Due to needing two accesses to each chip instead of one, and the complications of the video hardware also needing access, reading or writing RAM was much slower than on the BBC Micro.

The upgrade was purely to the programming language ; the Atom's graphics and sound capabilities remained unchanged, and hence, contrary to some pre-release beliefs, the BBC BASIC ROM did not allow Atom users to run commercial BBC Micro software, since nearly all of it took advantage of the BBC machine's advanced graphics and sound hardware.

Current plugin scripts include functions like Internet-TV and movie-trailer browsers, weather forecast and cinemaguides, Over-the-top content video streaming services like YouTube, BBC iPlayer, Hulu, Netflix, Veoh, MLB. tv, Internet-radio-station browsers such as Pandora Radio, online picture sharing sites like Flickr, TV-guides, e-mail clients, instant messaging, train-timetables, home automation scripts to front-end control PVR software and hardware, P2P file-sharing downloaders ( BitTorrent ), IRC, also casual games such as Tetris and much more.

Along with BBC Hardware, Hardwarehouse became the largest independently owned hardware retailer in Australia.

Soon after retirement from newsreading, Kendall lent his voice to the BBC Micro as part of Acorn Computers ' hardware speech synthesis solution.

** Minimum level required for POWER4 hardware and the last release that worked on the Micro Channel architecture

Most of the engineers who designed the hardware and software of the Aster went on to design hardware and software for the ( then new ) MSX system for a company called " Micro Technology b. v .".

* Orange Micro, a computer hardware company

* Micro / RSX — a pre-generated full version of RSX-11M-Plus with hardware autoconfiguration, implemented specifically for the Micro / PDP-11, a low-cost multi-user system in a box, featuring ease of installation, no system generation, and a special documentation set.

Approaches based on standard C or C ++ ( with libraries or other extensions allowing parallel programming ) are found in the Catapult C tools from Mentor Graphics, the Impulse C tools from Impulse Accelerated Technologies, and the free and open-source ROCCC 2. 0 tools from Jacquard Computing Inc. Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc .' s CoreFire Design Suite and National Instruments LabVIEW FPGA provide a graphical dataflow approach to high-level design entry and languages such as SystemVerilog, SystemVHDL, and Handel-C seek to accomplish the same goal, but are aimed at making existing hardware engineers more productive versus making FPGAs more accessible to existing software engineers.

Creative Micro Designs ( CMD ) is a computer technology company which today sells PCs and related equipment, but which started out in 1987 selling self-designed firmware updates and hardware for the Commodore 64 and C128 8-bit personal computers.

* Creative Micro Designs, a computer hardware company

While looking for the right partner for Nexgen, he discovered that AMD ’ s ( Advance Micro Devices was Intel ’ s main competitor in the computer hardware industry ) microprocessor product, called K5, had failed to deliver on its promise.

An updated version, the Play-Yan Micro ( trademarked PLAY-YAN micro ), was released two days later alongside the similarly branded Game Boy Micro, with features such as MP4 and ASF support built directly into the hardware.

However, it also supported hardware that standard GEOS and the standard C64 KERNAL couldn't handle, including Creative Micro Designs HD hard drives ( up to four GB ), high-density FD-2000 / FD-4000 floppy disk drives ( up to 3. 2 MB ), RAMLink with expanded RAM addressing ( up to 16 MB ), and SuperCPU 20 MHz accelerator with SuperRAM up to 16 MB.

The video signal is generated in software like the XGS Micro and Pico Editions ; however, there is color helper hardware to generate the colorburst part of the video signal.

Micro Power also released hardware such as the ' Micro Power Add-On ' for the ZX Spectrum which added 2 joystick ports and 3-channel sound capability.

Our building time was slightly over 400 hours -- but the total cost for the hull with Fiberglas bottom, sink, head and hardware was under $800.

A small single switchboard was installed in the Village over Woodcock's hardware store ( later E. H. Hemenway's ).

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

It was implemented on hardware developed by Howard Delman.

As the 6502 by itself was too slow to control both the game play and the vector hardware at the same time, the latter task was delegated to the DVG.

As Apollo 16 was the penultimate mission in the Apollo program and there was no new hardware or procedures to test on the lunar surface, the last two missions ( the other being Apollo 17 ) presented opportunities for astronauts to clear up some uncertainties in understanding the Moon's properties.

Although the hardware is limited to four separate sound channels, software such as OctaMED uses software mixing to allow eight or more virtual channels, and it was possible for software to mix two hardware channels to achieve a single 14-bit resolution channel by playing with the volumes of the channels in such a way that one of the source channels contributes the most significant bits and the other the least.

