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  • 1Branch predication — is a strategy in computer architecture design for mitigating the costs usually associated with conditional branches, particularly branches to short sections of code. It does this by allowing each instruction to conditionally either perform an… …

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  • 2Hawkhurst Branch Line — Locale Kent, England Dates of operation 1892–1961 Track gauge …

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  • 3PIC microcontroller — PIC microcontrollers in DIP and QFN packages …

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  • 4PDP-11 architecture — The PDP 11 architecture is an instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). It is implemented by central processing units (CPUs) and microprocessors used in minicomputers of the same name. Additional… …

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  • 5DEC Alpha — Alpha Designer Digital Equipment Corporation Bits 64 bit Introduced 1992 Design RISC Type Register Register Encoding Fixed …

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  • 6ARM architecture — This article is about a computer processor architecture. For other uses, see ARM (disambiguation). Logo ARM Designer ARM Holdings Bits …

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  • 7History of computing hardware — Computing hardware is a platform for information processing (block diagram) The history of computing hardware is the record of the ongoing effort to make computer hardware faster, cheaper, and capable of storing more data. Computing hardware… …

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  • 8Criticism of the APL programming language — The APL programming language has been used since the mid 1960s on mainframe computers and has itself evolved in step with computers and the computing market. APL is not widely used, but minimalistic and high level by design, at several points in… …

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  • 9Control flow — Not to be confused with Flow control. In computer science, control flow (or alternatively, flow of control) refers to the order in which the individual statements, instructions, or function calls of an imperative or a declarative program are… …

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  • 10Criticism of APL — APL has been used since the mid 1960s on mainframe computers and has itself evolved in step with computers and the computing market. APL is not widely used, but minimalistic and high level by design, at several points in its history it could have …

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