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  2. Micro Channel architecture - Wikipedia

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    Two, 16 bit MCA slots (top and middle). At the bottom is an MCA slot for an IBM 8514 card. Micro Channel architecture, or the Micro Channel bus, is a proprietary 16-or 32-bit parallel computer bus publicly introduced by IBM in 1987 which was used on PS/2 and other computers until the mid-1990s. Its name is commonly abbreviated as "MCA ...

  3. Cray T3D - Wikipedia

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    These switches had a peak bandwidth of 300 MB/second in each direction and were connected to form a three-dimensional torus network topology. The T3D was designed to be hosted by a Cray Y-MP Model E, M90 or C90 -series "front-end" system and rely on it and its UNICOS operating system for all I/O and most system services.

  4. Extended Industry Standard Architecture - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, IBM began to worry that it was losing control of the industry it had created. In 1987, IBM released the PS/2 line of computers, most of which included the MCA bus. MCA included numerous enhancements over the 16-bit AT bus, including bus mastering, burst mode, software-configurable resources, and 32-bit capabilities. However, in an ...

  5. Marine Corps Association - Wikipedia

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    "For the purpose of recording and publishing the history of the Marine Corps, publishing a periodical journal for the dissemination of information concerning the aims, purposes and deeds of the Corps, and the interchange of ideas for the betterment and improvement of its officers and men, the undersigned hereby form an association to be known ...

  6. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

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    In 1999, the Medicines Control Agency (MCA) took over control of the General Practice Research Database (GPRD) from the Office for National Statistics. The Medicines Control Agency (MCA) and the Medical Devices Agency (MDA) merged in 2003 to form MHRA. In April 2012, the GPRD was rebranded as the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD).

  7. Machine Check Architecture - Wikipedia

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    In computing, Machine Check Architecture (MCA) is an Intel and AMD mechanism in which the CPU reports hardware errors to the operating system.. Intel's P6 and Pentium 4 family processors, AMD's K7 and K8 family processors, as well as the Itanium architecture implement a machine check architecture that provides a mechanism for detecting and reporting hardware (machine) errors, such as: system ...

  8. Federal retirements really are sorted by hand in an old mine ...

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    Hundreds of federal workers process thousands of retirement applications every month, by hand in a converted former mine.

  9. List of IBM PS/2 models - Wikipedia

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    Explanatory notes. Built-in or optional monitors are CRTs unless mentioned otherwise.; The Space Saving Keyboard is a 87-key numpad-less version of the Model M. [1]The 25 Collegiate, intended for college students, had two 720 KB floppy drives, maxed out the RAM to 640 KB, and came packaged with the official PS/2 Mouse, Windows 2.0, and four blank floppy disks.