of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
A media pioneer's quest: portable electronic newspapers: new technologies to offer an alternative to conventional publishing. (Roger Fidler wants to computerize newspaper publishing) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
A network of networks that keeps scientists plugged in. (Internet)(Business Technology: tough policy issues) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
An unlikely underdog: I.B.M. must play catch-up with Microsoft as it begins to ship improved software. (OS/2 2.0 operating system, Microsoft Windows 3.1) (Product Announcement) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Apple to offer a 2-in-1 computer. (Apple Macintosh PowerBook Duo portable computers) (Product Announcement) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Apple to sell computers priced for home market. (Apple Computer Inc. will introduce its Performa product line) (Company News) (Product Announcement) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Appliances need genius more than labs do. (design) (Ideas & Trends) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
A public battle over secret codes. (businesses fight with US Congress over government regulation of encryption) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
A rebound for I.B.M. in quarter; $595 million profit lifts shares by 75 cents. (first quarter of 1992) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Armistice for Apple and Microsoft: leaders see virtue in their joint effort. (interview with Apple CEO John Sculley and Microsoft Corp CEO William Gates) (Interview) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
A.T.& T. forming alliances for wireless computing. (AT and T holds talks with McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. and signs pact with Go Corp.) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Beyond the PC: Apple's promised land: John Sculley, a big winner of late, dreams of do-it-all devices. But will he get there? (Apple's chief technology officer John Sculley wants Apple to produce the devices that will consolidate computers, consumer electronics, communication and information) (includes related article on Sculley's revamping of Apple) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Boston: walk-through computer: in three museums, visitors explore the worlds of robots, semiconductors and space. (Computer Museum in Boston) (includes related article about the Tech 2000 Exposition in Washington, D.C.; another related article is about the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA.) (Theaters of High Tech) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Broader use of Macintosh software set; Quorum has program for fast work stations. (Quorum Software Systems' Quorum Latitude and Quorum Equal) (Product Announcement) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Canadian group will buy Japanese supercomputer. (Fujitsu Ltd.'s VP240X) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Coalition seeks to adopt a standard Unix version: direct competition for Microsoft's Windows and I.B.M.'s OS/2. (Open Software Foundation's Unixware operating system) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Computer feud enters a new phase. (Microsoft, IBM to go head-to-head with Windows New Technology, OS/2 2.0) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Computer oracle breaks silence; Steve Chen offers his view of future. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Computers are distributed containing software virus. (Leading Edge Products Inc.'s microcomputers) (Business Day) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Computer users plot to avoid virus. (Michelangelo virus) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Computer viruses: just uncommon colds after all? (not every computer in an organization may need to be inoculated in order to prevent computer virus epidemics) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Danger of miscarriage found for chip workers. (semiconductor workers) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Daunting hurdles to using System 7 on the Mac: What are the most dangerous words in computing? 'Mostly compatible.' (Apple Computer Inc's operating system, System 7.0) (The Executive Computer)(column) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
David Gelernter's romance with Linda. (Yale computer scientist David Gelernter; Linda computer programming language)(includes related article on the origin of the language's name) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Despite U.S. export rules, Israel buys a supercomputer. (products from England's Meiko Scientific Ltd.) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Double-hard-disk capacity, through software; compression provides more storage, although it sometimes slows things down. (Stac Electronics's Stacker and Salient Software Inc.'s Autodoubler)(The Executive Computer) (Software Review) (Evaluation) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Era of the tiny PC is nearly at hand. (hand-held microcomputers) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Experimenting with an unbreachable electronic cipher. (cryptography and data communications) (Technology) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Fast data-storage systems are EMC's big opportunity. (EMC Corp.) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Feared computer plague passes with very few infections; computer security experts fear a backlash after the buildup. (Michelangelo virus) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Foray into mainstream for parallel computing. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Fujitsu supercomputers to be sold again in U.S. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Happy birthday, HAL; What went wrong? (will a machine who can think ever be developed?) (Ideas & Trends) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Head of I.B.M. unit looks to busy future. (Lucie J. Fjeldstad, head of IBM's multimedia computing unit) (Business People) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Hyundai to move its PC unit to U.S. (Hyundai Electronics Industries) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. and Microsoft settle fight on operating systems. (computer giants to share custody of existing operating systems, diverge in development of new operating systems) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. cites brisk sales for new PC software. (OS/2 operating system) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. enters pen-computing race. (IBM's Thinkpad) (Product Announcement) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. executive named Western Digital president. (Charles A. Haggerty to become president and COO) (Company News) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. loss in quarter and year: $1.38 billion deficit posted in 4th period. (Business Day) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. plan for faster machines; announcement set on supercomputers. (IBM's Highly Parallel Supercomputing Laboratory) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. plan for selling PC 'clones.' (microcomputers) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. shows library for data storage. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. speeds up sales plan for 5 mid-range mainframes. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. spins off PC business into new company. (IBM Personal Computer Co.) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
