Word: microprocessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mach, a variation on AT&T's popular Unix system. (In addition to its other virtues, Mach is designed to allow computers that have been hooked together to share seamlessly one another's processing power.) The core of Jobs' computer is the Motorola 68030, the most advanced general- purpose microprocessor chip on the market. That device's prodigious capabilities have been further enhanced by an array of custom-made chips that are not only state of the art but also artfully laid out. Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has described the NeXT machine as the most beautiful computer ever built...
...announcements, none has generated as much anticipation as the one to be made this week by Motorola, the largest U.S. supplier of semiconductors (1987 sales: $6.7 billion). The electronics giant has etched 1.7 million transistors into a three-chip microprocessor called the 88000 that it hopes will become a standard component of the next generation of high-performance computers. Motorola may be right. Even before the new product was formally unveiled, more than 30 prospective customers, including Data General, | Convergent and Tektronix, had formed a users group to set guidelines for designing hardware and software to take advantage...
...recorder that is activated when a child squeezes its hand. The doll supervises the bedtime ritual: "Did you remember to brush your teeth?" and "Is the light turned out?" As it asks about the child's day, the questions are punctuated with suggestive yawns. To spare the batteries, a microprocessor tells the doll to turn itself off once the child falls asleep and stops squeezing the toy. The bedtime companion comes in two forms -- a baby bear or a baby human -- each with bright eyes that double as a night- light and little electric lips that flicker as it speaks...
...hardware components promise to expand horizons and boost sales even more. A silicon chip known as the Intel 80386 microprocessor already runs Compaq's IBM-compatible Deskpro 386, giving it the power of bigger minicomputers for the price of a PC. At Apple, design engineers use a Motorola chip comparable to Intel's for their Macintosh machines, now the industry's hottest-selling family of personal computers...
They will use 3 1/2 inch disks and will come with a new operating system that will be much more `closed' than MS-DOS. IBM will also introduce a machine based on Intel's 80386 microprocessor, this machine will be able to operate at more than twice the speed...