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commodore
(encz) | commodore,komodor n: Zdeněk Brož |
Commodore
(gcide) | Commodore \Com"mo*dore`\, n. [Prob. a corruption of commander,
or Sp. comendador a knight of a military order who holds a
commandery; also a superior of a monastery, fr. LL.
commendare to command. Cf. Commend, Command,
Commander.]
1. (U. S. Navy) An officer who ranks next above a captain;
sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron.
The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier
general in the army.
[1913 Webster]
2. (British Navy) A captain commanding a squadron, or a
division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear
admiral.
[1913 Webster]
3. A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line
of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a
yachting or rowing club.
[1913 Webster]
4. A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel
of a squadron or fleet.
[1913 Webster] |
commodore
(wn) | commodore
n 1: a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and
below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral |
commodore
(foldoc) | Commodore
Commodore Business Machines or one of
their computers such as the Commodore 64.
(2010-09-14)
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Commodore
(gcide) | Commodore \Com"mo*dore`\, n. [Prob. a corruption of commander,
or Sp. comendador a knight of a military order who holds a
commandery; also a superior of a monastery, fr. LL.
commendare to command. Cf. Commend, Command,
Commander.]
1. (U. S. Navy) An officer who ranks next above a captain;
sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron.
The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier
general in the army.
[1913 Webster]
2. (British Navy) A captain commanding a squadron, or a
division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear
admiral.
[1913 Webster]
3. A title given by courtesy to the senior captain of a line
of merchant vessels, and also to the chief officer of a
yachting or rowing club.
[1913 Webster]
4. A familiar for the flagship, or for the principal vessel
of a squadron or fleet.
[1913 Webster] |
commodore john barry bridge
(wn) | Commodore John Barry Bridge
n 1: a cantilever bridge in Chester, Pennsylvania |
commodore perry
(wn) | Commodore Perry
n 1: United States commodore who led the fleet that defeated the
British on Lake Erie during the War of 1812; brother of
Matthew Calbraith Perry (1785-1819) [syn: Perry, {Oliver
Hazard Perry}, Commodore Perry] |
commodore vanderbilt
(wn) | Commodore Vanderbilt
n 1: United States financier who accumulated great wealth from
railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877) [syn:
Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, {Commodore
Vanderbilt}] |
commodore 1010
(foldoc) | Commodore 1010
A 3.5-inch floppy disk drive for the Amiga.
(1998-12-23)
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commodore 128
(foldoc) | Commodore 128
(C128) An expanded Commodore 64, {Commodore
Business Machines}' last commercially released 8-bit computer.
However, they did prototype the Commodore 65 and {Commodore
SX64}.
(1996-06-05)
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commodore 1541
(foldoc) | Commodore 1541
1541
The best known floppy disk drive for the
Commodore 64. The 1541 was a single-sided 160 Kb drive but
converting to flippy disks would give another 160 Kb.
The disk drive used Group Code Recording and contained a
6502 processor as a disk controller. Some people wrote
code for it to vibrate the head at different frequencies to
play tunes.
The transfer rate was about 300 bytes per second. The 1541
used a bit-serial version of the IEEE 488 parallel
protocol. Some third-party speed-ups could transfer about 4
kilobytes per second over the interface, and some "fast
loaders" managed up to 10 kbps.
The Commodore 1570 was an upgraded 1541 for use with the
Commodore 128.
(2000-03-07)
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commodore 1570
(foldoc) | Commodore 1570
Commodore Business Machines's allegedly "advanced"
disk drive for use with the C128. It is basically a 1541
with the capability to use "burst loading" (like the
Commodore 1571), and lots of new bugs.
The Commodore 1571 was a double-sided version of the 1570.
(1996-04-07)
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commodore 1571
(foldoc) | Commodore 1571
Commodore Business Machines's "advanced" {disk
drive} for the C128. It was the double-sided version of the
Commodore 1570 disk drive but, unlike the 1570, worked quite
well.
The 1571 supported "burst mode" loading when used on a C128
in native mode, which increased the transfer speed from 1541
speed to about three kilobytes per second (about a 10-fold
increase). The 1571 could be told to emulate a 1541 for use
with a C64 or 1541 disks.
Bugs in early releases of the 1571 ROM affected access to
the second side of the disk.
