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unusual facts about Real-time Programming Language


Real-time Programming Language

A number of large scale manufacturing applications were developed in RPL, including that which was in use at Plessey and GEC-Plessey Telecommunications limited in Liverpool and also the Trifid suite of manufacturing software.


A. J. Quinnell

When the author was preparing to publish his first book, Man on Fire, he wanted to keep his real identity a secret.

Angelo Fierro

He starred on the TV series Breaking Vegas as real-life counterfeiter Louis Colavecchio and had a recurring role as the Russian mobster, Vladimir, on the TV series Ocean Ave., starring Victoria Jackson.

Arthur O. Friel

In 1922, he became a real-life explorer when he took a six-month trip down Venezuela's Orinoco River and its tributary, the Ventuari River.

Camp Topridge

It is now owned by Texas real estate magnate, Harlan Crow, who has substantially restored the buildings and added a number of new ones.

Chris Gent

However, his real passion is cricket, having grown up next door to The Oval and he is well-known to travel long distances to attend matches.

Christophe Cuvillier

Christophe Cuvillier (born December 5, 1962 in Etterbeek) is a French businessman and current chief executive officer of the European real-estate group Unibail-Rodamco.

Chronicles of Barsetshire

The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or, in more recent UK usage, the Barchester Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located approximately where the real Dorset lies) and its cathedral town of Barchester.

Computronium

Computronium is a material hypothesized by Norman Margolus and Tommaso Toffoli of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to be used as "programmable matter," a substrate for computer modeling of virtually any real object.

Dave Jenks

In 2003, with the release of The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, co-authored by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan, Jenks became a best-selling author when the book spent time on BusinessWeek's best-seller list.

Deep Sea Monster Reigo

The film, set in World War II, depicts the story of the real-life Japanese battleship, the Yamato, which is confronted in the Pacific Ocean by giant monsters, including the most fearsome of them all, Reigo.

Exit Games

Exit Games is a German venture capital financed company, founded in 2003, with offices in Hamburg and Portland offering a multiplayer engine for cross-platform realtime multiplayer games and massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) on various technological platforms, including mobile, PC and consoles.

Fujiwara no Norimichi

He was familiar with Koshikibu no Naishi (小式部内侍) (real name is unknown) (died 1025), daughter of Tachibana no Michisada and Lady Izumi Shikibu.

Geoff Grover

Geoffrey David "Geoff" Grover (born 19 September 1943), is a business and marketing expert, currently working in real estate on the Queensland Sunshine Coast.

Georgetown, Queensland

Georgetown is one of the real locations mentioned several times in the novel "A Town Like Alice" by Nevil Shute.

Gesta Danorum

It is thought that Shakespeare never read Gesta Danorum, and instead had access to an auxiliary version of the tale describing the downfall of the Prince of Denmark, whose real name, Amleth, was used in anagram by Shakespeare for Hamlet.

Involuntary unemployment

Following earlier disequilibrium research including that of Robert Barro and Herschel Grossman, work by Edmund Malinvaud clarified the distinction between classical unemployment, where real wages are too high for markets to clear, and Keynesian unemployment, involuntary unemployment due to inadequate aggregate demand.

James Ready

His company Montavista Software did pioneering work in adapting the operating system Linux for real-time applications.

Javert

Javert goes to Arras to see Champmathieu and satisfies himself that this is the real Valjean.

Jim Fannon

Fannon is a veteran real estate sales representative with RE/MAX in the St. Catharines area and is the founder of Nature’s Hemp, a local business selling hemp-related food products.

Jim Herriot

Herriot is probably best-known today for giving his name to the writer James Herriot, a Yorkshire vet whose real name was Alf Wight.

La Quinta del Buitre

With the years, the "Quinta Del Buitre" has earned a more generic meaning, being also associated with a brand of football played by Real Madrid in the late 1980s and early 1990s, under the stewardship of coaches Luis Molowny, Leo Beenhakker and John Toshack.

Lifetime Real Women

Lifetime Real Women has never featured any original programming, relying on imported series (such as Gizzi Erskine's Cook Yourself Thin series from the UK or Style By Jury from Canada) or reruns of previous or current Lifetime series.

Lotte Spira

During the Second World War she signed a statement swearing that Fritz Spira was not the real father of her actress daughter Camilla Spira, who was being held at Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.

Love Ranch

Oscar Bonavena – murdered real-life model for boxer Armando Bruza

Mallorca – Suche nach dem Paradies

The focus is put on the ruthless real estate agent Rolf Stein (Klaus Zmorek), who's business activities aren't always legal.

