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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpress | Interpress is a page description language developed at Xerox PARC, based on the Forth programming language and an earlier graphics language called JaM. PARC was unable to commercialize Interpress. Two of its creators, Chuck Geschke and John Warnock, left Xerox, formed Adobe Systems, and produced a similar language cal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGC | IGC may stand for:
Companies
Intelligent Graphics Corporation, marketer of the VM/386 multitasking operating system or 'control program'
Istituto Geografico Centrale, an Italian private mapping company
Immortals Gaming Club, an esports company
Inquirer Group of Companies, a Philippine mass media conglomerate
Pol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision%20domain | A collision domain is a network segment connected by a shared medium or through repeaters where simultaneous data transmissions collide with one another. The collision domain applies particularly in wireless networks, but also affected early versions of Ethernet. A network collision occurs when more than one device att... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maze%20generation%20algorithm | Maze generation algorithms are automated methods for the creation of mazes.
Graph theory based methods
A maze can be generated by starting with a predetermined arrangement of cells (most commonly a rectangular grid but other arrangements are possible) with wall sites between them. This predetermined arrangement can ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/USQ-20 | The AN/USQ-20, or CP-642 or Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS), was designed as a more reliable replacement for the Seymour Cray-designed AN/USQ-17 with the same instruction set. The first batch of 17 computers were delivered to the Navy starting in early 1961.
A version of the AN/USQ-20 for use by the other military ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYK-8 | The AN/UYK-8 was a UNIVAC computer.
Development
In April 1967, UNIVAC received a contract from the U.S. Navy for design, development, testing and delivery of the AN/UYK-8 microelectronics computer for use with the AN/TYA-20.
The AN/UYK-8 was built to replace the CP-808 (Marine Corps air cooled AN/USQ-20 variant) in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%20FASTRAND | FASTRAND was a magnetic drum mass storage system built by Sperry Rand Corporation (later Sperry Univac) for their UNIVAC 1100 series and 418/490/494 series computers. A FASTRAND subsystem consisted of one or two Control Units and up to eight FASTRAND units. A dual-access FASTRAND subsystem included two complete contro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set%20%28abstract%20data%20type%29 | In computer science, a set is an abstract data type that can store unique values, without any particular order. It is a computer implementation of the mathematical concept of a finite set. Unlike most other collection types, rather than retrieving a specific element from a set, one typically tests a value for membershi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divide-and-conquer%20algorithm | In computer science, divide and conquer is an algorithm design paradigm. A divide-and-conquer algorithm recursively breaks down a problem into two or more sub-problems of the same or related type, until these become simple enough to be solved directly. The solutions to the sub-problems are then combined to give a solut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotfi%20A.%20Zadeh | Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh (; ; ; 4 February 1921 – 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Zadeh is best known for proposing fuzzy mathematics, consisting of several fuzzy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ungermann-Bass | Ungermann-Bass, also known as UB and UB Networks, was a computer networking company in the 1980s to 1990s. Located in Santa Clara, California, UB was the first large networking company independent of any computer manufacturer. Along with competitors 3Com and Sytek, UB was responsible for starting the networking busines... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem%20Computers | Tandem Computers, Inc. was the dominant manufacturer of fault-tolerant computer systems for ATM networks, banks, stock exchanges, telephone switching centers, 911 systems, and other similar commercial transaction processing applications requiring maximum uptime and zero data loss. The company was founded by Jimmy Treyb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Osborne | Adam Osborne (March 6, 1939 – March 18, 2003) was a British American author, software publisher, and computer designer who founded several companies in the United States and elsewhere. He introduced the Osborne 1, the first commercially successful portable computer.
