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    In computer architecture, 60-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 60 bits wide. Also, 60-bit central processing unit (CPU)...
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  • personal computing. Many 16-bit CPUs already existed in the mid-1970s. Over the next 30 years, the shift to 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit computing allowed...
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  • The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical...
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  • Computers designed with 45-bit words are quite rare. One 45-bit computer was the Soviet Almaz [ru] ("Diamond") computer. 60-bit computing Malashevich, B.M.; Malashevich...
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  • close to cheapest 16-bit, and cheapest than most 8-bit. 8-bit microprocessors were the first widely used microprocessors in the computing industry, marking...
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  • 32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in a maximum of 32-bit units...
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  • Byte (redirect from 8-bit byte)
    or 60 bits, corresponding to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 six-bit bytes, and persisted, in legacy systems, into the twenty-first century. In this era, bit groupings...
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  • computer architecture, 16-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 16 bits (2 octets) wide. Also, 16-bit central processing unit...
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  • In computing, a word is any processor design's natural unit of data. A word is a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware...
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  • microprocessor (Toshiba)" (PDF). Semiconductor History Museum of Japan. Retrieved 27 June 2019. DIGITAL Computing Timeline: 12-bit architecture v t e...
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    such a processor is a 64-bit computer. From the software perspective, 64-bit computing means the use of machine code with 64-bit virtual memory addresses...
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  • telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. The bit rate is expressed...
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  • 4-bit computing is the use of computer architectures in which integers and other data units are 4 bits wide. 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic...
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  • In computer architecture, 48-bit integers can represent 281,474,976,710,656 (248 or 2.814749767×1014) discrete values. This allows an unsigned binary...
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  • computer architecture, 24-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 24 bits (3 octets) wide. Also, 24-bit central processing unit...
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  • architecture, 512-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 512 bits (64 octets) wide. Also, 512-bit central processing...
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    14 bits respectively. Bit depth affects bit rate and file size. Bits are the basic unit of data used in computing and digital communications. Bit rate...
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  • on a 32-bit machine, a data structure containing a 16-bit value followed by a 32-bit value could have 16 bits of padding between the 16-bit value and...
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    rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In computing and telecommunications, a character is the internal representation of...
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    1-bit systems. Opcodes for at least one 1-bit processor architecture were 4-bit and the address bus was 8-bit. While 1-bit computing is obsolete, 1-bit...
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  • the original on May 23, 2017. Retrieved June 18, 2015. DIGITAL Computing Timelime: 18-bit architecture Architectural Evolution in DEC’s 18b Computers, Bob...
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  • expensive, ALUs was seen as a way to increase computing power in a cost-effective manner. While 32-bit microprocessors were being discussed at the time...
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    architecture, 36-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 36 bits (six six-bit characters) wide. Also, 36-bit central processing...
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  • architecture, 256-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 256 bits (32 octets) wide. Also, 256-bit central processing...
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  • successor. Reversible computing is considered an unconventional approach to computation and is closely linked to quantum computing, where the principles...
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    parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has long been employed in high-performance computing, but has...
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  • of information is any unit of measure of digital data size. In digital computing, a unit of information is used to describe the capacity of a digital data...
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  • UUIDs in the Network Computing System (NCS). Later, the Open Software Foundation (OSF) used UUIDs for their Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). The...
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    Intel486 SX Used in low-cost entry to 486 CPU desktop computing, as well as extensively in low cost mobile computing Upgradable with the Intel OverDrive processor...
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  • architecture, 31-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 31 bits wide. In 1983, IBM introduced 31-bit addressing in the...
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