200 The Product

various other personal computers, including notebook-size computers. By 2001, there will emerge powerful, useful, and ubiquitous pocket- and wallet-size computers that everyone will carry on their person. Each of these computer classes requires and attracts unique application software products. In the fifth generation of computing, beginning in 1988, products are based on networks, standards, and distributed, personal computing, which Steve Jobs calls "interpersonal computing."