Early life
Osborne was born to British parents in B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%201100/2200%20series | The UNIVAC 1100/2200 series is a series of compatible 36-bit computer systems, beginning with the UNIVAC 1107 in 1962, initially made by Sperry Rand. The series continues to be supported today by Unisys Corporation as the ClearPath Dorado Series. The solid-state 1107 model number was in the same sequence as the earlier... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient%20descent | In mathematics, gradient descent (also often called steepest descent) is a first-order iterative optimization algorithm for finding a local minimum of a differentiable function. The idea is to take repeated steps in the opposite direction of the gradient (or approximate gradient) of the function at the current point, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne%201 | The Osborne 1 is the first commercially successful portable computer, released on April 3, 1981 by Osborne Computer Corporation. It weighs , cost US$1,795, and runs the CP/M 2.2 operating system. It is powered from a wall socket, as it has no on-board battery, but it is still classed as a portable device since it can b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%20mastering | In computing, bus mastering is a feature supported by many bus architectures that enables a device connected to the bus to initiate direct memory access (DMA) transactions. It is also referred to as first-party DMA, in contrast with third-party DMA where a system DMA controller actually does the transfer.
Some types o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael%20Finkel | Raphael Finkel (born 1951) is an American computer scientist and a professor at the University of Kentucky. He compiled the first version of the Jargon File. He is the author of An Operating Systems Vade Mecum, a textbook on operating systems, and Advanced Programming Language Design, an introductory book on programmi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency-division%20multiple%20access | Frequency-division multiple access (FDMA) is a channel access method used in some multiple-access protocols. FDMA allows multiple users to send data through a single communication channel, such as a coaxial cable or microwave beam, by dividing the bandwidth of the channel into separate non-overlapping frequency sub-ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%2023 | Network 23 may refer to:
Network 23 (record label), a defunct Czech record label
Network 23 (company), a defunct British video game development company
Network 23, a fictional television network on the TV series Max Headroom
"Network 23", a song by Tangerine Dream from their album Exit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAN | RAN may refer to:
Radio access network, a part of a mobile telecommunication system
Rainforest Action Network
Ran (gene) (RAs-related Nuclear protein), also known as GTP-binding nuclear protein Ran, a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAN gene
Ran (Sufism), a concept of Sufism
RAN translation (Repeat Assoc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATH-MATIC | MATH-MATIC is the marketing name for the AT-3 (Algebraic Translator 3) compiler, an early programming language for the UNIVAC I and UNIVAC II.
MATH-MATIC was written beginning around 1955 by a team led by Charles Katz under the direction of Grace Hopper. A preliminary manual was produced in 1957 and a final manual the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS%20Technology%206581 | The MOS Technology 6581/8580 SID (Sound Interface Device) is the built-in programmable sound generator chip of the Commodore CBM-II, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and MAX Machine home computers.
Together with the VIC-II graphics chip, the SID was instrumental in making the C64 the best-selling home computer in history,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20form | Normal form may refer to:
Normal form (databases)
Normal form (game theory)
Canonical form
Normal form (dynamical systems)
Hesse normal form
Normal form in music
Jordan normal form
in formal language theory:
Chomsky normal form
Greibach normal form
Kuroda normal form
Normal form (abstract rewriting), an element of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20normal%20form | First normal form (1NF) is a property of a relation in a relational database. A relation is in first normal form if and only if no attribute domain has relations as elements. Or more informally, that no table column can have tables as values. Database normalization is the process of representing a database in terms of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20normal%20form | Second normal form (2NF) is a normal form used in database normalization. 2NF was originally defined by E. F. Codd in 1971.
A relation is in the second normal form if it fulfills the following two requirements:
It is in first normal form.
