U-1: What happened in 1965?

What happened in 1965?.

BELL LABS, GENERAL ELECTRIC, Project MAC(Mathematics And Computation) of MIT joined hands to create an operating system for computer.

What is the motivation behind that OS?

It should be a OS that supply simultaneous computer access for a large community.
It should have good processing power and high-levels data storage.

What happened Next?

They named the OS, MULTICS. By 1969, Multics was running in GE645 machines, but it did not intend to meet the development goals. BELL LABS slowly withdrew its support from the project.

Is that the end?

We had some optimistic guys who dared to work on that further. They are Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan and some others.Their efforts and interests lead to a transition from GE645 to PDP-7(Programmed Data Processer). PDP-7 had cheap executing power and good graphics display, thus made a right fit for development and research. They gave the name UNIX to their newly developed operating system. UNIX is a absolute pun on the name Multics :).

GE 645




PDP 7

"She Looks Too Pretty, Try To Catch Her."

A quick walk:

PHALANGE -> PHALANX:A phalanx is a group of soldiers or police who are standing or marching close together ready to fight.
The Phalanges of the hand stay close together in a similar way, to do tasks with the hand.

PROXIMAL: Close to the origin. Proximal Phalanges stay close to the body.
DISTAL(antonym for PROXIMAL).

SESAMOID -> sesame seeds(which are small, thus resembles).

CARPAL: relating to Wrist.
META->above, high.
METACARPAL->stands above the wrist.

"She Looks Too Pretty, Try To Catch Her." It's a mnemonic actually :).

Scaphoid - resembling a boat.
Lunate - Crescent moon.
Triquetrum - three + ( ? ).
Pisiform - resembling a pea.
Trapezium - quadrilateral(four + sides), with no sides parallel.
Trapezoid - trapezium, with two sides parallel.
Capitate - forms the head.
Hamate - No idea :).

"She Looks Too Pretty, Try To Catch Her." has a lot to convey more than this. :).

Catch you in Next blog.
Shyam.

what's there

Hi people...It is really fascinating to wonder about anything out there in space. It is believed that there is a huge space out there...the spaces are filled with huge objects. Some of those objects, produce themselves. Some of those reflect and absorb, the produced. I am thumbing about the production and usage of light. The producing object is Sun. The absorbing objects are planets like earth. God has made it so wonderful. The dependencies between these objects are very well organised by the developer. I am going to call him, the univware developer. He had known his requirements, thus creating the objects with correct functions and properties. This univware developer should have had heat as sun's property and produce light as a functionality.
class star
{
Kelvin core_temperature;
void createLight()
{
//code to create light
}
}

main()
{
star sun;
sun.core_temperature=1.57*(10^7);
sun.createLight();
}

Guess...this should be the code if God has used Object Oriented programming to create the all powerful sun ;-)

the first post from my mobile

Let us pull out some roots.

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Obsequious has the latin root 'seqour means follow' in it. When a person is referred as Obsequious, he is full of following and servile.
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Querulous has the latin root 'queror means complain' in it. When a person is referred as Querulous, he is full of complaining and nagging.
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What can one think of the word Supercilious?
Super means above. Cilial refers to eye. Usually arrogance is accompanied by raised eye-brows(one that is above eye). A Supercilious nature can be linked to arrogance.
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Obstreperous means very noisy or boisterous. Because 'strepo means noise'.
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Impecunious, has its own story to tell us.
In olden days, a person's wealth is determined by counting the number of cattles, unlike counting shares and bank-balance.
One can get milk and meat from cattle, which is marked as true wealth.
'Pecus means cattle' in latin. Impecunious means one without cattle, which ultimately means, one without Wealth.
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Notable Notes.

One is usually Dumbfounded with Astonishment.

One is usually Exasperated with Frustration.

Presumptuous - Obtrusive - Interfering.

Unobstrusive - not interfering.

Defuse - to remove the fuse from, to make less harmful.

Cavalier - means arrogant or rash.

Contention -rivalry or competition.

Objective - unemotional.

Fatuous -Silly.

Persuasive - forceful, compelling.

Devious - Cunning like a devil.

Usually unusual

It's been so long...since my last blog.

Thought to share some interesting vocabularies with you all.

So, from where shall we start.

There are always two things that occurs in our life. One thing is, all ordinary and everyday stuffs.

And the other one is some unusual and interesting.

Let us take a look on vocabularies that are centered around these two ideas.

I will start from the idea of everyday,common and routine. Let us spec this idea in a wider perspective. Means, everything that is worldly and that is not outstanding or unusual.The supplant for this idea is the word "Mundane". The word "Humdrum" is synonymous with Mundane.

Now let us think about the people and behavior whose life is Mundane. Common people of the world can be referred to as "Plebeian".

It is no wonder that common people lapse into common expressions.Many of us must have heard the expressions like "and they lived happily ever after" ,"down to earth" , "Leaps and bounds". These are the common phrases that has evolved over times. They are still in use. If we have to give a word for these kind of expressions, what can we give?.

We can give words like Hackneyed, Trite, Banal, Quotidian. If those common phrases are more specific to tongue rather than pen, then we can give it the word "Cliche".

If you have to think of other words that falls under this idea. You will probably emanate with Vapid and Pedestrian.

Now let us move onto the next side of the coin..oh..sorry for this hackneyed.

That which is unusual and interesting.

The common word that one can come out with, for this idea would be "UNIQUE" , "RARE".

But you know, there are some good pool of words for this school of thought...Come let us explore.

Anything that cannot be imitated easily is unusual...right?. So the word is Inimitable.

Let's get an adoption from French to reinforce this idea...The adopted word is "nonpareil". nonpareil means "no parallel". That has no parallel is unusual and interesting. So the next word is nonpareil.

Have you ever walked alone in the Stygian darkness of the deep forests, especially at time 12.00.

One may feel ghastly and afraid. Feel like someone at your back. No wonder, you are going through "Eerie". Unearthly is synonymous with Eerie.

Other words from this pool are singular, atypical, unwonted, peerless.

Believe...All got a clever sweep of these ideas...The usual and unusual.

Now you have option between ideas to live with...Mundane or Unique.

Think, you go with the latter...see you after.