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  2. Hackers (film) - Wikipedia

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    Hackers. (film) Hackers is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed by Iain Softley and starring Jonny Lee Miller, Angelina Jolie, Jesse Bradford, Matthew Lillard, Laurence Mason, Renoly Santiago, Lorraine Bracco, and Fisher Stevens. The film follows a group of high school hackers and their involvement in an attempted theft.

  3. TENEX (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    The pager system would handle mapping as it would always, copying data to and from the backing store as needed. The only change needed was for the pager to be able to hold several sets of mappings between RAM and store, one for each program using the system. The pager also held access time information in order to tune performance.

  4. History of personal computers - Wikipedia

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    The history of the personal computer as a mass-market consumer electronic device began with the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. A personal computer is one intended for interactive individual use, as opposed to a mainframe computer where the end user's requests are filtered through operating staff, or a time-sharing system in which one large processor is shared by many individuals.

  5. Thrashing (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    Thrashing (computer science) In computer science, thrashing occurs in a system with virtual memory when a computer's real storage resources are overcommitted, leading to a constant state of paging and page faults, slowing most application -level processing. [1] This causes the performance of the computer to degrade or collapse.

  6. Server (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Server (computing) A computer network diagram of client computers communicating with a server computer via the Internet. Wikimedia Foundation rackmount servers on racks in a data center. The first WWW server is located at CERN with its original sticker that says: "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"

  7. Compatible Time-Sharing System - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Compatible Time-Sharing System ( CTSS) was the first general purpose time-sharing operating system. [2] [3] Compatible Time Sharing referred to time sharing which was compatible with batch processing; it could offer both time sharing and batch processing concurrently. CTSS was developed at the MIT Computation Center ("Comp Center").

  8. History of Unix - Wikipedia

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    The core operating system, which was based on BSD and the Mach kernel, was renamed Darwin after Apple acquired it. The deployment of Darwin in Mac OS X makes it, according to a statement made by an Apple employee at a USENIX conference, the most widely used Unix-based system in the desktop computer market. [citation needed]

  9. Radio-paging code No. 1 - Wikipedia

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    An NEC pager, using POCSAG coding branded for the Skyper network. Radio-paging code No. 1 (usually and hereafter called POCSAG) is an asynchronous protocol used to transmit data to pagers. Its usual designation is an acronym of the P ost O ffice C ode S tandardisation A dvisory G roup, the name of the group that developed the code under the ...