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31Apollo Guidance Computer — and DSKY Invented by MIT Instrumentation Laboratory Manufacturer Raytheon Introduced August 1966 …
32Direct memory access — (DMA) is a feature of modern computers that allows certain hardware subsystems within the computer to access system memory independently of the central processing unit (CPU). Without DMA, the CPU using programmed input/output is typically fully… …
33Burroughs large systems — The Burroughs large systems were the largest of three series of Burroughs Corporation mainframe computers. Founded in the 1880s, Burroughs was the oldest continuously operating entity in computing, but by the late 1950s its computing equipment… …
34Channel I/O — In computer science, channel I/O is a generic term that refers to a high performance input/output (I/O) architecture that is implemented in various forms on a number of computer architectures, especially on mainframe computers. In the past they… …
35Intel 8259 — The Intel 8259 is a family of Programmable Interrupt Controllers (PICs) designed and developed for use with the Intel 8085 and Intel 8086 8 bit and 16 bit microprocessors. The family originally consisted of the 8259, 8259A, and 8259B PICs, though …
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38MikroSim — The program MikroSim is an educational software for hardware non specific explanation of the general functioning and behaviour of a virtual processor, running on the operating system Microsoft Windows. With this e learning tool, devices like… …
39INT (x86 instruction) — INT is an assembly language instruction for x86 processors for generating a software interrupt. It takes one argument that must be a constant byte value. [cite web |url=http://developer.intel.com/design/pentiumii/manuals/243191.htm|title=Intel… …
40PICAXE — is the name of a UK sourced microcontroller system based on a range of Microchip PICs. There are 13 PICAXE variants of differing pin counts from 8 to 40 pins. Initially marketed for use in education and by electronics hobbyists, they are also… …
