8-letter words containing 6
- 56k line — (communications) A digital connection (possibly a leased line, possibly switched) capable of carrying 56 kbps. Compare DS0.
- algol 60 — (language) ALGOrithmic Language 1960. A portable language for scientific computations. ALGOL 60 was small and elegant. It was block-structured, nested, recursive and free form. It was also the first language to be described in BNF. There were three lexical representations: hardware, reference, and publication. The only structured data types were arrays, but they were permitted to have lower bounds and could be dynamic. It also had conditional expressions; it introduced :=; if-then-else; very general "for" loops; switch declaration (an array of statement labels generalising Fortran's computed goto). Parameters were call-by-name and call-by-value. It had static local "own" variables. It lacked user-defined types, character manipulation and standard I/O. See also EULER, ALGOL 58, ALGOL 68, Foogol.
- algol 68 — (language) An extensive revision of ALGOL 60 by Adriaan van Wijngaarden et al. ALGOL 68 was discussed from 1963 by Working Group 2.1 of IFIP. Its definition was accepted in December 1968. ALGOL 68 was the first, and still one of very few, programming languages for which a complete formal specification was created before its implementation. However, this specification was hard to understand due to its formality, the fact that it used an unfamiliar metasyntax notation (not BNF) and its unconventional terminology. One of the singular features of ALGOL 68 was its orthogonal design, making for freedom from arbitrary rules (such as restrictions in other languages that arrays could only be used as parameters but not as results). It also allowed user defined data types, then an unheard-of feature. It featured structural equivalence; automatic type conversion ("coercion") including dereferencing; flexible arrays; generalised loops (for-from-by-to-while-do-od), if-then-else-elif-fi, an integer case statement with an 'out' clause (case-in-out-esac); skip and goto statements; blocks; procedures; user-defined operators; procedure parameters; concurrent execution (par-begin-end); semaphores; generators "heap" and "loc" for dynamic allocation. It had no abstract data types or separate compilation.
- bliss-36 — (language) DEC's equivalent of BLISS-10.
- cdc 6600 — (computer) A mainframe computer from Control Data Corporation, first delivered in 1964. It is generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, about three times faster than STRETCH. Its successor was the CDC 7600.
- coral 66 — A real-time system programming language derived from JOVIAL and ALGOL 60. It was adopted as the British military standard from 1970 until the arrival of Ada.
- cy486slc — A version of the Intel 486 made by Cyrix. It has a 486SX instruction set, a 1 kilobyte cache, and an Intel 80386SX-compatible pinout and thus, 16-bit data bus.
- dsp56000 — A digital signal processing chip from Motorola. An assembler called a56 and a port of gcc called dsp56k-gcc are available.
- dsp56001 — A digital signal processing chip from Motorola. An assembler called a56 is available.
- dual-607 — (language) An early system on the IBM 701.
- ibm 1620 — (computer) A computer built by IBM and released in late 1959. The 1620 cost from around $85,000(?) up to hundreds of thousands of dollars(?) according to the configuration. It was billed as a "small scientific computer" to distinguish it from the business-oriented IBM 1401. It was regarded as inexpensive, and many schools started out with one. It was either developed for the US Navy to teach computing, or as a replacement for the very successful IBM 650 which did quite well in the low end scientific market. Rumour has it that the Navy called this computer the CADET - Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try. The ALU used lookup tables to add, subtract and multiply but it could do address increments and the like without the tables. You could change the number base by adjusting the tables, which were input during the boot sequence from Hollerith cards. The divide instruction required additional hardware, as did floating point operations. The basic machine had 20,000 decimal digits of ferrite core memory arranged as a 100 by 100 array of 12-bit locations, each holding two digits. Each digit was stored as four numeric bits, one flag bit and one parity bit. The numeric bits stored a decimal digit (values above nine were illegal). Memory was logically divided into fields. On the high-order digit of a field the flag bit indicated the end of the field. On the low-order digit it indicated a negative number. A flag bit on the low order of the address indicated indirect addressing if you had that option installed. A few "illegal" bit combinations were used to store things like record marks and "numeric blanks". On a subroutine call it stored the return address in the five digits just before the entry point to the routine, so you had to build your own stack to do recursion. The enclosure was grey, and the core was about four or five inches across. The core memory was kept cool inside a temperature-controlled box. The machine took a few minutes to warm up after power on before you could use it. If it got too hot there was a thermal cut-out switch that would shut it down. Memory could be expanded up to 100,000 digits in a second cabinet. The cheapest package used paper tape for I/O. You could also get punched cards and later models could be hooked up to a 1311 disk drive (a two-megabyte washing machine), a 1627 plotter, and a 1443 line printer. Because the 1620 was popular with colleges, IBM ran a clearing house of software for a nominal cost such as Snobol, COBOL, chess games, etc. The model II, released about three years later, could add and subtract without tables. The clock period decreased from 20 to 10 microseconds, instruction fetch sped up by a few cycles and it added index registers of some sort. Some of the model I's options were standard on the model II, like indirect addressing and the console teletype changed from a model C to a Selectric. Later still, IBM marketed the IBM 1710. A favorite use was to tune a FM radio to pick up the "interference" from the lights on the console. With the right delay loops you could generate musical notes. Hackers wrote interpreters that played music from notation like "C44". 1620 consoles were used as props to represent Colossus in the film "The Forbin Project", though most of the machines had been scrapped by the time the film was made.