It does not have any non-prime attribute that is functionally dependent on any... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third%20normal%20form | Third normal form (3NF) is a database schema design approach for relational databases which uses normalizing principles to reduce the duplication of data, avoid data anomalies, ensure referential integrity, and simplify data management. It was defined in 1971 by Edgar F. Codd, an English computer scientist who invented... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth%20normal%20form | Fourth normal form (4NF) is a normal form used in database normalization. Introduced by Ronald Fagin in 1977, 4NF is the next level of normalization after Boyce–Codd normal form (BCNF). Whereas the second, third, and Boyce–Codd normal forms are concerned with functional dependencies, 4NF is concerned with a more genera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Paterson | Tim Paterson (born 1 June 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known for creating 86-DOS, an operating system for the Intel 8086. This system emulated the application programming interface (API) of CP/M, which was created by Gary Kildall. 86-DOS later formed the basis of MS-DOS, the most widely used personal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20B%C3%A9zier%20curve | In geometric modelling and in computer graphics, a composite Bézier curve or Bézier spline is a spline made out of Bézier curves that is at least continuous. In other words, a composite Bézier curve is a series of Bézier curves joined end to end where the last point of one curve coincides with the starting point of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogon%20filtering | Bogon filtering is the practice of filtering bogons, which are bogus (fake) IP addresses of a computer network. Bogons include IP packets on the public Internet that contain addresses that are not in any range allocated or delegated by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) or a delegated regional Internet regi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAPT | NAPT may refer to
Network Address and Port Translation, the most common type of network address translation
NAPT (electronic music artist), English breakbeat duo
Native American Public Telecommunications
North American Poker Tour, a series of televised poker tournaments
Needs assessment and planning tools
The N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20notation | Algebraic notation may refer to:
In mathematics and computers, infix notation, the practice of representing a binary operator and operands with the operator between the two operands (as in "2 + 2")
Algebraic notation (chess), the standard system for recording movement of pieces in a chess game
In linguistics, recur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooding%20algorithm | A flooding algorithm is an algorithm for distributing material to every part of a graph. The name derives from the concept of inundation by a flood.
Flooding algorithms are used in computer networking and graphics. Flooding algorithms are also useful for solving many mathematical problems, including maze problems and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20interpolation | In numerical analysis, polynomial interpolation is the interpolation of a given bivariate data set by the polynomial of lowest possible degree that passes through the points of the dataset.
Given a set of data points , with no two the same, a polynomial function is said to interpolate the data if for each .
Ther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwriting%20recognition | Handwriting recognition (HWR), also known as handwritten text recognition (HTR), is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret intelligible handwritten input from sources such as paper documents, photographs, touch-screens and other devices. The image of the written text may be sensed "off line" from a piece of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20path%20method | The critical path method (CPM), or critical path analysis (CPA), is an algorithm for scheduling a set of project activities. A critical path is determined by identifying the longest stretch of dependent activities and measuring the time required to complete them from start to finish. It is commonly used in conjunction ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMS | WMS can refer to:
Technology and computing
Warehouse management system
Workflow management system
Web Map Service, a standard for Internet map servers
Windows Media Services, the streaming media server from Microsoft
Windows MultiPoint Server, a Microsoft Windows Server for Remote Desktops
WMS (hydrology software), wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage%20data | A coverage is the digital representation of some spatio-temporal phenomenon. ISO 19123 provides the definition:
[a] feature that acts as a function to return values from its range for any direct position within its spatial, temporal or spatiotemporal domain
Coverages play an important role in geographic information sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20data | In geographic information systems, a feature is an object that can have a geographic location and other properties. Common types of geometries include points, arcs, and polygons. Carriageways and cadastres are examples of feature data. Features can be labeled when displayed on a map.
Feature types
The definition of fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League%20for%20Programming%20Freedom | League for Programming Freedom (LPF) was founded in 1989 by Richard Stallman to unite free software developers as well as developers of proprietary software to fight against software patents and the extension of the scope of copyright. Their logo is the Statue of Liberty holding a floppy disk and tape spool.
Among oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrobat%20%28disambiguation%29 | An acrobat is one who practises acrobatics.
