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Debra Austin, a former New York City Ballet dancer who now serves as ballet master for Carolina Ballet, says, "We had to work on Lily's port de bras," and laughs as she mimics a stiff-armed third arabesque position that looks like a semaphore flag signal. Semaphore functions as a kind of slow-motion magnifier for digital communications, and for me it connects with early visible communications technologies like the optical telegraph and semaphore flags. Semaphore flags provide a hardware mechanism that allows the designer to manage the use of system resources, including operations within the shared memory itself. |
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