mesa

a flat tableland with steep edges, common in the southwestern US

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mesa

[′mā·sə]

(geography)

A broad, isolated, flat-topped hill bounded by a steep cliff or slope on at least one side; represents an erosion remnant.

Mesa

Xerox PARC, 1977. System and application programming for proprietary hardware: Alto, Dolphin, Dorado and Dandelion. Pascal-like syntax, ALGOL68-like semantics. An early version was weakly typed. Mesa's modules with separately compilable definition and implementation parts directly led to Wirth's design for Modula. Threads, coroutines (fork/join), exceptions, and monitors. Type checking may be disabled. Mesa was used internally by Xerox to develop ViewPoint, the Xerox Star, MDE, and the controller of a high-end copier. It was released to a few universitites in 1985. Succeeded by Cedar.

["Mesa Language Manual", J.G. Mitchell et al, Xerox PARC, CSL-79-3 (Apr 1979)].

["Early Experience with Mesa", Geschke et al, CACM 20(8):540-552 (Aug 1977)].

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mesa

A semiconductor process used in the 1960s for creating the sublayers in a transistor. Its deep etching gave way to the planar process.

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Mesa

a name given to small tablelands resulting from erosion dissection of vast plateaus that for the most part are capped with layers of basaltic lava.

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