A large percentage of the agency's mainframes are being replaced as part of the effort, but that still leaves about 1,000 mid-size computers and 130,000 PCs to bring into compliance. Saying it wants to focus all its efforts on extending the Macintosh operating system, Apple is giving up on its Newton handheld computer, as well as the eMate laptop computer that had been designed with the education market in mind. Although the Newton had to suffer such indignities as lampoons in the Doonesbury cartoon strip, it is credited with leading the way for a number of today's handheld devices based on Microsoft's Windows CE software. Edupage is translated into Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Today's Honorary Subscriber is the Canadian jazz vocalist-pianist Diana Krall.
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