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For and hardware
For example, an IBM PC might have either a monochrome or a color display adapter ( using different display memory addresses and hardware ), but a single, standard, BIOS system call may be invoked to display a character at a specified position on the screen in text mode.
For instance, can hold an unboxed integer in a range supported by the hardware and implementation, permitting more efficient arithmetic than on big integers or arbitrary precision types.
For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of computing hardware and history of computer science.
For instance, instead of a hardware multiplier, a calculator might implement floating point mathematics with code in ROM, and compute trigonometric functions with the CORDIC algorithm because CORDIC does not require hardware floating-point.
For instance, low-end versions of complex architectures ( i. e. using less hardware ) could lead to situations where it was possible to improve performance by not using a complex instruction ( such as a procedure call or enter instruction ), but instead using a sequence of simpler instructions.
For instance, a compression scheme for video may require expensive hardware for the video to be decompressed fast enough to be viewed as it is being decompressed, and the option to decompress the video in full before watching it may be inconvenient or require additional storage.
For a recursive or otherwise re-entrant routine, a stack, hardware if available, software if not, must be used instead.
For example, a serial port needs to handle standard communication protocols such as XON / XOFF that are common for all serial port hardware.
For many decades after that, floating-point hardware was typically an optional feature, and computers that had it were said to be " scientific computers ", or to have " scientific computing " capability.
For example, most network cards implement transmit and receive ring buffers, interrupt rate limiting, and hardware flow control.
For example, in the 4th quarter of 2009, IBM's System z hardware revenues decreased by 27 % year over year.
For example, the Motorola 68010 ( and the obscure 68012 ) was a 68000 with improvements to the loop instruction and the ability to suspend then continue an instruction in the event of a page fault, enabling the use of virtual memory with the appropriate MMU hardware.
For hardware functions such as input and output and memory allocation, the operating system acts as an intermediary between programs and the computer hardware, although the application code is usually executed directly by the hardware and will frequently make a system call to an OS function or be interrupted by it.
For hardware with the performance used in orbital launch vehicles, expenses of $ 2000 –$ 10, 000 + per kilogram of dry weight are common, primarily from engineering, fabrication, and testing ; raw materials amount to typically around 2 % of total expense.
For example, for maximal use of distribution, a computer running on a different hardware architecture should be able to reliably reconstruct a serialized data stream, regardless of endianness.
For example, calculations show that the Titan II first stage, launched on its own, would have a 25-to-1 ratio of fuel to vehicle hardware.
For example, TeleSoft ( also located in San Diego ) offered an early Ada development environment that used p-code and was therefore able to run on a number of hardware platforms including the Motorola 68000, the System / 370, and the Pascal MicroEngine.
For sufficiently capable combinations of hardware and operating systems, X. Org plans to access the video hardware only via the Direct Rendering Infrastructure ( DRI ), using the 3D hardware.
For instance, the multiplication and addition units were implemented as separate hardware, so the results of one could be internally pipelined into the next, the instruction decode having already been handled in the machine's main pipeline.

For and hackers
For example, when MIT students surreptitiously put a fake police car atop the dome on MIT's Building 10, that was a hack in this sense, and the students involved were therefore hackers.
For example, when the computers at MIT were protected either by physical locks or login programs, the hackers there systematically worked around them in order to have access to the machines.
For example, in Levy's Hackers, each generation of hackers had geographically based communities where collaboration and sharing occurred.
For the hackers at MIT, it was the labs where the computers were running.
For a while, several hackers who disagreed on the appropriateness of the change struggled covertly, each changing the message behind the backs of the others ; any time a user logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say " users " or " losers ".
For security reasons, the name of an Administrator user or Administrators security group is often changed locally so that it is less easy to guess, in order to reduce system vulnerability to access by hackers.
For this book, Levy talked to many different hackers, who were active from the 1950s until the 1980s.
For some hackers the lack of sleep, malnutrition, the pressure of finishing a hack, and the entire lifestyle was too much.
For example, Nokia has launched a contest at the onedotzero festival in London called PUSH N900 aimed at designers, artists, hackers and modders.

For and second
For a second, engages, cooks, voyageurs appeared struck dumb.
For men who had left cattle alone after getting their first notices had received no second.
The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.
For the second we might have to choose the volume of reactor or amount of cooling to be supplied ; ;
For another second or two he gave in to the annoyance that was directed at himself ; ;
For a split second, Nick relaxed his grip and Poet's slippery body spun completely around before Nick could stop him, holding him now from the rear.
-- For a second month in a row, Multnomah County may be short of general assistance money in its budget to handle an unusually high summer month's need, the state public welfare commission was told Friday.
In chapter four of the second Inspector Hanaud novel, The House of the Arrow ( 1924 ), Hanaud declares sanctimoniously to the heroine, " You are wise, Mademoiselle … For, after all, I am Hanaud.
For a 256-bit block, the first row is unchanged and the shifting for the second, third and fourth row is 1 byte, 3 bytes and 4 bytes respectively — this change only applies for the Rijndael cipher when used with a 256-bit block, as AES does not use 256-bit blocks.
Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.
For Canadian use and as a second source for US missiles, Canadair was selected to build the missiles in Quebec.
For the third movement, Beethoven used variation techniques ; he also did this in the second movement of his Quartet op.
For example, a runner on first base advances to second on a passed ball.
For example, a 500 gigabyte hard drive holds bytes, and a 100 megabit per second Ethernet connection transfers data at bit / s.
For a binomial involving subtraction, the theorem can be applied as long as the opposite of the second term is used.
For example, the second edition of the popular introductory textbook, An Outline of Money, devoted the last three of its ten chapters to questions of foreign exchange management and in particular the ' problem of balance '.
For the second exam, called the Principles and Practices, Part 2, or the Professional Engineering exam, candidates may select a particular engineering discipline's content to be tested on ; there is currently not an option for BME with this, meaning that any biomedical engineers seeking a license must prepare to take this examination in another category ( which does not affect the actual license, since most jurisdictions do not recognize discipline specialties anyway ).
" For his second appearance in front of cameras, Chaplin selected the costume with which he became identified.
For Irenaeus the imitation of Christ is based on God's plan of salvation, which involved Christ as the second Adam.
For example the President for the second half of 2007, Portugal, was the second in a trio of states alongside Germany and Slovenia with whom Portugal had been co-operating.
For example, in a copper wire of cross-section 0. 5 mm < sup > 2 </ sup >, carrying a current of 5 A, the drift velocity of the electrons is on the order of a millimetre per second.
For the 1999 season, Cleveland added relief pitcher Ricardo Rincón and second baseman Roberto Alomar, brother of catcher Sandy Alomar, Jr, and won the Central Division title for the fifth consecutive year.
For instance, in any group second powers behave well
For example, if the first approach is taken then " car park " will come after " carbon " and " carp " ( as it would if it were written " carpark "), whereas in the second approach " car park " will come before those two words.

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