Roughly, it works by searching for a specific sort of controller (used in a centrifuge), in a specific sort of situation (running at a certain RPM used for uranium processing), and then inserts a modified operating system that revs up and revs down the machine until it spins itself to pieces.

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Then Intel, which has worked closely with SunGard on making some of its risk software run in parallel to analyze millions of records, approached to talk about the processing power of the devices it was designing for the new operating system.

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The NOR type needs to be ultrafast because it is directly connected to the central processing unit of a computer and stores its basic input-output system (the operating system used by the microchip that lies beneath user-interface operating systems, such as Windows).

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