Addressing mode
Addressing modes are an aspect of the instruction set architecture in most central processing unit CPU designs. The various addressing modes that are defined in a given instruction set architecture define how machine language instructions in that..
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Alan Emtage
Alan Emtage born November 27 1964 conceived of and implemented the first version of Archie a pre Web internet search engine for locating material in public FTP archives. A native of Barbados and the son of Sir Stephen and Lady Emtage he attended ..
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Apacer
Apacer Technology Inc. is a multinational corporation that produces computer memory and memory based products. They manufacture DRAM and flash memory and in the past have made RIMM in cooperation with Rambus. Aside from memory they also produce m..
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Atari DOS
Atari DOS is the disk operating system used with the Atari 8 bit family of computers. Getting the Atari computer to access a disk drive required operating system extensions to be loaded into the computer. These extensions to the operating system ..
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Binary prefix
In computing binary prefixes are names or associated symbols that can precede a unit of measure such as a byte to indicate multiplication by a power of two. In certain contexts in computing such as computer memory sizes it is convenient and usefu..
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Blazer (web browser)
Blazer is a free Blazer 3 and 4 bundled Blazer 1 and 2 were bundled or add on purchase web browser available for Palm handhelds running Palm OS 3.1 or higher and have 8mb of free memory available. The original version Blazer was released in May 2..
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Blue Screen of Death
A blue screen of death as seen in Windows XP and Vista. A Blue Screen of Death also known as a stop error BSoD or bluescreen is an error screen displayed by certain operating systems most notably Microsoft Windows after encountering a critical sy..
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Booting
In computing booting booting up is a bootstrapping process that starts operating systems when the user turns on a computer system. A boot sequence is the set of operations the computer performs when it is switched on that loads an operating syste..
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Bubble memory
Computer memory types Volatile . DRAM e.g. DDR SDRAM SRAM Upcoming . Z RAM TTRAM Historical . Williams tube Delay line memory Non Volatile <trXXX CBR..
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Buddy memory allocation
The buddy memory allocation technique is a memory allocation technique that divides memory into partitions to try to satisfy a memory request as suitably as possible. This system makes use of splitting memory into halves to try to give a best fit..
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Cache only memory architecture
Cache only memory architecture COMA is a computer memory organization for use in multiprocessors in which the local memories typically DRAM at each node are used as cache. This is in contrast to using the local memories as actual main memory as i..
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Chipkill
In computer memory systems Chipkill is IBM's trademark for a form of advanced Error Checking and Correcting ECC computer memory technology that protects computer memory systems from any single memory chip failure as well as multi bit errors from ..
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Computer data storage
1 GiB of SDRAM mounted in a personal computer. An example of primary storage.40 GB hard disk drive HDD; when connected to a computer it serves as secondary storage.160 GB SDLT tape cartridge an example of off line storage. When used within a robo..
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Computer hardware
Computer hardware is the physical part of a computer including the digital circuitry as distinguished from the computer software that executes within the hardware. The hardware of a computer is infrequently changed in comparison with software and..
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Computing
For the formal concept of computation see computation.RAM Random Access memoryLook up computing inWiktionary the free dictionary. Information technology Portal . Computing is the activity of developing and using computer technology including ..
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CONFIG.SYS
CONFIG.SYS is the primary configuration file for the DOS and OS2 operating systems. It is a special file that contains setup or configuration instructions for the computer system. Usage . . The commands in this file configure DOS for use with d..
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Content-addressable memory
Content addressable memory CAM is a special type of computer memory used in certain very high speed searching applications. It is also known as associative memory associative storage or associative array although the last term is more often used ..
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Conventional memory
Conventional memory is the first 640 kilobytes of the original IBM PC's memory. 640 kB barrier . . The 640 kB barrier is an architectural limitation of IBM and IBM Compatible PC's . The Intel 8088 CPU used in the original IBM PC was able to add..
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