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• Main Page
  <big> [[:Category:Basics|Basics]] • [[:Category:Hardware|Hardware]] • [[:Category:Computers|Systems]] • [[:Category:Peripherals|Periphera
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• Bus
  ...h of the work on these systems concerns software design, as opposed to the hardware itself. In general, these third generation buses tend to look more like a [ [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Operating system
  ...rams) which uses only the capabilities provided directly by a computer's [[hardware]], and gives [[user]]s a more functionality-rich environment in which to do ...ng system (although to do this propely generally required support from the hardware of the system).
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• Setting up the Third Berkeley Software Tape
  == Basics of Disk Layout == Once you have decided how to make best use of your hardware, the question is how to initialize it. If you have the equipment, the bes
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• Setting up (BSD 4.0) the Fourth Berkeley Software Tape
  As describe in ``Basics of disk layout'' below, the tape driver hardware, since they are used directly by a
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• Floating point processor
  ...achines, it might be extra microcode, sometimes along with some additional hardware to speed up some aspects of the computation. In early machines, the hardware involved was a complete extra set of [[printed circuit board]]s; later on,
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• Virtual memory
  ...rocess]], is not the actual address of the main memory location that the [[hardware]] knows for that memory location, but rather a 'virtual' address private to ...ed in a field as part of the data which describes the segment to the CPU's hardware), whereas with variable page sizes, only a few are supported.
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• Core memory
  ...M|DRAM]]-era perspective, seems quaintly dinosaurian. Individual pieces of hardware one can actually ''see'' with the naked eye, for ''each'' bit? [[Category: Memory Basics]]
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• Data path
  A '''data path''' is a term for [[hardware]] (often a [[conductor]], or group of them; although often some [[logic]] e [[Category:Hardware Basics]]
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• Vonada's Engineering Maxims
  ...J. Craig Mudge, John. E. McNamara, "''Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design''" (Digital Press, Bedford, 1978) [[Category: Basics]]
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• Synchronizer
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Arbiter
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Time-sharing
  Most time-sharing OS's relied upon hardware features to prevent one user (or process) from interfering with another. Th However, it was not essential to have hardware support for time-sharing; in computers which provided only an [[interpreter
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• Microcode
  ...is [[fetch]]ed, and used to control the operation of the CPU's internal [[hardware]] elements during that microcycle: routing data out of [[register]]s (inclu ...could often be fixed by replacing the microprogram alone, without required hardware changes. (With the coming of the [[microprocessor]], where the microprogram
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• Virtual address
  ...nning a [[time-sharing]] [[operating system]], the [[memory management]] [[hardware]] provides mapping of memory addresses emitting by code belonging to a [[us [[Category: CPU Basics]]
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• First-In First-Out buffer
  FIFO buffers are found in both [[hardware]] and [[software]]; in the latter, they are usually implemented as [[ring b [[Category:Hardware Basics]]
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• Cache
  [[Category: Computer Basics]] [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Bus grant line
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• Arithmetic logic unit
  [[Category: Hardware Basics]]
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• Object code
  ...in the low-level form which a computer's [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] [[hardware]] can execute directly; i.e. [[instruction]]s for the CPU to [[execute]]. ( [[Category: Computer Basics]]
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