* The IBM Floating Point Architecture ( until superseded by the IEEE 754-1985 floating-point standard, 20 years later )

Floating point became a focus for the America Project, and IBM was able to use new algorithms developed in the early 1980s that could support 64-bit double-precision multiplies and divides in a single cycle.

The hamlet is now partly a wooded, unpopulated area between IBM and the Clinton Point Quarry owned by Tilcon, Inc., and part of land that rests on a Spackenkill residential community known informally as Crown Heights.

His works are in the White House, the National Gallery of Art, the U. S. Supreme Court, the Pentagon, Walter Reed Hospital, the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, the U. S. Naval Academy, the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kansas, the Legion of Honor Gallery in Paris ; the American Embassy in London, IBM corporate headquarters, Cornell University, Columbia University, Harvard University, the Harry Truman Library and others.

Backplanes have grown in complexity from the simple Industry Standard Architecture ( ISA ) ( used in the original IBM PC ) or S-100 style where all the connectors were connected to a common bus.

This technical leadership and the rivalry with IBM was emphasized when the Systempro server was launched in late 1989-this was a true server product with standard support for a second CPU and RAID, but also the first product to feature the EISA bus, designed in reaction to IBM's MCA ( MicroChannel Architecture ).

* Character Data Representation Architecture ( CDRA ) from IBM Contains IBM's official information on codepages and charsets.

The Extended Industry Standard Architecture ( in practice almost always shortened to EISA and frequently pronounced " eee-suh ") is a bus standard for IBM PC compatible computers.

IBM Mainframes: Architecture and Design, 2nd ed.

Industry Standard Architecture ( ISA ) is a computer bus standard for IBM PC compatible computers introduced with the IBM Personal Computer to support its Intel 8088 microprocessor's 8-bit external data bus and extended to 16 bits for the IBM Personal Computer / AT's Intel 80286 processor.

) In late 2000 IBM introduced 64-bit z / Architecture, acquired numerous software companies such as Cognos and introduced those software products to the mainframe.

IBM released z / VSE Version 4 in 2007. z / VSE Version 4 requires 64-bit z / Architecture hardware and supports 64-bit real mode addressing.

To be eligible for sub-capacity licensing, a z / OS customer must be running in 64-bit mode ( which requires z / Architecture hardware ), must have completely eliminated OS / 390 from the system, and must e-mail IBM monthly sub-capacity reports.

While the PAD function defined by X. 28 and X. 29 specifically supported asynchronous character terminals, PAD equivalents were developed to support a wide range of proprietary intelligent communications devices, such as those for IBM System Network Architecture ( SNA ).

The IBM AT compatible bus was later named the Industry Standard Architecture bus by manufacturers of compatible computers.

Apple was the dominant purchaser of PowerPC chips from IBM and Freescale Semiconductor and even though they abandoned the platform, further development of AltiVec is continued in several Power Architecture designs from Freescale and IBM.

In the original IBM PC, there was only one Intel 8237 DMA controller capable of providing four DMA channels ( numbered 0-3 ), as part of the so-called Industry Standard Architecture, or ISA.

However, recognising the benefits of vector processing IBM developed Virtual Vector Architecture for use in supercomputers coupling several scalar processors to act as a vector processor.

In February 1990, the first computers from IBM to incorporate the POWER Architecture (" Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC ") were called the " RISC System / 6000 " or RS / 6000.

* IBM Power Architecture weekly magazine ( Effective March 31, 2011, the Cell Broadband Engine Resource Center on developerWorks is no longer available )

IBM introduced the Industry Standard Architecture ( ISA ) bus, with the IBM PC in 1981 ; it was then called the PC bus.

DIGITAL published its first DNA specification at about the same time that IBM announced its Systems Network Architecture ( SNA ).

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Floating Point is an album by John McLaughlin, released in 2008 through the record label Abstract Logix.

** Floating Point Exceptions

*: Faster Floating Point Sorting and Multiple Histogramming with implementation in C ++

The completion of the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge across Lake Washington in 1963 allowed Redmond to flourish as a suburb of Seattle.

These problems are being mitigated by the expansion of SR-520 and the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, as well as the planned light rail service via East Link from Seattle to Redmond during the second phase of Sound Transit.

Their main differences were the CPU, RAM, and Weitek Floating Point Accelerator boards, disk controllers and disk drives ( both ST-506 and SMD were available ).

National Semiconductor also produced related support chips like Floating Point Units ( FPUs ), Memory Management Units ( MMUs ), and Direct Memory Access ( DMA ) controllers.

This is often supported in Floating Point Hardware called FPUs.

This was partly inspired by the difficulty Fisher observed at Yale of compiling for architectures like Floating Point Systems ' FPS164, which had a complex instruction set architecture ( CISC ) that separated instruction initiation from the instructions that saved the result, requiring very complicated scheduling algorithms.

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See floating point and IEEE Floating Point Standard.

* Floating Point written with or without an exponent ( 0., 1. 5 ,-0. 05, + 100. 4 ,-4.,. 05E-2, -. 05E2, 5E02, 5. E2 );

Oregon-based Floating Point Systems ( FPS ) built add-on array processors for minicomputers, later building their own minisupercomputers.

* Floating Point Systems, a computer company founded in 1970 and later purchased by Cray Research

The ASIC integrated two 700 MHz PowerPC 440 embedded processors, each with a double-pipeline-double-precision Floating Point Unit ( FPU ), a cache sub-system with built-in DRAM controller and the logic to support multiple communication sub-systems.

Three floating bridges cross Lake Washington: the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge ( officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge-Evergreen Point ) carries State Route 520 from Seattle's Montlake neighborhood to Medina while the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge and the Third Lake Washington Bridge ( officially the Homer M. Hadley Memorial Bridge ) carries Interstate 90 from Seattle's Mount Baker neighborhood to Mercer Island.

Mainframe is divided into six sectors ( moving clockwise ): Baudway, Kits, Floating Point Park, Beverly Hills, Wall Street, and Ghetty Prime ( also called G-Prime ).

He has been called “ The Father of Floating Point ,” since he was instrumental in creating the original IEEE 754 specification.

** Floating Point

** IEEE standard single and double precision Floating Point Unit ( FPU )

On 28 April 2008 the recording sessions from the previous year surfaced on the album Floating Point, featuring the rhythm section of keyboardist Louis Banks, bassist Hadrien Feraud, percussionist Sivamani and drummer Ranjit Barot bolstered on each track by a different Indian musician.