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The HP-16C Computer Scientist is a programmable pocket calculator that was produced by Hewlett-Packard between 1982 and 1989. It was specifically designed for use by computer programmers, to assist in debugging. It is a member of the HP Voyager series of programmable calculators. It was the only programmer's calculator ever produced by HP ...
Belle is a chess computer that was developed by Joe Condon (hardware) and Ken Thompson (software) at Bell Labs. In 1983, it was the first machine to achieve master-level play, with a USCF rating of 2250. It won the ACM North American Computer Chess Championship five times and the 1980 World Computer Chess Championship. It was the first system ...
Mercury — Microsoft Windows CE 2.0, Handheld PC 2.0; Mercury — Sega Game Gear; Mercury — Sun encryption card; Merl — Merlin — Adobe Photoshop 2.5 for Mac; Merlin — IBM OS/2 Warp 4.0; Merlin — Hewlett-Packard HP-75D; Merlin — Microsoft Windows CE 3.0, Pocket PC 2002; Merlin — Sun 18.1" flat panel; Merom — Intel Core 2 Duo ...
Packard Bell is a personal computer hardware brand which originated as Packard Bell Electronics, Inc., an independent American computer company founded in Los Angeles in 1986 by Israeli-American investors who bought the trademark rights to the historic Packard Bell Corporation from Teledyne; in spite of similarities in their names, Packard Bell has no connection to either Hewlett-Packard or ...
Apache was a commercial success, with global sales above 200,000 units by February 1996. More than 120,000 of these sales derived from the United States. [7]A reviewer for Next Generation called the game "a stunningly realistic simulation of one of the most complex military aircrafts [] of all time".
Stephen Curtis Johnson (born 1944) is a computer scientist who worked at Bell Labs and AT&T for nearly 20 years. He is best known for Yacc, Lint, spell, and the Portable C Compiler, which contributed to the spread of Unix and C. [1] He has also contributed to fields as diverse as computer music, psychometrics and VLSI design. [2]
Typically punched card and print processing was handled off line by peripheral Electronic Accounting Machines, IBM 1401 computers, and eventually direct coupled computers. The first system actually used at Bell Labs was BESYS-2. The system was resident on magnetic tape, and occupied the lowest 64 (36-bit) words and the highest 4K words of memory.
Auto-configuration is the automatic configuration of devices without manual intervention, without any need for software configuration programs or jumpers. Ideally, auto-configuring devices should just "plug and play". Auto-configuration has been made common because of the low cost of microprocessors and other embedded controller devices.