The New York Times 1992 John Markoff - Abstracts

The New York Times 1992 John Markoff
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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 commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
A network of networks that keeps scientists plugged in. (Internet)(Business Technology: tough policy issues)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Apple to offer a 2-in-1 computer. (Apple Macintosh PowerBook Duo portable computers) (Product Announcement)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Appliances need genius more than labs do. (design) (Ideas & Trends)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
A public battle over secret codes. (businesses fight with US Congress over government regulation of encryption)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
A rebound for I.B.M. in quarter; $595 million profit lifts shares by 75 cents. (first quarter of 1992)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Canadian group will buy Japanese supercomputer. (Fujitsu Ltd.'s VP240X)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Computer oracle breaks silence; Steve Chen offers his view of future.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Computers are distributed containing software virus. (Leading Edge Products Inc.'s microcomputers) (Business Day)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Computer users plot to avoid virus. (Michelangelo virus)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Danger of miscarriage found for chip workers. (semiconductor workers)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Despite U.S. export rules, Israel buys a supercomputer. (products from England's Meiko Scientific Ltd.)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Era of the tiny PC is nearly at hand. (hand-held microcomputers)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Experimenting with an unbreachable electronic cipher. (cryptography and data communications) (Technology)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Fast data-storage systems are EMC's big opportunity. (EMC Corp.)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Feared computer plague passes with very few infections; computer security experts fear a backlash after the buildup. (Michelangelo virus)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Foray into mainstream for parallel computing.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Fujitsu supercomputers to be sold again in U.S.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Happy birthday, HAL; What went wrong? (will a machine who can think ever be developed?) (Ideas & Trends)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Hyundai to move its PC unit to U.S. (Hyundai Electronics Industries)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
I.B.M. cites brisk sales for new PC software. (OS/2 operating system)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
I.B.M. enters pen-computing race. (IBM's Thinkpad) (Product Announcement)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
I.B.M. executive named Western Digital president. (Charles A. Haggerty to become president and COO) (Company News)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
I.B.M. loss in quarter and year: $1.38 billion deficit posted in 4th period. (Business Day)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
I.B.M. plan for faster machines; announcement set on supercomputers. (IBM's Highly Parallel Supercomputing Laboratory)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
I.B.M. plan for selling PC 'clones.' (microcomputers)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
I.B.M. shows library for data storage.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
I.B.M. speeds up sales plan for 5 mid-range mainframes.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
I.B.M. spins off PC business into new company. (IBM Personal Computer Co.)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
IBM to place Lotus at core of its PC networking plans. (Lotus Development Corp to develop programs for IBM)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
I.B.M. to sell its chips to other manufacturers.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
I.B.M. triples speed of its data servers. (PS/2 90 and 95 file servers)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Ideas & trends: new weapons prolong the computer wars. (the need to establish a standard for operating systems)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
In a world of instant copies, who pays for original work? (A Digital Dilemma)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Intel rival is set back by ruling; Advanced Micro cannot copy codes. (Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Is the elusive paperless office about to become a reality? (Xerox Corp.'s Paperworks text management software) (Product Announcement)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
LSI Logic expects $100 million loss.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Many orders for Storage Technology. (Iceberg computer storage systems) (Product Announcement)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Microsoft looks to headier future. (Market Place) (Column)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Microsoft president is dismissed. (Microsoft Chairman William H. Gates fires President Michael R. Hallman)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Microsoft's new data base program. (Access data base management system) (Product Announcement)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Mobile computing is all American. (U.S. retains most of the portable computer market)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
New cellular phones raise a national security debate.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
New NCR teller machine offers banking by video.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
New president named for Hewlett-Packard. (Lewis E. Platt will succeed John A. Young) (Company News)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
New way to store more data; AT&T describes breakthrough in Lab. (AT&T Bell Laboratories Inc.)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Novell to buy AT&T's Unix System Labs: the deal could offset the influence of Microsoft.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Olivetti executive to Xerox. (Vittorio Cassoni)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Oracle and McCaw detail radio-based data network. (McCaw Cellular Inc.)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Personal organizers are multiplying. (Personal Computers)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Pioneering the computer frontier. (Interval Research Corp.)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Pools of memory, waves of dispute: engineers are buzzing over a computer's design. (supercomputers from Kendall Square Research Corp.)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Rating cut on I.B.M.'s debt issues: grading by Moody's lowered two notches.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Rethinking the national chip policy: foreign pacts raise questions about an industry's need for U.S. support.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Ruling may restrict copyrights for software. (Altai Inc.'s legal victory over Computer Associates International Inc.)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Russian computer scientists hired by American company. (Sun Microsystems Inc.)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Russian research pact for Sun Microsystems. (to develop advanced software for workstations)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Serving no chip before its time. (Intel Corp. delays the introduction of its P5 microprocessor)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Silicon Valley faces a midlife crisis. (Business Day)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Software coding for export: security agency and industry in talks.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Software detente for I.B.M.; Microsoft rivalry being played down.News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
Sun Microsystems to battle rivals with new machines. (Sparcstation 10) (Product Announcement)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Supercomputer tensions rise. (trade dispute between the US and Japan) (Market Place) (Column)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
The latest technology fuels the oldest of drives. (computerized sex play)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Though illegal, copied software is now common. (software piracy hurting the industry)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Toiling in Microsoft shadow, rivals voice awe and anger.News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Training computers to note images. (teaching computers to recognize images)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Turning a computer screen into a window for whimsy. (the success of Berkeley Systems Inc.'s After Dark screen saver)News, opinion and commentaryJohn 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 commentaryJohn Markoff
U.S. lead in software faces a rising threat. (Ideas & Trends)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Wordperfect executive is forced out. (WordPerfect Corp vice president W.E. Peterson)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Zenith Data introducing new models: features added to line of personal computers. (Product Announcement)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
Zenith Data is quitting desktop project. (Zenith Data Systems withdraws from Advanced Computing Environment consortium)News, opinion and commentaryJohn Markoff
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