Acrobat may also refer to:
Computers
Adobe Acrobat, a family of computer programs
Acrobat.com, a suite of hosted document exchange services from Adobe Systems
Music
"Acrobat" (U2 song), from U2's album Achtung Baby
"Acrobat", a song from Maxïmo Park's album A Certain T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20network | A Bayesian network (also known as a Bayes network, Bayes net, belief network, or decision network) is a probabilistic graphical model that represents a set of variables and their conditional dependencies via a directed acyclic graph (DAG). It is one of several forms of causal notation. Bayesian networks are ideal for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed%20acyclic%20graph | In mathematics, particularly graph theory, and computer science, a directed acyclic graph (DAG) is a directed graph with no directed cycles. That is, it consists of vertices and edges (also called arcs), with each edge directed from one vertex to another, such that following those directions will never form a closed lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20states%20and%20territories%20by%20unemployment%20rate | The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication.
While the non-seasonally ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe%20PageMaker | Adobe PageMaker (formerly Aldus PageMaker) was a desktop publishing computer program introduced in 1985 by the Aldus Corporation on the Apple Macintosh. The combination of the Macintosh's graphical user interface, PageMaker publishing software, and the Apple LaserWriter laser printer marked the beginning of the desktop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace%20%28programming%20language%29 | Whitespace is an esoteric programming language developed by Edwin Brady and Chris Morris at the University of Durham (also developers of the Kaya and Idris programming languages). It was released on 1 April 2003 (April Fool's Day). Its name is a reference to whitespace characters. Unlike most programming languages, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Gong%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Gong Li (), also known in English as Li Gong, is a Chinese businessman and computer scientist. He currently serves as CEO of Linaro Ltd, a British software company headquartered in Cambridge, U.K., developing systems software for the Arm ecosystem. He was previously the Founder and CEO of Acadine Technologies, a system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split%20horizon%20route%20advertisement | In computer networking, split-horizon route advertisement is a method of preventing routing loops in distance-vector routing protocols by prohibiting a router from advertising a route back onto the interface from which it was learned.
The concept was suggested in 1974 by Torsten Cegrell, and originally implemented in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elche | Elche () is a city and municipality of Spain, belonging to the province of Alicante, in the Valencian Community. According to 2014 data, Elche has a population of 228,647 inhabitants, making it the third most populated municipality in the region (after Valencia and Alicante) and the 20th largest Spanish municipality. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20R.%20Bourne | Stephen Richard "Steve" Bourne (born 7 January 1944) is an English computer scientist based in the United States for most of his career. He is well known as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command-line interfaces to Unix.
Biography
Bourne has a Bachelor of Science (BSc) de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20OS%209 | Mac OS 9 is the ninth and final major release of Apple's classic Mac OS operating system which was succeeded by Mac OS X (renamed to OS X in 2011 and macOS in 2016) in 2001. Introduced on October 23, 1999, it was promoted by Apple as "The Best Internet Operating System Ever", highlighting Sherlock 2's Internet search c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compress%20%28software%29 | compress is a Unix shell compression program based on the LZW compression algorithm. Compared to gzip's fastest setting, compress is slightly slower at compression, slightly faster at decompression, and has a significantly lower compression ratio. 1.8 MiB of memory is used to compress the Hutter Prize data, slightly mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20dependency | In relational database theory, a functional dependency is a constraint between two sets of attributes in a relation from a database. In other words, a functional dependency is a constraint between two attributes in a relation.
Given a relation R and sets of attributes , X is said to functionally determine Y (written X ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL | HSL may refer to:
Science, technology and computing
HSL (Fortran library), a numerical software library
HSL and HSV color space
Health and Safety Laboratory, UK
Hormone-sensitive lipase, a protein
Hybrid solar lighting
Transport
Bell HSL, a 1950s U.S. Navy antisubmarine helicopter
Haslemere railway station i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECL | ECL may refer to:
Science and technology
Electrochemiluminescence
Enhanced chemiluminescence
Emitter-coupled logic
Enterochromaffin-like cell
Computing
ECL programming language, an extensible programming language
ECL (data-centric programming language)
Embeddable Common Lisp
Sport
East Cornwall League, an En... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR%20and%20CDR | In computer programming, CAR (car) and CDR (cdr) ( or ) are primitive operations on cons cells (or "non-atomic S-expressions") introduced in the Lisp programming language. A cons cell is composed of two pointers; the car operation extracts the first pointer, and the cdr operation extracts the second.
