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Namibia (/ n ə ˈ m ɪ b i ə / ⓘ [17] [18]), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country on the west coast of Southern Africa.Its borders include the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south; in the northeast, approximating a quadripoint, Zimbabwe lies less than 200 metres (660 feet) away along the Zambezi River ...
The System/360 architecture provides the following features: 16 32-bit general-purpose registers; 4 64-bit floating-point registers; 64-bit processor status register (PSW), which includes a 24-bit instruction address; 24-bit (16 MB) byte-addressable memory space; Big-endian byte/word order
In 1993 the Archives held 5,600 maps, 61,000 photographs, 2,000 audio cassettes, 450 films and a complete collection of all local newspapers from 1897 to 1962. [3] Of particular importance are the Hendrik Witbooi Papers, inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register – Africa, the Hoachanas Peace Treaty of 1858, and the Vaderlike Wette of the Basters of Rehoboth.
The least expensive model was the Model 20 with as little as 4096 bytes of core memory, eight 16-bit registers instead of the sixteen 32-bit registers of other System/360 models, and an instruction set that was a subset of that used by the rest of the range. The initial announcement in 1964 included Models 30, 40, 50, 60, 62, and 70.
On April 7, 1964, IBM announced the IBM System/360, to be available in six models. [3] [4] [5] The 360/40 was first delivered in April 1965.[6]The 360/30 and the 360/40 were the two largest revenue producing System/360 models, [7] accounting for over half of the units sold.
Radio was originally broadcast in English and Afrikaans via shortwave from the South African Broadcasting Corporation's facilities in South Africa. The SABC established a local FM transmitter network in November 1969, relaying Radio South Africa, Radio Suid-Afrika, and Springbok Radio, and establishing a number of services in native languages, including Radio Ovambo, broadcasting in the ...
The history of Namibia has passed through several distinct stages from being colonised in the late nineteenth century to Namibia's independence on 21 March 1990. From 1884, Namibia was a German colony: German South West Africa .
Pickford, Martin (1995), "Karoo Supergroup palaeontology of Namibia and brief description of a thecodont from Omingonde" (PDF), Paleontologica Africana, 32: 51– 66 Sakariassen, Rune (2007), North Namibia margin: regional tectonic evolution based on integrated analysis of seismic reflection and potential field data and modelling (MSc. thesis ...