The company is working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on a scientific version of the computer called PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System).

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Production systems from Quanta Computer and Tyan are expected to be available through Avnet Electronics Marketing, Penguin Computing and other system integrators before the end of Q1.

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By making Windows virtually the only operating-system choice available to computer manufacturers, Microsoft was a principal benefactor of the boom in desktop computing.

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In November Ovshinsky dropped another doozy: He told an audience in Japan that he has made possible a cognitive computer, one that can mimic the human brain by busting through the limitations of conventional computing's binary system.

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