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Hayes Microcomputer Products was a US-based manufacturer of modems.The company is known for the Smartmodem, which introduced a control language for operating the functions of the modem via the serial interface, in contrast to manual operation with front-panel switches.
The Burroughs Large Systems Group produced a family of large 48-bit mainframes using stack machine instruction sets with dense syllables. [NB 1] The first machine in the family was the B5000 in 1961, which was optimized for compiling ALGOL 60 programs extremely well, using single-pass compilers.
In 1974, IMS was contacted by a client which wanted a "workstation system" that could complete jobs for any General Motors new-car dealership. IMS planned a system including a terminal, small computer, printer, and special software. Five of these work stations were to have common access to a hard disk, which would be controlled by a small ...
Unisys was the first to develop a server architecture that supported four operating environments to run simultaneously on the same computer system in a single virtualized partition. [43] In 2013, Unisys won a $650 million Enterprise Computing Center Support contract to support the computer systems used by the Internal Revenue Service. [44]
For leadership in reliable, scalable distributed computer systems. 2002: Mark Squillante: For contributions to analysis, modeling and optimization of computer systems. 1999: Pradip Srimani: For contributions to the design and analysis of fault tolerant networks. 2010: Aravind Srinivasan: For contributions to randomized algorithms and ...
Silicon Graphics, Inc. (stylized as SiliconGraphics before 1999, later rebranded SGI, historically known as Silicon Graphics Computer Systems or SGCS) was an American high-performance computing manufacturer, producing computer hardware and software.
Hayes was born in Ladysmith, Wisconsin, and attended elementary school in Normal, Illinois. [1] After receiving a bachelor's degree in piano performance magna cum laude from Baylor University in 1975, [2] he entered a career in composing and arranging music. [3] Hayes moved to Kansas City in the late 1970s. [1]
Dennis C. Hayes (born 1950) is the inventor of PC modem and founder of Hayes Microcomputer Products, [1] a manufacturer of modems mostly known for introducing the Hayes AT command set, which has subsequently been used in most modems produced to this day.