The Acorn Plus 3 was a hardware module that connected independently of the Plus 1 and provided a double-density 3½ ” disc drive connected through a WD1770 drive controller and an ADFS ROM.

By adding a CRTC6845 to the package, a full hardware solution was created that did not reduce CPU performance and only used 1 kB of memory for the display.

A software ROM was still supplied, but this did no more than expand the hardware ROM so that it knew mode 7 now existed and was able to switch into it.

Although page flipping was a hardware possibility, the limited memory forced most applications to do all their drawing directly to the visible screen, often resulting in graphical flicker or visible redraw.

AIX was the first operating system to utilize journaling file systems, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features like processor, disk and network virtualization, dynamic hardware resource allocation ( including fractional processor units ), and reliability engineering ported from its mainframe designs.

When AppleNet was cancelled in October, Sidhu led an effort to develop a new networking system based on the AppleBus hardware.

However, as the basic hardware was built-in to the Mac, adding nodes cost only about $ 50 for the adaptor box.

The initial default hardware implementation for AppleTalk was a high-speed serial protocol known as LocalTalk that used the Macintosh's built-in RS-422 ports at 230. 4 kbit / s.

There was also hardware in place through which the teacher could see the display of each pupils screen on his own monitor.

Another important demand was that the computers could be used in a network ( Aster developed special software and hardware for that ).

The aster was chosen for Dutch schools by the Dutch ministry of education, in a set-up with eight disk-less Asters, and one Aster with high capacity floppy drives all connected by a LAN based on the Asters high-speed serial port hardware, and special cables that permitted that any single computer on the LAN could broadcast to all other computers.

:* The Model 30, the slowest model in the line, used an 8-bit microarchitecture with only a few hardware registers ; everything that the programmer saw was emulated by the microprogram.

In the absence of an FPU, many FPU functions can be emulated, which saves the added hardware cost of an FPU but is significantly slower.

Naturally, due to the interpretation overhead, this is slower than directly running programs on the emulated hardware, unless the hardware running the emulator is an order of magnitude faster.

The high-level language is essentially the machine language of a virtual machine, too complex to be built as hardware but instead emulated or interpreted by software.

There are a number of very popular hardware synthesizers which are no longer manufactured which have been emulated in software.

GeoPort slightly modified the existing Mac serial port pins to allow the computer's internal DSP hardware or software to send data that, when passed to a digital-to-analog converter, emulated various devices such as modems and fax machines.

Registers and most 704 instructions were emulated in 709 hardware.

One of the first embodiments of object-oriented software, function blocks were self contained " blocks " of code that emulated analog hardware control components and performed tasks that were essential to process control, such as execution of PID algorithms.

Newer cards like AMD / ATI HD5000-HD7000 even lack 2D acceleration, it has to be emulated by 3D hardware.

The C & T chip set included hardware emulation of the Intel 80186 processor and the Handbook used a special feature of the chip set called SuperSet whereby 80286 instructions were trapped and then emulated in software.

Unlike later Sonic compilations, in Sonic Jam the Mega Drive games were not simply emulated, but instead were ported to the Saturn hardware.

The software only emulated and simulated the calls that were required for specific games ; it was required to adapt the software for games that used different parts of the N64 hardware.

In a fully virtualized environment, the guest is presented with an emulated or virtualized set of hardware and is unaware that this hardware is not strictly physical.

The " Other Supported " line is for processors which allow some grey-area method, where an explicit NX bit doesn't exist yet hardware allows one to be emulated in some way.

On processors which do not support a hardware NX, each page is given an emulated NX bit.

The nodes may belong to either of three classes: emulated nodes, where the entire hardware of each node is emulated, Cooja nodes, where the Contiki code for the node is compiled for and executed on the simulation host, or Java nodes, where the behavior of the node must be reimplemented as a Java class.

Obtaining the ROM data by oneself directly from the hardware being emulated can be extremely difficult, technical, and expensive, since it may require desoldering of integrated circuit chips from the circuit board of the device they own.

Consumers were expected to learn how to tweak the emulation software used to emulate other standards, an activity not necessary with many other cards that emulated the Sound Blaster through their sound hardware.

The emulated hardware consists of a 32-bit x86 compatible CPU, a 8259 Programmable Interrupt Controller, a 8254 Programmable Interrupt Timer, and a 16450 UART.

Sound hardware that can be emulated includes the PC speaker ( played back through the host's standard sound output, not its physical internal PC speaker ), AdLib, Gravis Ultrasound, Tandy, Creative Music System / GameBlaster, Sound Blaster 1. x / 2. 0 / Pro / 16, and Disney Sound Source.

In addition, there is now a growing number of emulators available, which allow the use of an emulated C64 on modern computing hardware.