Multitask /məl-tē-task/ n. Often used of humans in the same meaning it has for computers, to describe a person doing several things at once (but see thrash ). The term multiplex , from communications technology (meaning to…

… of silicon has roughly doubled yearly every year since the technology was invented. See also Parkinson's Law of …

… )), having been swamped by the recent huge advances in IC technology and low-cost personal computing. As of 1991, …

… as HLL s, only to fall from favor as improving compiler technology marginalized assembler programming (see …

… nationwide (see high moby ). The Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden is maintaining one live ITS …

… 1961-1971 -- the formative era of commercial mainframe technology, when big iron dinosaur s ruled the earth. …

… that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s. It …

… font by swapping in a different golf ball. This was the technology that enabled APL to use a non- EBCDIC , non- …

… analogy, perhaps, with the use of the same term in vacuum technology). 5. [IBM] n. Empty space on a disk that has …

… /ee-ro'tiks/ n. [Helsinki University of Technology, Finland]  n. English-language university …