If Acorn had thought to include this small modification in the original Electron design it is likely the machine would have had a much greater impact as it would have nearly doubled the amount of motion possible in games and saved modes 0 – 3 ( including the only 16 colour mode ) from being nearly useless due to contended memory timings.

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

The name originated from the Basic Input Output System used in the CP / M operating system ( released in 1976 ), where the BIOS was loaded from disk, with only a small boot loader program stored in read-only memory.

The initial flavor of this technology is known as symmetric multiprocessing ( SMP ), where a small number of CPUs share a coherent view of their memory system.

This model is further solidified with the OpenGL Shading Language, with the user writing small programs that live in video memory, and are requested from the main program through the graphics driver.

The PFC is also more involved with episodic memory than semantic memory, although it does play a small role in semantics.

Forth is still used today in many embedded systems ( small computerized devices ) because of its portability, efficient memory use, short development time, and fast execution speed.

Forth was considered well adapted to microcomputers with small memory and relatively low-performance processors.

Though Forth delivered several advantages over the interpreted BASIC used on all other contemporary home computers, the weak box and small initial memory kept the sales low despite technical interest.

A job step that contained a mix of small and large programs wasted memory while the small programs ran.

Most seriously, memory could become fragmented, i. e., the memory not used by current jobs could be divided into uselessly small chunks between the areas used by current jobs, and the only remedy was to wait some current jobs finished before starting any new ones.

Early MUMPS memory partitions were limited to 2048 bytes so aggressive abbreviation greatly aided multi-programming on severely resource limited hardware, because more than one MUMPS job could fit into the very small memories extant in hardware at the time.

Early operating system kernels were rather small, partly because computer memory was limited.

A microcontroller ( sometimes abbreviated µC, uC or MCU ) is a small computer on a single integrated circuit containing a processor core, memory, and programmable input / output peripherals.

Program memory in the form of NOR flash or OTP ROM is also often included on chip, as well as a typically small amount of RAM.

One was that the IPC itself was not the problem: there was some overhead associated with the memory mapping needed to support it, but this added only a small amount of time to making a call.

It was argued that such functions would be better performed by sequences of simpler instructions if this could yield implementations small enough to leave room for many registers, reducing the number of slow memory accesses.

This approach is still used in the fabrication of many memory chips such as dynamic random access memory ( DRAM ) as the number of interconnect levels is small, currently no more than four.

* Short-term memory, the capacity for holding a small amount of information for a short period of time.

Short-term memory ( or " primary " or " active memory ") is the capacity for holding a small amount of information in mind in an active, readily available state for a short period of time.

Hole card games are sometimes played on tables with a small mirror or electronic sensor which are used to peek securely at the hole card.

A new card game starts in a small way, either as someone's invention, or as a modification of an existing game.

Soldiers ' details were filled in a small ID card placed inside the frame, as well as on the inside of the frame itself.

A cut involving a very small number of cards, such as taking only the top card as a cut, is often acceptable.

A telephone card, calling card or phone card for short, is a small plastic card, size and shape like a credit card, used to pay for telephone services.

Software applications which add calling card support are available for a small charge or free for some mobile telephones which allow software to be installed.

* Up Front-( Avalon Hill, 1983 )-the most popular of the very small class of card wargames.

Called " PLUS cards ", their connector design allowed them to be smaller ( and cheaper ) than standard ISA cards and to stack, rather than connecting to separate motherboard connectors ; both of these aspects of the design saved space and allowed up to three cards to be installed in a small card compartment of the compact integrated system case.

A TV tuner card showing many small bypass capacitors, and 2 CCA shields -- a metal box shielding the coax inputs and another metal box shielding the S-Video connector

Although several kinds of Karuta games are described below, in reality any kind of information that can be represented in card form can be used including shapes, colours, words in English, small pictures and the like.

Between the two groups there was a third small group, the assimilados, comprising native blacks, mulatos, Asians, and mixed-race people, who had at least some formal education, were not subjected to paid forced labor, were entitled to some citizenship rights, and held a special identification card that differed from the one imposed on the immense mass of the African population ( the indigenas ), a card that the colonial authorities conceived of as a means of controlling the movements of forced labor ( CEA 1998 ).

