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2. Gold Apollo - Wikipedia

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   Founded by Hsu Ching-kuang in October 1995, Gold Apollo produces POCSAG/FLEX pager. Initially, the company only produced numeric pagers and focused on the domestic market. However, in 1999, when Taiwan's Chunghwa Telecom announced it would no longer issue pager numbers, the pager market collapsed overnight. In response, Gold Apollo began ...

3. Bootstrapping - Wikipedia

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   Compilers, linkers, loaders, and utilities were then coded in assembly language, further continuing the bootstrapping process of developing complex software systems by using simpler software. The term was also championed by Doug Engelbart to refer to his belief that organizations could better evolve by improving the process they use for ...

4. VM/386 - Wikipedia

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   VM/386 is a multitasking Multi-user environment or 'control program' that took early advantage of the capabilities of Intel's 386 processor. By utilizing Virtual 8086 mode, users were able to run their existing text-based and graphical DOS software in safely separate environments.

5. Memory paging - Wikipedia

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   A paging system makes efficient decisions on which memory to relegate to secondary storage, leading to the best use of the installed RAM. In addition the operating system may provide services to programs that envision a larger memory, such as files that can grow beyond the limit of installed RAM.

6. IBM System/36 - Wikipedia

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   Disk space on the System/36 was organized by blocks, with one block consisting of 2560 bytes. A high-end 5360 system would ship with about 550,000 blocks of disk space available. System objects could be allocated in blocks or records, but internally it was always blocks. The System/36 supported memory paging, referred to as "swapping". [6]

7. 2008 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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   The 2008 United States presidential election was the 56th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 4, 2008.The Democratic ticket of Barack Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, and Joe Biden, the senior senator from Delaware, defeated the Republican ticket of John McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, and Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska.