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THINKING MACHINES CORPORATION

Specialty Definition: THINKING MACHINES CORPORATION

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Thinking Machines Corporation The company that introduced the Connection Machine parallel computer ca 1984. Four of the world's ten most powerful supercomputers are Connection Machines. Thinking Machines is the leader in scalable computing, with software and applications running on parallel systems ranging from 16 to 1024 processors. In developing the Connection Machine system, Thinking Machines also did pioneering work in parallel software. The 1993 technical applications market for massively parallel systems was approximately $310 million, of which Thinking Machines Corporation held a 29 percent share. Thinking Machines planned to become a software provider by 1996, by which time the parallel computing market was expected to have grown to $2 billion. Thinking Machines Corporation has 200 employees and offices worldwide. Address: 245 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1264, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 234 1000. Fax: +1 (617) 234 4444. (1994-12-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: THINKING MACHINES CORPORATION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001000 01001001 01001110 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001101 01000001 01000011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000101 01010011 00100000 01000011 01001111 01010010 01010000 01001111 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0048 0049 004E 004B 0049 004E 0047      004D 0041 0043 0048 0049 004E 0045 0053      0043 004F 0052 0050 004F 0052 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54424348454348412473537424348395323749525049523554434948

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