The Swett Homestead: An Oral History 1909-1970

Making extensive use of oral interviews with the surviving children, this thesis is an biography of Oscar and Emma Swett and their children, who lived on a homestead in Greendale, Utah, (near Flaming Gorge Reservoir) from 1909 to 1970. The family is representative of a group of families who moved to Greendale and engaged in small-scale cattle ranching. The introduction of new technology changed their lifestyles and homestead economics, while simultaneously Greendale evolved from a rural agricultural environment to become part of a National Recreation Area

Why Os/2 Failed: Business Mistakes Compounded By Memory Prices

In 2006, IBM ended their support of OS/2, closing the book on an ambitious effort to create a modern operating system for the personal computer. IBM and Microsoft released the OS/2 operating system in December 1987 to replace the primitive DOS with a more sophisticated, preemptive multitasking operating system for personal computers. This article argues that OS/2 failed because of the U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Trade Agreement of 1986, subsequent accusations of DRAM chip dumping by the United States, and the resulting tariffs on Japanese memory chips, led to a memory chip shortage that drove up memory prices. OS/2 required substantially more memory than DOS and users balked at upgrading their machines. The window of opportunity to adopt OS/2 passed, memory prices fell, and Microsoft Windows 3.0, introduced in May 1990, found extraordinary success in the market niche that OS/2 and its graphical user interface, Presentation Manager, had aspired to fill

Science in the Contemporary World An Encyclopedia

Since World War II, nuclear physicists haveused cloud chambers and then particle acceleratorsto smash particles into ever smallerparticles, tracking the subatomic particlesthat persist briefly before decaying. (SeeParticle Accelerators; Particle Physics). In1953, the physicist Murray Gell-Mann proposedthe property of strangeness to organizethe numerous subatomic particles thathad been discovered. In 1964, Gell-Mannproposed a new type of fundamental matter,called quarks and anti-quarks, as formingsubatomic particles. Quark theory is nowpart of the standard model that attempts tocombine the four basic forces (weak nuclearforce, strong nuclear force, electromagnetism,and gravity). (See Gell-Mann, Murray;Neutrinos). Another foundation of the standardmodel came in the 1950s through thework of Richard P. Feynman