- ims 6100 — Intersil 6100
- iso 3166 — country code
- iso 8326 — session layer
- iso 8613 — Open Document Architecture
- iso 8649 — Association Control Service Element
- iso 8650 — Association Control Service Element
- iso 9660 — (standard, storage) The ISO standard file system for CD-ROMs, later extended by the Joliet standard to allow Unicode characters.
- line 666 — (jargon) (Christian eschatological myth) The notional line of source at which a program fails for obscure reasons, implying either that *somebody* is out to get it (when you are the programmer), or that it richly deserves to be got (when you are not). E.g. "It works when I trace through it, but seems to crash on line 666 when I run it." "What happens is that whenever a large batch comes through, mmdf dies on the Line of the Beast. Probably some twit hard-coded a buffer size."
- mcp-1600 — A processor made by Western Digital, consisting of at least four separate integrated circuits, including the control circuitry unit, the ALU, two or four ROM chips with microcode, and timing circuitry. The ALU chip contained twenty-six 8-bit registers and an 8-bit ALU, while the control unit supervised the moving of data, memory access, and other control functions. The ROM allowed the chip to function as either an 8- or 16-bit chip, with clever use of the 8-bit ALU. Further, microcode allowed the addition of floating-point routines (40 + 8 bit format), simplifying programming (and possibly producing a floating-point coprocessor). Two standard microcode ROMs were available. This flexibility was one reason it was also used to implement the DEC LSI-11 processor as well as the WD Pascal Microengine.
- rfc 1156 — (standard) The RFC which established the MIB I Management Information Base standard.
- rfc 1267 — (networking, standard) One of the RFCs describing Border Gateway Protocol.
- rfc 1268 — (networking, standard) One of the RFCs describing Border Gateway Protocol.
- rfc 1436 — (networking, standard) The RFC defining the Internet Gopher protocol.
- rfc 1446 — (networking, standard) The RFC defining security protocols for SNMP v2.
- rfc 1526 — (networking, protocol) One of the RFCs describing the TUBA protocol.
- rfc 1561 — (networking, protocol) One of the RFCs describing the TUBA protocol.
- rfc 1568 — (messaging, standard) An RFC defining the Simple Network Paging Protocol (SNPP) which is designed to support Internet access to paging services such as those based on the Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol. See also RFC 1861.
- rfc 1630 — (networking, standard) The RFC defining the Universal Resource Identifier.
- rfc 1661 — (networking, standard) The RFC defining Point-to-Point Protocol.
- rfc 1756 — (messaging) The RFC describing Remote Write Protocol.
- rfc 1760 — (security) The RFC describing the S/KEY One-Time Password system.
- rfc 1861 — (networking, standard) The RFC defining Simple Network Paging Protocol. See also RFC 1568.
- rfc 1960 — (networking, standard) The RFC defining the human-readable format of search filters used with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.
- rfc 2046 — (messaging, standard) One of the RFCs defining MIME.
- rfc 2060 — (messaging) One of the RFCs describing IMAP.
- rfc 2061 — (messaging) One of the RFCs describing IMAP.
- rfc 2068 — (networking, standard) The RFC defining HTTP version 1.1.
- rfc 2236 — (networking, standard) The RFC describing IGMP version 2.
- rfc 2246 — (networking, standard) The RFC that defines TLS protocol Version 1.0. Written by T. Dierks and C. Allen in January 1999.
- rfc 2326 — (standard) The RFC defining RTSP.
- rfc 2364 — The RFC defining PPPoA.
- rfc 2516 — (standard, security) The RFC defining Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE).
- socket 6 — x86 processor socket
- vostok 6 — a manned Soviet spacecraft made to orbit the earth, carried Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space
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