Thus, the expres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20Hartley%20transform | A discrete Hartley transform (DHT) is a Fourier-related transform of discrete, periodic data similar to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), with analogous applications in signal processing and related fields. Its main distinction from the DFT is that it transforms real inputs to real outputs, with no intrinsic involv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint | Constraint may refer to:
Constraint (computer-aided design), a demarcation of geometrical characteristics between two or more entities or solid modeling bodies
Constraint (mathematics), a condition of an optimization problem that the solution must satisfy
Constraint (classical mechanics), a relation between coordina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency%20%28project%20management%29 | In a project network, a dependency is a link among a project's terminal elements.
The A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) does not define the term dependency, but refers for this term to a logical relationship, which in turn is defined as dependency between two activities, or between an a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YTV | YTV or ytv may refer to:
YTV (Canadian TV channel), a Canadian youth television station owned by Corus Entertainment
YTV (Burmese TV network), a Burmese television channel owned by MY Multimedia Co.,ltd
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council, a co-operation agency operating in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area
Yale TV, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%201105 | The UNIVAC 1105 was a follow-on computer to the UNIVAC 1103A introduced by Sperry Rand in September 1958. The UNIVAC 1105 used 21 types of vacuum tubes, 11 types of diodes, 10 types of transistors, and three core types.
The UNIVAC 1105 had either 8,192 or 12,288 words of 36-bit magnetic core memory, in two or three b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%201103 | The UNIVAC 1103 or ERA 1103, a successor to the UNIVAC 1101, was a computer system designed by Engineering Research Associates and built by the Remington Rand corporation in October 1953. It was the first computer for which Seymour Cray was credited with design work.
History
Even before the completion of the Atlas (UN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zend%20Engine | The Zend Engine is a compiler and runtime environment for the PHP scripting language and consists of the Zend Virtual Machine, which is composed of the Zend Compiler and the Zend Executor, that compiles and executes the PHP code. It was originally developed by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski while they were students at t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapdoor%20function | In theoretical computer science and cryptography, a trapdoor function is a function that is easy to compute in one direction, yet difficult to compute in the opposite direction (finding its inverse) without special information, called the "trapdoor". Trapdoor functions are a special case of one-way functions and are wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20709 | The IBM 709 was a computer system, initially announced by IBM in January 1957 and first installed during August 1958. The 709 was an improved version of its predecessor, the IBM 704, and was the third of the IBM 700/7000 series of scientific computers. The improvements included overlapped input/output, indirect addres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating%20environment | In computer software, an operating environment or integrated applications environment is the environment in which users run application software. The environment consists of a user interface provided by an applications manager and usually an application programming interface (API) to the applications manager.
An opera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observer | An observer is one who engages in observation or in watching an experiment.
Observer may also refer to:
Computer science and information theory
In information theory, any system which receives information from an object
State observer in control theory, a system that models a real system in order to provide an esti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antz | Antz is a 1998 American animated adventure comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation (in its debut film) and Pacific Data Images and released by DreamWorks Pictures. It was directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson (in their feature directorial debuts) from a screenplay by Todd Alcott, Chris Weitz, and Paul Weitz. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confused%20deputy%20problem | In information security, a confused deputy is a computer program that is tricked by another program (with fewer privileges or less rights) into misusing its authority on the system. It is a specific type of privilege escalation. The confused deputy problem is often cited as an example of why capability-based security i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial%20search | In computer science and artificial intelligence, combinatorial search studies search algorithms for solving instances of problems that are believed to be hard in general, by efficiently exploring the usually large solution space of these instances. Combinatorial search algorithms achieve this efficiency by reducing the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Trek%3A%2025th%20Anniversary%20%28computer%20game%29 | Star Trek: 25th Anniversary is an adventure video game developed and published by Interplay Productions in 1992, based on the Star Trek universe. The game chronicles various missions of James T. Kirk and his crew of the USS Enterprise. Its 1993 sequel, Star Trek: Judgment Rites, continues and concludes this two-game se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor%20power%20dissipation | Processor power dissipation or processing unit power dissipation is the process in which computer processors consume electrical energy, and dissipate this energy in the form of heat due to the resistance in the electronic circuits.
