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...providing control sequencing and [[microcode]] storage. The IMP-16 is a [[bit-slice processor]]; each RALU chip provides a [[4-bit computing|4-bit]] slice of t [[Category:Computers using bit-slice designs]] ...

{{Short description|RAM disk for Commodore's C64/128 home computers}} ...xpansion products that was made by [[Creative Micro Designs|Creative Micro Designs (CMD)]] for [[Commodore International|Commodore]]'s [[Commodore 64|C64]]/[[ ...

...de is the only addressing mode that IBM removed from its line of mainframe computers descended from the [[System/360]]. All the other addressing modes, includin ...in faster [[subroutine]] calls and [[interrupt]] response than traditional designs, which would have to do two register loads or saves when calling or returni ...

...amily of microprocessors for Apple's [[Apple Lisa|Lisa]] and [[Macintosh]] computers and was instrumental in the initial design of the Lisa. ...emiconductor and system companies. Sierra also provided a number of custom designs for large system companies. Sierra was acquired by [[TDK]] Semiconductor in ...

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...internal to the processor in non-bitsliced [[central processing unit|CPU]] designs). Known bit-slice microprocessors: ...

...lves, the C-One has been re-engineered to allow cloning of other [[8-bit]] computers. ...programmable core logic can be used to create entirely new custom computer designs. ...

...at relatively slow speeds. This was a serious bottleneck in most parallel designs, which limited their use to certain roles where these interdependencies cou ...scatter/gather hardware from the Cray-3 to move the data around instead of using a separate network. This would offer at least an order of magnitudes bette ...

...125 kbit/s using an external 16x clock. The 6551 was used in several computers of the 1970s and 1980s, including the [[Commodore PET]] and [[Commodore Plu Several companies, including Dr. Evil Labs and [[Creative Micro Designs]], marketed an add-on [[ROM cartridge|cartridge]] containing a 6551 and an ...

...Commodore.jpg | thumb | right | CMD FD-4000 disk drive for Commodore 8-bit computers]] ...produced drives; the '''FD-2000''' offered 1600 [[Kilobyte|kB]] of storage using standard double-sided, high-density floppies, while the '''FD-4000''' also ...

...al power at lower cost than other existing supercomputer architectures, by using thousands of simple [[processing elements]], rather than one or a few highl ...eded at Goddard by the [[MasPar]] MP-1 and [[Cray T3D]] massively parallel computers. ...

...ium diodes. Nineteen Mercuries were sold before Ferranti moved on to newer designs. At that time computers were used almost always in the sciences, and they decided to add a [[floati ...

...ed by [[Lee Boysel]] and others, which built one of the earliest computers using semiconductor main memory and [[metal–oxide–semiconductor|MOS]] [[large-sca ...Joint Computer Conference]] in 1970. By June 1971, Four-Phase '''IV/70''' computers were in use at four different customers, and by March 1973, they had shippe ...

[[File:KL AMD 2901.jpg|thumb|AMD Am2901: 4-bit-slice ALU]] ...around two Am2900 chips which ran 5 to 10 times faster than the 8085-based designs they replaced. ...

...ntil the introduction of the [[Motorola 68040]]-based [[Macintosh Quadra]] computers in 1991. ...II series' lifespan, they rose to become among the most powerful personal computers available. While the Macintosh II series itself was replaced by the [[Macin ...

...Division (GSD), the [[Cupertino, California]] home of the HP 3000 business computers (the division was later renamed Computer Systems Division CSY). Later, the ...t name: Toothpick - a double card bay table design) reused many of HP300's designs. The HP300 diagnostics (DUS) were ported over and used in these and future ...

...lding evaluated capabilities. [[Floating point]] operations were available using a single 72-bit accumulator. The instruction set featured over 200 instruct ...he programmer-visible registers used in Chicago and [[Plessey System 250]] designs, the CAP would load internal registers silently when a program defined a ca ...

...C"{{full citation needed|date=September 2019}}</ref> His idea was to build computers based on a [[RISC]] architecture for the commercial market. The inspiration # Fujitsu would fabricate HAL's microprocessor designs. ...

...sion) and 48-bit [[RGBA color space|RGBA color]]. On the other hand, later designs suffered from constrained bandwidth and poorer texture mapping performance ...sed for textures. The V10 and V12 boards used in Fuel, Tezro and Onyx 3000 computers use a different XIO connector than the cards used in Octane2 workstations. ...

...erd''' is a [[Computer engineering|computer engineer]] who created several designs for [[8-bit]] [[home computer]]s while working for [[Commodore Internationa After leaving Commodore, Herd continued to design faster and more powerful computers with emphasis on [[machine vision]] and is a co-author on a patent involvin ...