snow leopard (redirected from Snow Panther)

snow leopard

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Endangered species ( Uncia uncia;) of nocturnal long-haired cat that inhabits the high mountains of Central Asia and India. It is about 6 ft (1.8 m) long, including the 3-ft (1-m) tail, stands about 2 ft (0.5 m) tall, and weighs 60–120 lb (27–55 kg). Its dense, soft coat, consisting of an insulating undercoat and outer coat of 2-in. (5-cm) hairs, is pale grayish with dark rosettes and a dark streak along the spine. The whitish fur of the underparts may be 4 in. (10 cm) long. It preys on marmots, wild sheep and goats, birds, and other animals. It is hunted principally for the market in goods used in Asian traditional medicine.

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Snow Leopard

The second version of Apple's Leopard operating system, expected in 2009. Snow Leopard features "Grand Central," a programming interface for writing applications that take advantage of multiple cores. Also included is support for Microsoft Exchange 2007, 16TB of memory, a more advanced QuickTime (QuickTime X) and OpenCL (Open Compute Language), which lets programmers access the graphics processor (GPU) for general-purpose computing. See Leopard.