81.   Second, Microsoft is changing the way it writes software.

82.   Several became hardware designers, several went on to write software, one became a professor and one joined the secretive National Security Agency.

83.   Software was written by hardware suppliers, or by captive vendors.

84.   Some features, such as transform and lighting, require developers to write software that takes advantage of them.

85.   Some of the hundreds of thousands of programmers churned out by the Soviet system are already writing software for American firms such as Sun Microsystems and Microsoft.

86.   Sybase, which had been closely watched in recent months as a takeover target, writes database software.

87.   That would require Microsoft to give rivals Lotus and Netscape, for example, the code to the next Windows upgrade so that those companies can write compatible software.

88.   The business students made sure the programmers finished writing their software on time.

89.   The computer company said it will spin off its TracePoint Technology Group into an independent unit that will create programs that make it easier for others to write software.

90.   The company also writes software for the machines.