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Computer scientists and mathematicians often vocalize it as star (as, for example, in the A* search algorithm or C*-algebra). An asterisk is usually five- or six-pointed in print and six- or eight-pointed when handwritten, though more complex forms exist. Its most common use is to call out a footnote. It is also often used to censor offensive ...
Sold computer division to Digital Equipment Corporation [8] PolyMorphic Systems — United States: 1976: Unknown: Unknown: Poqet Computer Corporation — United States: 1989: 1992: Acquired by Fujitsu [9] Power Computing Corporation — United States: 1993: 1998: Acquired by Apple Computer: Prime Computer — United States: 1972: 1998 ...
The internal codenames of Mac OS X 10.0 through 10.2 are big cats. In Mac OS X 10.2, the internal codename "Jaguar" was used as a public name, and, for subsequent Mac OS X releases, big cat names were used as public names through until OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion", and wine names were used as internal codenames through until OS X 10.10 "Syrah".
The default U.S. layout on Apple Macintosh computers allows input of diacritical characters as the entire MacRoman character set is directly accessible. A U.S. international layout is also available. Apple supplies a British keyboard layout, which has some differences with the UK Windows layout: The " and @ keys are swapped.
The MacBook Pro was updated on October 30, 2023, with updated M3 Pro and M3 Max chips using a 3 nm process node, as well as the standard M3 chip in a refreshed iMac and a new base model MacBook Pro. [151] Reviewers lamented the base memory configuration of 8 GB on the standard M3 MacBook Pro. [152]
Personal computer architectures by units sold (1975–1995) [35] Year Annual sales IBM PC compatible Apple II Macintosh Atari 8-bit Atari ST Commodore 64 Amiga PET Altair TRS-80 NeXT Other 1975 5,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5,000 0 0 0 1976 46,000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6,000 0 0 40,000 1977 150,000 0 600 0 0 0 0 0 4,000 10,000 100,000 0 50,000 1978 258,000 0 ...
This is an index to notable programming languages, in current or historical use. Dialects of BASIC, esoteric programming languages, and markup languages are not included. A programming language does not need to be imperative or Turing-complete, but must be executable and so does not include markup languages such as HTML or XML, but does include domain-specific languages such as SQL and its ...
The symbol # is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, [1] hash, [2] or pound sign. [3] The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes including the designation of an ordinal number and as a ligatured abbreviation for pounds avoirdupois – having been derived from the now-rare ℔.