From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 09:16:21 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Edited Edupage, 26 May 1996
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>FLAT PC SCREENS HEAD FOR THE DESKTOP
>Liquid crystal display screens currently cost about five times that of a
>similarly-sized cathode ray tube screen, but that should be changing over
>the next couple of years, say LCD makers.  Next year, major LCD vendors
>expect to halve the difference, bringing prices down to two-and-a-half times
>that of CRTs.  Analysts say when the difference comes down to that point,
>the desktop replacement market could really take off.  "CRT replacement is
>inevitable, it's just that in the near term there are a lot of hurdles,"
>says an analyst at Stanford Resources.  "The place where it makes the most
>sense are with large-screen LCDs."  NEC recently unveiled a 20-inch
>high-resolution LCD screen with wide-angle viewing designed as a
>"CRT-killer" according to a NEC engineer.  (Investor's Business Daily 23 May
>96 A8)

	IIRC, LCD screens are considerably harder to read off of by Tempest
equipment than normal CRT screens. An encouraging change.

>NORTHERN TELECOM PHONES GET JAVATIZED
>Northern Telecom plans to incorporate Sun Microsystems' Java microprocessors
>and software in a new class of inexpensive "smart" telephones designed to
>double as Internet appliances.  The move makes Northern Telecom the first
>telephone manufacturer to license Java chips for its products.  The chips
>will be used in its wired PowerTouch phones and its wireless digital phones,
>and customer trials should start next year.  (Wall Street Journal 23 May 96
>B3)

	I would guess that these phones would still not be crypto-capable, but
I'm not quite sure what they have in mind to use Java in them for.
	-Allen

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