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1. waitsnoun

   A group of singers or musicians performing in the streets, especially around Christmas.

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1. WAITS

   WAITS was a heavily modified variant of Digital Equipment Corporation's Monitor operating system (later renamed to, and better known as, "TOPS-10") for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 mainframe computers, used at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) from the mid-1960s up until 1991; the mainframe computer it ran on also went by the name of "SAIL".

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1. WAITS

   WAITS was a heavily-modified variant of Digital Equipment Corporation's Monitor operating system for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 mainframe computers, used at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from the mid-1960s up until 1991; the mainframe computer it ran on also went by the name of "SAIL". There was never an "official" expansion of WAITS, but a common variant was "West-coast Alternative to ITS"; another variant was "Worst Acronym Invented for a Timesharing System". The name was endorsed by the SAIL community in a public vote choosing among alternatives. Two of the other contenders were SAINTS and SINNERS, proposed by the systems programmers. Though WAITS was less visible than ITS, there was frequent exchange of people and ideas between the two communities, and innovations pioneered at WAITS exerted enormous indirect influence. WAITS alumni at Xerox PARC and elsewhere also played major roles in the developments that led to the Xerox Star, the Apple Macintosh, and the SUN workstation. The early screen modes of Emacs, for example, were directly inspired by WAITS' "E" editor -- one of a family of editors that were the first to do real-time editing, in which the editing commands were invisible and where one typed text at the point of insertion/overwriting. The modern style of multi-region windowing is said to have originated there.

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1. WAITS

   The mutant cousin of TOPS-10 used on a handful of systems at SAIL up to 1990. There was never an ‘official’ expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as ‘West-coast Alternative to ITS’. Though WAITS was less visible than ITS, there was frequent exchange of people and ideas between the two communities, and innovations pioneered at WAITS exerted enormous indirect influence. The early screen modes of EMACS, for example, were directly inspired by WAITS's ‘E’ editor — one of a family of editors that were the first to do ‘real-time editing’, in which the editing commands were invisible and where one typed text at the point of insertion/overwriting. The modern style of multi-region windowing is said to have originated there, and WAITS alumni at XEROX PARC and elsewhere played major roles in the developments that led to the XEROX Star, the Macintosh, and the Sun workstations. Also invented there were bucky bits — thus, the ALT key on every IBM PC is a WAITS legacy. One WAITS feature very notable in pre-Web days was a news-wire interface that allowed WAITS hackers to read, store, and filter AP and UPI dispatches from their terminals; the system also featured a still-unusual level of support for what is now called multimedia computing, allowing analog audio and video signals to be switched to programming terminals.

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1. WAITS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Waits is ranked #6059 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Waits surname appeared 5,661 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Waits.
   
   83.5% or 4,727 total occurrences were White.
   12.1% or 690 total occurrences were Black.
   1.8% or 106 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 85 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.7% or 40 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.2% or 13 total occurrences were Asian.

Anagrams for waits »

1. waist

2. Swati

How to pronounce waits?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of waits in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of waits in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of waits in a Sentence

1. Justin Berry:

   He's had two years to go through and move forward with this, but he waits till right now, waits until a primary that's taking place, i'm not gonna be intimidated by that.

2. Swingers:

   Trent You know I used to wait two days to call anybody, but now it's like everyone in town waits two days. So I think three days is kind of money. What do you think

3. Rabindranath Tagore:

   While God waits for His temple to be built of love, Men bring stones.

4. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley:

   That's what real leadership is about. That's the sort of new leadership that people are looking for, not the sort of leadership that waits for poll numbers or for focus groups or puts a finger to the wind to see which way public consensus is going. No, that's not leadership.

5. Bill Gross:

   A purchase of Treasuries and a sale of Bunds allows for not only a potential capital gain if the spread narrows, but a yield pickup while the Rip Van Winkle investor potentially waits for a probable outcome.

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