What is life? It’s a seemingly simple question that leads to complex answers and heated philosophical and scientific arguments. Some focus on metabolism as the key to life, others on genetics, and ...

The phases in the life of an information system, which includes its initiation, development, maintenance and eventual demise. The length of the cycle depends on the nature and volatility of the ...

A minicomputer from IBM. Introduced in 1977, the typical system had a handful of terminals and could run System/32 programs in a special mode. Most large System/34 users migrated to the System/38, ...