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ULA and memory
While the ULA would read the display from memory in the usual fashion, the SAA5050 would listen to the data it was reading and produce a mode 7 interpretation of the same information.
State snapshot UEF files include standardised chunks to store the major portions of an Acorn Electron or BBC Micro's state: main, shadow and expansion bus memory, the CPU and the WD1770 floppy drive controller ; also the Electron ULA and the Slogger Master RAM Board, a common Electron add-on.

ULA and access
By moving the lowest 8 KB of RAM outside of reach of the ULA, the CPU could always access it at 2 MHz.

ULA and was
The hardware of the BBC Micro was emulated by a single customized ULA chip designed by Acorn in conjunction with Ferranti.
Pushing down on the metal cover to reseat the ULA was normally sufficient to rectify these issues.
The Jupiter ACE was new to the market and the designers couldn't afford to use an uncommitted logic array ( ULA ), a design approach then gaining popularity in other computers ( such as the ZX 81 ) to reduce component count, because these weren't economical in small quantities.
Although he does not appear in Patriot Games, it is later revealed that he was the CIA's liaison with a French black ops unit involved in the campaign against the ULA.
A last minute bug in the ULA as designed meant that the keyboard did not always scan correctly, which was rectified by a " dead cockroach " ( a small circuit board mounted upside down next to the CPU ) for " Issue 1 " ZX Spectrums.
A case in point was the abortive Pandora portable Spectrum, whose ULA had the high resolution video mode pioneered in the TS2068.
An early successful commercial application was the ULA circuitry found in the 8-bit ZX81 and ZX Spectrum low-end personal computers, introduced in 1981 and 1982.
It was actually a standard 600-gate ULA with a VDC program that allowed for two graphic video modes, high-res ( 512x256, monochrome ) and low-res ( 256x256, 4 colors ), and supported hardware vertical scrolling.
Based on ULA chip K1801VP1-035 ( and later on K1801VP1-065 ), the adapter was compatible to DEC DL-11 and KL-11 serial interfaces, but without modem control bits.
The ULA was a Pan American governing body of Latino fraternities which provides the framework for the implementation of Pan-American ideology.
A custom circuit from Russian company Angstrem was used instead of the original ULA as a result the screen had a square aspect ratio instead of a rectangle 4: 3.
In early 2001, the ULA held a press conference at CBGBs in New York City which was attended by George Plimpton, staffers at The Paris Review, and staffers of Open City magazine.
Rick Moody was on the NEA panel, and the ULA contested that this was an example of the literati insularly awarding each other.
In April 2006, the ULA protested against the reading of Allen Ginsberg ’ s Howl at Miller Theater at Columbia University, which was hosted by elite literati and had no representation of the " underground ", from which the Beat Generation had sprung.
The modulator was tuned to VHF channel 3 and the TV system was hardware selectable to PAL-M ( 60 Hz ) as used in Brazil, PAL-N ( 50 Hz ) as used in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay and NTSC ( 60 Hz ) as used in USA and many other countries, versatility of features the ZX Spectrum never had ** ( Was discover an original ZX Spectrum with NTSC video output in Chile, The ULA is a model 6C011E-3 which generates a NTSC frame size and rate )
The TK 82C ( the C letter stands for " Científico ", or Scientific in English ) was replaced by the TK 83 ( it used a ULA similar chip, as the original ZX81 ) and by the TK 85 ( a 16 KB RAM version with a case similar to ZX-Spectrum ), more robust and with a better design.
( The moniker " King " was taken from a critic of the ULA.

ULA and provide
ULA will provide NASA with data on the Atlas V, while NASA will provide ULA with draft human certification requirements.

ULA and RAM
Some versions of ZX81 / Timex Sinclair 1000 used just four chips ( ULA, 2Kx8 RAM, 8Kx8 ROM, Z80A CPU ) to implement an entire mass-market personal computer with built-in BASIC interpreter.
It replaced the earlier machine's ZX81-like case with a ZX Spectrum-like case ( in Silver ), the same ZX Spectrum rubber keyboard, a custom ULA ( it does not have the Ferranti ULA ) and increased the onboard RAM to 16 KB.

