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The Tulip System I is a 16-bit personal computer based on the Intel 8086 and made by Tulip Computers, formerly an import company for the Exidy Sorcerer, called Compudata Systems. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Hardware
Tulip System 1, c. 1983. In 1983 it launched its own PC, the Tulip PC. To achieve 100% compatibility it simply copied the IBM PC, including the BIOS. IBM sued, and after years of litigation, Tulip and IBM settled out of court for an undisclosed amount in 1989. It was listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in 1984. In 1987, Compudata changed its ...
Tulip bulbs are typically planted around late summer and fall, in well-drained soils. Tulips should be planted 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 inches) apart from each other. The recommended hole depth is 10 to 20 cm (4 to 8 inches) deep and is measured from the top of the bulb to the surface. Therefore, larger tulip bulbs would require deeper holes.
The tulip tree is a plot element in Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug" (1843). [43] Walt Whitman observed in 1876-77 a 70 foot tall tulip tree and how "from top to bottom, seeking the sweet juice in the blossoms, it swarms with myriads of these wild bees, whose loud and steady humming makes an undertone to the whole." He referred to ...
Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels. The major acceleration started in 1634 and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637.
[4] [5] About 1.7 million tulip bulbs, all in multiple colours, were brought Keukenhof tulip gardens of Amsterdam. [6] Besides tulips, there are 46 varieties of flowers, including hyacinths, daffodils and ranunculus which were also brought from Holland. [7] The tulip garden is home to around 73 varieties of tulips. [8]
The 2012 painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Freeman [14] by Susan Dorothea White references the Rembrandt composition but renders each of the onlookers as an anatomical prosection and skeleton in a contemporary university laboratory; the enormous book is replaced by a computer screen and the background chart by a projection screen; the tendon ...
Tulip, a Computer Graph Visualization program; Tulip Methodist Church, Marsalis, Louisiana, on the National Register of Historic Places; Tulip Rally, the oldest Dutch rally competition; Tulip (tower), proposed but rejected tower in London; Tulip Bowl, the final match in the top division, American Football Bond Nederland, in the Netherlands