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71Computer program — A computer program (also software, or just a program) is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task with a computer.[1] A computer requires programs to function, typically executing the program s instructions in a central… …
72PowerPC — is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM . Originally intended for personal computers, PowerPC CPUs have since become popular embedded and high performance processors. PowerPC was the… …
73Cray-1 — preserved at the Deutsches Museum Cray …
74CDC 6600 — The CDC 6600 was a mainframe computer from Control Data Corporation, first delivered in 1964. It is generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, outperforming its fastest predecessor, IBM 7030 Stretch, by about three times. It… …
753DNow! — is the trade name of a multimedia extension created by AMD for its processors, starting with the K6 2 in 1998. It is an addition of SIMD instructions to the traditional x86 instruction set, designed to improve a CPU s ability to perform the… …
76General protection fault — This article is about the x86 exception. For the webcomic, see General Protection Fault (webcomic). A general protection fault (GPF) in the Intel x86 and AMD x86 64 architectures, and other unrelated architectures, is a fault (a type of… …
77Compare-and-swap — In computer science, the compare and swap (CAS) CPU instruction is a special instruction that atomically compares the contents of a memory location to a given value and, only if they are the same, modifies the contents of that memory location to… …
78CPU cache — Cache memory redirects here. For the general use, see cache. A CPU cache is a cache used by the central processing unit of a computer to reduce the average time to access memory. The cache is a smaller, faster memory which stores copies of the… …
79CDC 6000 series — The CDC 6000 series was a family of mainframe computers manufactured by Control Data Corporation in the 1960s. It consisted of CDC 6400, CDC 6500, CDC 6600 and CDC 6700 computers, which all were extremely rapid and efficient for their time. Each… …
80Memory-mapped I/O — For more generic meanings of input/output port, see Computer port (hardware). MMIO redirects here. For the airport serving Saltillo, Mexico, assigned the ICAO code MMIO, see Plan de Guadalupe International Airport. Memory mapped I/O (MMIO) and… …
