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ORACLE successfully campaigned for the creation of a franchise for the teletext service on ITV and Channel 4, only to find themselves outbid by Teletext Ltd., a consortium originally comprising Associated Newspapers, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N. V. and Media Ventures International, who started broadcasting at midnight on 1 January 1993.
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ORACLE and for
England's General Post Office developed a system using the Ceefax / ORACLE standard, launching it as Prestel, while France prepared the first steps for its ultimately very successful Minitel system, using a rival display standard called Antiope.
* Park Avenue, a teletext based soap which appeared on ORACLE for several years written by Robbie Burns and Steve Regan.
FourText, originally called 4-Tel, was first run in conjunction with ORACLE, as an auxiliary teletext provider for Channel 4 from 1982.
The work and arrangements for choosing the relational database provider, hiring consultants and other organisational matters made that the development of DMFAS 5, to pass from COBOL to ORACLE started in 1992.
ORACLE and teletext
Other broadcasters soon took up the idea, including the Independent Broadcasting Authority ( IBA ), who had developed the incompatible ORACLE teletext system, at around the same time.
* ORACLE ( teletext ), a televised information service
ORACLE ( from " Optional Reception of Announcements by Coded Line Electronics ") was a commercial teletext service first broadcast on ITV in 1974 and later on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, finally ending on both channels at 23: 59 GMT on 31 December 1992.
# REDIRECT ORACLE ( teletext )
The BBC ( which was the original developer of the teletext system ) launched its Ceefax teletext service in 1974, the same year that Teletext's predecessor, ORACLE also appeared.
The public Prestel database consisted of a set of individual frames, which were arranged in 24 lines of 40 characters each, similar to the display used by the Ceefax and ORACLE teletext services provided by the BBC and ITV television companies.
* Park Avenue ( teletext soap ), a teletext-based Soap Opera on the ORACLE service from 1988 to 1992
In the case of the Ceefax and ORACLE systems and their successors in the UK, the teletext signal is transmitted as part of the ordinary analogue TV signal but concealed from view in the Vertical Blanking Interval ( VBI ) television lines which do not carry picture information.
Electra used the World System Teletext ( WST ) protocol, the same protocol used by Ceefax and ORACLE, as well as by other teletext services in the rest of the European continent.
Sbectel was first run in conjunction with ORACLE, the auxiliary teletext provider on Channel 4, in the 1980s.
ORACLE and service
The Independent Television Authority ( ITA ) announced their own service in 1973, known as ORACLE ( Optional Reception of Announcements by Coded Line Electronics ).
ORACLE and on
Since the BBC Micro used a Teletext mode as standard, this means that the pound sign is in the 7-bit ASCII variant used on Teletext systems such as Ceefax, ORACLE and Teletext Ltd too.
ORACLE began to disappear at 23: 31: 09 on 31 December 1992.
Because of the rivalry between the two companies, ORACLE did not carry television listings beyond its midnight closing time on New Year's Eve 1992.
When ORACLE lost its licence and was replaced by Teletext Ltd in 1993, 4-Tel moved to its own page space on pages 300-399.
The ORACLE or Oak Ridge Automatic Computer and Logical Engine, an early computer built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was based on the IAS architecture developed by John von Neumann.
From the mid-80s both Ceefax and ORACLE were broadcasting several hundred pages on every channel, slowly changing them throughout the day.
When ORACLE lost its licence and was replaced by Teletext Ltd. in 1993, Sbectel moved to its own page space on pages 300-399 and became directly run by S4C.
ORACLE and ITV
ITV soon joined the fray with a Ceefax-clone known as ORACLE.
ORACLE and Channel
The new companies of Channel 4 and S4C also brought recipes to the television with their own text system called ORACLE.
ORACLE and by
Ceefax first started operation in 1977 with a limited 30 pages, followed quickly by ORACLE and then Prestel in 1979.
At the end of December 2010, it was announced that BMW was bringing to a close its longstanding partnership with ORACLE Racing and thereby ending its involvement in the America's Cup ; this was by mutual agreement of both partners.
It was followed quickly by ORACLE and Prestel.
The proposed higher resolution Level 2 ( 1981 ) was not adopted in Britain ( in-vision services from Ceefax & ORACLE did use it at various times however, though even this was ceased by the BBC in 1996 ), although transmission rates were doubled from two to four lines a frame.
ORACLE and Teletext
The Independent Broadcasting Authority quickly introduced their own ORACLE system, and the two organizations subsequently agreed to use a single standard, the " Broadcast Teletext Specification ".
