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machines and ran
The original Nova machines ran at approximately 200 kHz, but its SuperNova was designed to run at up to 3 MHz when used with special semiconductor main memory.
Unfortunately, because the ISA bus was originally locked to the processor clock, this meant that some 286 machines had ISA buses that ran at 10, 12, or even 16 MHz.
Foonly Inc. did not acquire any financial resources as a result of building the F-1, and the company's smaller, slower, and much less expensive machines ran not the popular TOPS-20 but another TENEX variant called Foonex ; this seriously limited their market.
They even had steam-powered engines that ran the machines at some of their factories in Economy.
TSC produced a Unix-like operating system uniFlex which ran only on such machines.
These machines ran MPE / iX.
Later 1000-series machines, the 1400 and 1500, ran at 10 MHz and had 1. 5 MB of RAM.
" A seemingly outrageous enigma of a statement — and perhaps one attributable to an old man beyond his time — in context, Rickover's personal integrity and honesty were such that he was lamenting the need for such war machines in the modern world, and specifically acknowledged as well that the employment of nuclear energy ran counter to the course of nature over time.
However, machines still ran a single job at a time.
These machines were instruction-compatible with the 6600, but ran slower due to a much simpler and more sequential processor design.
The new design ran at 10 MHz ( 100 ns cycle ), about ten times faster than other machines on the market.
The machines originally ran a very simple job-control system known as COS ( Chippewa Operating System ), which was quickly " thrown together " based on the earlier CDC 3000 operating system in order to have something running to test the systems for delivery.
These machines ran some form of DOS ( Disk Operating System ) and their BIOS provided very poor support for serial communications — so poor that it fell far short of the needs of any non-trivial communications task.
The Schmid machines ran using relays while the CA-1 used circuit boards.
If we ran machines without paying attention to them, they would break down.
At some of the villages the boys clustered round the machines, and, where they could, caught hold of them and ran behind until they were tired out.
A / UX required a 68k-based Macintosh with an FPU and a paged memory management unit ( PMMU ), and various versions ran on the Macintosh II, SE / 30, Quadra and Centris series of machines.
Interlisp development began in 1967 at Bolt, Beranek and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts as BBN LISP, which ran on PDP-10 machines running the TENEX operating system.
Some versions of these later Intel-based machines ran Windows NT, while higher-end machines ran the company's flavor of Unix, DG / UX.
The machines ran a System V Unix variant known as DG / UX, largely developed at the company's Research Triangle Park facility.
Party leader Robert Thompson was frustrated by the lack of support given to the federal wing, while the provincial Social Credit parties in Alberta and British Columbia ran powerful political machines and formed the governments.

machines and BSD
In 1983, a new version of talk was introduced as a Unix command with BSD v4. 2, and would also accommodate electronic conversations between users on different machines.
* November 2: The Morris worm, created by Robert Tappan Morris, infects DEC VAX and Sun machines running BSD UNIX connected to the Internet, and becomes the first worm to spread extensively " in the wild ", and one of the first well-known programs exploiting buffer overrun vulnerabilities.
Later machines came out with interrupt masks, and BSD changed the names to more descriptive names such as splbio ( for block I / O ) and splhigh ( block out all interrupts ).
He built early hardware such as ARPANET interfaces for host # 6 on the network, some of the first bitmapped displays, the ITS time sharing system, Lisp machines ( he was also instrumental in releasing a version of the operating system for the Lisp machine under a BSD license ), the Connection Machine, and parallel symbolic processing computer systems.
WWA's shell accounts landed a user on his or her " home " server, one of four BSD / OS Intel machines: sake, sashimi, miso, and shoga.

machines and version
The Apple II and TRS-80 each had two versions of BASIC, a smaller introductory version introduced with the initial releases of the machines and a more advanced version developed as interest in the platforms increased.
; Other minds reply: This reply points out that Searle's argument is a version of the problem of other minds, applied to machines.
The Nova 2 was essentially a simplified version of the earlier machines as increasing chip densities allowed the CPU to be reduced in size.
Notable exceptions include IBM mainframes, which support IBM's own format ( in addition to the IEEE 754 binary and decimal formats ), and Cray vector machines, where the T90 series had an IEEE version, but the SV1 still uses Cray floating-point format.
Williams also utilized the processor in many of its solid-state pinball machines ; a specialized version of the 6809 CPU formed the core of the successful Williams Pinball Controller.
The ( E ) version was used in order to synchronize the microprocessor's clock to the 32 time multiplexed oscillators in the " Q " music chip in those machines.
* Magnetic Resonance Imaging, the renamed version for machines using Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
The first machines were tested in 1989, after which NeXT started selling limited numbers to universities with a beta version of the NeXTSTEP operating system installed.
The HP 9000 machines were soon upgraded with the PA-RISC processor as well, running the HP-UX version of UNIX.
In the complete 32-bit AP-101 version, 4 Pi machines are used as the replicated computing nodes of the fault-tolerant Space Shuttle computer system ( in five nodes ).
z / VM is the current version of VM, and is used to support hundreds or thousands of virtual machines on a given mainframe.
This version ( together with 3. x ) also introduced the context dependent files ( CDF ) feature, a method of allowing a fileserver to serve different configurations and binaries ( and even architectures ) to different client machines in a heterogeneous environment.
This version of Windows, which was included with " Multimedia PC "- compatible machines but not available for retail sale, included the Media Player application, was capable of playing animation files, and could be extended to support other formats.
A < tt > chmod </ tt > command first appeared in AT & T Unix version 1, and is still used today on Unix-like machines.
By 1967 these problems were cleared up, and the machines were re-launched along with an upgraded version of the GECOS operating system.
HP sold Convex Exemplar machines under the S-Class ( MP ) and X-Class ( CC-NUMA ) titles, and later incorporated some of Exemplar's technology into the V-Class machine, which was released running the HP-UX 11. 0 release instead of the SPP-UX version which was sold with the S-and X-Class products.
These machines often run one version of Microsoft Windows, though they can run other operating systems as well, including Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.
In the late 1980s, Xenix was, according to The Design and Implementation of the 4. 3BSD UNIX Operating System, " probably the most widespread version of the UNIX operating system, according to the number of machines on which it runs ".
The C shell ( csh or the improved version, tcsh, on most machines ) is a Unix shell that was created by Bill Joy while a graduate student at University of California, Berkeley in the late 1970s.
An expanded version followed, the ALT-512, both available for Intel SBC bus machines as well.
With only a pair of editing scissors, two tape machines, and a vari-speed control, Emerick compensated for the differences in key and speed by increasing the speed of the first version and decreasing the speed of the second.
These machines could not directly render the PostScript, which presented Adobe with the problem of how to provide a preview image while also including the actual PS version for the printer.

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