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...

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...

x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit extension of the x86 instruction set. It was announced in 1999 and first available...

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...

Extension. Modern 64-bit processors such as designs from ARM, Intel or AMD are typically limited to supporting fewer than 64 bits for RAM addresses....

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...

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...

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...

duoprisms and antiprismatic prisms, and 64 Bravais lattices. Other powers of two: 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, ... 64-bit computing Sloane, N. J. A. (ed.). "Sequence...

IA-64 (Intel Itanium architecture) is the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the discontinued Itanium family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors. The basic...

control of the system. It is intended to make 64-bit computing a more secure environment. The Athlon 64 CPUs have been produced with 130 and 90 nm silicon...

Intel and the whole x86 ecosystem needed 64-bit memory addressing if x86 was to survive the 64-bit computing era, as workstation and desktop software...

– 5ESS switch – 5NF – 5th Glove – 6.001 – 64-bit computing – 680x0 – 6x86 – 8-bit clean – 8-bit computing – 8.3 filename – 80x86 – 82430FX – 82430HX...

inspired by the mathematical constants π and e with a reference to 64-bit computing power. Pine64 initially operated in Fremont, California, as Pine Microsystems...

set of 64 unique characters. More specifically, the source binary data is taken 6 bits at a time, then this group of 6 bits is mapped to one of 64 unique...

2006. "Microsoft 64-bit Computing Overview". Microsoft. Archived from the original on January 12, 2009. "MSDN: Getting Ready for 64-bit Windows". Microsoft...

expressed in binary. The alternate wording b-bit aligned designates a b/8 byte aligned address (ex. 64-bit aligned is 8 bytes aligned). A memory access...

supports 32-bit computing; as a result, the "IA-32" term may be used as a metonym to refer to all x86 versions that support 32-bit computing. Within various...

scheme, a VAX quadword is 64 bits. They continued this 16-bit word/32-bit longword/64-bit quadword terminology with the 64-bit Alpha. Another example is...

Bit-level parallelism is a form of parallel computing based on increasing processor word size. Increasing the word size reduces the number of instructions...

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...

Directory and more. Newer versions of Windows NT support 64-bit computing, with a 64-bit kernel and 64-bit memory addressing. Windows NT is a group or family...

bit specifically refers to bit number 63 (i.e. the most significant bit) of a 64-bit entry in the page table. If this bit is set to 0, then code can be...

a discontinued family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors that implement the Intel Itanium architecture (formerly called IA-64). The Itanium architecture...

The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits. The term is often used when the term byte might...

representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided...

The introduction of 64-bit computing has led to the term no longer being as widely used; these processors generally use 32-bit instructions and are technically...

The Commodore 64, also known as the C64, is an 8-bit home computer introduced in January 1982 by Commodore International (first shown at the Consumer Electronics...

with 16-bit memory addresses can directly access 64 KB (65,536 bytes) of byte-addressable memory. If a system uses segmentation with 16-bit segment offsets...

Computer History Museum Fellow award on YouTube Dave Cutler video on 64 bit computing at AMD Site at the Wayback Machine (archived February 23, 2006) David...