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anyone know what PICO is?

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Zedfu

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i've heard a few person mention the word PICO before. yes, it's computer related, but i'm here racking my brains. help me out here.
 
pico comes with pine. I guess it is pine's default text editor. It is real close to the 'ol DOS edit. I'm so used it it I still haven't bothered to learn vi or emacs and I've been using linux for ages (like years and years). Maybe I'm too lazy.

I was reading over the vi man pages, etc.... Whatta pain!

I'm sure it'll be worth it eventually though.
 
Indeed.

More advanced unix/linux/solaris editors are vi and emacs.

Think back to the old MS-DOS edit days and you pretty much get pico. If you program you'll love vi and emacs. Hehe, C-x C-f /windows/system.dat [RET] C-k C-k C-k C-x C-s C-x C-c.

Anywho, have fun.

MUST-HAVE-[TAB] AUTO-COMPLETION.
 
It's probably the editor - which is a good editor until it automatically line wraps a file you don't want line wrapped (because you really don't want a bunch of extra carriage returns showing up in the wrong spots). Then I switch to "vi".

But it could also be pico- meaning one trillionth (10^-12) of something. With 1GHz (1ns clock period) processors here now and much faster arriving in the future people in the industry are starting to think of clock periods, signal timing, etc. in picoseconds rather than nanoseconds.
 
Utopia
PICO is the 0.000 000 000 001 prefix (10^-12).

Remember going smaller it's:
Deci
Centi
Milli
Micro
Nano
Pico
Femto

Going up it's:
Deca
Hecto
Kilo
Mega
Giga
Tera
Peta
Exa

Thorin
 


<< in picoseconds rather than nanoseconds >>



PM, i havent heard of pico/s timing before... Future? Long away from now.. 😉
 
a Pico second is a trillionth of a second. a new laser that was developed for viewing chemical reactions in real time, pulses light FASTER then nanoseconds (in other words, a fraction of a nanosecond). it's speeds are measured in picoseconds.

apply that to communication and what do u get?? a trillion bits per second, from ONE laser! then of course, to add to that, you add more lasers of different frequencies to multiply your speed!

BTW, my source is Scientific American if you're wondering...
 
Utopia: Any processor faster than 1GHz is going to have a clock period less than 1ns - so rather than say, this gate has a delay of 0.234 nanoseconds(ns) (made up numbers as example), most engineers are starting to say that it takes 234 picoseconds(ps). And whenever it comes up that we quote clock periods on the newer processors we have starting saying things like &quot;the clock period is 900ps&quot; rather than &quot;the clock period is 0.9ns&quot;. It's a little thing I guess, but a lot of people here at Anandtech throw around &quot;nanoseconds&quot; when they are talking memory, and FSB speeds, and latencies sometimes. Increasingly, I've started hearing engineers throwing around picoseconds instead.

So when someone asks me what &quot;pico&quot; is the first thing that I think of is 10E-12.

After that it's the editor that has caused me a fair amount of headaches with it's auto linewrap &quot;feature&quot;. 🙂

 
pm:

*csh:

alias pico &quot;pico -w&quot;

sh/ksh/bash
alias pico=&quot;pico -w&quot;

<Edit>Most plain bourne-shells (plain sh) do not have alias functionality.</Edit>

Wouldn't have to worry about line wrapping any more.

New Unix users I sometimes set-up to use the above instead of having to teach them vi(m) 🙂 I am a vi(m) person so in no way I am endorsing pico as anything other than an easy to use editor. vi and emacs are more efficient.
 
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