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Mac Attack — In a swift and decisive move, Symantec Corporation announced that it would purchase game developer Id Software for an undisclosed sum. Id, creator of popular “blast-and-run” games such as Doom and Quake, immediately issued a press release disclosing that negotiations had been “relatively bloodless (ha ha).” Symantec’s first offering from its new Chainsaw/Cutting Edge department will be a revised version of Norton Utilities for Macintosh entitled NUM-Cruncher, in which users will be able to run through virtual 3D “corridors” of their hard disks in real-time, blasting bad sectors and setting fire to corrupted B-tree branches. [CLJ]

<http://smeg.com/backwards/b2.cgi? url=www.symantec.com/>
<http://smeg.com/backwards/b2.cgi? url=www.idsoftware.com/>

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