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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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  • 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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    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...
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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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  • 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....
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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...
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  • IA-64 (Intel Itanium architecture) is the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the discontinued Itanium family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors. The basic...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • – 5ESS switch – 5NF – 5th Glove – 6.001 – 64-bit computing – 680x0 – 6x86 – 8-bit clean – 8-bit computing – 8.3 filename – 80x86 – 82430FX – 82430HX...
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  • Pine64 (redirect from Pine 64)
    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...
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  • Base64 (redirect from Radix-64)
    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...
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    Windows API (redirect from 64-bit Windows)
    2006. "Microsoft 64-bit Computing Overview". Microsoft. Archived from the original on January 12, 2009. "MSDN: Getting Ready for 64-bit Windows". Microsoft...
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  • 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...
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  • IA-32 (redirect from 32-bit x86)
    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...
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  • 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...
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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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  • 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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  • Windows NT (category Advanced RISC Computing)
    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...
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  • 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...
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    Itanium (category 64-bit microprocessors)
    a discontinued family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors that implement the Intel Itanium architecture (formerly called IA-64). The Itanium architecture...
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  • 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...
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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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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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