mars
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mars - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Mars \Mars\ (m[aum]rz), prop. n. [L. Mars, gen. Martis, archaic
Mavors, gen. Mavortis.]
1. (Rom. Myth.) The god of war and husbandry.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, the
fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the
earth, having a diameter of about 4,200 miles, a period of
687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles. It is
conspicuous for the redness of its light.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Alchemy) The metallic element iron, the symbol of which
[male] was the same as that of the planet Mars. [Archaic]
--Chaucer.
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Mars brown, a bright, somewhat yellowish, brown.
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mars - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
Mars
n 1: a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is
periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in
iron cover its surface and are responsible for its
characteristic color; "Mars has two satellites" [syn:
Mars, Red Planet]
2: (Roman mythology) Roman god of war and agriculture; father of
Romulus and Remus; counterpart of Greek Ares
mars - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :
Mars
A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone
Wrong. Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10
compatible computers built by Systems Concepts (now, The SC
Group): the multi-processor SC-30M, the small uniprocessor
SC-25M, and the never-built superprocessor SC-40M. These
machines were marvels of engineering design; although not much
slower than the unique Foonly F-1, they were physically
smaller and consumed less power than the much slower DEC KS10
or Foonly F-2, F-3, or F-4 machines. They were also
completely compatible with the DEC KL10, and ran all KL10
binaries (including the operating system) with no
modifications at about 2--3 times faster than a KL10.
When DEC cancelled the Jupiter project in 1983, Systems
Concepts should have made a bundle selling their machine into
shops with a lot of software investment in PDP-10s, and in
fact their spring 1984 announcement generated a great deal of
excitement in the PDP-10 world. TOPS-10 was running on the
Mars by the summer of 1984, and TOPS-20 by early fall.
Unfortunately, the hackers running Systems Concepts were much
better at designing machines than at mass producing or selling
them; the company allowed itself to be sidetracked by a bout
of perfectionism into continually improving the design, and
lost credibility as delivery dates continued to slip. They
also overpriced the product ridiculously; they believed they
were competing with the KL10 and VAX 8600 and failed to reckon
with the likes of Sun Microsystems and other hungry startups
building workstations with power comparable to the KL10 at a
fraction of the price.
By the time SC shipped the first SC-30M to Stanford in late
1985, most customers had already made the traumatic decision
to abandon the PDP-10, usually for VMS or Unix boxes. Most of
the Mars computers built ended up being purchased by
CompuServe.
This tale and the related saga of Foonly hold a lesson for
hackers: if you want to play in the Real World, you need to
learn Real World moves.
[Jargon File]
mars - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :
Mars
n.
A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone Wrong.
Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10-compatible computers
built by Systems Concepts (now, The SC Group): the multi-processor
SC-30M, the small uniprocessor SC-25, and the never-built
superprocessor SC-40. These machines were marvels of engineering
design; although not much slower than the unique Foonly F-1, they
were physically smaller and consumed less power than the much slower
DEC KS10 or Foonly F-2, F-3, or F-4 machines. They were also
completely compatible with the DEC KL10, and ran all KL10 binaries
(including the operating system) with no modifications at about 2--3
times faster than a KL10.
When DEC cancelled the Jupiter project in 1983 (their followup to the
PDP-10), Systems Concepts should have made a bundle selling their
machine into shops with a lot of software investment in PDP-10s, and
in fact their spring 1984 announcement generated a great deal of
excitement in the PDP-10 world. TOPS-10 was running on the Mars by
the
summer of 1984, and TOPS-20 by early fall. Unfortunately, the hackers
running Systems Concepts were much better at designing machines than
at mass producing or selling them; the company allowed itself to be
sidetracked by a bout of perfectionism into continually improving the
design, and lost credibility as delivery dates continued to slip.
They
also overpriced the product ridiculously; they believed they were
competing with the KL10 and VAX 8600 and failed to reckon with the
likes of Sun Microsystems and other hungry startups building
workstations with power comparable to the KL10 at a fraction of the
price. By the time SC shipped the first SC-30M to Stanford in late
1985, most customers had already made the traumatic decision to
abandon the PDP-10, usually for VMS or Unix boxes. Most of the Mars
computers built ended up being purchased by CompuServe.
This tale and the related saga of Foonly hold a lesson for hackers:
if you want to play in the Real World, you need to learn Real World
moves.
mars - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :
Mars, PA (borough, FIPS 47672)
Location: 40.69663 N, 80.01409 W
Population (1990): 1713 (672 housing units)
Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 16046
mars - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "Mars":
Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate,
Athena, Bacchus, Bellona, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele,
Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Earth, Enyo, Eros, Gaea,
Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here,
Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter,
Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus,
Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater,
Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Odin, Olympians,
Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus,
Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea,
Saturn, Tellus, Tiu, Tyr, Uranus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Woden,
Wotan, Zeus, asteroid, inferior planet, major planet, minor planet,
planet, planetoid, secondary planet, solar system, superior planet,
terrestrial planet, wanderer
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