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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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