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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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• VAX
  * [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/brochures/DEC-Now&YearsAhead.pdf VAX: Computer Systems for Now ... And The Years Ahead] - covers the early VAX-11 machines [[Category: DEC Architectures]]
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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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• Template talk:Infobox Machine
  :This is a really tough question, because it encompasses decades of computer architecture ...as the more common term, because MIPS do not compare well across different architectures. The related term cluster VUPs was informally used to describe the aggregat
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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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• Help:Categories
  The Computer History Wiki has a fairly elaborate set of '[[Special:Categories|categories ** [[:Category:Architectures|Architectures]]
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• Category talk:DEC Processors
  ...other DEC categories (e.g.[[:Category:DEC Architectures]], [[:Category:DEC Computer Systems]], [[:Category:DEC Disk Drives]], [[:Category:DEC Operating Systems
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• Help talk:Categories
  ::: This way, there would be N+M categories (for N manufacturers and M architectures), rather than NxM. [[User:Larsbrinkhoff|Larsbrinkhoff]] ([[User talk:Larsbr ** [[:Category: Computer Basics]]
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• User talk:Larsbrinkhoff
  ...or, not a full computer. Maybe the categories should cover processors and architectures too, but I'm not in a hurry to do that now. But e.g. microprocessors like :::: Yes, micros should be covered too. But again, as you suggest, architectures/lines, not models. So [[Motorola M68000 Family]] goes in [[:Category:32-bit
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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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• Talk:XENIX
  I added architectures, PDP-11 Xenix-11. This is what the Living Computer Museum supposedly has a tape of, and that someone got from HCR a few days e
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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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• Talk:Intel 4004
  Per the data sheet, it's actually ''sort of'' an 8-bit computer: :: Hey, I have a list of all thing things that might be used for computer 'sizes' - along with counter-examples (e.g. bus width and the 68K). Can you
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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 ...ems (even though it was internally a [[serial computer]], not a [[parallel computer]]).
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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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