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  2. CIA cryptonym - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] TRIGON, for example, was the code name for Aleksandr Ogorodnik, a member of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the former Soviet Union, whom the CIA developed as a spy; [4] HERO was the code name for Col. Oleg Penkovsky, who supplied data on the nuclear readiness of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. [5]

  3. ASCII - Wikipedia

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    ASCII (/ ˈ æ s k iː / ⓘ ASS-kee), [3]: 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. . ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devic

  4. Area 51 - Wikipedia

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    By October 1963, the drone's design had been finalized. At the same time, the Q-12 underwent a name change. To separate it from the other A-12-based projects, it was renamed the "D-21". (The "12" was reversed to "21"). "Tagboard" was the project's code name. [30]: 121 The first D-21 was completed in the spring of 1964 by Lockheed.

  5. Bytecode - Wikipedia

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    Bytecode (also called portable code or p-code) is a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter.Unlike human-readable [1] source code, bytecodes are compact numeric codes, constants, and references (normally numeric addresses) that encode the result of compiler parsing and performing semantic analysis of things like type, scope, and nesting depths of ...

  6. Electric generator - Wikipedia

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    U.S. NRC image of a modern steam turbine generator (STG). In electricity generation, a generator [1] is a device that converts motion-based power (potential and kinetic energy) or fuel-based power (chemical energy) into electric power for use in an external circuit.

  7. Code 128 - Wikipedia

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    Code 128 is a high-density linear barcode ... Despite its name, Code 128 does not have 128 distinct symbols, so it cannot represent 128 code points directly ...

  8. Pseudocode - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, pseudocode is a description of the steps in an algorithm using a mix of conventions of programming languages (like assignment operator, conditional operator, loop) with informal, usually self-explanatory, notation of actions and conditions.

  9. List of Microsoft codenames - Wikipedia

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    Preliminary name Final name Notes Ref Razzle NT OS/2, Advanced Windows Windows NT 3.1: Is also the name of a script that sets up the Windows NT development environment. NT OS/2 reflected the first purpose of Windows NT to serve as the next version of OS/2, before Microsoft and IBM split up. Microsoft used the NT OS/2 code to release Windows NT 3.1.