Search results

From Computer History Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
  • {{InfoboxVAX-Data The [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] was the [[KA780 CPU]]. It could take an optional [[floating poin
    8 KB (1,039 words) - 20:55, 19 May 2024
  • {{InfoboxVAX-Data ...ocessor|dual processor]] [[VAX]]; it had two [[KA780 CPU|KA780]] [[Central Processing Unit|CPUs]] connected to up to four [[MA780 Multiport Memory Option|MA780]]
    3 KB (423 words) - 20:57, 19 May 2024
  • {{InfoboxVAX-Data ...ne which connected all the major functional units, including the [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]], [[main memory]], and I/O bus adapters, was the [[CPU/Memory Int
    8 KB (1,158 words) - 17:56, 3 June 2024
  • ...'PDP-8/F''' was a cost-reduced version of the -8/E with the same [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]], but only a single OMNIBUS [[backplane]]. The '''PDP-8/M''' is t * KD8-E [[OMNIBUS|Data Break]] Interface
    4 KB (618 words) - 14:11, 14 July 2023
  • ...ntroduced at around $25 it was the least expensive full-featured [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] on the market by a considerable margin, costing less than one-si ...witch between 16 [[bank switching|banks]] of 64KB memory. The address bus, data bus, and R/W signal are tri-state, unlike the 6502, and the state is contro
    8 KB (1,369 words) - 17:59, 25 June 2021
  • {{InfoboxVAX-Data ...way of extensive [[microcoding]] of the large architecture, the [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] was shrunk to three [[DEC card form factor|hex]] boards. The mac
    5 KB (711 words) - 20:49, 19 May 2024
  • * In July, Norsk Data-Elektronikk is founded. * The company changes name from "NORDATA Norsk Data-Elektronikk" to "Norsk Data A/S"
    7 KB (950 words) - 12:59, 23 August 2016
  • | manufacturer = [[Norsk Data]] ...plications and for [[real-time]] multiprogram systems, produced by [[Norsk Data]]. It was introduced in 1973. The later follow up model, NORD-10/S, introdu
    8 KB (1,313 words) - 13:52, 11 July 2023
  • {{InfoboxVAX-Data ...n|DEC]]. It used the [[QBUS]] as its primary [[bus]] between the [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] (the [[KD32 CPU]]) and [[main memory]], the only [[VAX]] to do s
    10 KB (1,555 words) - 15:31, 1 June 2024
  • {{InfoboxVAX-Data ...II''' was a small [[VAX]], with the [[KA630 CPU‎‎]] for its [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]]. Its [[bus]] between the CPU and [[main memory]] was a special b
    5 KB (732 words) - 18:55, 26 May 2024
  • ...the KS10 were available in [[multi-processor]] versions with two [[Central Processing Unit|CPUs]]. ...ided for the latter; it allowed peripherals to [[interrupt]] the [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]], and supported [[programmed I/O]] (including block transfers).
    11 KB (1,640 words) - 20:59, 8 March 2024
  • ...in one field could access data in the same field by direct addressing, or data in another field with indirect addressing. ...ory controller. The 62X1 instuction (CDF, Change Data Field) would set the data field to X. Similarly 62X2, CIF, set the instruction field, 62X3 set both.
    22 KB (3,497 words) - 19:34, 29 November 2022
  • In computer [[architecture]], a '''bus''' is a subsystem that transfers data or power between computer components inside a computer or between computers ..., it might take too long for the program to check again, resulting in lost data. Engineers thus arranged for the peripherals to interrupt the CPU. The in
    14 KB (2,170 words) - 05:09, 5 September 2019
  • {{InfoboxVAX-Data ...1/785''' was an upgraded version of the [[VAX-11/780|/780]]; its [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] used [[Advanced Schottky]] [[logic]]. A /780 could be upgraded t
    2 KB (196 words) - 20:58, 19 May 2024
  • * [http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/res/res02.htm#d Designing a computer for data processing] - personal memories from John Pinkerton, the principal engineer
    2 KB (262 words) - 19:03, 18 March 2024
  • {{InfoboxVAX-Data ...kplane. (The [[address space]] of the [[QBUS]] was limited to 4MB, and the data section is only 16 bits wide.)
    3 KB (380 words) - 16:18, 23 May 2024
  • ...programming languages like MDL (an important influence on modern Lisp) to data bases, electronic mail and artificially intelligent systems -- if only cent ...ms for keeping track of documents, handling electronic correspondence, and processing text. When Zork was added to the list of possibilities, Joel and Marc worke
    38 KB (6,681 words) - 16:32, 19 December 2018
  • ...al memory|paging]] [[hardware]] (which that generation of PDP-10 [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] did not have). It later ran on the [[KL10]] and [[KS10]] models ...n units of either [[character]]s or [[word]]s (although an entire block of data could be transferred by a single [[system call]], if desired). All the usua
    12 KB (1,926 words) - 21:29, 8 February 2024
  • command. It is so powerful that it can leave DDT's data bases ("kills") the current job. All the data in it is lost. The $J
    171 KB (29,660 words) - 17:55, 28 December 2018
  • immediately read for processing. See the section on the process (text, data, and stack), RES is the current
    11 KB (1,552 words) - 13:03, 24 April 2024

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)