Word: processors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time went on, Hadjikhani, explained, itbecame clear that "no one really knew where thecolor processor was situated in the brain." Datacast doubt on whether even the macaque colorprocessor was really located in region...
...acquired my first word processor in the '80s," Updike said. "It is a useful tool...but sometimes the only way to write is by hand...
That Microsoft, Inc., is an important force in high tech today is a given. About 90 percent of all personal computers run some version of Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Word and Office are the number one word processor and office software suite respectively on both Windows and Macintosh PC's. Novell NetWare, long the dominant product for PC-based networks, is slipping to second place behind Microsoft's NT Server, and the Redmond, Wash., software giant has made inroads into markets previously ruled by database giant Oracle and the web browser king Netscape...
...highly sophisticated, tactical mind. William Allen White said that Roosevelt "thought with his hips"--an apercu that might better be applied to Ronald Reagan, whose intelligence was intuitive, and even to Franklin Roosevelt, who never approached "Cousin Theodore" in smarts. White probably meant that T.R.'s mental processor moved so fast as to fuse thought and action...
...worth dissecting a little. Obviously it is rich in unintentional comedy. M.K. Gandhi, as the photograph itself demonstrates, was a passionate opponent of modernity and technology, preferring the pencil to the typewriter, the loincloth to the business suit, the plowed field to the belching manufactory. Had the word processor been invented in his lifetime, he would almost certainly have found it abhorrent. The very term word processor, with its overly technological ring, is unlikely to have found favor...