One common design style uses a small system module, perhaps the size of a business card, holding high density BGA chips such as an ARM-based System-on-a-chip processor and peripherals, external flash memory for storage, and DRAM for runtime memory.

For example, the credit card network does not require a personal identification number for authentication of the claimed identity ; and a small transaction usually does not even require a signature of the authenticated person for proof of authorization of the transaction.

A new generation of memory card formats, including RS-MMC, miniSD and microSD, and Intelligent Stick, feature extremely small form factors.

Vignettes may be anything from a small sketch in one corner of the card, to a design cover three quarters of the card.

CardBus cards can be distinguished from older cards by the presence of a gold band with eight small studs on the top of the card next to the pin sockets.

Low hands tie more frequently than high hands, especially in community card games, so it is not uncommon for such a hand to win a small fraction of a poker pot.

* A game can support a relatively large or undefined number of players, compared to more traditional board games or card games that require a small, set number of players.

When someone was praising an orator for his ability to magnify small points, he said, " In my opinion it's not a good cobbler who fits large shoes on small feet.

Examples of approximate cooking times using this method: potatoes, six minutes ( potatoes suitable for boiling or steaming will not break up if the pressure is left to drop slowly after timing ); a whole chicken, which easily fits into all but small pressure cookers, cooks in about twenty minutes.

Handheld displays employ a small display that fits in a user's hand.

While the cane on an oboe reed is mounted on a small metal tube ( the staple ) partially covered in cork, there is no such cork on a cor anglais reed, which fits directly on the bocal.

Beginning with Survivor: Guatemala and appearing in every season thereafter, these idols, typically a small object that fits with the theme of the Survivor location, are hidden near camp or located on Exile Island, with cumulative clues given to a select player ( in Guatemala ) or to exiled or kidnapped players ( otherwise ) as to its location.

It reduces the entire C64 to a small circuit that fits into a joystick.

The captive bead or ball fits into a small opening in the circle of the ring.

One end of the inner cable may have a small shaped piece of metal, known ( from the pear-shaped soldered terminations used in some cases ) as a nipple ( as can be seen in the BMX rear brake detangler picture ) that fits into a shifter or brake lever mechanism.

* Compact fluorescent lamp / light, a type of fluorescent lamp that fits into a standard light bulb socket or plugs into a small lighting fixture

No part of Cape St. Vincent fits this description, but on the eastern side of Sagres Point is a harbor ( Sagres Harbor, port of the modern town of Sagres ) with ancient structures protected by four small islands in a line ( the tiny Martinhal Islets ).

It has an extremely compact design: a small cylinder that fits in the palm of the hand.

A small turret at the front of the vehicle fits a 7. 62 mm PKT machine gun with 360 degree manual traverse and an elevation of-5 to + 30 degrees.

Since most alphabets do reside in blocks of contiguous Unicode codepoints, texts that use small alphabets and either ASCII punctuation or punctuation that fits within the window for the main alphabet can be encoded at one byte per character ( plus setup overhead, which for common languages is often only 1 byte ), most other punctuation can be encoded at 2 bytes per symbol through non-locking shifts.

In common with other types of inverse problems, the results obtained from reflection seismology are usually not unique ( more than one model adequately fits the data ) and may be sensitive to relatively small errors in data collection, processing, or analysis.

The inflammation irritates because the bursa no longer fits in the original small area between the bone and the functionary muscle or tendon.

This source of financing was however threatened by market fits / vagaries and following the raising of minimum paid up capital requirements for being listed at stock exchanges, problems were in store for small firms with feasible projects.

Surgery for macroglossia involves removing a small part of the tongue so that it fits within the mouth to allow for proper jaw and tooth development.

RANSAC also assumes that, given a ( usually small ) set of inliers, there exists a procedure which can estimate the parameters of a model that optimally explains or fits this data.

The cameras and lenses were very small ( the camera fits in the palm of a hand easily ) and were made to professional SLR standards of quality.

Historian Kenneth Cameron has written that Perkins ' accomplishment was to " define the look of contemporary fly fishing and the entire social universe in which it fits, no small achievement.

The only other hinge-free performance bicycle that is small enough to serve as a multi-mode commuter or that fits into an airline legal suitcase with minimal disassembly is the ( unsuspended ) Mezzo folding bike.

In addition, it seems he is prone to small fits of insanity.