The Galloping Age stars Lee Pace, who played the stunning Elf King Thranduil in the Hobbit series. It will premiere on AMC on June 1 this year.
Time Network News Although farewell to "Breaking Bad" and will say goodbye to the last season of "Mad Men", AMC is still developing more new good series: On June 1 this year, the TV network will launch a new drama "Mad Men". Halt & Catch Fire, starring Lee Pace, who played the stunning Elf King Thranduil in The Hobbit.
"The Age of Pentium" began production in July 2013 and was developed by Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers. The background of the story is set in the 1980s, when the development of home computers exploded. In the story, a visionary businessman, a computer engineer and a genius come together due to an innovative revolution in the market to create the largest company of its time. They changed the cultural landscape of Texas, while greed and egos tested their personal and professional lives.
Lee Pace will play Joe MacMillan, a visionary businessman who was a successful IBM salesman before leaving his job for personal reasons. He went to Dallas, and John Bosworth, played by Toby Haas, hired him. John is the VP of Sales at Cardiff Giant Software, and he appreciates Joe's resume and reputation. Joe believes that the era of personal computers is coming, and he wants to flex his muscles again. He meets Gordon Clarke, played by Scott McNally, who also came looking for work, and Cameron, played by Mackenzie Davis, an ambitious computer programmer, genius, but always disguised by confrontational behavior. Fragile.
"Pentium Age", dubbed "the development history of Zhongguancun in Texas" by drama fans, is not the only recent series in the field of computer technology that has been put on the small screen. HBO's new comedy "Silicon Valley Black History" will also be released on April 4. Premieres on the 6th.
What is Halt & Catch Fire?
Halt & Catch Fire, abbreviated as HCF, is a computer term that is translated as a convenience instruction, which refers to the use of computer code instructions to allow the CPU to perform meaningful operations. "Catch Fire" is actually close to a hilarious expression, because the CPU doesn't literally catch fire, but it does stop working. HCF is also sometimes understood as SDI - Self Destruct Immediate (Self Destruct Immediate).
Perhaps a fictional anecdote from the late 1960s can help you understand what HCF means. At the time, computers were still using magnetic core memory, and one engineer increased the current in the core circuits in order to speed it up. When the computer executes a normal program, it runs just fine, but when the HALT command is executed, it means "Jump to self", which makes the same kernel memory accessed multiple times, very thin wires in the circuit. It can get very hot and even start to smoke. Since then, the directive has been labeled Halt & Catch Fire.
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