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In CP/M, attempting to read a floppy disk drive with the door open would hang until a disk was inserted and the disk drive door was closed (very early disk hardware did not send any kind of signal until a disk was spinning, and a timeout to detect the lack of signal required too much code on these tiny systems). Many users of CP/M became ...
For example, in FreeBSD the ATA/CAM stack controls the timeouts, and is set to progressively increase the timeouts as they occur. Thus, if a desktop disk without TLER starts delaying a response to a sector read, FreeBSD will retry the read with successively longer timeouts to prevent prematurely dropping the disk out of the array.
Microsoft Word Viewer is a discontinued freeware program for Microsoft Windows that can display and print Microsoft Word documents. [2] Word Viewer allows text from a Word document to be copied into clipboard and pasted into a word processor. [3] The last version was Word Viewer 2003 Service Pack 3 released in 2007. [4]
A hard disk drive failure occurs when a hard disk drive malfunctions and the stored information cannot be accessed with a properly configured computer. A hard disk failure may occur in the course of normal operation, or due to an external factor such as exposure to fire or water or high magnetic fields , or suffering a sharp impact or ...
An installation disc of Microsoft Works 4.0 with Microsoft Money 95. Microsoft Works has built-in compatibility for the Microsoft Office document formats (.DOC and .XLS), including, but not limited to, the ability of the Works Word Processor to open Microsoft Word documents and the ability of the Works Spreadsheet to open Microsoft Excel workbooks.
In 2012, Valve announced Steam for Schools, a free function-limited version of the Steam client for schools. [144] It was part of Valve's initiative to support gamification of learning. It was released alongside free versions of Portal 2 and a standalone program called "Puzzle Maker" that allowed teachers and students to create and manipulate ...
Microsoft: Disk utilities, DoubleSpace disk compression June 1993: PC DOS 6.1 IBM: First IBM release after split with Microsoft, E: September 1993: MS-DOS 6.2 Microsoft: Improved version of DoubleSpace February 1994: MS-DOS 6.21 Microsoft: DoubleSpace removed due to legal injunction April 1994: PC DOS 6.3 IBM: SuperStor/DS disk compression June ...
The practice of creating a game using 'free' art and audio assets, either from an online marketplace or the default stock of assets included with many game engines. Asset-flips are often of very poor quality designed to catch onto a currently popular theme to turn a quick profit. It mimics the practice of flipping in real estate markets.