Mars \Mars\ (m[aum]rz), prop. n. [L. Mars, gen. Martis, archaic
   Mavors, gen. Mavortis.]
   1. (Rom. Myth.) The god of war and husbandry.
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   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.
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   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]

	

	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

	

	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

	

	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.

	

	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]

	

	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

	

	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:
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