Looking for growth in the domestic market

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Computer companies, including IBM, Philips, Tandy and Apple, have entered the market for home computers, but deteriorating economic conditions could cause consumers to think twice about spending as much as $2,000 for a purchase. Analysts are optimistic about the coming decade, noting that more people are familiar with computers now than in past years. Donna K. Bonyun, a researcher at Dataquest Inc, foresees 16.3 percent annual growth in the home computer market until 1995. New products, so far, include: the IBM PS/1, a sophisticated machine that comes as a ready-made package for the family (a PS/1 comes with a mouse and a modem, and there are various software programs); Tandy's new line, priced between $749 and $1,298; and low-cost Macintoshes from Apple. Some analysts say that buyers will not purchase microcomputers until the new generation of 'multimedia personal computer' comes to market.

Officials and employees, Forecasts and trends, Marketing, AAPL, RadioShack Corp., Growth (Physiology), Multimedia technology, Multimedia systems, TAN, Apple Inc., Dataquest Inc., column, Growth, IBM PS/1 (Intel-compatible system), Home Computer Market, Bonyun, Donna K.

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I.B.M. work station wins test

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An independent test of IBM's RS/6000 line of workstations indicates that for some applications, IBM's new machines are actually faster than a Cray X/MP supercomputer. A researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, in Livermore, CA, converted some technical programs that usually run on a Cray, priced at $4 million, running the programs on an RS/6000 system, which costs $47,705. Results showed that for some problems that are scalar processing intensive, the workstation was from 10 percent to 50 percent faster than the Cray. IBM offers no official response to the results. Analysts seem impressed, but they caution that for other applications, which are vector processing intensive, nothing comes close to a supercomputer.

Testing, United States. Department of Energy. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Workstations (Computers), RISC based computers, Workstations, Performance Measurement, RISC, RISC processors, Reduced-instruction-set computers, IBM RS/6000 (Minicomputer), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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I.B.M. Increasing speed of PS/2 computers

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IBM plans to increase the speed of its Personal System/2 microcomputer by using Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) at a speed of up to 160 million characters a second, eight times faster than the present version. The new architecture has been under debate since 1987. A group led by Compaq Computer Corp is trying to lead other IBM compatible manufactures away from MCA to the Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) But analysts see 1989 as the year MCA is gaining momentum, some deciding on the basis of the MCA's higher-performance, that the debate between the two bus standards is over.

Product enhancement, Buses (Transportation), Buses, Enhancements, IBM PS/2 (Intel-compatible system), Micro Channel Architecture

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