Issue 1 • Date Jan. 1986
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Contents
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Reflections
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Forum
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Technically speaking
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Best bits: Applications of microprocessors
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Managing technology
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Spectral lines: Enlarging the circle
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Technology: '86
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Minis and mainframes: Microcomputers as we know them may disappear as sophisticated microprocessors reach toward mainframe capability; more powerful supercomputers are introduced
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Personal computers: Fewer developments hut nevertheless important ones mark a year characterized by less-than-expected growth
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Software: The Strategic Defense Initiative brings into focus issues of software design, software development productivity, and complexity
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Microprocessors: New architectures increase speed, and RISC processors are moving from university laboratories into commercial products
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Communications: Coherent optical communication shows promise, the FCC continues on its path of deregulation, and satellite communications go high-frequency
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Solid state: Economics and politics dominate the industry; nonetheless, application-specific and power-logic circuits spark new trends
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Instrumentation: Powerful microprocessors and standard buses help advance modular card instrumentation; meanwhile bench test equipment gets new features
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Industrial electronics: Computer-based manufacturing systems, expert systems, and process controllers continue to draw attention, as does robotry for the assembly of surface-mounted components
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Power and energy: Computers bring dramatic improvements in power management, permitting an increase in the wheeling of power and spurring the development of HVDC systems
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Consumer electronics: New uses for existing products signal the merging of consumer electronics technologies ¿ Video and audio, audio and computers, and computers and video
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Transportation: AC propuision and the use of microprocessors for locomotive control and diagnostics may help an ailing railroad industry retrack itself
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