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31Tandem Computers — A Tandem Computers promotional mug Tandem Computers, Inc. was the dominant manufacturer of fault tolerant computer systems for ATM networks, banks, stock exchanges, telephone switching centers, and other similar commercial transaction processing… …
32Subroutine — In computer science, a subroutine (function, method, procedure, or subprogram) is a portion of code within a larger program, which performs a specific task and can be relatively independent of the remaining code. The syntax of many programming… …
33Counter machine — A counter machine is an abstract machine used in formal logic and theoretical computer science to model computation. It is the most primitive of the four types of register machines. A counter machine comprises a set of one or more unbounded… …
34MMIX — may also refer to the year 2009, in Roman numerals. MMIX (pronounced em mix ) is a 64 bit RISC instruction set architecture (ISA) designed by Donald Knuth, with significant contributions by John L. Hennessy (who contributed to the design of the… …
35PDP-8 — A PDP 8 on display at the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.. This example is from the first generation of PDP 8s, built with discrete transistors and later known as the Straight 8. The 12 bit PDP 8 was the… …
36Addressing 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… …
37Immunity Aware Programming — When writing firmware for an embedded system, immunity aware programming is a set of programming techniques used in an attempt to tolerate transient errors in the program counter or other that would otherwise lead to failure.Immunity aware… …
38Intel 8086 — Produced From 1978 to 1990s Common manufacturer(s) Intel, AMD, NEC, Fujitsu, Harris (Intersil), OKI, Siemens AG …
39SECD machine — The SECD machine is a highly influential virtual machine intended as a target for functional programming language compilers. The letters stand for Stack, Environment, Code, Dump, the internal registers of the machine. These registers point to… …
40MOS Technology 6502 — The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8 bit microprocessor that was designed by Chuck Peddle for MOS Technology in 1975. When it was introduced, it was the least expensive full featured CPU on the market by a considerable margin, costing less than one… …
