On the NES and SNES a common feature on 3rd party controllers was "Slow-motion". It worked by repeatedly pressing and releasing the start button. Because many games simply froze gameplay when paused, this effectively caused the game to run at half speed. I had the thought that it would probably b...

Around 1988-1990 I worked for a company that was using an old RSX-11 system to host an ERP application. The application used a third-party database product of which I am trying to recall the name. This was a hierarchical/navigational type of database (not relational). The system had been in-use f...