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  2. Edson, Alberta - Wikipedia

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    The town was founded as Heatherwood, but the name was changed around 1911 in honour of Edson Joseph Chamberlin, vice-president of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway.When Edson was declared the local rail centre, smaller communities such as Rosevear (abandoned), Wolf Creek, Carrot Creek and Niton Junction fell into a decline that continues today.

  3. Epson QX-10 - Wikipedia

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    The Epson QX-10 is a microcomputer running CP/M or TPM-III (CP/M-80 compatible) which was introduced in 1983. It is based on a Zilog Z80 microprocessor, running at 4 MHz, provides up to 256 KB of RAM organized in four switchable banks, and includes a separate graphics processor chip manufactured by NEC to provide advanced graphics capabilities.

  4. ZIP Code Tabulation Area - Wikipedia

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    ZCTAs are not developed for ZIP codes that comprise only a small number of addresses. [3] Several ZCTAs represent ZIPs that no longer exist due to realignment by the USPS. There are approximately 42,000 ZIP Codes and 32,000 ZCTAs. The reason that there is not one ZCTA for every ZIP Code is that only populated areas are included in the Census ...

  5. Mantle (API) - Wikipedia

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    The draw call improvements of Mantle help alleviate cases where the CPU is the bottleneck. The design goals of Mantle are to allow games and applications to utilize the CPUs and GPUs more efficiently, eliminate CPU bottlenecks by reducing API validation overhead and allowing more effective scaling on multiple CPU cores, provide faster draw routines, and allow greater control over the graphics ...

  6. Reverse domain name notation - Wikipedia

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    Reverse-DNS strings are based on registered domain names, with the order of the components reversed for grouping purposes. For example, if a company making the product "MyProduct" has the domain name example.com, they could use the reverse-DNS string com.example.MyProduct as an identifier for that product.

  7. Mesa (computer graphics) - Wikipedia

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    It is free and open-source graphics device driver software. A feature matrix is being provided at mesamatrix.net. The development of Gallium3D started in 2008 at Tungsten Graphics, [155] and the implementation is available as free and open-source software as part of Mesa 3D hosted by freedesktop.org. The primary goal of making driver ...

  8. Terra Nil - Wikipedia

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    While the gameplay focuses on placing buildings, as is common in city-building games, Terra Nil is the reverse – focusing instead on ecosystem reconstruction. [3] Rather than promoting the consumption of resources to expand, the game is inspired by the rewilding movement and the climate crisis, and seeks to restore nature rather than exploit it.

  9. Park-to-reverse - Wikipedia

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    If the driver has exited the vehicle with the engine running (to for example retrieve an item, open a gate or close a garage door, etc.), a vehicle in false park can shift into powered reverse from a few seconds to several minutes or longer, after the driver has exited, and then run over the driver or a bystander.