The 8080 device, often described as the first truly useful microprocessor, was eventually replaced by the depletion-load based 8085 ( 1977 ) which could cope with a single 5V power supply instead of the three different operating voltages of earlier chips.

Some newer models also contain a silver core instead of a plastic core to delay copper fragmentation as well as increase the lifespan of the device.

However, the German military considered the frequency drift of Hollman's device to be undesirable, and based their radar systems on the klystron instead.

If we allow a finite automaton access to two stacks instead of just one, we obtain a more powerful device, equivalent in power to a Turing machine.

This device is very similar to the conventional mouse but uses visible or infrared light instead of a roller-ball to detect the changes in position .< ref >" mouse.

* A light pen is a device similar to a touch screen, but uses a special light sensitive pen instead of the finger, which allows for more accurate screen input.

In a piezoelectric device, mechanical stress, instead of an externally applied voltage, causes the charge separation in the individual atoms of the material,.

Solid-state relays control power circuits with no moving parts, instead using a semiconductor device to perform switching.

A solid-state relay uses a thyristor or other solid-state switching device, activated by the control signal, to switch the controlled load, instead of a solenoid.

A slight modification to the Voitenko compressor concept is a super-compressed detonation, a device that uses a compressible liquid or solid fuel in the steel compression chamber instead of a traditional gas mixture.

However, the Hall thruster was only developed into an efficient propulsion device in the former Soviet Union, whereas in the US, scientists focused instead on developing gridded ion thrusters.

An electronic multiplexer makes it possible for several signals to share one device or resource, for example one A / D converter or one communication line, instead of having one device per input signal.

Firstly, the file system is not a single tree, but instead is a forest with each tree corresponding to a device.

In some cases, the output of a receiving device is instead connected to the input of a transmitting device.

Some low-cost peripherals no longer contain non-volatile memory for firmware, and instead rely on the host system to transfer the device control program from a disk file or CD.

In 1949, RCA engineers worked on the first primitive computer-type OCR to help blind people for the US Veterans Administration, but instead of converting the printed characters to machine language, their device converted it to machine language and then spoke the letters: an early text-to-speech technology.

Some commentators have suggested that the ordering is structural, with the anomaly of Mars, Venus, Mercury, instead of the reverse, being a device to make the first four movements match the form of a symphony.

Using high-k dielectrics instead of silicon dioxide that is the conventional gate dielectric allows similar device performance, but with a thicker gate insulator, thus avoiding this current.

Thus, for the de Broglie – Bohm theory, the particle's spin is not an intrinsic property of the particle — instead spin is, so to speak, in the wave function of the particle in relation to the particular device being used to measure the spin.

She hypothesized that " eh " did not function as a clarification device as frequently believed, but instead served as a means of establishing solidarity between individuals of similar ethnic descent.

The 2006 movie " The Prestige " makes reference to this claim with a device powered by a large Tesla coil that is created by Tesla himself, to make things disappear, but instead creates an exact replica that comes into being a short distance away.

A related device is the pixie tube, which uses a stencil mask with numeral-shaped holes instead of shaped cathodes.

I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.

`` Blessed Saint Nicholas, I thank thee for getting me out of that mess and sending me up instead of down when I was bewildered.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.

Alfred, who was a good deal older than Harry, had treated him like a son, and when Harry decided to stay in business with Lew instead of going with Alfred, Alfred looked on the decision as a betrayal.

Mrs. Andrus was talking to the maid, arranging for her to come in every day, instead of the four days she now worked.

The lower limit was determined by the fact that for smaller flow rates the arc started to strike to the anode holder instead of to the porous graphite plug and that it became highly unstable.

The judge became ill just as the Colfax District Court convened, no substitute was brought in, no criminal cases heard, only 5 out of 122 cases docketed were tried, and court adjourned sine die after sitting a few days instead of the usual three weeks.

It was for this reason, and no other that I can see, that in September 1912, Braque took the radical and revolutionary step of pasting actual pieces of imitation-woodgrain wallpaper to a drawing on paper, instead of trying to simulate its texture in paint.

The first major change was that of providing wholewheat bread instead of white bread.

Followin' such an event there was usually a harvest of `` fallen hides '', and the ranchers needed skinnin' knives instead of brandin' irons.

But instead of chatter there was a null, like on the radio direction finder.

One of the first moves made after a cabinet decision was to request the United States to establish a full-fledged military assistance group instead of the current civilian body.

Since Russian was being spoken instead of Spanish, there is no violation of artistry or logic here.

The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; ;

But for all the manifest intention to `` show off '', this was a circus with a difference, for instead of descending in quality to what is known as a popular level, it added further to the evidence that this is a very great dancing company.

it had a look of grim stark realism, resembling other cities whose habitual climate was cold, instead of the sprawling bumptious open-handed greedy Western city basking in eternal sunshine at the foot of mountains stored with endless riches and resources.

It dawns on you that instead of a lump to fill the seat across the bridge table from you, he was a man, and that because Gratt Shafer was making you miserable, you were passing it down to him, to Gratt Shafer's substitute, that other guy.

instead of a necktie he wore a leather bolo drawn through a golden ring in which was set a lump of pale pure jade.

Actually, there was a lot of force in him, which is why I kept on in that class instead of quitting after a week.

I was twenty-one back then, in the army, and fog put our plane down at Orly instead of Rhine-Main.

All Deegan had to do was slide, fall away, but instead, he rammed into the catcher.

Had he decided, perhaps, that the center of the cloud was a center of government, instead of a center of life and faith ''??