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2 unusual facts about interface


AS-Interface

In order to retain full forward and backward compatibility, the size of the data frame exchanged between the network master (Scanners and Gateways) was not increased.

Servicizing

For example, Interface, Inc. experienced the problem of consumers signing the contract for provision of “flooring solutions” for short time, after which they wanted to change their carpets.


AMD mobile platform

Both low-power APU versions feature two Bobcat x86 cores and fully support DirectX11, DirectCompute (Microsoft programming interface for GPU computing) and OpenCL (cross-platform programming interface standard for multi-core x86 and accelerated GPU computing).

ARP Chroma

An Apple IIe interface card with sequencing software was released later on.

Bedzan people

They live at the interface of the forest and the savannah, and their language is a dialect of Tikar, which is related to the Bantu languages.

Caltech Cosmic Cube

In 1987 several people in the group formed a company called Parasoft to commercialize the message passing interface developed for the Cosmic Cube.

CMX 600

The first rack contained the interface electronics for the system, monitoring equipment, and a Digital PDP-11 minicomputer with 32 kilobytes of RAM, which controlled the system.

Commodore 8280

They used a wide rectangular steel case form similar to that of the Commodore 4040, and used the IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBM computers.

Commodore Plus/4

Commodore released a high-speed floppy disk drive for the Plus/4, the Commodore 1551, which offered much better performance than the C64/1541 combination because it used a parallel interface rather than a serial bus.

Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II

Additional content was unlocked in the Super Famicom version by scanning barcodes with Barcode Battler II connected via a "Barcode Battler II Interface".

EBI2

External Bus Interface 2 (EBI2) is an external interface found on some Qualcomm processors.

Egis

An acronym for Erieye Ground Interface Segment, military software package which is part of the Erieye radar system and is sometimes confused with the Aegis combat system.

Embedded Wizard

It provides a WYSIWYG front-end for editing graphics, effects and logic of the user interface and generates ANSI C code for a particular target hardware.

Emergency Management Services

Emergency Management Services (EMS) provides an RS-232 accessible serial console interface to the bootloader menu on modern versions of Microsoft Windows.

Final Cut Express

Final Cut Express' interface was identical to that of Final Cut Pro, but lacks some film-specific features, including Cinema Tools, multi-cam editing, batch capture, and a time code view.

FPD-Link

For example, VESA designed Embedded and Internal DisplayPort with the intention to replace FPD-Link as an internal interface.

Fsc2

fsc2 is well documented; the documentation with more than 350 pages in HTML, info, PostScript and PDF format is part of the package, covering all aspects of fsc2, i.e. the graphical interface, the EDL language, device functions and the writing of new device modules etc.

Gdium

The Gdium netbook is marketed as an interface device to the Gdium "learning community" -- a website that provides hardware support, MIPS builds of Open Source software, Linux computing tips, and educational resources targeted towards teachers and students within the K-12 demographic.

HDE Controller X

It allows server administrators to set up new websites, e-mail accounts, DNS entries, through a web-based interface.

Iberian gauge

Although the 22 km from Tardienta to Huesca (part of a branch from the Madrid to Barcelona high-speed line) has been reconstructed as mixed Iberic and standard gauge, in general the interface between the two gauges in Spain is dealt with by means of gauge-changing installations, which can adjust the gauge of appropriately designed wheelsets on the move.

Instant WebKiosk

Instant WebKiosk/UB, Unrestricted Browsing, is a live, browser-only (only browser interface will show up) operating system designed for web kiosks and multi-user web workstations: it is a fully customizable operating system for Internet browsing purposes, which protects privacy; users can change its settings but after a reset the operating system defaults to original values, except for persistent settings.

International Standard Payload Rack

The ISPRs will be outfitted with a thin center post to accommodate sub-rack-sized payloads, such as the 483 mm (19-inch rack) Spacelab Standard Interface Rack (SIR) Drawer or the Space Shuttle Middeck Locker.

Iron pillar of Delhi

In a report published in the journal Current Science, R. Balasubramaniam of the IIT Kanpur explains how the pillar's resistance to corrosion is due to a passive protective film at the iron-rust interface.

