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  • mwarrenus mwarrenus commented 4 months ago

    Amazon Silk—Amazon's Revolutionary Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser

    The web browser on Kindle Fire introduces a radical new paradigm -- a "split browser" architecture that accelerates the power of the mobile device ...

    mwarrenus said:

    In 1994, Professor Eric Brewer and Armando Fox's research at UC Berkeley developed this "split browser" architecture and Proxinet, Inc was founded to deploy it commercially. One client on the Palm Pilot was "Top Gun Wingman". Amazon's "split-browser" technology might be new within Amazon, but o...

  • mwarrenus mwarrenus commented 4 months ago

    Wierd military computer boards

    What did these come from?

    High-res pics at http://www.electricstuff.co...

    mwarrenus said:

    DEC internal article:

    Sun. Apr. 29, 1991 at Discovery Mission Time 0 days, 04:11:55 the 1st VAX in space booted VMS. Controllers at Goddard Center report all sensors are nominal and the verification phase is proceeding normally.

    Militarized VAX 6210 by Raytheon. R/W optical disk boot device by ...

  • mwarrenus mwarrenus commented 8 months ago

    How the M16 Works, part 2

    Everything you ever wanted to know about how the M16 works

    mwarrenus said:

    @GoldenRing1989 5:45 into the film the narrator explains: "When the bolt carrier enters the last 1/2-inch of its forward movement, the bolt cam pin emerges from the guide channel in the upper receiver and moves along the cam track rotating the bolt counter-clockwise. This locks the bolt to the ba...

    • mwarrenus mwarrenus commented 8 months ago

      How the M16 Works, part 2

      Everything you ever wanted to know about how the M16 works

      mwarrenus said:

      @jericoferrari55 @9:41 shows MCMLXVI - 1966. Archive.org on US Army film TF9-3663 "Rifle 5.56mm, XM16E1, Operation and Cycle of Functioning": 1st mass-fielded version of the M16 rifle. This version has a chrome-plated bolt carrier, no trap door in the buttstock, no forward assist, non-chrome-lin...

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