Research

A USB flash drive is a data storage device that consists of flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. USB flash drives are typically removable and rewritable, and physically much smaller than a floppy disk. Most weigh less than 30 g (1 oz). As of September 2011[update] drives of 256 gigabytes are available, and storage capacities as large as 2 terabytes are planned, with steady improvements in size and price per capacity expected. Some allow up to 100,000 write/erase cycles (depending on the exact type of memory chip used) and 10 years shelf storage time.

Microsoft Excel (full name Microsoft Office Excel) is a spreadsheet program written and distributed by Microsoft for computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system and for Apple Macintosh computers. It features an intuitive interface and capable calculation and graphing tools which, along with aggressive marketing, have made Excel one of the most popular microcomputer applications to date. It is overwhelmingly the dominant spreadsheet application available for these platforms and has been so since version 5 in 1993 and its bundling as part of Microsoft Office.

Microsoft Excel is a proprietary commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. It has been a very widely applied spreadsheet for these platforms, especially since version 5 in 1993, and it has almost completely replaced Lotus 1-2-3 as the industry standard for spreadsheets. Excel forms part of Microsoft Office. The current versions are 2010 for Microsoft Windows and 2011 for Mac OS X.

This is an article on personal computer fonts. I hope that there are people interested in this, because the article is, I can assure you, very interesting. I write for a long time now and I use several blogging platforms to express my thoughts. One is WordPress and the other one is Blogger, of course. And another important program that I use is Microsoft Word. Because I have a great respect for all the people who invented these machines, the software programs, the applications in order to be used by us, people who write, I also must respect those who thoughtthat it would be cool to use different ways for writing text.

A computer font (or font) is an electronic data file containing a set of glyphs, characters, or symbols such as dingbats. Although the term font first referred to a set of metal type sorts in one style and size, since the 1990s it is generally used to refer to a scalable set of digital shapes that may be printed at many different sizes.

The start of the modern CPU boom we're still seeing today is hard to put a finger on. I believe the start was at the release of the 8086, which sported a 16-bit internal design and external bus that allowed it to work in 16-bit mode everywhere. The 8086 blasted away at amazing speeds of 4.77 and eventually 8 MHz -- hardly a calculator by today's standards. All this started in 1978.

Chip History from 1970 to Today (Page 1 of 4 ) In this second part of a two-part series covering the history of chips, you'll learn about the challenges of analog chips, Moore's Law, and more. Find out why we had a memory bottleneck on PCs, how Intel became so dominant, and what made it possible to put together a system on a chip. Tony Parker explains it from the perspective of his 30 years of experience as a professional chip designer.

part 1 - SPARC History 1987-1996 (published 1996 in the SPARC Product Directory) In the beginning... It has to be said that in 1987 when Sun introduced the first SPARC based computer, it certainly wasn't clear that SPARC was going to become the leading hardware platform for serious server applications. At that time most computer manufacturers were talking about introducing their own RISC based computers.

The Seventies The seventies were a good time for intel, mostly because they were the first players in the game. Motorola jumped in rapidly thereafter, however, and brought out the ubiquitous 6800 and later the even more important 68000 during the same timeframe. Even today, however, 808x CPUs are more popular in embedded systems than the more powerful Motorola 68000, if for no other reason than inertia. Intel got there first, and got the ball rolling. A great deal of their installed base comes from the fact that the IBM PC and every clone of it thereafter carried an intel CPU.

CPU history starts in 1971, when a small unknown company, Intel, for the first time combined multiple transistors to form a central processing unit - a chip called Intel 4044. However, it was 8 years before the first Personal Computer was constructed.