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Kronos is an operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by Control Data Corporation in 1971. [1] Kronos ran on the 60-bit CDC 6000 series mainframe computers and their successors. CDC replaced Kronos with the NOS operating system in the late 1970s, which were succeeded by the NOS/VE operating system in the mid-1980s.
Qo'noS (Kronos) The Klingons ( / ˈ k l ɪ ŋ ( ɡ ) ɒ n / KLING -(g)on ; [ 2 ] Klingon : tlhIngan [ˈt͡ɬɪŋɑn] ) are a fictional species in the science fiction franchise Star Trek . Developed by screenwriter Gene L. Coon in 1967 for the original Star Trek ( TOS ) series , Klingons were swarthy humanoids characterized by prideful ...
The Kronos effect is a term coined by Columbia Law School professor Tim Wu in his 2010 book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. It describes how companies that establish early dominance in a period of disruptive innovation will do everything in their power to maintain their first-mover advantage .
Kronos Quartet Plays Sigur Rós is a studio album by the Kronos Quartet, containing two "audience favorites," "Flugufrelsarinn" (by Sigur Rós) and "The Star-Spangled Banner" (trad., arr. S. Prutsman after Jimi Hendrix). The album is available only as a digital download.
Nuevo is a 2002 album by the Kronos Quartet composed entirely of music of Mexican origin.. It was inspired by a number of visits made to Mexico by the quartet's violinist and founder, David Harrington, from 1995.
The Waters of Kronos is a novel by American author Conrad Richter published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1960. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1961. [1] According to Penn State University, "this is the story of John Donner, an aging writer who has driven from the West Coast back to Unionville, Pennsylvania, where he grew up.
In the words of Joan Jeanrenaud (Kronos cellist until 1998), "Terry shaped how Kronos shaped the music we played"; the Kronos Quartet, in turn, helped Riley "to move beyond the minimalism of his early period," an observation made also by K. Robert Schwarz in a long piece in The New York Times on the occasion of an overview of the composer's ...