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Government Polytechnic College Satna

The labs are equipped with high speed Computer, mostly IBM and HCL make, and advanced servers like IBM, HCL and PCS, to offer I : I Computing facility to students: Internet Lab, Computer Organisation Lab.


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3DO

3DO Blaster, an ISA add-on card for PCs which included the full chipset for the 3DO video game console

Adaptive tile refresh

Adaptive Tile Refresh is a computer graphics technique for sidescrolling games, invented by id Software's John Carmack to compensate for the poor graphics performance of PCs in the early 1990s.

Apple's transition to Intel processors

Others say that it could be a boon to switchers, since they would not have to leave their Windows applications behind while trying out Mac OS X. The idea of Mac OS X being available on regular PCs has also been discussed, but Apple has said that they will not allow regular PCs to run Mac OS X. The OSx86 Project, however, is able to install Mac OS X on non-Apple PCs.

AVADirect

They specialize in highly customized computer systems including Microsoft Windows and Linux servers, high-end workstations and gaming systems, business PCs, and notebooks.

Canadian federal election results in the Eastern Townships

André Bachand remained with the PCs in 2000 and was re-elected, but declined to join the newly merged Conservatives and retired from politics in 2004.

Christmas Tree EXEC

Its core mechanism was essentially the same as the ILOVEYOU worm of 2000 - although running on mainframes rather than PCs, spreading over a different network, and scripted using REXX rather than VBScript.

Color LaserWriter

The Color LaserWriter is a line of PostScript four-color laser printers manufactured by Apple Computer in the mid-nineties and compatible with PCs and its own Macintosh line of computers; by the use of an 10baseT Ethernet port it was also able to connect to large networks.

Crysis 3

After Crysis 2 received some criticism from many PC gamers because of the apparent design sacrifices made due to the limitations of the older console hardware, Crytek CEO Cevat Yerli stated that the PC version of Crysis 3 will figuratively "melt down PCs" due to its highest image quality system requirements.

CyberLink

PowerDVD, which may be found on Samsung, Gateway or HP PCs

Experticity

Experticity is a Salt Lake City, UT-based sales and service solution company, whose Experticity software platform enables enterprises to deliver live on-screen customer service and sales experts to customers in stores, service counters, and directly to consumer PCs.

Holy Name High School

In the summer of 2007, Holy Name installed wireless access points throughout the campus, and installed wireless PCs in every classroom.

I-mate

From the beginning of its existence until fall of 2006, i-mate sold branded versions of Pocket PCs, PPC phones, and smartphones manufactured by Taiwanese mobile device giant HTC.

IFPS

IFPS was available for a variety of platforms, including IBM mainframes (VM/CMS), DEC VAX, various flavors of Unix, DOS-based PCs and Macintosh Computers (named "Mindsight"- running on two floppies).

Intel Active Management Technology

A computer script could use this feature to identify PCs that need to be updated.

Klein Independent School District

Krimmel is the first school in Klein ISD to distribute Tablet PCs (Compaq TC4400) to each student.

LibreOffice

In June 2013, the government of the Italian province of South Tyrol will be switching 7000 PCs in administration and "many more thousands" PCs in health services using LibreOffice and ODF.

LiteManager

When encrypting traffic between local and remote PCs, LiteManager employs existing security algorithms and standards: 2048-bit RSA and 256-bit AES keys.

Master of Monsters

Master of Monsters is a turn-based strategy game created by Japanese software developer System Soft (now System Soft Alpha) for the MSX and NEC PC8801 later ported to a variety of consoles and PCs including the PC Engine, NEC PC9801, Sega Mega Drive (Genesis), Sega Saturn and PlayStation.

Memory bound function

If a computation takes a few seconds on a new PC, it may take a minute on an old PC, and several minutes on a PDA, which might be a nuisance for users of old PCs, but probably unacceptable for users of PDAs.

MicroATX

In order to conserve expansion slots and case space, many manufacturers produce microATX motherboard with a full range of integrated peripherals (especially integrated graphics), which may serve as the basis for small form factor and media center PCs.

Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World

In a departure from the high fantasy flavour typical for RPGs, the last dungeon requires the PCs to board a spaceship and solve an encrypted message with a time limit in order to escape the planet.