The Ceefax / ORACLE standard was internationalised in the 1980s as World System Teletext, which was adopted into the international standard CCIR 653 ( now ITU-R BT. 653 ) of 1986 as CCIR Teletext System B.
ORACLE and originally
The systems were originally incompatible ; Ceefax displayed 24 lines of 32 characters each, while ORACLE offered 22 lines of 40 characters each.
ORACLE and .
The software includes Email-server, FORTRAN 90 and 77, C ++, Pascal, Mathematica, Informix and ORACLE 7.
A typical ORACLE page, here showing news from ITN.
ORACLE moved away from being an experimental engineering department and more towards being a content provider.
It continued until 23: 55: 55 and it said ORACLE Gone 1978-1992.
* ORACLE Arena & O. co Coliseum Official Website
ORACLE and 1
* ORACLE: Hyperion SQR Production Reporting-System 9 ( Release 9. 3. 1, 2008 );
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He campaigned successfully for the riddance of `` Death Avenue '' and also brought about the ending of pollution of metropolitan beaches by sewage.
During the turn of the 20th century British Israelites carried out some excavations of the Hill of Tara in Ireland looking for the Ark of the Covenant – the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland campaigned successfully to have them stopped before they destroyed the hill.
Gaius Scribonius Curio ( proconsul 75-3 BC ) campaigned successfully against the Dardani and the Moesi, becoming the first Roman general to reach the river Danube with his army.
Eastman also became executive director of the American Union Against Militarism, which lobbied against America's entrance into the European war and more successfully against war with Mexico in 1916, sought to remove profiteering from arms manufacturing, and campaigned against conscription and imperial adventures.
Galerius, aided by Diocletian, campaigned successfully against Sassanid Persia, the Empire's traditional enemy.
Evangelicals were also concerned with social reform during this period — in England the Clapham Sect included figures such as William Wilberforce who successfully campaigned for the abolition of slavery.
A member of the Constantinian dynasty, he was made Caesar over the western provinces, by Constantius II in 355, where he campaigned successfully against the Alamanni and Franks.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines campaigned successfully to prohibit their use, culminating in the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction, known informally as the Ottawa Treaty.
In the early years of the Republic of China, intellectuals of the New Culture Movement, such as Hu Shih and Chen Duxiu, successfully campaigned for the replacement of Literary Chinese as the written standard by written vernacular Chinese, which was based on northern dialects.
Garfield became the party's compromise nominee for the 1880 Presidential Election and successfully campaigned to defeat Democrat Winfield Hancock in the election.
Anglo-Portuguese forces under Arthur Wellesley campaigned successfully against the French armies, eventually driving them from Spain and invading southern France.
Even though Edward campaigned in Scotland both in 1300, when he successfully besieged Caerlaverock Castle and in 1301, the Scots refused to engage in open battle again, preferring instead to raid the English countryside in smaller groups.
The organisation successfully campaigned for the enactment of the Official Languages Act, 2003 which gave greater statutory protection to Irish speakers and created the position of An Coimisinéir Teanga ( The Languages Commissioner ).
In 278, Probus campaigned successfully in Gaul against the Alamanni and Longiones ; both tribes had advanced through the Neckar valley and across the Rhine into Roman territory.
While the general campaigned successfully on the Rhine, the young emperor remained at Vienne, in contrast to his warrior father and his older brother, who had campaigned at his age.
In the 1890's a group calling itself the National Anti-Sweating League was formed in Melbourne, Australia and campaigned successfully for a minimum wage via trade boards.
CBS began to adapt the popular novel as a miniseries, but the historians Virginius Dabney ( a direct descendant of Jefferson's sister Martha ) and Dumas Malone successfully campaigned against it directly with the network's president William S. Paley, and persuaded him to kill the project.
He successfully campaigned for re-election from his own jail.
As he had been governor of Hispania Ulterior in 61 BC and had campaigned successfully with them against the Lusitanians, Caesar knew personally most ( perhaps even all ) of these legions.
To continue the progress, the Great Ouse Restoration Society was formed in 1951, and successfully campaigned for and assisted with the restoration.
In 2011, the Friends successfully campaigned for the withdrawal of plans for open air screenings of films in the Park.
He campaigned successfully to have a legal euthanasia law passed in Australia's Northern Territory and assisted four people in ending their lives before the law was overturned by the Federal government.
Edwin campaigned successfully against Cwichelm and adopted the new faith in 627.
As in 1980, the PLQ campaigned successfully for a " no " vote in the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty.
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