SSV (band)

SSV-NSMABAAOTWMODAACOTIATW (abbreviated to SSV) was a short lived musical project formed by Sisters of Mercy singer Andrew Eldritch in 1997. The band consisted of Andrew Eldritch and the Hamburg-based techno producers Peter Bellendir (formerly of Xmal Deutschland) and T. Schroeder.

The band served as a vehicle for Eldritch to record a 'spoiler' album, in order to meet his long-standing contractual obligations with WEA. Following the release of the latest Sisters of Mercy studio album, Vision Thing, in 1990, Eldritch had grown tired of the label and had postponed the production of two impending studio albums for several years.

It is "hinted" that the band's full name stands for "Screw Shareholder Value - Not So Much A Band As Another Opportunity To Waste Money On Drugs And Ammunition courtesy Of The Idiots At Time Warner".

Go Figure

In 1997, SSV recorded their only album, Go Figure, which was given to East West Records but was never officially released. The album has since been bootlegged in various formats and has become infamous.

NEC V60

The NEC V60 (μPD70616) was a CISC processor manufactured by NEC starting in 1986. The V60 was the first 32-bit general-purpose microprocessor commercially available in Japan.

A relatively obscure design in the West, it was a radical departure from NEC's previous V-series CPUs—the NEC V20-V50 series—, which were based on the Intel x86 model, although it retained the ability to emulate them. According to NEC's documentation, the architectural change was made due to the increasing demand and diversity of programs, calling for a processor with both power (the 32-bit internal bus) and flexibility, having large numbers of general-purpose registers—a common feature of RISC architectures and a benefit to the emerging high-level languages. The V60 architecture retained however CISC features (which its manual describe as mainframe-based) like variable-length instructions, memory-to-memory operations including string manipulation, and fairly complex operand addressing schemes.

Although it had a 32-bit internal bus, the V60 had only a 16-bit external data bus and a 24-bit address bus. Its architecture was carried largely intact to the V70 (μPD70632) model, which had external 32-bit buses and was released in 1987. Launched in 1989, the V80 (μPD70832) was the culmination of the series having on-chip caches, a branch predictor, and less reliance on microcode for complex operations. The V60-V80 architecture did not enjoy much commercial success.