Starting in the 1880s, and more significantly by the mid-20th century, CGS was gradually superseded internationally for scientific purposes by the MKS ( metre – kilogram – second ) system, which in turn developed into the modern SI standard.

* MKS Inc .′ s MKS Korn shell — a proprietary implementation of the KornShell language from Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX ( SFU ) up to version 2. 0 ; according to David Korn, the MKS Korn shell was not fully compatible with KornShell in 1998 ; in SFU version 3. 0 Microsoft replaced the MKS Korn shell with a new POSIX. 2-compliant shell as part of Interix ;

In European countries where the metric system was established well before the adoption of the SI standard, there is still carry-over of usage from the precursor cgs and MKS systems.

" BAAS formally proposed the CGS system in 1874, although this system was gradually replaced over the next 70 years by MKS units.

MKS was adopted internationally during the 1940s, defining the second as 1 / 86, 400th of a mean solar day.

The ampere-turn ( AT ) was the MKS unit of magnetomotive force ( MMF ), represented by a direct current of one ampere flowing in a single-turn loop in a vacuum.

The CCU decided to define the SI unit of absorbed radiation in terms of energy per unit mass, which in MKS units was J / kg.

Between the CGS unit and SI unit, the MKS unit magnetomotive force was the ampere-turn AT.

After the Continental was discontinued in 2002, it was largely replaced by the Lincoln LS and eventually the Lincoln MKS.

* The terms SI and metric system are not strictly interchangeable ; the common " metric system " refers to a system of units based on powers of 10, for example the cgs system ; while SI was originally based on the MKS system of units.

SFU 1. 0 and 2. 0 ( NT 4. 0 and Windows 2000 ) used the MKS Toolkit ; starting with SFU 3. 0 ( Windows XP ; 1999 ), SFU used the Interix subsystem, which was acquired by Microsoft in 1999 from US-based Softway Systems as part of an asset acquisition.

The MKS Toolkit was no longer included.

MKS Inc ( Mortice Kern Systems ) was a multinational independent software vendor which was acquired by Parametric Technology Corporation on May 31, 2011 and now operates as a business unit within PTC.

Previously named Mortice Kern Systems, MKS was founded in 1984 by four University of Waterloo students, Randall Howard, Alex White, Trevor Thompson and Steve Izma.

In 1987, MKS stepped into the version control market with a product called MKS RCS, which was renamed to MKS Source Integrity in 1992, deciding at that time to put strategic emphasis and focus expansion on the software configuration management marketplace, a segment of what is now known as Application Lifecycle Management ( ALM ).

This initiative was further realized in 1999 when MKS invested the bulk of its R & D efforts towards re-designing MKS Source Integrity as a multi-tier Java EE platform to address the needs of large enterprise installations.

The CGS system has been largely supplanted by the MKS system, based on metre, kilogram, and second.

For example, if the momentum p of an electron is said to be 1 GeV, then the conversion to MKS can be achieved by:

* MKS Toolkit, originally created for MS-DOS, is a software package produced and maintained by MKS Inc. that provides a Unix-like environment for scripting, connectivity and porting Unix and Linux software to both 32-and 64-bit Microsoft Windows systems.

It has since been supplanted as the default by more recent, largely compatible, programs such as Berkeley Yacc, GNU bison, MKS Yacc and Abraxas PCYACC.

Microsoft once included a version of the Korn shell produced by Mortice Kern Systems ( MKS ) in a UNIX integration package for Windows NT.

Throughout 2006 – 2008 MKS was recognized by industry analysts and PR firms as a strong contender in the ALM market and continued to receive industry accolades for its strong technical offerings:

* MKS positioned as an influential vendor in the ALM Vendor Report by independent analyst firm, Voke Inc.

* 2011: MKS acquired by Parametric Technology Corporation PTC ()

* The Windows Script Host, which uses scripting engines for many glue languages like Perl, Rexx, PHP, Ruby, Tcl, Delphi, XSLT, Python and others and has those for VBScript, JScript, and VBA installed by default, is capable of running in interactive mode from cmd. exe, command. com, or most other shells running under Windows like the MKS Unix shells, ( or any script or program with OS access or the Run box of the GUI ) by invoking as CScript. exe // I.

* Ampere-turn ( symbol ), an International System of Units ( MKS ) unit of magnetomotive force

For most engineering applications, MKS ( rationalized ) or SI ( Système International ) units are commonly used.

This " led eventually to the universal adoption of the Giorgi system, which unified electromagnetic units with the MKS dimensional system of units, the whole now known simply as the SI system ( Système International d ’ unités ).

The number 2 is for the second expedition and is enclosed in the Cyrillic MKS and Latin ISS which are the respective Russian and English abbreviations for the International Space Station.

( MKS System )

Since the international adoption of the MKS standard in the 1940s and the SI standard in the 1960s, the technical use of CGS units has gradually declined worldwide, in the United States more slowly than elsewhere.

The abbreviation cc ( for cubic centimetre, equal to a millilitre or mL ) is a unit of the cgs system, that preceded the MKS system, that later evolved into the SI system.

Other conventions may have a different number of fundamental units ( e. g. the CGS and MKS systems of units ).

Microsoft Windows is not shipped with support for X, but many third-party implementations exist, as free and open source software such as Cygwin / X, Xming ( free up to 6. 9. 0. 31 ) and WeirdX ; freeware such as Mocha X Server ; and proprietary products such as Xmanager, Exceed, eXcursion ( Hewlett-Packard ), MKS X / Server, Reflection X, X-Win32 and Xming ( current versions ).

For example, Unix tools ported to Windows vary as to the EOF: Cygwin uses < ctrl-d > ( the usual, Unix EOF ) and MKS Toolkit uses < ctrl-z > ( the usual, Windows EOF ).

In return the team strengthened: Arielle Wilson ( from the USA-academic game ), Milena Rosner, member of the Polish representative team, which won the gold medal of the European Championships in Turkey in 2005, Marta Haładyn ( with Tauron MKS Dabrowa Mining ) and Dorota Medyńska ( SMS Sosnowiec / TOP Boleslawiec ).

The unit of electric field in the MKS system of units is newtons per coulomb, N / C, while the magnetic field ( in tesla ) can be written as N /( C * m / s ).

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He had dared to defy nature, to turn his back to the Lorelei, and he was punished.

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That development, in turn, formed the foundation of still more significant expansions in later years -- in gear cutting, in circular graduating, in index drilling, and in many other fields where accuracy was a paramount requirement.

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The Colonial Light and Power Company was succeeded by the Vermont Hydro-Electric Corporation, which in turn was absorbed by the Central Vermont Public Service Corporation.

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Up to the turn of the century, contraception was condemned by all Christian churches as immoral, unnatural and contrary to divine law.

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He said he had promised Mrs. Borden to return in time for dinner and that was close to the time when he did turn up at the Borden house.

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I hurried over to the agency heap, jumped in, started the motor and was just in time to see the car I wanted to shadow turn to the left.

I was held up a bit trying to make a left turn.

Mr. Giorgio had started to turn left off Greenville Avenue onto Cherry Hill Road when his car was struck by the Pezza car, police said.

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