Mars

7 definitions found

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) 2.0 [wn]:

  Mars
       n 1: the 4th planet from the sun [syn: {Red Planet}]
       2: (Roman mythology) Roman god of war and agriculture; father
          of Romulus and Remus; counterpart of Greek Ares

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "Mars":
     Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Ate,
     Athena, Bacchus, Bellona, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele,
     Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Earth, Enyo, Eros, Gaea,
     Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here,
     Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter,
     Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus,
     Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kore, Kronos, Magna Mater,
     Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Odin, Olympians,
     Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus,
     Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea,
     Saturn, Tellus, Tiu, Tyr, Uranus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Woden,
     Wotan, Zeus, asteroid, inferior planet, major planet, minor planet,
     planet, planetoid, secondary planet, solar system, superior planet,
     terrestrial planet, wanderer
  
  

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [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, 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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Mars
       
          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-25M, and the never-built superprocessor SC-40M.  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, 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.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
       

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Mars, PA (borough, FIPS 47672)
    Location: 40.69663 N, 80.01409 W
    Population (1990): 1713 (672 housing units)
    Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 16046

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Mars, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania
     Population (2000):    1746
     Housing Units (2000): 715
     Land area (2000):     0.446948 sq. miles (1.157591 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.446948 sq. miles (1.157591 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            47672
     Located within:       Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
     Location:             40.696594 N, 80.012205 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     16046
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Mars, PA
      Mars