• 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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  • 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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  • Look up 8-bit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 8-bit computing is computing with 8-bit addresses or units of data. 8-bit may also refer to: Octet (computing)...
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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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    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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  • In computing, bit numbering is the convention used to identify the bit positions in a binary number. In computing, the least significant bit (LSb) is...
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  • Stochastic computing is a collection of techniques that represent continuous values by streams of random bits. Complex computations can then be computed by simple...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 24-bit truecolor or 32-bit truecolor (24-bit truecolor and an 8-bit alpha channel). However, some remote desktop software (Virtual Network Computing, Remote...
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  • Byte (redirect from 8-bit byte)
    in computing, such as CPU clock speeds or measures of performance. The IBM System 360 and the related disk and tape systems set the byte at 8 bits and...
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    introduction of 7-bit ASCII and 8-bit EBCDIC led to the move to machines using 8-bit bytes, with word sizes that were multiples of 8, notably the 32-bit IBM System/360...
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  • 37°32′43.523″E / 47.09461000°N 37.54542306°E / 47.09461000; 37.54542306 IT 8-bit was a computer museum in Mariupol, Ukraine. Founded by Dmitry Cherepanov...
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  • accessed. As of 2025, 16-bit microcontrollers cost well under a dollar (similar to close in price legacy 8-bit); the cheapest 16-bit microcontrollers cost...
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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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    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 Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with...
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  • 5ESS switch – 5NF – 5th Glove – 6.001 – 64-bit computing – 680x0 – 6x86 – 8-bit clean – 8-bit computing8.3 filename – 80x86 – 82430FX – 82430HX – 82430MX...
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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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    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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  • 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, 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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  • Bit-level parallelism is a form of parallel computing based on increasing processor word size. Increasing the word size reduces the number of instructions...
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    Hamming weight (redirect from Bit summation)
    of each 8 bits into those 8 bits x += x >> 8; //put count of each 16 bits into their lowest 8 bits x += x >> 16; //put count of each 32 bits into their...
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  • Bitstream (redirect from Bit stream)
    bitstream (or bit stream), also known as binary sequence, is a sequence of bits. A bytestream is a sequence of bytes. Typically, each byte is an 8-bit quantity...
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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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  • 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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