Some DEC PDP-10 machines stored their microcode in SRAM chips ( about 80 bits wide x 2 Kwords ), which was typically loaded on power-on through some other front-end CPU.

A new horizontally slatted grille dominated the front-end of the FJ, which received various other trim and minor mechanical revisions.

Urpmi also has an easy-to-use graphical front-end called rpmdrake, which is integrated into the Mandriva Control Center.

Wrapper tools that simplify this workflow include: ImageOptim, a GUI front-end for Mac OS X ; Kashmir Web Optimizer-GUI front-end for Windows ; imgopt, a command-line shell script that also losslessly optimizes JPEG images, Smush. it, an image-optimizing web service ; and TinyPNG, which provides further compression by also reducing the number of colors in the image.

A Data General SuperNova S / 200 minicomputer served as the maintenance control unit ( MCU ), which was used to feed the Cray Operating System into the system at boot time, to monitor the CPU during use, and optionally as a front-end computer.

This is why radio telescopes, which search for very low levels of signal from space, use front-end low-noise amplifier circuits cooled with liquid nitrogen.

Freely available alternatives include Sage ( which can act as a front-end to several other free and nonfree CAS ).

In technical and development circles the old restricted sense of an OS persists because of the continued active development of embedded operating systems for all kinds of devices with a data-processing component, from hand-held gadgets up to industrial robots and real-time control-systems, which do not run user applications at the front-end.

A similar product had been named SQL / DS on the VM platform, and even earlier, in the mid 1970s, IBM released the QBE relational database product for the VM platform with a table-oriented " Query By Example " front-end which produced a linear-syntax language that drove transactions to its relational database.

Since terminals were connected through various types of front-end processors ( as per common IBM timesharing practice both then and now ), and could therefore function without CPU attention for a considerable amount of time, MUSIC used variable-length time slices, which could, on compute-bound processing, reach a maximum of several seconds per time slice ; conversely, if a user filled the output buffer or reached a conversational read, the timeslice would end immediately.

It is expressed as a percentage of the total amount invested or the " public offering price ," which equals the net asset value plus the front-end load per share.

Although the Chevette was largely a rebadged Opel Kadett C with revised front-end ( detailed below ), it did use the 1256 cc overhead valve ( OHV ) engine of the Viva instead of the Kadett's units, which were produced by Opel.

For some time, combine harvesters used the conventional design, which used a rotating cylinder at the front-end which knocked the seeds out of the heads, and then used the rest of the machine to separate the straw from the chaff, and the chaff from the grain.

The final choice was a kind of compromise, the mountain hare, which is the front-end of the skvader.

" Skvader " also became the nickname in the 1950s and 1960s for a combination bus and lorry ( truck ) which was commonly used on small bus routes in Norrland ; the front-end was a bus taking passengers and the back-end was an open loading bay, often used for delivering milk from small farmers to the nearest dairy.

A separate implementation in Java exists in JSword, with at least two cross-platform GUIs, the more mature BibleDesktop and the newer Alkitab, which has been described as " an improved Windows front-end for JSWORD ".

The Mark II update of the BF range featured a modified front-end, which improved fuel efficiency

Select trim levels in the BF II range ( XT, Futura and Fairmont ) saw a modified front-end, which featured more of a sporting image and was more aerodynamic.

They were equipped with all the newest technology including the Worthington Feedwater Heater, Superheater with front-end throttle, Cyclone Front End, thermic syphons, a lateral cushioning device in the front pair of drivers, both engines and the front wheels the trailing truck, as well as roller bearings on all axles, engine and tender, which gave them the reputation of " yard creepers ," because three men could move one on a level track with the cylinder cocks open.

However, as of version 4. 0 the Analyzer makes use of the Kodkod model-finder, for which the Analyzer acts as a front-end.

Synaptic is a computer program which is a GTK + graphical user interface front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool for the Debian package management system.

To accommodate this demand, the engineers implemented a current Audi front-end design which includes the trapezoidal " Audi Single-Frame Grille ," the company's trademark overlapping four rings, and the Multi Media Interface ( MMI ) driver-to-car control system.

