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; and PDP-11
Implementations also exist for the Interdata 8 / 32, PDP-11, VAX, Alpha platforms and HP Integrity servers ; for the Honeywell, and for the Computer Technology Limited ( CTL, later ITL ) Modular-1 ; as well as for SPARC running Solaris and Intel running Linux.
Some platforms with a power-of-two word size still have instruction subwords that are more easily understood if displayed in octal ; this includes the PDP-11 and Motorola 68000 family.
It is reported that Edson de Castro, who had been a key member of the design team, left to form Data General when his design for a 16-bit successor to the PDP-8 was rejected in favour of the PDP-11 ; the " PDP-X " did not resemble the Data General Nova, although that is a common myth.
Design features of the PDP-11 influenced the design of microprocessors such as the Motorola 68000 ; design features of its operating systems, as well as other operating systems from Digital Equipment, influenced the design of other operating systems such as CP / M and hence also MS-DOS.
There were no specific input or output instructions ; the PDP-11 used memory-mapped I / O and so the same move instruction was used ; orthogonality even enabled moving data directly from an input device to an output device.
The LSI-11 ( PDP-11 / 03 ), introduced in February, 1975 was the first PDP-11 model produced using large-scale integration ; the entire CPU was contained on four LSI chips made by Western Digital ( the MCP-1600 chip set ; a fifth chip could be added to extend the instruction set, as pictured on the right ).
* PDP-11 / 20 and PDP-11 / 15 — The original, non-microprogrammed processor ; designed by Jim O ' Loughlin.
* PDP-11 / 35 and PDP-11 / 40 — A microprogrammed successor to the PDP-11 / 20 ; the design team was led by Jim O ' Loughlin.
* PDP-11 / 34 and PDP-11 / 04 — Cost-reduced follow-on products to the 11 / 35 and 11 / 05 ; the PDP-11 / 34 concept was created by Bob Armstrong.
* PDP-11 / 60 — A PDP-11 with user-writable microcontrol store ; this was designed by another team led by Jim O ' Loughlin.
This was the last PDP-11 processor to be constructed using discrete logic gates ; later models were all microprogrammed.
* MicroPDP-11 / 93 — Faster 11 / 83 ; final DEC Q-Bus PDP-11 model.

; and archetypal
As the least specialized animal, human beings have maintained the closest connection to the archetypal form ; contrary to the Darwinian conception of human evolution, all other animals devolve from this archetype.
There was talk of a Maritime Union of the three provinces to have greater political power ; however, the first discussions on the subject in 1864 at the Charlottetown Conference led to the process of Canadian Confederation which formed the larger Dominion of Canada instead. Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, an archetypal Maritime scene
Whitehouse created Enfield's character Stavros a London-based Greek kebab shop owner, and then Loadsamoney an archetypal Essex boy made good in Margaret Thatcher's 1980s ; he also appeared as Enfield's sidekick Lance on Saturday Live.
At Cumae, the Sibyl leads Aeneas on an archetypal descent to the underworld, where the shade of his dead father serves as a guide ; this book of the Aeneid directly influenced Dante, who has Virgil act as his narrator's guide.
More's work, and that of contemporary historian Polydore Vergil, reflects a move from mundane medieval chronicles to a dramatic writing style ; for example, the shadowy King Richard is an outstanding, archetypal tyrant drawn from the pages of Sallust, and should be read as a meditation on power and corruption as well as a history of the reign of Richard III.
Themes of Jungian Psychology also are prominent in Le Guin's writing ; for example, her Earthsea fantasy collection explores archetypal shadow and anima images.
" The characters and motifs of fairy tales are simple and archetypal: princesses and goose-girls ; youngest sons and gallant princes ; ogres, giants, dragons, and trolls ; wicked stepmothers and false heroes ; fairy godmothers and other magical helpers, often talking horses, or foxes, or birds ; glass mountains ; and prohibitions and breaking of prohibitions.
The story's protagonist, Hamilton Felix ( surname first ) is the archetypal superman ; he possesses a superhuman physique, an intellect to match it, and can expect to live centuries without any form of medical assistance.
But the archetypal PSPACE-complete problem is generally taken to be the quantified Boolean formula problem ( usually abbreviated to QBF or TQBF ; the T stands for " true "), a generalization of the first known NP-complete problem, the Boolean satisfiability problem ( SAT ).
" Such a view finds general critical consensus, viewing the vignettes as allegorical appropriations of the book's characters and themes ; for example, Schwartz argues that " The Willingdone Museyroom " episode represents the book's " archetypal family drama in military-historical terms.
Taylor has always played the ' archetypal drummer ' role in Duran Duran ; he has always preferred to keep a low profile and is very rarely seen in the media or at public events outside of band commitments.
Terry-Thomas played a variety of exuberant, malevolent and silly characters during the 1960s and became famous for his humorous portrayal of the archetypal English upper class cad and bounder ( It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ; Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines ; Monte Carlo or Bust ; How Sweet It Is!
Dastardly ( voiced by late Paul Winchell, in a manner that Winchell would use several years later to portray the Smurfs ' nemesis Gargamel ) is an archetypal mustache-twirling villain ; Muttley ( voiced by late Don Messick ) is his trademark wheezily snickering, anthropomorphic dog henchman.
The most visibly cursed of all Kindred, the Embrace warps each Nosferatu into a hideously deformed creature ; the archetypal Nosferatu resembles Max Schreck's Count Orlok, though the curse has any number of variations.
In Slavic folklore, Koschei (, also Kashchei or Kashchey ;, Koshchiy ; ; ) is an archetypal male antagonist, described mainly as abducting the hero's wife.

