Word: cpu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outstripped Replay in sales and investment partnerships. Last week, apparently to boost its dealmaking power with Hollywood, Replay named Kim LeMasters, former president of CBS Entertainment, as its chairman and CEO. "They have not brought me in for my ability to figure out what bugs are on the CPU," LeMasters says. "They brought me in for that portfolio I brought from Hollywood and for my different mind-set and my ability to examine the marketplace...
...They couldn't change the tallies," says Martino. "They weren't hackers. But they did have a server." The assault came from a Turkish university, and students were armed with a CPU to match TIME Daily's -- the university's powerful server. The bots were identified and blocked by the IP and cookie-based defenses, but they churned out so many voting attempts that defending against them overwhelmed TIME Daily's own server. Access slowed to a crawl until the tech team was forced to ban the computers of the entire university from accessing our site...
Richard L. Crews HMS'63, a California psychiatrist who also heads Columbia Pacific University (CPU), says his board of regents is now evaluating applications for its first class. There are nine applicants, and school starts in January...
...problem is that these expanded features require larger, more complex code that takes more horsepower to run. Versions 4 of Netscape and Microsoft's Internet Explorer require an extraordinary investment in CPU power and memory to run properly, if at all. And even when a user coaxes his or her browser to run, frequent system crashes and slow performance become the norm...
...make things worse, by the early 90s Intel had begun to turn a lucrative profit on the so-called motherboard chipset that supported the CPU. Manufacturers had to build bulky, awkward system boards to house Intel's CPU and its separate input-output chips...