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21Assembly language — See the terminology section below for information regarding inconsistent use of the terms assembly and assembler. Motorola MC6800 Assembly Language An assembly language is a low level programming language for computers, microprocessors,… …
22Algorithmic efficiency — In computer science, efficiency is used to describe properties of an algorithm relating to how much of various types of resources it consumes. Algorithmic efficiency can be thought of as analogous to engineering productivity for a repeating or… …
23Microcode — 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… …
24Disk editor — A disk editor is a computer program that allows its user to read, edit, and write raw data (at character or hexadecimal, byte levels) on disk drives (e.g., hard disks, USB flash disks or removable media such as a floppy disks); as such, they are… …
25Reference counting — In computer science, reference counting is a technique of storing the number of references, pointers, or handles to a resource such as an object or block of memory. It is typically used as a means of deallocating objects which are no longer… …
26QuickDraw GX — was a replacement for the QuickDraw (QD) 2D graphics engine and Printing Manager inside the classic Mac OS. Although GX was based on the same general geometry and dimensions of the original QD engine, the underlying drawing platform became a… …
27B+ tree — In computer science, a B+ tree is a type of tree which represents sorted data in a way that allows for efficient insertion, retrieval and removal of records, each of which is identified by a key . It is a dynamic, multilevel index, with maximum… …
28Stack (data structure) — In computer science, a stack is an abstract data type and data structure based on the principle of Last In First Out (LIFO) . Stacks are used extensively at every level of a modern computer system. For example, a modern PC uses stacks at the… …
29XFS — Infobox Filesystem name = XFS full name = XFS developer = Silicon Graphics Inc. introduction os = IRIX v5.3 introduction date = 1994 partition id = directory struct = B+ trees file struct = B+ trees bad blocks struct = max filename size = 255… …
30SystemVerilog — In the semiconductor and electronic design industry, SystemVerilog is a combined Hardware Description Language and Hardware Verification Language based on extensions to Verilog. SystemVerilog was created by the donation of the Superlog language… …
