The English Electric (later ICL) System 4 was a mainframe computer announced in 1965. It was derived from the RCA Spectra 70 range, itself a variant of...
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The English Electric Company Limited (EE) was a British industrial manufacturer formed after World War I by amalgamating five businesses which, during...
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The English Electric Lightning is a British fighter aircraft that served as an interceptor during the 1960s, the 1970s and into the late 1980s. It is capable...
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KDF9 was an early British 48-bit computer designed and built by English Electric (which in 1968 was merged into International Computers Limited (ICL))...
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LEO (computer) (redirect from English Electric LEO Computers Limited)
companies. LEO Computers eventually became part of English Electric Company (EEL), (EELM), then English Electric Computers (EEC), where the same team developed...
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The English Electric Canberra is a British first-generation, jet-powered medium bomber. It was developed by English Electric during the mid- to late 1940s...
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early British computer built by English Electric as a version of the RCA 501. By producing a software-compatible system, the intention was to reduce time...
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allow operating systems for System/360 to run on a Spectra/70 and vice versa. Intended for real-time processing, the English Electric System 4 employed four...
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EMIDEC 1100 English Electric English Electric DEUCE English Electric KDF8 English Electric KDF9 English Electric KDP10 English Electric System 4 Ferranti...
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English Electric's K, RK and V type diesel engines were manufactured by the English Electric company of the United Kingdom for stationary, rail transport...
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PERQ (redirect from PERQ Operating System)
housed in a desktop "mini-tower"-style enclosure. The operating system was a port of UNIX System V Release 2 called PNX 300.[citation needed] Prototype units...
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These included enhancements to either ICT's 1900 Series or the English Electric System 4, and a development based on J. K. Iliffe's Basic Language Machine...
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International Computers Limited (redirect from TME (operating system))
through a merger of International Computers and Tabulators (ICT), English Electric Computers (EEC) and Elliott Automation in 1968. The company's most...
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Limited#English Electric LEO Marconi (EELM), also known as ICL System 4 Not-released Unix system between UNIX System III and UNIX System V STS-4 (Space...
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ICL VME (redirect from System B (operating system))
program for the New Range system started on the merger of International Computers and Tabulators (ICT) and English Electric Computers in 1968. One of...
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9000 series, RCA with the RCA Spectra 70 series, English Electric with the English Electric System 4, and the Soviet ES EVM. These computers were not...
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ICL DRS (redirect from Distributed Resource System)
Distributed Resource System, the full name was later dropped in favour of the abbreviation. During the mid-1980s separate Office Systems business units had...
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Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) is a solar electric propulsion system for spacecraft that is being designed, developed and tested by NASA and...
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William Sturgeon, English physicist, invented the electric motor (born 1783) 1893 – John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (born 1820) 1897 – Griffith...
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General Electric Company (GE) was an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, incorporated in the state of New York and headquartered in Boston...
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Railway electrification (redirect from Electric railway)
electrification is the use of electric power for the propulsion of rail transport. Electric railways use either electric locomotives (hauling passengers...
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Marconi as part of English Electric in 1968, the Marconi brand was used for its defence businesses, e.g. Marconi Space & Defence Systems (MSDS), Marconi...
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released in 1983. Four major versions of System V were released, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 4. System V Release 4 (SVR4) was commercially the most successful...
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Electricity (redirect from Electric system)
electricity, electric heating, electric discharges and many others. The presence of either a positive or negative electric charge produces an electric field...
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charges within a defined system. An object may be said to have electric potential energy by virtue of either its own electric charge or its relative position...
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ICT 1900 series (category Use British English from April 2022)
with 0.75μs core, were introduced as the F series. (ICT merged with English Electric Computers to form ICL on 9 July 1968. Thus although the E series had...
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The Electric State is a 2025 American science fiction action-adventure film produced and directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. Its screenplay by Christopher...
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RCA Spectra 70 (section System overview)
System/370. The RCA 2 and 6 ran the real-memory batch-oriented OS/70 operating system, while the RCA 3 and 7 ran VMOS. Some English Electric System 4...
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MG4 EV (redirect from MG 4 Electric)
The MG4 EV or MG4 Electric is a battery electric small family car (C-segment) produced by the Chinese automotive manufacturer SAIC Motor under the British...
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English Electric is the twelfth studio album by English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and their second since the 2006 reformation...
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