ULA and using
Although ULA is a fictional school, its colors ( blue and white ) and mascot ( peacock ) belong to Upper Iowa University and thus the producers approached the school to request permission before using them in the scenes.
A gate array or uncommitted logic array ( ULA ) is an approach to the design and manufacture of application-specific integrated circuits ( ASICs ), using a prefabricated chip with active devices like AND-gates etc.

ULA and 4
When Jackie leaves ULA in the middle of Season 4, Carlton takes over as manager and Will becomes assistant manager and cashier until Season 5.

ULA and chips
Acorn Computers used several ULA chips in the BBC Micro, and later managed to compress almost all of that machine's logic into a single ULA for the Acorn Electron.
Ferranti in the UK pioneered ULA technology, then later abandoned this lead in semi-custom chips.

ULA and ).
Solar-thermal monoprop thrusters are also integral to the design of a next-generation cryogenic upper stage rocket proposed by U. S. company United Launch Alliance ( ULA ).
Solar-thermal monoprop hydrogen thrusters are also integral to the design of the next-generation cryogenic upper stage rocket proposed by U. S. company United Launch Alliance ( ULA ).
The ULA later goes after Ryan and his family, partially as an act of revenge, but primarily because they seek to reduce public ( and specifically American ) support for the rival Provisional Irish Republican Army ( PIRA ).
In early 2004, a glitch at Amazon. com revealed that Dave Eggers ( of McSweeney ’ s and The Believer magazine ) had posted an anonymous response to reviews he believed were posted by ULA members ( as reported by the New York Times ).

controlled and memory
Communication was controlled by the CPU, which had read and written data from the devices as if they are blocks of memory, using the same instructions, all timed by a central clock controlling the speed of the CPU.
Virtual memory is a system where all physical memory is controlled by the operating system.
In the latter case, program and data entry was done at front panel switches directly into memory or through a computer terminal / keyboard, sometimes controlled by a read-only memory ( ROM ) BASIC interpreter ; when power was turned off after running the program, the information so entered vanished.
... using hypnosis, scientists have temporarily created hallucinations, compulsions, certain types of memory loss, false memories, and delusions in the laboratory so that these phenomena can be studied in a controlled environment.
* 1984 – Roland Juno-106: Very popular programmable ( 128 patch memory locations ), digitally controlled 6-voice analog synthesizer, with MIDI and the ability to transmit button and slider information through SysEx.
By 1969, the debate over virtual memory for commercial computers was over ; an IBM research team led by David Sayre showed that their virtual memory overlay system consistently worked better than the best manually controlled systems.
This random controlled study has found that a period of working memory training increases a range of cognitive abilities and increases IQ test scores.
The criteria require that an adult be recurrently controlled by two or more discrete identities or personality states, accompanied by memory lapses for important information that is not caused by alcohol, drugs or medications and other medical conditions such as complex partial seizures.
The BIOS directly controlled hardware components other than the CPU and main memory.
In computing, symmetric multiprocessing ( SMP ) involves a multiprocessor computer hardware architecture where two or more identical processors are connected to a single shared main memory and are controlled by a single OS instance.
The portion of memory to which an executing program has access is controlled by the RA ( Relative Address ) and FL ( Field Length ) registers which are not accessible to the user program.
The 370 was connected to the 305 by a serial data line from the S track of the computer's drum memory and printed 80-columns with a punched tape controlled carriage.
Practical realizations of this principle often employ digital memory to store samples of the single-cycle waveform ( see numerically controlled oscillator ).
The DSCs executed their own simple programs from the computer memory that controlled the transfer of data between memory and the I / O devices.
Concrete implementation usually requires the requesting object to invoke a method or member function using a reference or pointer to the memory location of the controlled object.
The memory manager was easily controlled by the user with DOS program QEMM. COM
This gate could be controlled, initially through the keyboard controller, to allow running programs which were designed for this to access an additional 64 KiB-16 bytes of memory in real mode.
Shape memory deployment hinges offered controlled shockless deployment of solar arrays and other spacecraft appendages.
Variants of load and store opcodes controlled when that register was spilled to the memory stack or reloaded from there.
Like HP 3000, except that compilers, not microcode, controlled when the register stack spilled to the memory stack or was refilled from the memory stack.

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