Miracast

It allows users to, for example, echo display from a phone or tablet onto a TV, share a laptop screen with the conference room projector in real-time, and watch live programs from a home cable box on a tablet.

Newton's method

In numerical analysis, Newton's method (also known as the Newton–Raphson method), named after Isaac Newton and Joseph Raphson, is a method for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.

Oliver Frey

Oli Frey, real name Oliver Frey, Swiss magazine illustrator

Paul Geary

Geary is also co-owner of an authentic Italian restaurant in Boston's North End called TRESCA, along with his partners, hockey star Ray Bourque and real estate mogul Harvey Wilk.

PC Fútbol

The game was one of the first licensed games - by the Liga de Fútbol Profesional - which meant that the developers were able to use real player and team names.

Real team chess

Otherwise the expression of "Real Teamchess" is a synonym of Tactical Team Chess.

Rhodium Nights

In an interview with Yahoo TV show runner/executive producer Warren Leight noted, "This episode is a real potboiler that involves a lot of politics, and in politics, you never know who to trust."

Road debris

MotorStorm (2007) has mud that flies around and gets painted accurately onto the body of each vehicle in real-time.

Sino-Ocean Land

It is one of the largest real estate companies in Beijing and has a diversified portfolio of development projects and investment properties in Beijing, Pan-Bohai Bay, Yangtze River Delta, and Pearl River Delta regions.

St Matthew's, Westminster

It was sculpted by Guy Reid, a former Artist in Residence at St Matthew’s, and has a real theological intensity.

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

Tarzan the Terrible

He has tracked her to a hidden valley called Pal-ul-don, which means "Land of Men." In Pal-ul-don Tarzan finds a real Jurassic Park filled with dinosaurs, notably the savage Triceratops-like Gryfs, which unlike their prehistoric counterparts are predatory.

The Jennifer Morgue

Where 2004's The Atrocity Archives is written in the idiom of Len Deighton, The Jennifer Morgue is a pastiche of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and refers to the real-life Project Azorian (incorrectly named by the press as Project Jennifer); Stross also uses footnotes and narrative causality, two literary devices common in the novels of Terry Pratchett.

The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein

The Man Who Wrote Frankenstein is a 2007 book about poet Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Lauritsen, who argues that Shelley, not his wife Mary Shelley, was the real author of Frankenstein.

The Monster of Piedras Blancas

The lighthouse locations in the movie were filmed at the Point Conception lighthouse near Lompoc, and the movie's "town" is actually the seaside town of Cayucos, about 30 miles south of the real Piedras Blancas.

The Shadow of Lightning Ridge

One day he rescues Sir Edward's fiancee, Dorothy (Agnes Vernon), from real bushrangers and falls in love with her.

The Summer Book

Sophia Jansson - Jansson's niece and the real-life model for the character of Sophia.

The Vampire's Assistant

The Vampire's Assistant is the second novel in The Saga of Darren Shan by Darren Shan (Whose real name is Darren O'Shaughnessy).

Thine Own Self

Goiânia accident, an incident of radioactive contamination in central Brazil, a real life accident with some similarities.

Time transfer

Examples of a one-way time transfer system are the clock on a church or town building and the ringing of their time-indication bells; time balls, radio clock signals such as LORAN, DCF77 and MSF; and finally the Global Positioning System which uses multiple one-way time transfers from different satellites, with positional information and other advanced means of delay compensations to allow receiver compensation of time and position information in real time.

Tom Clancy's The Division

The Division is inspired by Operation Dark Winter and Directive 51, real-world events which "revealed how vulnerable we've become"; society has become "fragile" and "complex".

Trish Goff

After returning to the United States, Goff received her real estate license from New York University and now works as a broker for Douglas Elliman in New York.

Voodoo programming

Cargo cult programming, a style of computer programming that is characterized by the ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose.

Waydowntown

The radio station CJAY 92 that plays "Start A Rumour Day" throughout the film is a real rock station in Calgary, with the station's actual DJs (the DJ "Bob", is Bob Steele, no longer with the station).

Wilbur Breslin

Active in real estate development, leasing and brokerage for over 45 years, Breslin is an active member of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, the National Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, the International Council of Shopping Centers, the National Association of Real Counselors and the National Association of Review Appraisers.


see also

RTL2

RTL/2, a real-time programming language based on Algol 68