Word: belled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken seriously, they can be forgiven, for the paper predated the first commercial electronic computers by several years. But a handful of scientists quietly pursued Von Neumann's ideas, keeping them alive in the scientific literature until they sprang to life ten years later at AT&T's Bell Laboratories, in the form of a bizarre after-hours recreation known as Core...
Core War was the brainstorm of three Bell Labs programmers then in their early 20s: H. Douglas McIlroy, Victor Vysottsky and Robert Morris. Like Von Neumann, they recognized that computers were vulnerable to a peculiar kind of self-destruction. The machines employed the same "core" memory to store both the data used by programs and the instructions for running those programs. With subtle changes in its coding, a program designed to consume data could be made instead to consume programs...
...been meeting under the auspices of the Federal Government. One tangible result: the tiny bumps on the touch-typing "home" keys, which are now standard equipment on all Apple keyboards. "You still have to learn how to type," says Karl Dahlke, a blind software engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Ill. In that regard, however, the able and the disabled are on equal footing -- which is just how the handicapped like things...
...black, Hispanic and Oriental gangs, thus achieving really big bucks and respectability. But instead of telling the story, Condon endlessly tells about it. Characters do not take on their own faces or voices, and when the lowbrow Partanna is made to say, "Ask not for whom the bell tolls, Pop. Shoot the bell ringer," it sounds phony. That's not Charley; it's Condon stopping the action to tell one more joke...
Local dial-up services -- carrying such prefixes as 976, 540 and 410 -- started sprouting after the breakup of the Bell system in 1984. The so- called Baby Bells, legally prohibited from offering their own information services, began forging alliances with hundreds of small firms. In exchange for the use of the telephone lines and their billing departments, Baby Bells charge a fee and also pocket a percentage of the monthly tolls...