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What the Well-Dressed Spacecraft Will Be Wearing

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This coming February, the Cygnus NG-17 spacecraft will launch from NASA Wallops, in Virginia, on a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. Concurrently, we'll take impedance measurements, which will let us peek into the internal electrical properties of the fibers. Bob O'Connor.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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Placing an Early Bet on the 68000 Chip The 68000 , with a 16-bit data bus and 32-bit internal registers and a 7.83-megahertz Memory management A mechanism in a computer for allocating internal memory among different programs, especially in multitasking systems. No programmer would be needed for translation.

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