Pretty close, it was the House Judiciary committee, chaired by Peter Rodino, that passed three articles of impeachment against Nixon. The resignation preceded the vote in the full House.
It looks like software sellers have awakened to the notion that getting a little money from a lot of students is better than getting nothing from a lot of students. The students may remember the favor done to their college-era budgets and buy software legally when they move on. Smart move.
The Motorolla 68000 did have a 32-bit design, but it only had 24-bit addressing when it came out
And back in those memory-starved:) days, people would use the high byte of a 32-bit address for other things because the bits were ignored. That was ok, until the 68020 came out. Old Mac fans may remember the "32-bit clean" debacle.
> So, please tell me where does one need 1 GHz embedded processors?
Embedded systems are getting quite fancy nowadays; it was claimed in "Embedded Systems Programming," January 2002, that cell phones have 10^6 lines of C or C++. They need the horsepower.
For example, it might be more cost-effective to implement signal processing in a fast microcontroller, than to have a DSP chip and a general-purpose microcontroller.
Read the first two paragraphs of the story. Toshiba is taking MIPS' Amethyst core and developing an embedded controller around it, to be known as TX99. With 600MHz clock, scalable to 1GHz, this is great news for the embedded world and will position MIPS as a competitor to Motorolla for embedded h/w. But it isn't really a new chip for MIPS, just a variation on an existing one.
Also, the purchasers of commodity embedded processors tend to be slow to change, so MIPS/Toshiba will have to make a compelling case to do so.
Way back when, a co-worker claimed he he got an IBM disk drive attached to a System/360 mainframe to crash by driving the head back and forth at the resonant frequency.
Not as dramatic as the story of the drum drive that broke loose and crashed though a concrete block wall, though.
One of the 1970s-1980s OEM suppliers of disk drives with removable disk packs had a blue translucent cover. After inserting tbe pack and closing the cover, you could see the heads move in and out, a little bit, from the edge (the top platter's upper surface wasn't used so there was no head for it). Cool.
IIRC there was an early Winchester-format (5") hard disk with a smoked (translucent brown) plastic case.
Both probably spewed RF but were not made for home use, and there were fewer radio users anyway.
Back then, "workstation" was used to described a high-performance, high-cost micro like the early Sun systems with 680x0 processors. "Personal computer" described lower-cost and -performance machines, like the IBM PC.
VAX VMS would allow you to overwrite disk and tape sectors with some pattern. IIRC, a sysadmin could make this the default setting. Slower, to be sure, and a determined person could still recover information. But, combined with no net connection and locating the computer in a physically secure place, it was deemed good enough to develop classified software.
Signal relay around the moon could be done with a series of relay stations on the ground, like microwave relays on Earth. With no atmosphere the carrier could be anything that's economical and doesn't interfere with the radio astronomy.
A Chapter 11 filing may part of a deal between a company and its creditors, in which case the filing is pretty close to a formality.
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Johnniac, the famous early computer, operated asynchronously. A group of former SDC employees reminisced about the machine (in front of it, no less). When someone asked about clock speed, they said there wasn't one; completion of instructions triggered a completion signal. Glad I didn't have to debug the hardware...
AltaVista was started by DEC, which sold it off to someone (anyone know?) Anyway, CMGI is the current majority owner. All this passing around may have caused managment to defer decisions related to keeping the database current and available (don't buy servers, don't develop faster search methods).
Contrast Google, which so far hasn't been sold, and still has, IIRC, its original managerial crew.
I heard an NPR report that there was a CIA warning from about a week ago of some sort of attack coming soon; IIRC the report was distributed to Congress.
I'm sure anyone who could do this could sneakernet the orders to those who carried it out.
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Pretty close, it was the House Judiciary committee, chaired by Peter Rodino, that passed three articles of impeachment against Nixon. The resignation preceded the vote in the full House.
It looks like software sellers have awakened to the notion that getting a little money from a lot of students is better than getting nothing from a lot of students. The students may remember the favor done to their college-era budgets and buy software legally when they move on. Smart move.
in 1982, 640k was a massive amount of memory.
Would you believe a VAX-11/780, in 1981, with 256K, running BSD to 6 or so terminals for upper division and graduate C.S. use? Yow.
The Motorolla 68000 did have a 32-bit design, but it only had 24-bit addressing when it came out
:) days, people would use the high byte of a 32-bit address for other things because the bits were ignored. That was ok, until the 68020 came out. Old Mac fans may remember the "32-bit clean" debacle.
