The pit fall of reincarnation of function is still with us. Sometimes the layers are inhomogeneous which leads to conceptual costs, namely it is too hard to understand the layered systems. Sometimes the inhomogeneities linger in legacy architectures long after their original justifications are forgotten.
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2. The Wheel of Reincarnation; The simplest displays merely plot points from coordinate information. The TX-0 display at MIT (circa 1957) or the; PDP-1 with DEC Type 30 (circa 1960) are of this type. Such a display has no processor;
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The term for this recycling of lifetimes is the wheel of reincarnation. Karma, people's action and reaction in life, is its motor. The cycle goes on—lifetime after lifetime. ... They're on the Wheel of the Eighty-Four, a reference to the many thousands of lives that people enter in the lower worlds of matter, energy,
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Back in the early 70's, Myer & Sutherland (the latter of Evans & Sutherland high-end graphics fame) suggested that trends in graphics workstations (and by extension, computing in general) followed the 'great wheel of reincarnation' principle;
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[coined in a paper by T.H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland On the Design of Display Processors, Comm. ACM, Vol. 11, no. ... Also known as the Wheel of Life, the Wheel of Samsara, and other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea. See also blitter ... wheel bit Home wheel wars...
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wheel bit ... wheel wars ... Also known as `the Wheel of Life', `the Wheel of Samsara', and other variations of the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea. See also blitter, bit bang.
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[from slang 'big wheel' for a powerful person] A person who has an active wheel bit. "We need to find a wheel to unwedge the hung tape drives." (See wedged, sense 1.) The traditional name of security group zero in BSD (to which the major system-internal users like root belong) is 'wheel'.
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Getting off the Reincarnation Wheel© ... The closing out of this cycle as related to 2012 is only the preparation for the achievement of the final phase of this reincarnation wheel for those in alignment with that doorway of potential.
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Without going into the convoluted corridors of debate, reincarnation is a relatively easy-to-understand theory that can explain such things. ... Lastly, the Buddhists and the Jains came up with the Round of Existence, or the Wheel of Becoming, showing graphically the various stages of joyful or sorrowful incarnations a soul...
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Define wheel of reincarnation - from the Linux / Unix / Computing glossary at About.com. ... Definition: wheel of reincarnation: [coined in a paper by T. H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland "On the Design of Display Processors", Comm. ACM, Vol. 11, no.
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