Power management
Designing CPUs that perform tasks efficiently without overheating is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%20Games | The X Games are a series of action sports events founded by ESPN Inc. which air on the ESPN family of networks including ABC. The events are mainly held in the United States, with disciplines such as skateboarding, BMX, motocross, skiing and snowboarding. Participants compete to win bronze, silver, and gold medals, as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window%20%28computing%29 | In computing, a window is a graphical control element. It consists of a visual area containing some of the graphical user interface of the program it belongs to and is framed by a window decoration. It usually has a rectangular shape that can overlap with the area of other windows. It displays the output of and may all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20700/7000%20series | The IBM 700/7000 series is a series of large-scale (mainframe) computer systems that were made by IBM through the 1950s and early 1960s. The series includes several different, incompatible processor architectures. The 700s use vacuum-tube logic and were made obsolete by the introduction of the transistorized 7000s. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiface | The Multiface was a hardware peripheral released by Romantic Robot for several 1980s home computers. The primary function of the device was to dump the computer's memory to external storage. Pressing a red button on the Multiface activated it. As most games of the era did not have a save game feature, the Multiface all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad%20Action | Amstrad Action was a monthly magazine, published in the United Kingdom, which catered to owners of home computers from the Amstrad CPC range and later the GX4000 console.
It was the first magazine published by Chris Anderson's Future Publishing, which with a varied line-up of computing and non-computing related titles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerOpen%20Environment | The PowerOpen Environment (POE), created in 1991 from the AIM alliance, is an open standard for running a Unix-based operating system on the PowerPC computer architecture.
History
The AIM alliance was announced on October 2, 1991, yielding the historic first technology partnership between Apple and IBM. One of its man... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%207040 | The IBM 7040 was a historic but short-lived model of transistor computer built in the 1960s.
History
It was announced by IBM in December 1961, but did not ship until April 1963. A later member of the IBM 700/7000 series of scientific computers, it was a scaled-down version of the IBM 7090. It was not fully compatible ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Server%202003 | Windows Server 2003, codenamed "Whistler Server", is the second version of the Windows Server operating system produced by Microsoft. It is part of the Windows NT family of operating systems and was released to manufacturing on March 28, 2003 and generally available on April 24, 2003. Windows Server 2003 is the success... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cons | In computer programming, ( or ) is a fundamental function in most dialects of the Lisp programming language. constructs memory objects which hold two values or pointers to two values. These objects are referred to as (cons) cells, conses, non-atomic s-expressions ("NATSes"), or (cons) pairs. In Lisp jargon, the expre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford%20and%20Son | Sanford and Son is an American sitcom television series that ran on the NBC television network from January 14, 1972, to March 25, 1977. It was based on the British sitcom Steptoe and Son, which initially aired on BBC1 in the United Kingdom from 1962 to 1974.
Known for its edgy racial humor, running gags, and catchphr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumper%20%28computing%29 | In electronics and particularly computing, a jumper is a short length of conductor used to close, open or bypass part of an electronic circuit. They are typically used to set up or configure printed circuit boards, such as the motherboards of computers. The process of setting a jumper is often called strapping.