And back in those memory-starved
> So, please tell me where does one need 1 GHz embedded processors?
Embedded systems are getting quite fancy nowadays; it was claimed in "Embedded Systems Programming," January 2002, that cell phones have 10^6 lines of C or C++. They need the horsepower.
For example, it might be more cost-effective to implement signal processing in a fast microcontroller, than to have a DSP chip and a general-purpose microcontroller.
Read the first two paragraphs of the story. Toshiba is taking MIPS' Amethyst core and developing an embedded controller around it, to be known as TX99. With 600MHz clock, scalable to 1GHz, this is great news for the embedded world and will position MIPS as a competitor to Motorolla for embedded h/w. But it isn't really a new chip for MIPS, just a variation on an existing one.
Also, the purchasers of commodity embedded processors tend to be slow to change, so MIPS/Toshiba will have to make a compelling case to do so.
Way back when, a co-worker claimed he he got an IBM disk drive attached to a System/360 mainframe to crash by driving the head back and forth at the resonant frequency.
Not as dramatic as the story of the drum drive that broke loose and crashed though a concrete block wall, though.
One of the 1970s-1980s OEM suppliers of disk drives with removable disk packs had a blue translucent cover. After inserting tbe pack and closing the cover, you could see the heads move in and out, a little bit, from the edge (the top platter's upper surface wasn't used so there was no head for it). Cool.
IIRC there was an early Winchester-format (5") hard disk with a smoked (translucent brown) plastic case.
Both probably spewed RF but were not made for home use, and there were fewer radio users anyway.
Back then, "workstation" was used to described a high-performance, high-cost micro like the early Sun systems with 680x0 processors. "Personal computer" described lower-cost and -performance machines, like the IBM PC.
Social bounds are the most powerful predictor of life satisfaction.
So, the more walls I put up, the happier I am? Oh, you meant social bonds. Silly me.
... nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb ...
IANAL, however, this seems to allow some multiple trials on the same issue.
Also, the spelling is "tried."
ask Boston's MBTA what they're like
Or San Francisco Muni, the only other operator of Boeing Vertol LRTs. They're getting rid of the last few.
By essentially daring people to find holes, Oracle gets QA for the cost of embarassment, which I suspect for L.E. is about one cent.
Good point. On the system I was familiar with, the backup tapes were kept in a safe, and only full backups were done.
VAX VMS would allow you to overwrite disk and tape sectors with some pattern. IIRC, a sysadmin could make this the default setting. Slower, to be sure, and a determined person could still recover information. But, combined with no net connection and locating the computer in a physically secure place, it was deemed good enough to develop classified software.
Signal relay around the moon could be done with a series of relay stations on the ground, like microwave relays on Earth. With no atmosphere the carrier could be anything that's economical and doesn't interfere with the radio astronomy.
A Chapter 11 filing may part of a deal between a company and its creditors, in which case the filing is pretty close to a formality.
Johnniac, the famous early computer, operated asynchronously. A group of former SDC employees reminisced about the machine (in front of it, no less). When someone asked about clock speed, they said there wasn't one; completion of instructions triggered a completion signal. Glad I didn't have to debug the hardware...
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The Cray 2 used Fluorinert. The 8 CPU model from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory is now at The Computer Museum History Center, http://computerhistory.org
AltaVista was started by DEC, which sold it off to someone (anyone know?) Anyway, CMGI is the current majority owner. All this passing around may have caused managment to defer decisions related to keeping the database current and available (don't buy servers, don't develop faster search methods).
Contrast Google, which so far hasn't been sold, and still has, IIRC, its original managerial crew.
IANA MBA, so take this with a grain of salt.
That's Geiger Teller, they're both proper nouns :).
I cracked a corner off my Athlon 1.2 (266) over a hundred bucks ago
What unit of time is a buck? I guess it depends on your company's burn rate...
The Cray-1 had heatsinks and Freon cooling.
The Cray-2 used immersion cooling with Fluorinert.
I heard an NPR report that there was a CIA warning from about a week ago of some sort of attack coming soon; IIRC the report was distributed to Congress.
I'm sure anyone who could do this could sneakernet the orders to those who carried it out.
So, Hotmail was cracked in one line?
Easy to believe, if it was APL.
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