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• DECnet
  ...] [[minicomputer]]s. It evolved into one of the first peer-to-peer network architectures, thus transforming DEC into a networking powerhouse in the 1980s. | DDCMP: Digital Data Communications Message Protocol<br>[[Computer Interconnect|CI]], [[Ethernet]], [[IBM token ring|Token ring]], [[HDLC]], [
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• PDP-11
  ...om 1970-1990. Their life-time spanned a period of momentous changes in the computer world: when they were first introduced [[integrated circuit]]s had just bee ...he latter, its wide distribution (in 1980, it was the world's best-selling computer) and its novel addressing modes (below) have helped influence almost all la
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• Digital Equipment Corporation
  ...product range eventually extended from small [[mainframe]]s to [[personal computer]]s. * [[:Category:DEC Architectures|DEC Architectures]]
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• PDP-8 family
  ...1967 || 1970 || $10,000 || Transistor FLIP CHIPs || [[Serial computer|Serial]], ''unbelievably'' slow ...1978 || 1980 || ??? || [[Intersil 6100]] || [[Personal computer|Desktop]]
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• PDP-10
  ...ghteen-Bit Computer Interface]], which connected to the I/O bus, allowed a computer such as a [[PDP-8/I]] to exchange data with a PDP-10. The DC68A Data Commun * [http://www.bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/SB100-50-4-67%20PDP-10%20(150dpi).pdf PDP-10] - very e
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• Linux
  Linux is a computer [[operating system]] originally developed in the 1990s by a student Linus T ...t more assembly in the early versions. It has in fact been ported to other architectures by now.
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• EDSAC
  ...rred to by the acronym, '''EDSAC''') was a very early computer; a [[serial computer]] internally, built out of [[vacuum tube]]s, with mercury [[delay line]] [[ ...ler, Stanley Gill, ''The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer'', Addison-Wesley, Cambridge, 1951 - the very first book ever published abo
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• XENIX
  ...d those necessary to transport the UNIX system from the larger PDP-11 mini computer to the 16-bit microprocessors. Currently scheduled machines included the DE This is a list of version numbers for the various Architectures:
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• UNIX Sixth Edition
  To many computer scientists encountering it for the first time in its era, it had the feel o ...PDP-11]]s, although outside Bell Labs it was later ported to several other architectures (see below).
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• 4.3 BSD Reno
  VAX and Tahoe architectures. The 4.4BSD distribution will prob- ably be available for all the above architectures as well as
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• A UNIX™ Operating System for the DEC VAX-11/780 Computer
  ...rating System for the [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] [[VAX-11/780]] Computer ...ut/output devices as the PDP-11 family and is controlled through a console computer which can be remotely accessed. Additionally, the VAX-11/780 is priced near
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• DEC Alpha
  ...]] (DEC), designed to replace the 32-bit [[VAX]] [[Complex Instruction Set Computer]] (CISC) ISA and its implementations. [[Category: DEC Architectures]]
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• IBM-compatible PC
  ...rs (in the sense of 'it will run all the [[software]] for the IBM Personal Computer'). IBM no longer makes PCs, but the terminology persists. [[Category: Architectures]]
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• NetBSD 0.8 announcement
  of the UCB Computer Systems Research Group, which in order to re-integrate support for other architectures,
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• SPARC
  '''SPARC''' is [[Sun Microsystems]]' 32-bit [[Reduced Instruction Set Computer|RISC]] [[Central Processing Unit|processor]], an enhanced SPARC (32b), not ...://www.clock.org/~fair/computers/suns.html Table of some Sun Micro systems computer models.]
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• QNX
  ...named QNX Software Systems). It was used as the OS for the [[Unisys]] ICON computer systems in Ontario High schools. In April, 2010, QNX Software Systems was a ...fork. Neutrino added support for [[MIPS]], PowerPC, SH-4, and [[ARM]] CPU architectures.
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• IBM OS2 1.0 announcement
  Personal Computer systems: IBM Personal System/2, Models 50, 60 and 80, Personal Computer AT(R) 5170 Models 099, 239, 319 and 339, and PC
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• Inside OS/2
  1. MS OS/2 (Computer operating system) I. Title. I met Gordon Letwin when I went to visit Heath's personal computer group
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• MIPS R4000
  in 1991. It was developed by [[MIPS Computer Systems]] Inc but soon after (1992) the company was acquired by [[Silicon G ...000SC but with additional cache coherency support needed by multiprocessor architectures.