(1996-04-07)
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commodore 1581
(foldoc) | Commodore 1581
1581
Commodore Business Machines's 3.5 inch {disk
drive} for the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128. The drive
stores 800 kilobytes using an MFM format which is
different from both messy-dos 720 kb, and the Amiga 880 kb
formats.
The 1581 supports a poor imitation of directories which are
really just partitions and largely unused. It also supports
burst loading like the Commodore 1571, but is actually
faster as it is better designed. It has 3160 blocks free
when formatted.
The 1581 is the highest density C64 serial bus drive made by
Commodore. However Creative Micro Designs (CMD) make the
FD2000 (1.6MB) and (until recently) the FD4000 (3.2MB)
3.5" disk drives. GEOS users like 1581s as they are very
fast when used with GEOS.
See also Commodore 1541, Commodore 1571.
(1998-12-23)
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commodore 64
(foldoc) | Commodore 64
C64
(C64) An 8-bit Commodore Business Machines
personal computer released around September 1981.
Prototypes were (apparently) made before Christmas 1980 (and
shown at some computer fair).
The CPU was a 6510 from MOS Technology (who were a
wholly owned subsiduary of Commodore at this time(?)). The
C64 had 64 kilobytes of RAM as standard and a 40-column
text, 320x200 pixel display generating composite video,
usually connected to a television.
DMA-based memory expanders for the C64 (and C128) allowed
128, 256, and 512 kb of RAM. Several third party
manufacturers produce accelerators and RAM expanders for the
C64 and C128. (Some, risking a holy war, compare this to
putting a brick on roller-skates). Such accelerators come in
speeds up to 20MHz (20 times the original) and RAM expanders
to 16MB.
The C64's 1541 5.25 floppy disk drive had a 6502
processor as a disk controller.
See also Commodore 65.
["Assembly language programming with the Commodore 64", Marvin
L. De Jong].
(1996-06-05)
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commodore 64dx
(foldoc) | Commodore 65
Commodore 64DX
(Or Commodore 64DX, C65, C64DX) The last 8-bit
computer designed by Commodore Business Machines, about
1989-1991. The C65 boasts an ugly collection of custom
integrated circuits which makes even the Amiga hardware
look standard.
The core of the C65 chipset is the CSG 4510 and {CSG
4569}. The 4510 is a 65CE02 with two 6526 CIAs. The
4569 is equivalent to a combination of the 6569 VIC-II and
the MMU of the Commodore 64. The C65 also has a {DMA
controller} (Commodore's purpose built DMAgic) which also
functions as a simple blitter, and a floppy controller for
the internal Commodore 1581-like disk drive. The floppy
controller, known as the F011, supports seven drives (though
the DOS only supports 2). The 4510 supports all the C64
video modes, plus an 80 column text mode, and bitplane
modes. The bitplane modes can use up to eight bitplanes, and
resolutions of up to 1280 x 400. The palette is 12-bit
like the Amiga 500. It also has two SID's (MOS 8580/6581)
for stereo audio.
The C65 has two busses, D and E, with 64 kilobytes of RAM
on each. The VIC-III can access the D-bus while the CPU
accesses the E-bus, and then they can swap around. This
effectively makes the whole 8MB address space both {chip
ram} and fast ram. RAM expansion is accomplished through
a trap door slot in the bottom which uses a grock of a
connector. The C65 has a C128-like native mode, where all
of the new features are enabled, and the CPU runs at 3.5
megahertz with its pipeline enabled. It also has a C64
incompatibility mode which offers approx 50-80%
compatibility with C64 software by turning off all its {bells
and whistles}. The bells and whistles can still be accessed
from the C64 mode, which is dissimilar to the C128's
inescapable C64 mode.
Production of the C65 was dropped only a few weeks before it
moved from the Alpha stage, possibly due to Commodore's cash
shortage. Commodore estimate that "between 50 and 10000"
exist. There are at least three in Australia, about 30 in
Germany and "some" in the USA and Canada.
(1996-04-07)
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commodore 65
(foldoc) | Commodore 65
Commodore 64DX
(Or Commodore 64DX, C65, C64DX) The last 8-bit
computer designed by Commodore Business Machines, about
1989-1991. The C65 boasts an ugly collection of custom
integrated circuits which makes even the Amiga hardware
look standard.
