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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Mars \Mars\ (m[aum]rz), prop. n. [L. Mars, gen. Martis, archaic Mavors, gen. Mavortis.] 1. (Rom. Myth.) The god of war and husbandry. [1913 Webster] 2. (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,200 miles, a period of 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles. It is conspicuous for the redness of its light. [1913 Webster] 3. (Alchemy) The metallic element iron, the symbol of which [male] was the same as that of the planet Mars. [Archaic] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] {Mars brown}, a bright, somewhat yellowish, brown. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: Mars n 1: a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color; "Mars has two satellites" [syn: {Mars}, {Red Planet}] 2: (Roman mythology) Roman god of war and agriculture; father of Romulus and Remus; counterpart of Greek Ares From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: Mars n. A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker Dream Gone Wrong. Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10-compatible computers built by Systems Concepts (now, The SC Group): the multi-processor SC-30M, the small uniprocessor SC-25, and the never-built superprocessor SC-40. These machines were marvels of engineering design; although not much slower than the unique {Foonly} F-1, they were physically smaller and consumed less power than the much slower {DEC} KS10 or Foonly F-2, F-3, or F-4 machines. They were also completely compatible with the DEC KL10, and ran all KL10 binaries (including the operating system) with no modifications at about 2--3 times faster than a KL10. When DEC cancelled the Jupiter project in 1983 (their followup to the PDP-10), Systems Concepts should have made a bundle selling their machine into shops with a lot of software investment in PDP-10s, and in fact their spring 1984 announcement generated a great deal of excitement in the PDP-10 world. TOPS-10 was running on the Mars by the summer of 1984, and TOPS-20 by early fall. Unfortunately, the hackers running Systems Concepts were much better at designing machines than at mass producing or selling them; the company allowed itself to be sidetracked by a bout of perfectionism into continually improving the design, and lost credibility as delivery dates continued to slip. They also overpriced the product ridiculously; they believed they were competing with the KL10 and {VAX} 8600 and failed to reckon with the likes of Sun Microsystems and other hungry startups building workstations with power comparable to the KL10 at a fraction of the price. By the time SC shipped the first SC-30M to Stanford in late 1985, most customers had already made the traumatic decision to abandon the PDP-10, usually for VMS or Unix boxes. Most of the Mars computers built ended up being purchased by CompuServe. This tale and the related saga of {Foonly} hold a lesson for hackers: if you want to play in the {Real World}, you need to learn Real World moves. From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: mars /maʀ/ March From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: Mars /maʀ/ Mars From Latin-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-lat-eng]: Mars Mars From Swedish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-swe-eng]: mars March From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Mars /mars/ mars From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: mars /mɑrs/ walk From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: Mars /mɑrs/ Mars