Northgate Computers

2003 Announced a trial with 7-Eleven to sell Northgate Computer branded PCs through their stores.

Pacific Collegiate School

In 2006, PCS's AP World History program (directed by teacher Tara Firenzi) won an award for being the best AP World History program in the nation.

Peter Coffee

Coffee authored Peter Coffee Teaches PCs, published in 1998 by Que, and previously authored Que's ZD Press tutorial How to Program Java.

Princeton Charter School

There have been students from PCS admitted to the School of American Ballet, The Peddie School, Phillips Andover Academy, Phillips Exeter Academy, and several other private high schools.

Quiet PC

A proposed general definition is that the sound emitted by such PCs should not exceed 30 Raupenschlepper, Ost

Approximately 23,000 RSO of all versions were produced by Steyr (2,600 pcs), Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz AG (KHD; 12,500 pcs), Auto Union - Siegmar plant (former Wanderer; 5,600 pcs) and Gräf & Stift (4,500 pcs).

Raxco Software

PerfectDisk business solutions provide performance management for PCs, networks, servers, Microsoft Exchange Server, and virtualization - VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.

Reigate College

PCs and Macs are available for student use, in the Independent Learning Centres (ILCs) and in classrooms.

Remote Utilities

When encrypting traffic between local and remote PCs, Remote Utilities employs existing security algorithms and standards: 2048-bit RSA and 256-bit AES keys.

Roxy LeBlanc

At the conclusion of the season, the family moves to Tacoma, Washington when Trevor is "PCS-ed" to Fort Lewis.

SoftGenLock

SoftGenLock is a piece of software that provides Genlock and quad buffer page flipped stereo between a cluster of PCs.

SoulPad

The SoulPad project is the subject of a paper entitled Reincarnating PCs with Portable SoulPads, which won Best Paper at the 2005 ACM/USENIX MobiSys conference.

Sprint v. La Cañada Flintridge

Sprint PCS v. La Cañada Flintridge, 435 F. 3d 993 (9th Cir. 2006), was a case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that determined whether a city could, consistent with California and Federal law, deny a telecommunications company a permit to construct and to install a wireless antenna based on aesthetic considerations.

Streaming audio in video games

It wasn't until Creative Labs's Sound Blaster series, introduced in 1989, that PCs became capable of playing back pre-recorded audio.

Sunil Gaitonde

In 1994, he founded Internet Junction, which focused on making Internet connectivity more easily used by Novell users with PCs.

Tal-y-llyn Lake

In 2009 a landscape photograph of the lake was included as an official desktop wallpaper (GB-wp3) with the release of the Microsoft operating system Windows 7, thus bring an image of the lake to millions of desktop PCs.

The Scone Advocate

In 2007, Fairfax Media acquired Rural Press in an agreed merger, while locally, the paper's Macintosh computers were replaced with PCs.

USS PCS-1376

PCS-1376 was laid down on 13 October 1942 at the Wheeler Shipbuilding Corporation in Whitestone, New York; launched on 3 April 1943, sponsored by Mrs. J. E. Flipse; and commissioned on 9 July 1943, with Lieutenant (j.g.) Jack Pierpont Morgan, III, USNR, son of the American financier J. P. Morgan, Jr., in command.

WiFiDog Captive Portal

This structure enables it to be embedded in devices such as the WRT54G router running OpenWrt, FreeWRT or DD-WRT or most PCs running Linux.

Wireless Communications Transfer Protocol

Wireless Communications Transfer Protocol (WCTP) is the method used to send messages to wireless devices such as pagers on NPCS (Narrowband PCS) networks.

Workstation

This approach was actually first attempted as a replacement for PCs in office productivity applications, with the 3Station by 3Com as an early example; in the 1990s, X terminals filled a similar role for technical computing.

Xerox Daybreak

It ran the ViewPoint (later GlobalView) GUI and was used extensively throughout Xerox until being replaced by Suns and PCs.

Xircom

Xircom acquired Entrega, a small company that produced the USB upgrade boards (for people with older PCs lacking universal serial bus connectors) and converters (USB to serial, to parallel, to Ethernet).

Zune Software

Content can be viewed or purchased on Windows PCs with the Zune software installed, Zune devices, the Xbox 360, Windows Phone phones, or the Microsoft Kin phones.


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