• The Z-machine is a virtual machine that was developed by Joel Berez and Marc Blank in 1979 and used by Infocom for its text adventure games. Infocom compiled...
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  • Z machine may refer to: Z-machine, a text-based game interpreter Z Pulsed Power Facility, an x-ray generator at Sandia National Laboratories, informally...
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    542522°W / 35.035451; -106.542522 The Z Pulsed Power Facility, informally known as the Z machine or simply Z, is the largest high frequency electromagnetic...
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  • format for the saved state of Z-machine games, invented by Martin Frost. Prior to the introduction of Quetzal, each Z-machine interpreter saved games in...
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    Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4, 1969), known professionally as Jay-Z, is an American rapper, businessman, and record executive. Rooted in East Coast...
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    Z5 may refer to: Harbin Z-5, Chinese helicopter Mazda Z engine a file extension used by Z-machine Z5 (computer) designed by Konrad Zuse the GMG Airlines...
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    general-purpose engine like Infocom's z-machine, which Graham Nelson argues is "possibly the most portable virtual machine ever created". Significant advances...
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    direction of the current in the devices, the Z-axis on a Cartesian three-dimensional graph. Any machine that causes a pinch effect due to current running...
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  • Glulx (category Virtual machines)
    relieve some of the restrictions in the venerable Z-machine format. For example, because the Z-machine uses 16-bit integers its RAM is limited to 64KB,...
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  • on a standardized virtual machine called the Z-machine. As the games were text based and used variants of the same Z-machine interpreter, the interpreter...
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  • format was devised by Andrew Plotkin and is used in both the Z-machine and Glulx virtual machines, as well as by the Glk library. In the days when games were...
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    IBM Z from IBM z Systems; the IBM Z family now includes the newest model, the IBM z17, as well as the z16, z15, z14, and z13 (released under the IBM z Systems/IBM...
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    the symbol to express support for the invasion. Z with diacritics: Ź ź Ž ž Ż ż Ƶ ƶ ß : German letter regarded as a ligature of long...
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  • on a standardized virtual machine called the Z-machine. As the games were text based and used variants of the same Z-machine interpreter, the interpreter...
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  • Z, z, -z, z', or z- in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Z, or z, is the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet. Z may also refer to: Z (1969...
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  • Graham Nelson. Inform can generate programs designed for the Z-code or Glulx virtual machines. Versions 1 through 5 were released between 1993 and 1996....
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  • World War Z is a 2013 American action horror film directed by Marc Forster, with a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan, Drew Goddard, and Damon Lindelof...
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    capsule Z-Library Although it is formally blocked, enforcement is not consistent and depends on the region. Ong, Thuy (August 9, 2017). "Wayback Machine has...
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    VM/CMS) is a family of IBM virtual machine operating systems used on IBM mainframes System/370, System/390, zSeries, System z and compatible systems, including...
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    ongoing fusion power experiment being carried out on the Z Pulsed Power Facility (Z machine) at Sandia National Laboratories in the US. It is one example...
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    generators is used by Sandia National Laboratories to generate X-rays in their Z Machine. The circuit generates a high-voltage pulse by charging a number of capacitors...
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  • these programs mostly include interactive fiction (IF) interpreters for Z-machine, TADS, Glulx, and Hugo games, and IF games written in more obscure file...
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    XYZ axes). In addition to moving the probe along the X, Y, and Z axes, many machines also allow the probe angle to be controlled to allow measurement...
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    supercomputers, ASCI Red and ASCI Red Storm, and is currently home to the Z Machine, the largest X-ray generator in the world, which is designed to test materials...
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  • (2024-01-01), Naser, M. Z. (ed.), "8 - AI for large-scale evacuation modeling: promises and challenges", Interpretable Machine Learning for the Analysis...
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    z/VM is the current version in IBM's VM family of virtual machine operating systems. First released in October 2000, z/VM remains in active use and development...
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  • services company Zilch (software), a compiler used by Infocom to create Z-machine games Zilch (electromagnetism), a group of conserved quantities of the...
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  • dancing and similar performance Zork Implementation Language, used by the Z-machine ZFS Intent Log, where ZFS transactions are assembled before committing;...
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  • Machine to machine (M2M) is direct communication between devices using any communications channel, including wired and wireless. Machine to machine communication...
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    A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices...
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