386 Index

Three Rivers Computer, 321-23

Very-large-scale integrated circuits, (VLSI),

Time requirements, 21-22

definition, 172

Time-to-market, 143

Viatron, 189

Top-line problem, 48. See also Flaws, business

Virtual reality, 357

plan

Visicalc, 183

Transaction processing, 354-55

Vision, company, 36-37

Transistor companies, 173

Visix Software, 124, 239, 350

Transistors per chip. See Semiconductor

Visualization, 357

Transistor-transistor logic. See Semiconductor

Vitesse, 51-52

Transition among stages, 262

Von Neumann Architecture, 349

Trilogy, 71, 129-30

VPL, 53

Trilogy flaw, 129-30

Turing test, 346

Walker, John, 42-43, 373

Two-in-a-box, 11-12

Wallpaper remover. See Ken Olsen

Waterman, Bob, xii, 27, 371

UNIVAC, 171,174

WAVETRACER, 123,132,

Universities. See Marketing, Product, and

What is sold. See Marketing

Technology

Where purchased. See Marketing

UNIX, 101-2, 104, 180, 215, 319, 322,326,335-

White, Richard, 11,38, 67, 245, 373

38

Who buys. See Marketing

Utah, University of, 318

Why customers buy. See Marketing

Workstations. See Computer

Vacuum tube companies, 173

Worley, Bill, 179

Valentine, Don 201,263

Wozniak, Steve, 22

Value Added Reseller (VAR). See Marketing

van der Rohe, Mies, 198

Xerox, 238

Vanderslice, 22, 324-25

Palo Alto Research Center, (PARC), 101-2,

Vaporware, 274

319-20

VAX strategy. See Digital Equipment Corpora-

tion

Zilog, 189

venture capital return, 65-66, 70-71