word addressing means that addresses of memory on a computer uniquely identify words of memory. It is usually used in contrast with byte addressing,...
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Byte addressing in hardware architectures supports accessing individual bytes. Computers with byte addressing are sometimes called byte machines, in contrast...
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machines, where the natural unit of addressing memory would be called a word, while a quantity that is one half a word would be called a halfword. In fitting...
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18-bit word addresses, giving an address space of 218 36-bit words, approximately 1 megabyte of storage), not byte addressing. The range of addressing of...
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Addressing modes are an aspect of the instruction set architecture in most central processing unit (CPU) designs. The various addressing modes that are...
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PDP-11 architecture (section Addressing modes)
selecting word versus byte addressing). Two groups of six bits specify the source operand addressing mode and the destination operand addressing mode, as...
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city, on the same line. East Asian addressing systems, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese addressing systems, when written in their native...
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incrementing the word address if the character offset overflowed, branching if the count had not reached zero. In 22-bit addressing mode the counter was...
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the History Channel reported in November 2024. Lincoln began his 271-word address in Gettysburg with the now famed phrase, "Four score and seven years...
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introduced byte-addressable memory with 8-bit bytes, as opposed to bit-addressable or decimal digit-addressable or word-addressable memory, although...
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code and the significant risk of ambiguity and confusion in its three word addresses. This has resulted in some to advise against the use of What3words in...
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WD16 (section Addressing modes)
bits select one of eight addressing modes and three bits select a general register. The encoding of the six bit operand addressing mode is as follows: In...
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Battle of Gettysburg (section Gettysburg Address)
redefined the purpose of the Civil War in his famed Gettysburg Address, a 271-word address that has endured as one of the most famous speeches in American...
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primary addressing and routing methodologies common in networking: unicast addressing, anycast addressing, and multicast addressing. A unicast address identifies...
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Integer (computer science) (redirect from Quad word)
address individual bits ('bit-addressed machine'), or that could only address 16- or 32-bit quantities ('word-addressed machine'). The term byte was usually...
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Term of endearment (category All articles with specifically marked weasel-worded phrases)
are used for a variety of reasons, such as parents addressing their children and lovers addressing each other. Each term of endearment has its own connotations...
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the address is typically 32 or 64 bits. Most hard disk drives released after 1996 implement logical block addressing. In logical block addressing, only...
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relatively small, a byte array may be preferable on a machine with byte addressing. A word array, however, is probably not justified due to the huge space overhead...
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Longest words (redirect from Longest word)
The longest word in any given language depends on the word formation rules of each specific language, and on the types of words allowed for consideration...
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between alignment and addressing, but data aligned at a multiple of word size does. Conversely, in some operating systems, virtual addresses are narrower than...
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Intel HEX (redirect from Intel Hex Word Address Object Format)
previously established base address, thus allowing memory addressing beyond the 64 kilobyte limit of 16-bit addresses. The base address, which defaults to zero...
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two-out-of-five code. Except for the IBM 1620 and 1710, these machines used word addressing. When non-numeric characters were used in these machines, they were...
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The A Word is a British television drama series, based on the Israeli series Yellow Peppers. The series follows a young boy and how his family cope with...
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Super Harvard Architecture Single-Chip Computer (category Very long instruction word computing)
architecture word-addressed VLIW processor; it knows nothing of 8-bit or 16-bit values since each address is used to point to a whole 32-bit word, not just...
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TMS9900 (section Instruction set and addressing)
accessing operands (addressing modes). Addressing modes include Immediate (operand in instruction), Direct or "Symbolic" (operand address in instruction)...
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WriteMemory(word Address, word Value) { word RealAddress; RealAddress = Address + BaseRegister; if ((RealAddress < LimitRegister) && (RealAddress > ROMSIZE))...
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Memory segmentation (redirect from Segmented Addressing)
80286 and later processors add "286 protected mode", which retains 16-bit addressing, and adds segmentation (without paging) and per-segment memory protection...
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Ayya is a Pali word, translated as "honourable" or "worthy".: 87 It is most commonly used as a veneration in addressing or referring to an ordained female...
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bits: n: Indirect addressing flag i: Immediate addressing flag x: Indexed addressing flag b: Base address-relative flag p: Program counter-relative flag...
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