Fixed-block architecture (FBA) is an IBM term for the hard disk drive (HDD) layout in which each addressable block (more commonly, sector) on the disk...

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computers. Each drive had a capacity of 64.5 MB. The 3310 was a fixed-block architecture device, used on DOS/VSE and VM, the only S/370 operating systems...

meaning or may be in fixed fields. In very long instruction word (VLIW) architectures, which include many microcode architectures, multiple simultaneous...

In cryptography, a block cipher is a deterministic algorithm that operates on fixed-length groups of bits, called blocks. Block ciphers are the elementary...

storage devices.[failed verification] In the 1970s, IBM added fixed-block architecture Direct Access Storage Devices (FBA DASDs) to its line of CKD DASD...

data in a disk drive, as used in the CHS addressing mode of a fixed-block architecture (FBA) disk or the cylinder–head–record (CCHHR) addressing mode...

to VM/370 that adds support for more devices (such as 3370-type fixed-block-architecture DASD drives), improvements to the CMS environment (such as an improved...

Fixed-block architecture (FBA) for mainframes. At the programming level, these devices do not use the traditional CHR addressing, but reference fixed-length...

type drives use a fixed-size block for tape (a fixed-block architecture), independent of the host block size, and the inter-block gap is variable to...

emulated on System/390 and later systems. Block (data storage) Data set (IBM mainframe) Fixed-block architecture (FBA) Record (computer science) Track (disk...

introduced CIDR in 1993 to replace the previous classful network addressing architecture on the Internet. Its goal was to slow the growth of routing tables on...

A page, memory page, or virtual page is a fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory, described by a single entry in a page table. It is the smallest...

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 of...

that simulate spinning disks or more often provide more efficient fixed-block architecture (FBA) access to external RAM-based storage. The high-speed paging...

In deep learning, transformer is an architecture based on the multi-head attention mechanism, in which text is converted to numerical representations called...

CRC-enabled device calculates a short, fixed-length binary sequence, known as the check value or CRC, for each block of data to be sent or stored and appends...

Released in 2011, the ARMv8-A architecture added support for a 64-bit address space and 64-bit arithmetic with its new 32-bit fixed-length instruction set....

a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA): A-1 : 19  developed by MIPS Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies...

In computing, fixed-point is a method of representing fractional (non-integer) numbers by storing a fixed number of digits of their fractional part. Dollar...

Glass brick, also known as glass block, is an architectural element made from glass. The appearance of glass blocks can vary in color, size, texture and...

elements that support the glass in a Gothic window. Transom (architectural) A window or element, fixed or operable, above a door but within its vertical frame;...

provide virtual memory (VM) support. The MMU tracks memory use in fixed-size blocks known as pages. If a program refers to a location in a page that is...

IBM POWER is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by IBM. The name is an acronym for Performance Optimization...

successor prior to z/Architecture, it logically swaps a 4096 byte block of storage with another block assigned to the CPU. On z/Architecture, prefixing operates...

for the same reasons as RAM allocation discussed above. The simple fixed-size-blocks algorithm works quite well for simple embedded systems because of...

assigns an IP address to each device. Such assignments may be on a static (fixed or permanent) or dynamic basis, depending on network practices and software...

other storage architectures like file systems, which manage data as a file hierarchy, and block storage, which manages data as blocks within sectors...

standard configurations and non-standard configurations. Non-RAID drive architectures also exist, and are referred to by acronyms with tongue-in-cheek similarity...

Block floating point (BFP) is a method used to provide an arithmetic approaching floating point while using a fixed-point processor. BFP assigns a group...