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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Nominal Semidestructor n. Soundalike slang for `National Semiconductor', found among other places in the Networking/2 networking sources. During the late 1970s to mid-1980s this company marketed a series of microprocessors including the NS16000 and NS32000 and several variants. At one point early in the great microprocessor race, the specs on these chips made them look like serious competition for the rising Intel 80x86 and Motorola 680x0 series. Unfortunately, the actual parts were notoriously flaky and never implemented the full instruction set promised in their literature, apparently because the company couldn't get any of the mask steppings to work as designed. They eventually sank without trace, joining the Zilog Z8000 and a few even more obscure also-rans in the graveyard of forgotten microprocessors. Compare HP-SUX, AIDX, buglix, Macintrash, Telerat, ScumOS, sun-stools, Slowlaris, Internet Exploder. Source: Jargon File. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: NOMINAL SEMIDESTRUCTOR |
| Specialty definitions using "NOMINAL SEMIDESTRUCTOR": AIDX ♦ buglix ♦ Open DeathTrap ♦ Telerat. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-i-l-m-m-n-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-t-t-u" | |
-5 letters: codeterminations, intermodulations, reconsiderations, ultramicrotomies, underestimations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 4F 4D 49 4E 41 4C 53 45 4D 49 44 45 53 54 52 55 43 54 4F 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01001111 01001101 01001001 01001110 01000001 01001100 00100000 01010011 01000101 01001101 01001001 01000100 01000101 01010011 01010100 01010010 01010101 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N O M I N A L   S E M I D E S T R U C T O R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 004F 004D 0049 004E 0041 004C 0053 0045 004D 0049 0044 0045 0053 0054 0052 0055 0043 0054 004F 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4849474348354625339474338395354525537544952 |
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