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-clam,
clams,
clammed,
clamming.intransitive
verbs
to hunt for clams; clams
& oysters
clam.noun,.plural.clams
various types of marine
and freshwater mollusks, many of
which are edible
clam up.phrasal
verb
to refuse
to talk
colossus.noun,.plural.colosi
a colossus is an extremely large statue (India
has the largest statue in the world)
Colossus of Rhodes
a giant statue of Greek god Apollo long ago now
in ruins, destroyed by an earthquake; it was built to guard the entrance
to the harbor on the island of Rhodes and was one of the Seven Wonders
of the World in 224 B.C.E.
Colossus (computer)
from Free Online Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)
The Colossus and Colossus Mark II computers used
by Alan Turing at Bletchley Park, UK during the Second World War to crack
the 'Tunny' cipher produced by the Lorenz SZ 40 and SZ 42 machines.
Colossus was a semi-fixed-program
(vacuum tube) calculator, unlike its near-contemporary, the freely programmable
Z3).
Breaking the enemy's code, Glenn
Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, September 1987, pp. 47-51. The computer was in
the film Colossus: The Forbin Project.
Forbin is the designer of an incredibly
sophisticated computer that will run all of America's nuclear defences.
Shortly after being turned on, it detects the existence of Goliath, the
Soviet counterpart, previously unknown to US Planners. Both computers insist
that they be linked and after taking safeguards to preserve confidential
material, each side agrees to allow it. As soon as the link is established
the two become a new super computer and threaten the world with the immediate
launch of nuclear weapons if they are detached. Colossus begins to give
its plans for the management of the world under its guidance. Forbin and
the other scientists form a technological resistance to Colossus which
must operate underground.
See The Internet Movie Database 07-28-2002
http://www.msstate.edu/M/title-exact?Colossus:%20The%20Forbin%20Project
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