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winchester
(encz) | Winchester,Winchester n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
winchester
(czen) | Winchester,Winchestern: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
winchester
(wn) | Winchester
n 1: a city in southern England; administrative center of
Hampshire
2: a shoulder rifle |
winchester
(foldoc) | winchester
An informal generic term for floating head
magnetic disk drives in which the read-write head planes
over the disk surface on an air cushion.
The name arose because the original 1973 engineering prototype
for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte
volumes; 30--30 became "Winchester" when somebody noticed the
similarity to the common term for a famous Winchester rifle
(in the latter, the first 30 referred to caliber and the
second to the grain weight of the charge).
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-06)
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winchester
(jargon) | Winchester
n.
Informal generic term for sealed-enclosure magnetic-disk drives in which
the read-write head planes over the disk surface on an air cushion. There
is a legend that the name arose because the original 1973 engineering
prototype for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte
volumes; 30--30 became ‘Winchester’ when somebody noticed the similarity to
the common term for a famous Winchester rifle (in the latter, the first 30
referred to caliber and the second to the grain weight of the charge). (It
is sometimes incorrectly claimed that Winchester was the laboratory in
which the technology was developed.)
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| | podobné slovo | definícia |
winchester
(encz) | Winchester,Winchester n: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
winchester
(czen) | Winchester,Winchestern: [jmén.] příjmení Zdeněk Brož a automatický
překlad |
winchester
(wn) | Winchester
n 1: a city in southern England; administrative center of
Hampshire
2: a shoulder rifle |
winchester college
(wn) | Winchester College
n 1: the oldest English public school; located in Winchester |
winchester drive
(wn) | Winchester drive
n 1: computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or
optical disk and reads and writes information on it [syn:
disk drive, disc drive, hard drive, {Winchester
drive}] |
winchester
(foldoc) | winchester
An informal generic term for floating head
magnetic disk drives in which the read-write head planes
over the disk surface on an air cushion.
The name arose because the original 1973 engineering prototype
for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte
volumes; 30--30 became "Winchester" when somebody noticed the
similarity to the common term for a famous Winchester rifle
(in the latter, the first 30 referred to caliber and the
second to the grain weight of the charge).
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-06)
|
winchester
(jargon) | Winchester
n.
Informal generic term for sealed-enclosure magnetic-disk drives in which
the read-write head planes over the disk surface on an air cushion. There
is a legend that the name arose because the original 1973 engineering
prototype for what later became the IBM 3340 featured two 30-megabyte
volumes; 30--30 became ‘Winchester’ when somebody noticed the similarity to
the common term for a famous Winchester rifle (in the latter, the first 30
referred to caliber and the second to the grain weight of the charge). (It
is sometimes incorrectly claimed that Winchester was the laboratory in
which the technology was developed.)
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WINCHESTER MEASURE
(bouvier) | WINCHESTER MEASURE. The standard measure originally kept at Winchester, in
England.
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