Language Interface Pack

Unlike MUI packs which are available only to Microsoft volume license customers and for select SKUs of Windows Vista, a Language Interface Pack is available freely and can be installed on a licensed copy of Microsoft Windows or Office and a fixed base language.

Laplace's law

Young–Laplace equation, describing pressure difference over an interface in fluid mechanics.

Luca Urbani

During the mission, Urbani acted as Crew Interface Coordinator in the Payload Operations Control Center at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.

Mark Malamud

In addition to designing the fundamental conceptual, user, and interaction models for Windows 95 and future versions of Windows NT, Mr. Malamud also pursued future user interface abstractions.

Michel Waisvisz

The Hands (1984): One year after the MIDI standard had been introduced, Waisvisz built the first experimental interface making use of sensor data converted into MIDI.

Monotype Imaging

CTDL was responsible for developing Microsoft JhengHei, the default traditional Chinese interface font for Windows Vista.

MSN Groups

In the WYSIWYG interface there are tools to add pictures, select background and text colours, create tables, emoticons, fonts, paragraphs, text sizes etc.

Natural user interface

In the 1970s, '80s and '90s Steve Mann developed a number of user-interface strategies using natural interaction with the real world as an alternative to a command-line interface (CLI) or graphical user interface (GUI).

Netgear SC101

The original SC101 model could hold one or two disks (sold separately) using Parallel ATA (known as "IDE" at the time) and had a 100 Mbit/sec Ethernet over twisted pair interface.

NFAS

Non-Facility Associated Signalling, a Primary Rate Interface configuration whereby multiple T1 carriers share a signaling channel (or D channel).

PCI Mezzanine Card

FMC – FPGA Mezzanine Card provides a standard mezzanine form factor that offers a flexible, modular I/O interface to an FPGA located on a host system baseboard or carrier card.

Prevx

Tony Zaitoun, of About.com, liked the software except that he had some confusion about configuring the interface and that key protection is disabled by default although the issue referenced has since been corrected.

Qualcomm

After integrating the company, Qualcomm re-branded their interface markup language, TrigML, and its accompanying integrated development environment (IDE) as uiOne.

Qubic

It was later ported to the HP 2647 demo tape with a graphical interface, using a simple mathematical transform to solve for 3D input position.

Ray tracing hardware

Software provided integration with Maya (see Autodesk Maya) and Max (see Autodesk 3ds Max) data formats, and utilized the Renderman scene description language for sending data to the processors (the .RIB or Renderman Interface Bytestream file format).

RDOFF

In version 0.90, Simon Tatham added support for an object-file output interface, along with support for DOS .

SA10

One of Systems Concepts' major products, the SA-10, was an interface which allowed PDP-10s to be connected to disk and tape drives designed for use with the channel interfaces of IBM mainframes.

Simple DNS Plus

All options and settings are available directly from a Windows user interface.

Sixjax

The beta site launched on March 15, 2011 with the interface coded in the Ruby on Rails framework.

Skuzzy

SCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface), pronounced Skuzzy

Sony Mavica

The first CD-based Mavica (MVC-CD1000), notable also for its 10× optical zoom, could only write to CD-R discs, but it was able to use its USB interface to read images from CDs not finalized (CDs with incomplete sessions).

Speech interface guideline

Speech interface guideline is a guideline with the aim for guiding decisions and criteria regarding designing interfaces operated by human voice.

The Humane Interface

The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems (ISBN 0-201-37937-6) is a book about user interface design written by Jef Raskin and published in 2000.

Therac-25

The equipment control task did not properly synchronize with the operator interface task, so that race conditions occurred if the operator changed the setup too quickly.

TortoiseCVS

The project was started by Francis Irving when he was employed by Creature Labs to provide a better interface to CVS for his colleagues.

UISE

User interface design, sometimes known as "User Interface Software Engineering" (UISE), a general application and appliance design principle focussing on the user's experience and interaction

User interface

Archy, an experimental keyboard-driven modeless user interface by Jef Raskin, arguably more efficient than mouse-driven user interfaces for document editing and programming.

VORPAL

on systems that support the Message Passing Interface (MPI).

Yenka

Flowchart programming interface for PICs and PICAXE chips, including exporting programs to a physical PIC or PICAXE.


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