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51Cromemco Dazzler — Cromemco s Dazzler (or TV DAZZLER) was a graphics card for S 100 bus computers. Released in 1976,[1] it is the first commercial graphics card available for microcomputers.[2] Multiple Dazzler cards could be installed in a single machine and… …
52Text Editor and Corrector — TECO (pronounced /tee koh/; originally an acronym for [paper] Tape Editor and COrrector , but later Text Editor and COrrector ) is a text editor originally developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the 1960s, after which it… …
53Macintosh 128K/512K technical details — The original Macintosh was a relatively simple machine, now of interest for its simplicity and for the fact that it was the first computer produced by Apple under the name Macintosh. The Macintosh used standard off the shelf components to the… …
54Dynamic random access memory — (DRAM) is a type of random access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. Since real capacitors leak charge, the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically …
55Framebuffer — Overhead photo of a Sun TGX Framebuffer A framebuffer is a video output device that drives a video display from a memory buffer containing a complete frame of data. The information in the memory buffer typically consists of color values for every …
56Intel 8253 — The Intel 8253 and 8254 are Programmable Interval Timers (PITs), which perform timing and counting functions. They are found in all x86 PCs. History In modern times, this PIT is not included as a separate chip in an x86 PC. Rather, its… …
57Alpha 21064 — The 21064 microprocessor The 21064 microprocessor m …
58Burroughs large systems instruction set — The B5000 instruction set is the set of valid operations for the Burroughs large systems including the current (as of 2006) Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems. These unique machines have a distinctive design and instruction set. Each word of data is… …
59Joel McCormack — is the designer of the NCR Corporation version of the p code machine which is a kind of Stack machine popular in the 1970s as the preferred way to implement new computing architectures and languages such as Pascal and BCPL. The NCR design shares… …
60AMD Am29000 — The 29000 evolved from the same Berkeley RISC design that also led to the Sun SPARC and Intel i960. One trick used in all of the Berkeley derived designs is the concept of register windows, a technique used to speed up procedure calls… …
