An Avidian is a computer program consisting (in the base case) of a set of 50 computer commands arranged in a loop, which comprise its "genome".
Its operation is as follows: a user draws a picture on an input window of the GUI, and then the host computer commands client printer-robots to reproduce the same on a paper in a finite time.
In the 1960s, in fact, huge I.B.M. mainframe computers commanded pride of place in corporate headquarters.
Apple's laptop computers command the loyalty of some of the hardest to please customers: consumers with money to spend, creative professionals and students.
With the nacelles pointing straight up in conversion mode at 90° the flight computers command the aircraft to fly like a helicopter, with cyclic forces being applied to a conventional swashplate at the rotor hub.
His latest project, Halt and Catch Fire (named after an early computer command requiring a restart), investigates the home-computing revolution in the early 1980s, with Pace's Joe MacMillan the slippery svengali at its heart.
Xerox PARC's innovation had been to replace the traditional computer command line with onscreen icons.
(It's a computer command that causes a processor to overload, shutting down the machine).
Mr. Heverly and his teammates tell the vehicle where to go next by entering hundreds of computer commands.
Why else would you have to click the Start button in Windows to see the "Turn off computer" command?