; and minicomputer
Tymshare was already somewhat familiar with NLS ; back when ARC was still operational, it had experimented with its own local copy of the NLS software on a minicomputer called OFFICE-1, as part of a joint project with ARC.
; PDP-8: 12-bit machine with a tiny instruction set ; DEC's first major commercial success and the start of the minicomputer revolution.
The first minicomputer to introduce virtual memory was the Norwegian NORD-1 ; during the 1970s, other minicomputers implemented virtual memory, notably VAX models running VMS.
The CM-2 required a Symbolics 3600 LISP machine as a front-end processor ; later models used a Sun Microsystems workstation or VAX minicomputer.
The first ( mainframe and minicomputer ) era was ruled by IBM and their mainframe computers ; these computers would often take up whole rooms and require teams to run them-IBM supplied the hardware and the software.
Video, audio, still images and metadata were retrieved from a database and assembled on the fly by the computer ( an Interdata minicomputer running the MagicSix operating system ) redirecting its actions based upon user input ; video was the principal, but not sole affordance of the interaction.
A prodigy, she normally stayed at home ; from there, Dotty provided case-solving information from her minicomputer and / or results from various forensic tests.
A version called Duplex Multi Environment Real Time ( DMERT ) was the operating system for the AT & T 3B20D telephone switching minicomputer ; DMERT was renamed UNIX-RTR ( Real-Time Reliable ) in 1982.

; and 16-bit
*** Hardware 16-bit × 16-bit → 32-bit multiply with optional accumulation ; 32-bit ÷ 16-bit16-bit divide
Microsoft did not change all of the Windows code to 32-bit ; parts of it remained 16-bit ( albeit not directly using real mode ) for reasons of compatibility, performance, and development time.
In theory, real-mode applications could be directly executed in 16-bit protected mode if certain rules were followed ; however, as many DOS programs broke those rules, protected mode was not widely used until the appearance of its successor, the 32-bit Intel 80386, which was designed to go back and forth between modes easily.
( More modern versions of INTERCAL have by and large kept the same data structures, with appropriate modifications ; TriINTERCAL, which modifies the radix with which numbers are represented, can use a 10-trit type rather than a 16-bit type ), and CLC-INTERCAL implements many of its own data structures, such as ' classes and lectures ', by making the basic data types store more information rather than adding new types.
* Information transfer format PDUs, or I-format PDUs, with a 16-bit control and sequence numbering field, which are intended to be used in connection-oriented applications ;
The IBM System / 360 has a 32-bit architecture with 16 general-purpose registers, but most of the System / 360 implementations actually use hardware that implemented a much simpler underlying microarchitecture ; for example, the System / 360 Model 30 had 8-bit data paths to the arithmetic logic unit ( ALU ) and main memory and implemented the general-purpose registers in a special unit of higher-speed core memory, and the System / 360 Model 40 had 8-bit data paths to the ALU and 16-bit data paths to main memory and also implemented the general-purpose registers in a special unit of higher-speed core memory.
The MIPS design uses 6 bits of the 32-bit word for the basic opcode ; the rest may contain a single 26-bit jump address or it may have up to four 5-bit fields specifying up to three registers plus a shift value combined with another 6-bits of opcode ; another format, among several, specifies two registers combined with a 16-bit immediate value, etc.
DEC developed the 16-bit PDP 11 as a response to the introduction of the Data General NOVA, which had a 16-bit word length ; DEC's previous PDP-8 had only 12 bit words.
The TurboGrafx-16 has an 8-bit CPU and a dual 16-bit GPU ; and is capable of displaying 482 colors simultaneously, out of 512.
In 1971 realtime LPC using 16-bit LPC hardware was demonstrated by Philco-Ford ; four units were sold.
The first widely adopted 8-bit microprocessor was the Intel 8080, being used in many hobbyist computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, often running the CP / M operating system ; it had 8-bit data words and 16-bit addresses.
; High Color and TrueColor modes: Industry standard 16-bit and 24-bit graphics modes for resolutions from 320 × 200 right up to 1, 600 × 1, 200.
It proved unpopular as it did not include a mouse ( which is an essential part of the IIGS, much like the Macintosh ); the keyboard, although functional, does not mimic all the features and functions of the Apple Desktop Bus keyboard, as well as lacking a numeric keypad ; and some cards designed for the new 16-bit machine did not fit in the Apple IIe's slanted case either.
As an example, the bitmap display controller was little more than a 16-bit shift register ; microcode moved display refresh data from main memory to the shift register, which serialized it into a display of pixels corresponding to the ones and zeros of the memory data.
This scheme shifts a 16-bit segment number left four bits ( making a 20-bit number with four least-significant zeros ) before adding to it a 16-bit address offset ; the maximum sum occurs when both the segment and offset are hexadecimal FFFF, yielding FFFF0h + FFFFh
Microsoft Xenix originally ran on the PDP-11 ; the first port was for the Zilog Z8001 16-bit processor.

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