floating point register
71IBM 700/7000 series — The IBM 700/7000 series was a series of large scale (mainframe) computer systems made by IBM through the 1950s and early 1960s. The series included several different, incompatible processor architectures. The 700s used vacuum tube logic and were… …
72Multiply-accumulate — In computing, especially digital signal processing, multiply accumulate is a common operation that computes the product of two numbers and adds that product to an accumulator.: a leftarrow a + b imes cWhen done with floating point numbers it… …
73CUDA — Developer(s) Nvidia Corporation Stable release 4.0 / May 17 2011; 6 months ago (May 17 2011) Operating system Windows XP and later Mac OS X Linux …
74Word (computer architecture) — Processors 1 bit 4 bit 8 bit 12 bit 16 bit 18 bit 24 bit 31 bit 32 bit 36 bit 48 bit 60 bit …
75PA-8000 — HP PA 8000. The PA 8000 (PCX U), code named Onyx, is a microprocessor developed and fabricated by Hewlett Packard (HP) that implemented the PA RISC 2.0 instruction set architecture (ISA).[1] It was a completely new design with no circuitr …
76Microcode — is a layer of hardware level instructions and/or data structures involved in the implementation of higher level machine code instructions in many computers and other processors; it resides in special high speed memory and translates machine… …
77SuperSPARC — SM71 Der SuperSPARC ist ein von Sun Microsystems entworfener superskalarer Mikroprozessor. Da Sun jedoch nicht über die geeigneten Fertigungsstätten verfügte, wurden die Prozessoren in den Hallen von Texas Instruments gefertigt. Die ersten… …
78Transputer — A transputer was a pioneering concurrent computing microprocessor design of the 1980s from INMOS, a British semiconductor company based in Bristol. [ Allen Kent, James G. Williams (eds.) (1998) Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology ,… …
79CDC Cyber — The CDC Cyber range of mainframe class supercomputers were the primary products of Control Data Corporation (CDC) during the 1970s and 1980s. In their day, they were the computer architecture of choice for scientific and mathematically intensive… …
80computer — computerlike, adj. /keuhm pyooh teuhr/, n. 1. Also called processor. an electronic device designed to accept data, perform prescribed mathematical and logical operations at high speed, and display the results of these operations. Cf. analog… …
