CPU designers then borrowed ideas from commercial computing markets such as transaction processing, where the aggregate performance of multiple programs, also known as throughput computing, was more important than the performance of a single thread or program.

When telegraph messages were the state of the art in rapid long distance communication, elaborate systems of commercial codes that encoded complete phrases into single words ( commonly five-letter groups ) were developed, so that telegraphers became conversant with such " words " as BYOXO (" Are you trying to weasel out of our deal?

The channel was established to provide a fourth television service to the United Kingdom in addition to the television licence – funded BBC's two services and the single commercial broadcasting network, ITV.

A duet with Ricky Van Shelton, " Rockin ' Years " ( 1991 ) reached number one but Parton's greatest commercial fortune of the decade came when Whitney Houston recorded " I Will Always Love You " for the soundtrack of the feature film The Bodyguard ( 1992 ); both the single and the album were massively successful.

After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones with the 1980 single " Ashes to Ashes ", its parent album Scary Monsters ( and Super Creeps ), and " Under Pressure ", a 1981 collaboration with Queen.

The singer's debut single, " Liza Jane ", credited to Davie Jones and the King Bees, had no commercial success.

Young Americans was a commercial success in both the US and the UK, and a re-issue of the 1969 single " Space Oddity " became Bowie's first number one hit in the UK a few months after " Fame " achieved the same in the US.

In December 2007, Devo released their first new single since 1990, " Watch Us Work It ," which was featured in a commercial for Dell.

The Falkland Islands do not have a central bank but the Standard Chartered Bank has a single branch in Stanley that offers retail, commercial and wholesale banking facilities.

Freeciv is a single and multiplayer turn-based strategy game for workstations and personal computers inspired by the commercial proprietary Sid Meier's Civilization series.

Helium is used in cryogenics ( its largest single use, absorbing about a quarter of production ), particularly in the cooling of superconducting magnets, with the main commercial application being in MRI scanners.

The System / 360 was a single series of compatible models for both commercial and scientific use.

Australia: In Australia ISBNs are issued by the commercial library services agency Thorpe-Bowker, and prices range from $ 40 for a single ISBN ( plus a $ 55 registration fee for new publishers ) through to $ 2, 750 for a block of 1, 000 ISBNs.

In commercial fire insurance it is possible to find single properties whose total exposed value is well in excess of any individual insurer's capital constraint.

Subsequently, the Nirvana exposure and the strength of the single " Backwater " ( their only charting single ) helped lift Meat Puppets to new commercial heights.

Phasing was, by 1967, heavily identified with the musical style known from 1967 onwards as psychedelia, and as " Rainbow Chaser " was the only Nirvana single to achieve commercial success, peaking at number 34 in UK Singles Chart during May 1968, they were invariably tagged as a " psychedelic " band.

Red Hat creates, maintains, and contributes to many free software projects and has also acquired several proprietary software packages and released their source code under mostly GNU GPL while holding copyright under single commercial entity and selling user subscriptions.

A tradition may be deliberately created and promulgated for personal, commercial, political, or national self-interest, as was done in colonial Africa ; or it may be adopted rapidly based on a single highly publicized event, rather than developing and spreading organically in a population, as in the case of the white wedding dress, which only became popular after Queen Victoria wore a white gown at her wedding to Albert of Saxe-Coburg.

Small Change, which was accompanied by the double A-side single " Step Right Up "/" The Piano Has Been Drinking ", was a critical and commercial success and far outsold any of Waits's previous albums.

Until 1989, areas outside of these main cities had access to only a single commercial station, and these rural stations often formed small networks such as Prime Television.

into three parts was a commercial decision of the publisher, not the authors, who had conceived it as a single continuous volume.

" and Elton John's " Candle in the Wind 1997 "— making it the best selling commercial single in the UK.

Despite cries of " commercial suicide ", the album and its first single, " Beetlebum ", debuted at number one in the UK.

The first commercial introduction of 70 mm single projector 3D was the 1967 release of Con la muerte a la espalda, a Spanish / French / Italian co-production which used a process called Hi-Fi Stereo 70.

The argon flow from commercial bottles was regulated by a pressure regulator and measured with a gas flow rator.

The power source was a commercial D. C. rectifier.

The value of the elections was lost, both as an experiment in increased political participation and as a reliable indicator of commercial interest, as shown in Table 1.

At any rate, Manchester did not lag far behind the first commercial system which was set up in 1844 between Baltimore and Washington.

Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services.

It was made capable of making war and peace, negotiating diplomatic and commercial agreements with foreign countries, and deciding disputes between the states, including their additional and contested western territories.

During the first 11 months of 2006, the volume of Armenia ’ s trade with Russia was $ 376. 8 million or 13. 2 percent of the total commercial exchange.

Grey slashed public expenditure against heavy opposition, although its impact was negligible at this point: silver was discovered in Glen Osmond that year, agriculture was well underway, and other mines sprung up all over the state, aiding Adelaide's commercial development.

Amasis assigned the commercial colony of Naucratis on the Canopic branch of the Nile to the Greeks, and when the temple of Delphi was burnt, he contributed 1, 000 talents to the rebuilding.

He had wanted to be a commercial pilot for the Saudi national airline but was rejected when he applied to the civil aviation school in Jeddah in 1999.

In this time period, it was a commercial source of salt and woven mats.

His steel enterprises were bought out at a figure equivalent to 12 times their annual earnings —$ 480 million ( presently, $) which at the time was the largest ever personal commercial transaction.

Carnegie was an ardent supporter of commercial “ survival of the fittest ” and sought to immunity from business challenges by dominating all phases of the steel manufacturing procedure.

After World War II, especially in North America, there was a boom in general aviation, both private and commercial, as thousands of pilots were released from military service and many inexpensive war-surplus transport and training aircraft became available.

The RT was based on the ROMP microprocessor, the first commercial RISC chip.

AIX / ESA, while technically advanced, had little commercial success, partially because UNIX functionality was added as an option to the existing mainframe operating system, MVS, which became MVS / ESA OpenEdition in 1999.

This was a topic of major commercial effort at the time, dominating shows like the National Computer Conference ( NCC ) in Anaheim in May 1983.

Note that the 64x16 TRS-80 mode screen uses only a small part of the monitor screen, because the letters are the same size as the 80 × 25 CP / M screen, this was one of the things that was soon after fixed with the redesign to a commercial product

It was similar to the Apple Macintosh and its simple design allowed the ST to precede the Commodore Amiga's commercial release by almost two months .< ref name =" amigaos ">

Its production was influential in the industrial revolution, and influenced commercial development of metallurgy and engineering.

This was the period of Korner's greatest commercial success in the UK.

Throughout his life, Hopwood worked on a novel that he hoped would " expose " the strictures the commercial theater machine imposed on playwrights, but the manuscript was never published.