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Computers have often been used as fictional objects in literature, movies and in other forms of media. Fictional computers may be depicted as considerably more sophisticated than anything yet devised in the real world. Fictional computers may be referred to with a made-up manufacturer's brand name and model number or a nickname.
Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game is a handheld electronic game released by Mattel in 1981. [1] Designer Peter Oliphant claims that it was one of the more basic projects he worked on during his career.
Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer and artificial intelligence (AI) company, [1] founded in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1983 by Sheryl Handler and W. Daniel "Danny" Hillis to turn Hillis's doctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on massively parallel computing architectures into a commercial product named the Connection Machine.
Up until 1987, a number of games inspired by Dungeons & Dragons had appeared, such as the Wizardry and Ultima series, but these were not licensed from TSR. TSR considered making their own video games and passed on the idea, and instead announced in 1987 that it was looking for a game development partner to make officially-licensed games.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. Type of extremely powerful computer For other uses, see Supercomputer (disambiguation). The Blue Gene/P supercomputer "Intrepid" at Argonne National Laboratory (pictured 2007) runs 164,000 processor cores using normal data center air conditioning, grouped in 40 racks/cabinets connected ...
DN—Distinguished Name; DND—Drag-and-Drop; DNS—Domain Name System; DOA—Dead on Arrival; DOCSIS—Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification; DOM—Document Object Model; DORA—Discover, Offer, Request, Acknowledge; DoS—Denial of Service; DOS—Disk Operating System; DP—Dot Pitch; DPC—Deferred Procedure Call; DPI—Deep packet ...
One of the main characters in the Dungeons & Dragons comic by John Rogers, Tisha Swornheart, is a tiefling warlock. [31] The Pathfinder Tales novels by Dave Gross feature the tiefling Rogue Radovan Virholt as one of the two primary protagonists. Sophia Lillis portrays Doric, a tiefling druid, in the 2023 film Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among ...
Greyhawk, also known as the World of Greyhawk, is a fictional world designed as a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game. [1] [2] Although not the first campaign world developed for Dungeons & Dragons—Dave Arneson's Blackmoor campaign predated it by about a year [3] —the world of Greyhawk closely identified with early development of the game beginning in 1972 ...