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software and design
AES is based on a design principle known as a substitution-permutation network, and is fast in both software and hardware.
Expansion boards were made by Richmond Sound Design that allow their show control and sound design software to communicate with their custom hardware frames either by ribbon cable or fiber optic cable for long distances, allowing the Amiga to control up to eight million digitally controlled external audio, lighting, automation, relay and voltage control channels spread around a large theme park, for example.
Most of the engineers who designed the hardware and software of the Aster went on to design hardware and software for the ( then new ) MSX system for a company called " Micro Technology b. v .".
The notion of abstract data types is related to the concept of data abstraction, important in object-oriented programming and design by contract methodologies for software development.
AutoCAD is a software application for computer-aided design ( CAD ) and drafting.
It generates new knowledge that is useful in such fields as drug design and development of new software tools to create that knowledge.
The BRP Character Generation software has also won awards for its design.
* Adapt or design computer hardware or software for medical science uses.
With von Neumann's design, the program, or software, that EDVAC ran could be changed simply by changing the contents of the memory.
For instance, design and creation of Microsoft Word software will take much more time than designing and developing Microsoft Notepad because of the difference in functionalities in each one.
Computer software has special economic characteristics that make its design, creation, and distribution different from most other economic goods.
* Molecular design software
Its design provides constructs that map efficiently to typical machine instructions, and therefore it found lasting use in applications that had formerly been coded in assembly language, most notably system software like the Unix computer operating system.
However, a hardware bug with this chip prevented the initial design from working as anticipated, and the ROM code was hastily rewritten to handle the entire operation in software.
A 1998 case study showed that software engineering majors who successfully completed a technical writing course created capstone experience projects that were more mindful of end user design than the projects completed by their peers.
In 1989, Autodesk, an American multinational corporation that focuses on 2D and 3D design software, developed a virtual design system called Cyberspace.
It had an influence in the 1960s and 1970s on programming language design, modular programming, object-oriented programming, software engineering and other design methodologies.
While the conceptual and external levels design can usually be done independently of any DBMS ( DBMS-independent design software packages exist, possibly with interfaces to some specific popular DBMSs ), the internal level design highly relies on the capabilities and internal data structure of the specific DBMS utilized ( see the Implementation section below ).
Some formal design methods and programming languages emphasize data structures, rather than algorithms, as the key organizing factor in software design.

software and interface
This was quickly remedied by First Byte Computers who developed an interface and software which allowed a " switched " joystick to be used with the majority of software titles.
A third mode was entered with a special boot floppy which turned the Aster into a Videotex terminal with a 40x25 display and a Videotex character set, The software used the built in RS232 interface of the Aster to control a modem through which it could contact a Prestel service provider.
A hard disk interface was also in the works, which would, add a SCSI interface, and the necessary software.
On the software front, work was being done to implement the replacement for the aging " user interface " of CP / M, ( the Command Console Processor CCP ) with the more modern ZCPR.
They may also be in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process.
The Amiga Skyline BBS software was the first in 1987 featuring a script markup language communication protocol called Skypix which was capable to give the user a complete graphical interface, featuring rich graphic content, changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound.
More recently, software with similar capabilities has been developed to allow manipulation of digital audio files stored on computers using turntables with special vinyl records ( e. g. Final Scratch, M-Audio Torq, Serato Scratch Live ) or computer interface ( e. g. Traktor DJ Studio, Mixxx, Virtual DJ ).
In later years some of the emphasis in designing high-ILP computers has been moved out of the CPU's hardware and into its software interface, or ISA.
A virtual printer is a piece of computer software whose user interface and API resembles that of a printer driver, but which is not connected with a physical computer printer.
* Platform software: Platform includes the firmware, device drivers, an operating system, and typically a graphical user interface which, in total, allow a user to interact with the computer and its peripherals ( associated equipment ).
As noted in different section, software is usually created on top of existing software and the application programming interface ( API ) that the underlying software provides like GTK +, JavaBeans or Swing.
CPAN can denote either the archive network itself, or the Perl program that acts as an interface to the network and as an automated software installer ( somewhat like a package manager ).
This allowed a new device to be added easily, generally only requiring plugging a hardware interface board into the backplane, and then installing software that read and wrote to the mapped memory to control it.
He conceived and developed many of his user interface ideas back in the mid-1960s, long before the personal computer revolution, at a time when most individuals were kept away from computers, and could only use computers through intermediaries ( see batch processing ), and when software tended to be written for vertical applications in proprietary systems.
** implementing an interface for non-driver software ( e. g. TWAIN )
The simplest is via FProxy, which is integrated with the node software and provides a web interface to content on the network.
Since the advent of the World Wide Web and computer software development, many graphic designers have become involved in interface design.
This has included web design and software design, when end user interactivity is a design consideration of the layout or interface.
The Open System Interconnection ( OSI ) reference model was developed under the auspices of the International Organization for Standardization ( ISO ) and provides a rigorous description for layering protocol functions from the underlying hardware to the software interface concepts in user applications.
With the creation of MINIX 3, and its transition to a graphical interface, some commercial software and hardware developers have started to implement some systems with MINIX in the late 2000s.
Mesa was developed on the Xerox Alto, one of the first personal computers with a graphical user interface, however most of the Alto's system software was written in BCPL.

software and bloat
; Standards bloat: Bertrand Meyer, in a satirical essay framed as a student's request for a grade change, apparently criticized UML as of 1997 for being unrelated to object-oriented software development ; a disclaimer was added later pointing out that his company nevertheless supports UML.
Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment ( also known as Zawinski's Law ) relates the pressure of popularity to the phenomenon of software bloat:
The Great Moore's Law Compensator ( TGMLC ), generally referred to as bloat, and also known as Wirth's law, is the principle that successive generations of computer software acquire enough bloat to offset the performance gains predicted by Moore's Law.
There have been opinions that Microsoft Windows by its natural software bloat has eaten up much of the " hardware progress " that Intel processors gave to the " Wintel platform " via Moore's law.
The necessity of every object to have associative methods leads some skeptics to associate OOP with software bloat.
To combat what they saw as the Mozilla Suite's software bloat, they created a stand-alone browser, with which they intended to replace the Mozilla Suite.
In long-lived software, perceived bloat can occur from the software servicing a large, diverse marketplace with many differing requirements.
Actual ( measurable ) bloat can occur due to de-emphasising software efficiency in favour of other concerns like developer productivity, such as through the introduction of new layers of abstraction like a virtual machine or other scripting engine.
* It leads to code bloat ; the software becomes larger and more complicated.
Although, in some underground communities the use of an OSD is regarded software bloat and is highly frowned upon.
Hyatt, Ross, Hewitt and Chanial's browser was created to combat the software bloat of the Mozilla Suite ( codenamed, internally referred to, and continued by the community as SeaMonkey ), which integrated features such as IRC, mail and news, and WYSIWYG HTML editing into one software suite.

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