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  • ...and through [[Light Emitting Diode|LEDs]] on the modules minimizes repair time. ...ers (26 KBytes) plus a buffer for 20 host commands (plus one for immediate execution) and the data structures to manage both dynamically.
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  • A maximum of 6 channels may be open at a given time. Well there you have it, the Fortran installation, compilation, linking & execution of the oldest source version I can find at the moment of Dungeon/Zork. Who
    11 KB (2,002 words) - 21:04, 20 November 2023
  • programs must have a Execution of the program begins at the each time it is called, and returns that character as the
    71 KB (8,839 words) - 02:18, 17 December 2018
  • ...d and performance is due to its efficient instruction set and the paralell execution of independent procedures. Its operating system is the VAX/VMS virtual memo ..., they used what they could get access to, so the process took rather long time.
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  • time, without notice. real-time applications, embedded microcontrollers, and network services.
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  • because time previously spent starting and stopping, entering and at the same time. Each application can support multiple windows.
    50 KB (7,113 words) - 03:35, 17 December 2018
  • 5.1.2.3 Speed Execution 5.2.2 Time-Critical Priority Category
    627 KB (92,395 words) - 03:42, 17 December 2018
  • commands, used to examine a file a screenful at a time. No basis. In addition, the load-time library has been greatly
    113 KB (13,419 words) - 02:06, 17 December 2018
  • The [[Central Processing Unit|CPU]] had two main units, the 'E Box' ('Execution') and the 'M Box' ('Memory'). It provided three types of [[bus]]ses to the The [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|SAIL]] (or SU-AI) [[time-sharing]] system — [[WAITS]] — main computer was a KL10 from 1976 to 19
    11 KB (1,737 words) - 13:06, 2 April 2024
  • ...hich for purposes of increased speed usually have multiple instructions in execution in parallel, the simple model above no longer actually applies.) A number of different technologies have been used over time for main memory.
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  • ...could be almost anything: a clock ticking, or some sort of problem in the execution of a program (e.g. a divide by zero). To 'service' the interrupt, the state of the CPU at the time of the interrupt (e.g. the [[Program Counter]]) is saved, and the CPU then
    2 KB (322 words) - 14:17, 3 February 2022
  • ...ptimized toward producing the fastest possible [[instruction]] [[execution time]], as part of a overall system architecture which maximizes the performance ...he instruction/feature which uses it - this will allow the machine's cycle time to be reduced, i.e. increasing its clock speed.
    2 KB (330 words) - 02:01, 16 December 2018
  • ...vide by zero', or purely software, e.g. 'unexpected end-of-file'), program execution is diverted to a condition handler for that specific condition, which is ex ...alled''' (in either that procedure, or any procedure it calls, and so on), execution jumps to that condition handler. Should an inferior procedure set up a cond
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  • The '''Berkeley Time-Sharing System''' was a very influential [[time-sharing]] [[operating system]] for an enhanced [[Scientific Data Systems|SD ...to execute a privileged instruction while in user mode will result in the execution of a [[no-op|NOP]] instruction and, subsequently, a trap".
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  • ...onym backronym] of the old acronym [[NCP]] (which changed its meaning over time; it originally stood for [[Network Control Program (ARPANET)|Network Contro ...t have their TCP/IP software working yet could get ''temporary'' 'stays of execution', but basically NCP was turned off on January 1.)
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  • | type = real-time '''RTS-8''' (later spelled '''RTS/8''') is a compact [[real-time system|real-time]] [[operating system]] designed for the [[PDP-8 family]] of [[processor]]s
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  • ...execution]] of ''an'' instruction. (The caveat is because in complex CPUs, execution of an instruction is sometimes 'stalled' for various reasons.)
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  • ...o the first computer with [[core memory]], which was invented for it (some time after it had first come into service; it initially used [[Williams tube|ele ...d-only memory|ROM]], but did not include any ability to alter the order of execution thereof.)
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  • .... (The [[fetch]] of the next instruction was overlapped with the [[execute|execution]] of the previous one.) ...ontained 50 words; thus, 20 bands in the former, and 40 in the latter. The time to read a word, once it was at the [[head]]s, was only 100 μsec.
    4 KB (620 words) - 21:08, 18 March 2024
  • ...l Processing Unit|processors]], particularly in those using [[out-of-order execution]], to avoid 'stalls' caused by conflicts over [[register]] usage. ...ch some prior instruction (in [[program]] terms, not [[execute|execution]] time terms) needs to use as an input, the first instruction cannot complete unti
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