Word: wiredness
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But the new LSls had an innate drawback. Because they were made in rigid patterns and served only particular purposes -or were, as engineers say, "hard-wired"-they lacked flexibility. That limitation was ingeniously solved by the work of Hoff and others on microprogramming-storing control instructions on a memory...
Back in the ovens, the wafers are baked again in an atmosphere of gases loaded with "dopants." Like oil stains in a concrete driveway, these impurities soak into the underlying silicon. Since chips usually contain as many as ten layers, all these steps-"rusting," photomasking, etching, baking, etc.-must be...
A5 Dr. Johnson said in a different era about ladies preaching, the surprising thing about computers is not that they think less well than a man, but that they think at all. The early electronic computer did not have much going for it except a prodigious memory and some good...
"He was definitely wired last night. He was definitely together," said a jubilant DiNicola, who was especially impressed by Spinks's stamina. "Even at the end of the fight Spinks could still break Ali's rhythm and put him on the ropes when he wanted. Hitting Ali against the ropes...
New Orleans (22-24) has now won six straight games, while Boston remains wired way down in the standings at 14-28.