A fee for " disclosure " is separate and is always a " front-end fee ".

Data Display Debugger is intended to be an advanced graphical front-end for many text-based debugger standard tools.

The official set of MySQL front-end tools, MySQL Workbench is actively developed by Oracle, and is freely available for use.

Because the car lacked a fuel pump, the fuel tank was placed high up in the engine compartment so that fuel could be fed to the carburetor by gravity ; a trade-off of this design is an increased fire risk in front-end accidents.

The term web design is normally used to describe the design process relating to the front-end ( client side ) design of a website including writing mark up, but this is a grey area as this is also covered by web development.

A text-to-speech system ( or " engine ") is composed of two parts: a front-end and a back-end.

Phonetic transcriptions and prosody information together make up the symbolic linguistic representation that is output by the front-end.

* Content Management Application ( CMA ) is the front-end user interface that allows a user, even with limited expertise, to add, modify and remove content from a Web site without the intervention of a Webmaster.

The 3745 supports up to eight high-speed T1 circuits, the 3725 is a large-scale node and front-end processor for a host, and the 3720 is a remote node that functions as a concentrator and router.

* A reverse proxy is ( usually ) an Internet-facing proxy used as a front-end to control and protect access to a server on a private network, commonly also performing tasks such as load-balancing, authentication, decryption or caching.

Cacti is an open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool designed as a front-end application for the open-source, industry-standard data logging tool RRDtool.

KFreeFlight is a launcher / front-end for KDE.

FGTools is an alternative windows launcher front-end.

FGKicker is a GTK + based front-end.

This feedhorn is essentially the front-end of a waveguide that gathers the signals at or near the focal point and ' conducts ' them to a low-noise block downconverter or LNB.

In operation, the raw material ( of various sizes ) is usually delivered to the primary crusher's hopper by dump trucks, excavators or wheeled front-end loaders.

Pre-selector filters may also be used to reduce the effect of strong out-of-band signals on the front-end of the receiver.

It has also constructed the front-end modules of the 30 and 44 GHz receivers for the Planck spacecraft.

The first firewall ( also called the " front-end " firewall ) must be configured to allow traffic destined to the DMZ only.

They also provided a Burroughs B6500 mainframe to act as a front-end controller.

Economical analysis, benchmarking of competitive products and modeling and prototyping are also important activities during the front-end activities.

To input kanji on modern computers, the reading of kanji is usually entered first, then an input method editor ( IME ), also sometimes known as a front-end processor, shows a list of candidate kanji that are a phonetic match, and allows the user to choose the correct kanji.

The Volkswagen Caddy 9K van also shares the same platform and front-end styling as the 6KV models.

It consists of a library, libparted, and a command-line front-end, parted, that also serves as a reference implementation.

The sheriff's department also asserted Heemeyer fired many bullets from his semi-automatic rifle at Cody Docheff when Docheff tried to stop the assault on his concrete batch plant by using a front-end loader.

It was also reduced in height so that the grille and headlamps formed a single " band " across the front-end.

During the GCC 4. 3 release cycle, a patch was committed to remove the language, because of high maintenance costs outweighing its benefits and also because it was no longer considered a good front-end example by GCC developers.

Current plugin scripts include functions like Internet-TV and movie-trailer browsers, weather forecast and cinemaguides, Over-the-top content video streaming services like YouTube, BBC iPlayer, Hulu, Netflix, Veoh, MLB. tv, Internet-radio-station browsers such as Pandora Radio, online picture sharing sites like Flickr, TV-guides, e-mail clients, instant messaging, train-timetables, home automation scripts to front-end control PVR software and hardware, P2P file-sharing downloaders ( BitTorrent ), IRC, also casual games such as Tetris and much more.

However the DEC VAX was also a very popular front-end.

Lower LTV's may also attract lower rates again representing the lower level of underwriting risk although front-end fees, lenders legal fees, and valuation payments may remain fixed.

A similar front-end with the one used on the hatchback was added from 2012 to the sedan version built Mexico, which is also exported in Argentina as the Aveo G3.

He also has been developing a GTK + front-end for nvi, but this effort seems to have stalled.