language to run on the new computer, even before an assembler. Ken Thompson has opined that dc was the very first program written on the machine. To multiply...
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qualification in alternative medicine dc (computer program), a command-line based calculator on Unix-derived systems DC coefficient, in a discrete cosine...
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electronic computers can perform generic sets of operations known as programs, which enable computers to perform a wide range of tasks. The term computer system...
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The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) was a digital computer produced for the Apollo program that was installed on board each Apollo command module (CM)...
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Type conversion (redirect from Cast (computer programming))
In computer science, type conversion, type casting, type coercion, and type juggling are different ways of changing an expression from one data type to...
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Monitor (redirect from Monitor program)
stage or in a studio Machine code monitor, program allowing users to view or change memory locations on a computer Resident monitor, an early primitive operating...
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McDonnell Douglas DC-10 is an American trijet wide-body aircraft manufactured by McDonnell Douglas. The DC-10 was intended to succeed the DC-8 for long-range...
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The DC-X, short for Delta Clipper or Delta Clipper Experimental, was an uncrewed prototype of a reusable single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle built by...
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History of computing hardware (redirect from Computer generation)
Flamm, Kenneth (1987), Targeting the Computer: Government Support and International Competition, Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, ISBN 978-0-815-72852-8...
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API (redirect from Application Program Interface)
An application programming interface (API) is a connection between computers or between computer programs. It is a type of software interface, offering...
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electromechanical computer designed by Konrad Zuse in 1938, and completed in 1941. It was the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer. The...
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Stack machine (redirect from Stack computer)
In computer science, computer engineering and programming language implementations, a stack machine is a computer processor or a process virtual machine...
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was used for the port; an assembler, dc, and the B language itself were written in B to bootstrap the computer. An early version of yacc was produced...
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Morpheus (disambiguation) (redirect from Morpheus (Computer program))
god associated with sleep and dreams. Morpheus may also refer to: Morpheus (DC comics), a moniker for Dream, a fictional personification of dreams in the...
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depicted as a humanoid computer (1958) (DC Comics) Batcomputer, the computer system used by Batman and housed in the Batcave (1964) (DC Comics) Cerebro and...
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relate to the search and examination of patent applications concerning computer programs. These two provisions are present in the PCT, which does not provide...
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Booting (redirect from Bootstrap program)
after POR completes. IBM uses the term Initial Program Load (IPL) on some product lines. Restarting a computer also is called rebooting, which can be "hard"...
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maintains its headquarters in Washington, DC and additional offices in California, China, and Japan. The IEEE Computer Society traces its origins to the Subcommittee...
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The DC Extended Universe (DCEU) is a shared universe centered on a group of film franchises based on characters by DC Comics and distributed by Warner...
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A vacuum-tube computer, now termed a first-generation computer, is a computer that uses vacuum tubes for logic circuitry. While the history of mechanical...
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Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (redirect from SAGE (computer))
largest discrete component-based computer ever built, the AN/FSQ-7, manufactured by IBM. Each SAGE Direction Center (DC) housed an FSQ-7 which occupied...
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McDonnell Douglas (section Computer systems)
1997, it produced well-known commercial and military aircraft, such as the DC-10 and the MD-80 airliners, the F-15 Eagle air superiority fighter, and the...
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ENIAC (redirect from Electronic Numerical Integrator Analyzer and Computer)
Integrator and Computer) was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. Other computers had some of these...
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System (GPSS) GraphTalk (Computer Sciences Corporation) GRASS Grasshopper Groovy (by Apache) Hack HAGGIS HAL/S Halide (programming language) Hamilton C shell...
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Solaris is a star-like robot created to counter an organic computer virus that contains his programming and was sent by his future self. Afterward, Solaris becomes...
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AN/FSQ-32 (redirect from Q32 (computer))
AN/FSQ-32 SAGE Solid State Computer (AN/FSQ-7A before December 1958,: 27 colloq. "Q-32") was a planned military computer of the United States Air Force...
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project and program in the top part of the project page. Scratch was developed based on ongoing interaction with youth and staff at Computer Clubhouses...
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Video game (redirect from Computer games)
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard...
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shortened to BO2k) is a computer program designed for remote system administration. It enables a user to control a computer running the Microsoft Windows...
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Washington, DC, organized by Takeo Kanade and Dana H. Ballard.[citation needed] From 1985 to 2010 it was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society.[citation...
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