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Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and author of GNU Emacs. The original EMACS was written in 1976 by David A. Moon and Guy L. Steele Jr. as a set of macros for the TECO editor, and in 1984, Richard Stallman began work on GNU Emacs, to produce a free software replacement to the proprietary Gosling Emacs.
Standard PC BIOS is limited to a 16-bit processor mode and 1 MB of addressable memory space, resulting from the design based on the IBM 5150 that used a 16-bit Intel 8088 processor. [ 8 ] [ 34 ] In comparison, the processor mode in a UEFI environment can be either 32-bit ( IA-32 , AArch32) or 64-bit ( x86-64 , Itanium, and AArch64).
Early computer systems were limited to the characters in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), a subset of the Latin alphabet. After English (27%), the most requested languages on the World Wide Web are Chinese (25%), Spanish (8%), Japanese (5%), Portuguese and German (4% each), Arabic, French and Russian (3% each ...
In IPv4 it is very difficult for an organization to get even one globally routable multicast group assignment, and the implementation of inter-domain solutions is arcane. [17] Unicast address assignments by a local Internet registry for IPv6 have at least a 64-bit routing prefix, yielding the smallest subnet size available in IPv6 (also 64 bits).
NATO had budgeted US$1.4 billion (€1 billion) for the project, and a letter of intent was signed. [124] NATO signed a contract for five Block 40 Global Hawks in May 2012. [125] 12 NATO members are participating in the purchase. On 10 January 2014, Estonia revealed it wanted to participate in NATO Global Hawk usage.
Telecommunication is a compound noun of the Greek prefix tele-(τῆλε), meaning distant, far off, or afar, [7] and the Latin verb communicare, meaning to share. Its modern use is adapted from the French, [ 8 ] because its written use was recorded in 1904 by the French engineer and novelist Édouard Estaunié .
The total fertility rate (TFR) in Scotland is below the replacement rate of 2.1 (the TFR was 1.73 in 2011 [218]). The majority of births are to unmarried women (51.3% of births were outside of marriage in 2012 [219]). Life expectancy for those born in Scotland between 2012 and 2014 is 77.1 years for males and 81.1 years for females. [220]
A video game [a] or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality ...