For example, when IBM first asked Gates to write an operating system for its first PC, Gates possessed neither the experience nor the resources to put one together.
In the summer of 1975 a Harvard junior, Bill Gates, drove to Albuquerque and with his friend Paul Allen started a company, Micro-Soft, to write an operating system called BASIC for the Altair 8800.
For example, when IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) first asked Gates to write an operating system for its first PC, Gates possessed neither the experience nor the resources to put one together.
He was too dejected to write and had no support system to help him through that tough time.
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These include a partial redundancy of its IT system and a write-off of development costs on its traditional build centres.
Louis Children's Hospital is a board member at the United Network for Organ Sharing and helped write the current pediatric transplant system.
Cerny appears in a plaid shirt and jeans as he touts the ease in which computer programmers will be able to write games for the new system.
In fits of creativity, he would write out flow diagrams for the system on the walls and doors, so as not to forget them.
Even though the TLC cells have an erase-write rating of only 5, 000 cycles the company says the system provides an acceptable life using wear-leveling, write reduction and overprovisioning. (although we would like to see some field data on this) and provide a total storage capacity of up to 2 TB.
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For example, I use a task management system on my computer - can I write an app to make this easier on Glass?
If a restaurant chooses to note your preferences, that information may be typed into its OpenTable System manually just as a restaurant might write a note on an index card.
Ultra cool in 2011 will be to write the date in the sequences used in the binary system.
"This requires fundamental reorientation and restructuring of national and international institutions toward more effective Earth system governance and planetary stewardship, " they write.
Cynics reckon that the Grid is merely an excuse by computer scientists to milk the political system for more research grants so they can write yet more lines of useless code.
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In a system that is 100% unionized, Finnish teachers write their own tests and use them as guides for students who may need additional help.
In an environment in which an IT risk system is in place, each of the tribal leaders (the heads of the silos), is essentially asked to write down the special knowledge they have about what keeps the system running.
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Although the operating system is a little bulkier, developers will be able to write applications to Solaris and assume that the programs can take advantage of the underlying directory services.
As a result of the unanimous decision, the Clerk of the Parliaments will write to the presidents of the European institutions complaining about regulations on a system for distributing food to deprived people.
It took Schaeffer only five months to analyze the setup and write code that would let him, from his laptop, tell the Scada system to open and close enough breakers to bring down the mock utility--without letting the legitimate operator see what was going on.
However awkward it may have been for the man whose neighbor was running for office, this system made vote counting transparent and did not require voters to read or write.
Such outreach is particularly important for RIM because it is using a new, proprietary operating system for the PlayBook and thus cannot assume that existing BlackBerry developers will write applications for it.
In particular, write caching in notebook computers could offer significant power use advantages besides a boost in overall system performance.
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You've got to fight for your favorite gaming system by coming up with the best possible hack you can muster, and documenting it with a proper write-up (we'll consider really amazing tips and how-tos as well).
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