This hardware was used to build a simulated aircraft that ran many of the systems found on commercial aircraft and could swap data via radio with the air traffic and navigation systems used in the real world.

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Research work by Mr Metcalfe and his co-worker established that they could swap far more data far faster than over the Hawaiian network.

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And some effort is being made to develop standards for the data that virtual manufacturing systems will swap.

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Such a feature would make it possible to swap webOS devices on a whim without fear of losing data.

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The movies and game data are on separate CDs, so you won't need to swap disks halfway through a mission.

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Waratek will let an enterprise swap out the middle layer of its software stack without changing its applications and significantly increase the density in data centers.

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