IBM to place Lotus at core of its PC networking plans. (Lotus Development Corp to develop programs for IBM) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. to sell its chips to other manufacturers. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
I.B.M. triples speed of its data servers. (PS/2 90 and 95 file servers) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Ideas & trends: new weapons prolong the computer wars. (the need to establish a standard for operating systems) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
In a world of instant copies, who pays for original work? (A Digital Dilemma) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Intel rival is set back by ruling; Advanced Micro cannot copy codes. (Advanced Micro Devices Inc.) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Is the elusive paperless office about to become a reality? (Xerox Corp.'s Paperworks text management software) (Product Announcement) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
LSI Logic expects $100 million loss. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Many orders for Storage Technology. (Iceberg computer storage systems) (Product Announcement) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Microsoft looks to headier future. (Market Place) (Column) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Microsoft president is dismissed. (Microsoft Chairman William H. Gates fires President Michael R. Hallman) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Microsoft's new data base program. (Access data base management system) (Product Announcement) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Mobile computing is all American. (U.S. retains most of the portable computer market) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
New cellular phones raise a national security debate. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
New NCR teller machine offers banking by video. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
New president named for Hewlett-Packard. (Lewis E. Platt will succeed John A. Young) (Company News) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
New way to store more data; AT&T describes breakthrough in Lab. (AT&T Bell Laboratories Inc.) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
New Xerox software set for offices: fax machines to store data from computers.(Xerox Corp.'s Paperworks text management software) (Product Announcement) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Novell to buy AT&T's Unix System Labs: the deal could offset the influence of Microsoft. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Olivetti executive to Xerox. (Vittorio Cassoni) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Oracle and McCaw detail radio-based data network. (McCaw Cellular Inc.) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Personal organizers are multiplying. (Personal Computers) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Pioneering the computer frontier. (Interval Research Corp.) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Pools of memory, waves of dispute: engineers are buzzing over a computer's design. (supercomputers from Kendall Square Research Corp.) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Rating cut on I.B.M.'s debt issues: grading by Moody's lowered two notches. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Rethinking the national chip policy: foreign pacts raise questions about an industry's need for U.S. support. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Ruling may restrict copyrights for software. (Altai Inc.'s legal victory over Computer Associates International Inc.) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Russian computer scientists hired by American company. (Sun Microsystems Inc.) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Russian research pact for Sun Microsystems. (to develop advanced software for workstations) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Sematech's new mission is defined. (Congress mandates that the semiconductor manufacturing technology institute spend ten percent of its budget on the environment) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Serving no chip before its time. (Intel Corp. delays the introduction of its P5 microprocessor) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Shifting role in technology; smaller and nimbler are taking the lead. (IBM no longer sets the pace for technological innovation in the United States) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Silicon Valley faces a midlife crisis. (Business Day) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Slogging up PC hill at I.B.M. (James Cannavino, head of IBM Corp.'s Personal Systems Div.) (includes related articles on the development of the Virtual Machine Assists standard and Cannavino's history with IBM) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Software coding for export: security agency and industry in talks. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Software detente for I.B.M.; Microsoft rivalry being played down. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Stalled in the past: even Digital's supporters concede it may be too late to catch up now. (Kenneth H. Olsen retires) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Sun link is sought by I.B.M.: alliance suggested in desktop software. (Sun Microsystems Inc. may participate in Apple-IBM product developments within Taligent Inc.) (Business Day) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Sun Microsystems to battle rivals with new machines. (Sparcstation 10) (Product Announcement) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Supercomputer tensions rise. (trade dispute between the US and Japan) (Market Place) (Column) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
The latest technology fuels the oldest of drives. (computerized sex play) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Though illegal, copied software is now common. (software piracy hurting the industry) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Toiling in Microsoft shadow, rivals voice awe and anger. | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Training computers to note images. (teaching computers to recognize images) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Turning a computer screen into a window for whimsy. (the success of Berkeley Systems Inc.'s After Dark screen saver) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Unable to beat them, I.B.M. now joins them. (the computer giant has turned to alliances with competitors) (second of two articles) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
U.S. lead in software faces a rising threat. (Ideas & Trends) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Wordperfect executive is forced out. (WordPerfect Corp vice president W.E. Peterson) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Zenith Data introducing new models: features added to line of personal computers. (Product Announcement) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
Zenith Data is quitting desktop project. (Zenith Data Systems withdraws from Advanced Computing Environment consortium) | News, opinion and commentary | John Markoff |
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