Manyrunners, from beginners to advanced, run a half marathonduring their marathontraining as a confidence booster anda waytofigure out their marathon goal time.
They run on Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) processors and have slightly smaller hard drives: 30 gigabytes for the FXA49 and 20 GB for the FXA47.
France has that tradition, and for many years it has also had the Minitel: a once-advanced interactive screen system run by France Telecom, which even now supplies a lot of information, though it is less used for actual sales.