Speeding up the low portion of memory is particularly useful on 6502 derived machines because that processor has a faster addressing mode for the first 256 bytes and so it is common for software to put any variables involved in time critical sections of program into that region.

It goes on to suggest that to re-grok code is to reload the intricacies of that portion of code into one's memory after some time has passed and all the details of it are no longer remembered.

Instead of reading any sized vector several times as in the STAR, the Cray-1 would have to read only a portion of the vector at a time, but it could then run several operations on that data prior to writing the results back to memory.

Each LPAR is given a portion of system resources ( memory, hard disk space, and CPU time ) via a system of weights that determines where unused resources are allocated at any given time.

However, one development of these talks was the inclusion of two dual memory areas, allowing all programs to be divided into a protected ( exec in DEC-speak ) portion and a user portion.

A few real-time systems refresh a portion of memory at a time determined by an external timer function that governs the operation of the rest of a system, such as the vertical blanking interval that occurs every 10 – 20 ms in video equipment.

* Resident set size, the portion of a process that exists in physical memory ( RAM )

It may therefore fairly be concluded that this portion of ground, always remarkable for its springs of excellent water, once supplied water to Baynard, his household, or his cattle ; that the memory of his name was preserved in the neighbourhood for six centuries ; and that his watering-place now takes the abbreviated name Bayswater.

( Note that the I / O register space may be larger on some more extensive devices, in which case the memory mapped I / O registers will occupy a portion of the SRAM address space.

Shared memory processing needs additional locking for the data, imposes the overhead of additional processor and bus cycles, and also serializes some portion of the algorithm.

Additionally the Efficeon CMS ( code morphing software ) reserved a small portion of main memory ( typically 32 MB ) for its translation cache of dynamically translated x86 instructions.

An Interface Descriptor Block, or simply IDB, is a portion of memory or Cisco IOS internal data structure that contains information such as the IP address, interface state, and packet statistics for networking data.

The main portion of the base is called Ault Field in memory of Commander William B. Ault, who was listed ' missing in action ' during the Battle of the Coral Sea ( 1942 ).

So when an address is accessed by the CPU, it may refer to a portion of physical RAM, but it can also refer to memory of the I / O device.

Unlike previous models, “ memories ” can be formed and recalled by inputting a small portion of the entire memory.

Integrated graphics solutions, shared graphics solutions, or Integrated graphics processors ( IGP ) utilize a portion of a computer's system RAM rather than dedicated graphics memory.

In this context the term " extended memory " may refer to either the whole of the extended memory or only the portion available through this API.

Later two additional methods were developed allowing direct access to a small portion of extended memory from real mode.

Extended memory is not accessible in real mode ( except for a small portion called the high memory area ).

* High Memory Area, a portion of the Random Access Memory allocated for DOS memory management

An attack usually involves a small portion of a song equal to or less than the capacity of one's auditory short-term memory.

To guard against the tyranny of a numerical majority, Calhoun developed his theory of `` concurrent majority '', which, he said, `` by giving to each portion of the community which may be unequally affected by the action of government, a negative on the others, prevents all partial or local legislation ''.

yet here was a depth of sensibility which is lacking in a considerable portion of the beneficiaries of our civilization.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

Radiation instruments suitable for home use are available, and would be of value in locating that portion of the home which offers the best protection against fallout radiation.

At that time consideration will be given to whether in the light of the United States supplies of rice available for Title 1, disposal, India's production, consumption and stocks of food grains, other imports from the United States and countries friendly to the United States, India's storage capacity, and other related factors, any increase would be possible in the portion of the total rice programmed which is currently planned for procurement during the first year.

later came a 1961 cut on the West Coast ( still pending elsewhere ) of $.07/cwt on 70,000 lb-plus carloads ( which works out to more than $4/mbf on that portion of the load in excess of 70,000 lb.

The department apparently intends to make the Rural Roads Authority a revolving fund under which new bonds would be issued every time a portion of the old ones are paid off by tax authorities.

After the battle of Actium, which was fought near a sanctuary of Apollo, Augustus enlarged Apollo's temple, dedicated a portion of the spoils to him, and instituted quinquennial games in his honour.

Accordingly, as the law stood before 1870, every person who by birth or naturalisation satisfied the conditions set forth, though he should be removed in infancy to another country where his family resided, owed an allegiance to the British crown which he could never resign or lose, except by act of parliament or by the recognition of the independence or the cession of the portion of British territory in which he resided.

Not only did this mean that Ford enjoyed much larger demand, but the resulting larger demand also allowed further economies of scale to be exploited, further depressing unit price, which tapped yet another portion of the demand curve.

and occupies a small triangular-shaped section of which Randolph and Clay counties, together with the northern part of Tallapoosa and Chambers, form the principal portion.

He built a horologion at Athens, the so-called Tower of the Winds, a considerable portion of which still exists.

Several stars in the southern part of Antlia were a portion of " Dong ' ou ", which represented an area in southern China.

The outer portion of the cell, or ectoplasm, is distinct and is filled with many tiny vacuoles, which assist in flotation.

A large portion of his time was also devoted to anatomy, which science was regarded by him as the secret of the art.

This exon encodes a portion of the mature TNF domain, as well as the leader sequence which is a highly conserved region necessary for proper intracellular processing.

In Quebec City, municipal officials built a 3 metre ( 10 ft ) high wall around the portion of the city where the Summit of the Americas was being held, which only residents, delegates to the summit, and certain accredited journalists were allowed to pass through.

Originally designed to breach fortifications, they have evolved from nearly static installations intended to reduce a single obstacle to highly mobile weapons of great flexibility in which now reposes the greater portion of a modern army's offensive capabilities.

He ordained further that some should be called " Abbreviators of the Upper Bar " ( Abbreviatores de Parco Majori ; the name derived from a space in the chancery, surrounded by a grating, in which the officials sat, which is called higher or lower ( major or minor ) according to the proximity of the seats to that of the vice-chancellor ), the others of the Lower Bar ( Abbreviatores de Parco Minori ); that the former should sit upon a slightly raised portion of the chamber, separated from the rest of the hall or chamber by lattice work, assist the Cardinal Vice-Chancellor, subscribe the letters and have the principal part in examining, revising, and expediting the apostolic letters to be issued with the leaden seal ; that the latter, however, should sit among the apostolic writers upon benches in the lower part of the chamber, and their duty was to carry the signed schedules or supplications to the prelates of the upper bar.

Southeast Alaska, sometimes referred to as the Alaska Panhandle, is the southeastern portion of the U. S. state of Alaska, which lies west of the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

Uintatheres were huge creatures with long narrow skulls, of which the elongated facial portion carried three pairs of bony horn-cores, probably covered with short horns in life, the hind-pair having been much the largest.