The core of the C65 chipset is the CSG 4510 and {CSG
4569}. The 4510 is a 65CE02 with two 6526 CIAs. The
4569 is equivalent to a combination of the 6569 VIC-II and
the MMU of the Commodore 64. The C65 also has a {DMA
controller} (Commodore's purpose built DMAgic) which also
functions as a simple blitter, and a floppy controller for
the internal Commodore 1581-like disk drive. The floppy
controller, known as the F011, supports seven drives (though
the DOS only supports 2). The 4510 supports all the C64
video modes, plus an 80 column text mode, and bitplane
modes. The bitplane modes can use up to eight bitplanes, and
resolutions of up to 1280 x 400. The palette is 12-bit
like the Amiga 500. It also has two SID's (MOS 8580/6581)
for stereo audio.
The C65 has two busses, D and E, with 64 kilobytes of RAM
on each. The VIC-III can access the D-bus while the CPU
accesses the E-bus, and then they can swap around. This
effectively makes the whole 8MB address space both {chip
ram} and fast ram. RAM expansion is accomplished through
a trap door slot in the bottom which uses a grock of a
connector. The C65 has a C128-like native mode, where all
of the new features are enabled, and the CPU runs at 3.5
megahertz with its pipeline enabled. It also has a C64
incompatibility mode which offers approx 50-80%
compatibility with C64 software by turning off all its {bells
and whistles}. The bells and whistles can still be accessed
from the C64 mode, which is dissimilar to the C128's
inescapable C64 mode.
Production of the C65 was dropped only a few weeks before it
moved from the Alpha stage, possibly due to Commodore's cash
shortage. Commodore estimate that "between 50 and 10000"
exist. There are at least three in Australia, about 30 in
Germany and "some" in the USA and Canada.
(1996-04-07)
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commodore business machines
(foldoc) | Commodore Business Machines
(CBM) Makers of the PET, Commodore 64,
Commodore 16, Commodore 128, and Amiga {personal
computers}. Their logo is a chicken head.
The Commodore name is controlled by Commodore Licensing BV,
now a subsidiary of Asiarim. Commodore USA signed an
agreement with Commodore Licensing BV.
On 1994-04-29, Commodore International announced that it had
been unable to renegotiate terms of outstanding loans and was
closing down the business. Commodore US was expected to go
into liquidation. Commodore US, France, Spain, and Belgium
were liquidated for various reasons. The names Commodore and
Amiga were maintained after the liquidation.
After 1994, the rights to the Commodore name bounced across
several European companies.
On 1995-04-21, German retailer Escom AG bought Commodore
International for $14m and production of the Amiga resumed.
Netherlands-based Tulip Computers took over the brand.
Production of the 8-bit range alledgedly never stopped during
the time in liquidation because a Chinese company were
producing the C64 in large numbers for the local market
there.
In 2004, Tulip sold the Commodore name to another Dutch firm,
Yeahronimo, that eventually changed its name to Commodore
International.
In April 2008 three creditors took the company to court
demanding a bankruptcy ruling.
On 2010-03-17, Commodore USA announced that it was to release
a new PC in June 2010 which looks very similar to the old
Commodore 64 but comes with a Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad,
Pentium D or Celeron D processor and with Ubuntu Linux
or Windows 7 installed. {PC World article
(http://pcworld.com/article/192415)}.
(2010-09-14)
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commodore sx64
(foldoc) | Commodore SX64
A "portable" Commodore 64. Shaped vaguely like a
seat cushion, this cumbersome experiment in transportable
computers had a detachable keyboard on one end which, when
removed, revealed a 6" monitor and a 5 1/4" floppy disk
drive. The curious combination of a bulky design and
microscopic display are the most likely cause for the SX64's
discontinuation.
[Processor? RAM? Dates?]
(1997-10-25)
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portable commodore 64
(foldoc) | Portable Commodore 64
A version of the Commodore 64 modelled after the
original Osborne portable PCs, with a flip-down keyboard that
revealed a 5-inch colour monitor, and a built-in 1541 {floppy
disk} drive. It is thought that few were made but that they
did go on sale, at least in Canada.
[Relationship to Commodore 65?]
(1997-09-14)
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