Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| 5919265 | Source synchronization data transfers without resynchronization penalty A system clock generator for a computer system to efficiently transfer data from a source subsystem to a destination subsystem of the computer system. The system clock generator generates a globally synchronized clock signal for the source subsystem and t... | 07/06/1999 |
| 5802566 | Method and system for predicting addresses and prefetching data into a cache memory A Method for increasing data-processing speed in computer systems containing at least one microprocessor (1), a memory device (3), and a cache (2,4) connected to the processor, in which the cache (2,4) is arranged to fetch data from the addresses in the m... | 09/01/1998 |