A stra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20the%20Ripper | John the Ripper is a free password cracking software tool. Originally developed for the Unix operating system, it can run on fifteen different platforms (eleven of which are architecture-specific versions of Unix, DOS, Win32, BeOS, and OpenVMS). It is among the most frequently used password testing and breaking program... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text%20file | A text file (sometimes spelled textfile; an old alternative name is flatfile) is a kind of computer file that is structured as a sequence of lines of electronic text. A text file exists stored as data within a computer file system. In operating systems such as CP/M and DOS, where the operating system does not keep trac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20%28abstract%20data%20type%29 | In computer science, a list or sequence is an abstract data type that represents a finite number of ordered values, where the same value may occur more than once. An instance of a list is a computer representation of the mathematical concept of a tuple or finite sequence; the (potentially) infinite analog of a list is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMT | OMT may refer to:
Technology
OMT-G, configuration in object-based spatial databases
Object-modeling technique, language for software modeling and designing
Object model template, architecture for distributed computer simulation systems
Open microchip technology, the technology of implanting microchips in animals f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Geschke | Charles Matthew "Chuck" Geschke (September 11, 1939 – April 16, 2021) was an American businessman and computer scientist best known for founding the graphics and publishing software company Adobe Inc. with John Warnock in 1982, with whom he also co-created the PDF document format.
Early life and education
Charles Mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Warnock | John Edward Warnock (October 6, 1940 – August 19, 2023) was an American computer scientist, inventor, technology businessman, and philanthropist best known for co-founding Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company, with Charles Geschke in 1982. Warnock was President of Adobe for his first two yea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computers%20running%20CP/M | Many microcomputer makes and models could run some version or derivation of the CP/M disk operating system. Eight-bit computers running CP/M 80 were built around an Intel 8080/8085, Zilog Z80, or compatible CPU. CP/M 86 ran on the Intel 8086 and 8088. Some computers were suitable for CP/M as delivered. Others needed ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellfire%20Caves | The Hellfire Caves (also known as the West Wycombe Caves) are a network of man-made chalk and flint caverns which extend 260m underground. They are situated above the village of West Wycombe, at the southern edge of the Chiltern Hills near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, Southeast England.
They were excavated between... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster | Raster may refer to:
Raster graphics, graphical techniques using arrays of pixel values
Raster graphics editor, a computer program
Raster scan, the pattern of image readout, transmission, storage, and reconstruction in television and computer images
Rasterisation, or rasterization, conversion of a vector image to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS | Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) is an open standard defining a digital file format useful for storage, transmission and processing of data: formatted as multi-dimensional arrays (for example a 2D image), or tables. FITS is the most commonly used digital file format in astronomy. The FITS standard was designed s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient%20of%20a%20formal%20language | In mathematics and computer science, the right quotient (or simply quotient) of a language with respect to language is the language consisting of strings w such that wx is in for some string x in Formally:
In other words, we take all the strings in that have a suffix in , and remove this suffix.
Similarly, the l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underclocking | Underclocking, also known as downclocking, is modifying a computer or electronic circuit's timing settings to run at a lower clock rate than is specified. Underclocking is used to reduce a computer's power consumption, increase battery life, reduce heat emission, and it may also increase the system's stability, lifespa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDGAR | EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval is an internal database system that performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20Basic%20%28.NET%29 | Visual Basic (VB), originally called Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), is a multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language, implemented on .NET, Mono, and the .NET Framework. Microsoft launched VB.NET in 2002 as the successor to its original Visual Basic language, the last version of which was Visual Basic 6.0. Althoug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nand | Nand or NAND may refer to:
Computing
Logical NAND or nand, a binary operation in logic (Not AND)
NAND gate, an electronic gate that implements a logical NAND
NAND logic, methods of building other logic gates using just NAND gates
NAND flash memory, a type of non-volatile computer memory
People
Nand Kishore (cric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Firmware | Open Firmware is a standard defining the interfaces of a computer firmware system, formerly endorsed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). It originated at Sun Microsystems where it was known as OpenBoot, and has been used by multiple vendors including Sun, Apple, IBM and ARM.
Open Firmware ... |
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