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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80386 microprocessor in 1985. IA-32 is the first incarnation of x86 that supports 32-bit computing; as a result, the "IA-32" term may be used as a metonym...
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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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32-bit System/360 architecture, but had an 8-bit native path width, and performed 32-bit arithmetic 8 bits at a time. The first widely adopted 8-bit microprocessor...
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WoW64 (redirect from Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit)
computing on Microsoft platforms, WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit) is a subsystem of the Windows operating system capable of running 32-bit applications...
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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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called the 386SX, which is a 32-bit processor with 32-bit ALU and internal 32-bit data paths with a 16-bit external bus and 24-bit addressing of the processor...
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4,294,967,295 (redirect from Highest unsigned 32-bit integer)
In computing, 4,294,967,295 is the highest unsigned (that is, not negative) 32-bit integer, which makes it the highest possible number a 32-bit system...
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Data structure alignment (redirect from 32 bit alignment)
example, 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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Word (computer architecture) (redirect from 32-bit word)
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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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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reset – 1-bit computing – 16-bit computing – 16550 UART – 1NF – 1TBS – 20-GATE – 20-GATE – 2B1D – 2B1Q – 2D – 2NF – 3-tier (computing) – 32-bit application...
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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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Byte (redirect from 8-bit byte)
representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided...
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Integer (computer science) (redirect from Integer (computing))
signed numbers in a binary computing system. The most common is two's complement, which allows a signed integral type with n bits to represent numbers from...
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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)
//put count of each 32 bits into those 32 bits x = (x & m32) + ((x >> 32) & m32); //put count of each 64 bits into those 64 bits return x; } //This uses...
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Color depth (redirect from 32-bit color)
depth, also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component...
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I386 (category 32-bit microprocessors)
third-generation x86 architecture microprocessor from Intel. It was the first 32-bit processor in the line, making it a significant evolution in the x86 architecture...
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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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File Allocation Table (redirect from 32-bit FAT)
support 10-bit, 12-bit and 16-bit FAT variants. While the size of directory entries was 16 bytes in Standalone Disk BASIC, MIDAS instead occupied 32 bytes...
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ARM Cortex-A (category 32-bit microprocessors)
processors include both 32-bit and 64-bit designs. Most 32-bit cores implement the ARMv7-A architecture profile. All 64-bit Cortex-A cores implement the...
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Adler-32 is used in the rsync utility. An Adler-32 checksum is obtained by calculating two 16-bit checksums A and B and concatenating their bits into a 32-bit...
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Product Focus Components: The 32-Bit Computing Engine Full Speed Ahead". Solutions. Intel Corporation: 10. May–June 1987. "NewsBit: Intel 80387 Available Through...
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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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3.1 development team, alongside 16-bit Bunny and 32-bit Bunny, which represented the transition to 32-bit computing with the release of Windows 95. The...
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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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never) bits have been added in VMSAv6 [Virtual Memory System Architecture] Ted Simpson; Jason Novak (24 May 2017). Hands on Virtual Computing. Cengage...
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As the 32-bit Intel Architecture became the dominant computing platform during the 1980s and 1990s, multiple companies have tried to build microprocessors...
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