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• ARM
  ...processor (and has been called "the best 6502 programmer ever" by Personal Computer World's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Kewney Guy Kewney]), they visite ...ro "Tube" interface. It was also used in the [[Acorn Archimedes]] personal computer, eventually running [[RISC OS]]. The licensing scheme came into use when [[
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• MASSBUS
  * to allow DEC's main computer families (initially the [[PDP-10]] and [[PDP-11]]; later also the [[VAX]]en ...ies, since there is also a 'controller' to connect the MASSBUS to the host computer. Hence, the term 'device' will be used in this article to refer, genericall
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• Floating point
  '''Floating point''' is a term used to describe computer support for real numbers; originally performed in [[software]], it is now i Historically, different architectures devised their own floating point specifications (e.g. [[FP11 floating point
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• Motorola M68000 Family
  ...t all the later members did. The 68K family is a [[Complex Instruction Set Computer|CISC]] architecture. ...[[workstation]]s (e.g. the [[Sun workstation]]) and finally in [[personal computer]]s (notably the [[Apple Macintosh]]).
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• Reduced Instruction Set Computer
  A '''Reduced Instruction Set Computer''' (usually abbreviated to '''RISC''') is one from a school of [[Central Pr * [[Complex Instruction Set Computer]]
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• Load-store architecture
  Early computers often had load-store architectures because that approach resulted in simple instruction sets (especially on co More recently, [[Reduced Instruction Set Computer|RISC]] computers often were of this type; the single memory operation per i
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• MIPS
  ...ord University who had been early members of the [[Reduced Instruction Set Computer]] movement. [[Category: Architectures]]
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• Intel x86
  ...the [[IBM PC]] and then in all the other [[IBM-compatible PC]] [[personal computer]]s since. [[Category: Architectures]]
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• Flip-flop
  ...they were called '''toggles''' in some very early work, such as the [[IAS computer]]) is an extremely common element in digital [[logic]]; it is a store for o ...eacher.com/computer-architectures/digital-circuits/flip-flops.php Computer Architectures - Digital Circuits - Latches and flip-flops]
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• Binary-coded decimal
  ...) is a way of storing arbitrary-length numbers in decimal base on a binary computer. Each decimal digit is stored as four [[bit]]s, usually two per [[byte]] (' [[Category: Computer Basics]]
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• General register
  Early computer [[architecture]]s often had only a single register, the [[accumulator]] (be
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• CYCLADES
  ...s Pouzin (editor), ''The Cyclades Computer Network: Toward Layered Network Architectures'' (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1982)
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• Real mode
  ...itch into [[protected mode]], where all the extended features of the later architectures are available. Real mode in the later x86 machines is almost entirely the s ...ct I/O. A virtual machine can address Input/Output directly. In the x86-64 computer architecture, long mode is the mode where a 64-bit operating system can acc
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• Routing architecture
  * Centralized - an algorithm running on a central computer in the network control center does [[path selection]] for all source-destin ==Characterization of Distributed Routing Architectures==
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• Atlas
  ...e the advnt of the [[IBM 7030 Stretch]]. It is notable for being the first computer to have [[virtual memory]] (called 'one-level store'). ...First Computers: History and Architectures''; Frank H. Sumner, "The Atlas Computer"
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• MLP-900
  ...'MLP-900''' ('Multi-Lingual Processor') was a computer created by STANDARD Computer Corporation, intended for [[microcode|microprogrammed]] [[emulation]] of ot ...em was the motivation for the MLP-900, which could emulate instruction set architectures from previous generation machines or from machines yet to be developed. In
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• Digital Storage Architecture
  ...is one of the building blocks of [[Digital Equipment|DEC]] computer system architectures.
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• Notable early computing devices
  ...from primitive computing devices (such as mechanical adding machines) to [[computer]]s. The list below are the ones which the author of this page deems the mos ...how one defines 'computer', some of these might have been computers. If a computer has to be able to modify its own [[program]], none of these qualify. If it
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• Computer
  ..., and precise. (Which leads to ferocious debates about what was the first 'computer' - because, as Michael Williams observed, "If you add enough adjectives to The meaning of 'computer' is generally now 'stored-program computing device' - i.e. the [[program]]
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• ENIAC
  ...form apparently inspired the later craze for [[backronym]]s common in the computer field) was the first general-purpose [[digital]] [[electronic]] [[computing ...itive (due to its very minimal [[main memory]] - data only) stored-program computer was still held to be worthwhile, as it was for some years the fastest machi
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• Manchester Baby
  ...ter, built at the University of Manchester. Exactly like the [[Memory Test Computer]], it was not really intended for computational use; rather, its primary in ==First computer==
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• Manchester Mark I
  ...iversity Computer''', but these names are not used now) was a very early [[computer]], built at the University of Manchester. * Simon H. Lavington, ''A History of Manchester Computers'', National Computer Centre, Manchester, 1976
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• Ferranti Mark 1
  ...early on at Manchester it was called the '''Mark II''') was a very early [[computer]], the first one ever commercially available anywhere. There were two varia * Simon H. Lavington, ''A History of Manchester Computers'', National Computer Centre, Manchester, 1976
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• IAS computer
  ...by the Los Alamos copy) was a very early [[electronic]] [[program]]mable [[computer]]. The group that designed and built it began the task in June, 1946, initi ...and he wished to make all his work public - as the many copies of the IAS computer testified.)
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