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  2. System generation - Wikipedia

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    System generation. In computing system generation or sysgen is the process of creating a particular unique instance of an operating system by combining user-specified options and parameters with manufacturer-supplied general-purpose program code to produce an operating system tailored for a particular hardware and software environment. [1]

  3. Genealogical numbering systems - Wikipedia

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    The Henry System is a descending system created by Reginald Buchanan Henry for a genealogy of the families of the presidents of the United States that he wrote in 1935. [3] It can be organized either by generation or not. The system begins with 1. The oldest child becomes 11, the next child is 12, and so on.

  4. System Generation (OS) - Wikipedia

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    System Generation (SysGen) is a two-stage process for installing or updating OS/360, OS/VS1, OS/VS2 (SVS), OS/VS2 (MVS) and chargeable systems derived from them.

  5. Fifth Generation Computer Systems - Wikipedia

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    The Fifth Generation Computer Systems ( FGCS; Japanese: 第五世代コンピュータ, romanized : daigosedai konpyūta) was a 10-year initiative begun in 1982 by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) to create computers using massively parallel computing and logic programming. It aimed to create an "epoch-making computer ...

  6. Electricity generation - Wikipedia

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    Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy. For utilities in the electric power industry, it is the stage prior to its delivery ( transmission, distribution, etc.) to end users or its storage, using for example, the pumped-storage method.

  7. Timeline of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    DYSEAC - an early machine capable of distributing computing. 1955. General Motors Operating System made for IBM 701 [2] MIT 's Tape Director operating system made for UNIVAC 1103 [3] [4] 1956. GM-NAA I/O for IBM 704, based on General Motors Operating System. 1957.

  8. Cogeneration - Wikipedia

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    Cogeneration or combined heat and power ( CHP) is the use of a heat engine [1] or power station to generate electricity and useful heat at the same time. Cogeneration is a more efficient use of fuel or heat, because otherwise- wasted heat from electricity generation is put to some productive use. Combined heat and power (CHP) plants recover ...

  9. L-system - Wikipedia

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    L-system trees form realistic models of natural patterns. An L-system or Lindenmayer system is a parallel rewriting system and a type of formal grammar.An L-system consists of an alphabet of symbols that can be used to make strings, a collection of production rules that expand each symbol into some larger string of symbols, an initial "axiom" string from which to begin construction, and a ...