1.  Both companies make equipment that helps link computers together.

2.  A. The error can occur when Windows is having problems with its device drivers, those small bits of software that help the computer communicate properly with its hardware.

3.  He started helping program computers in the Keller central administration in seventh grade.

4.  Recent price cuts are also expected to help computer and video games and cell phones disappear from store shelves, along with hand-held computer devices.

5.  Since being founded by Wang, it has grown to dominate an obscure but lucrative business of mainframe utility software, the programs that help big computers run smoothly.

6.  That will help small computer makers get low-cost clones to market quickly.

7.  The biggest winners will be software makers that help link computers and safeguard corporate networks.

8.  They make gadgets, with odd-sounding names such as asynchronous transfer mode or ATM, that help link computers together at high speeds.