The first used the same graphics processor as the BBC Micro in mode 7 — the SAA5050 — but used software to ensure that it was fed with the correct graphics data.

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.

Finally a replacement for the aging Z80 processor was being developed in the form of an Intel 8086 board, and additional 512K 16 bit memory boards.

AbiWord had grammar checking before any other open source word processor, although a grammar checker was later added to OpenOffice. org.

Powering the system was an Atari SALLY 6502 ( Atari's slightly custom 6502, sometimes described as a " 6502C ") processor running at 1. 79 MHz, similar to the processor found in home computers ( Atari 8-bit, Apple II, Commodore 64 ) and other consoles ( Atari 5200 and Nintendo Entertainment System ).

The original Athlon ( now called Athlon Classic ) was the first seventh-generation x86 processor and, in a first, retained the initial performance lead it had over Intel's competing processors for a significant period of time.

Athlon was the first x86 processor with a 128 kB split level 1 cache ; a 2-way associative, later 16-way, cache separated into 2 × 64 kB for data and instructions ( Harvard architecture ).

This high-speed SDRAM cache was run at a divisor of the processor clock and was accessed via its own 64-bit bus, known as a " back-side bus " allowing the processor to both service system front side bus requests ( the rest of the system ) and cache accesses simultaneously verses the traditional approach of pushing everything through the front-side bus.

Eventually a product called the " Goldfingers device " was created that could unlock the CPU, named after the gold connector pads on the processor board that it attached to.

The eventual joint company effort, named Borland Office for Windows ( a combination of the WordPerfect word processor, Quattro Pro spreadsheet and Paradox database ) was introduced at the 1993 Comdex computer show.

The system, which was called George, with an application programmed in JOVIAL, was intended to support some 4000 terminals, but even after a fourth processor was added it couldn't handle the workload.

The first ( retroactively ) RISC-labeled processor ( IBM 801-IBMs Watson Research Center, mid-1970s ) was a tightly pipelined simple machine originally intended to be used as an internal microcode kernel, or engine, in CISC designs, but also became the processor that introduced the RISC idea to a somewhat larger public.

Reasons for this transition was productive uses for such monitors, i. e. besides widescreen computer game play and movie viewing, are the word processor display of two standard letter pages side by side, as well as CAD displays of large-size drawings and CAD application menus at the same time.

This was a version of Windows 2. 1 adapted for the 80386 processor.

DEC's last major attempt to find a space in the rapidly changing market was the DEC Alpha 64-bit RISC processor architecture.

Although the Alpha processor family met both of these goals, and, for most of its lifetime, was the fastest processor family on the market, it did little to affect the bottom line or repair the company's status.

Due to inherently compact and semantically rich instructions, the average amount of work performed per machine code unit ( i. e. per byte or bit ) is higher for a CISC than a RISC processor, which may give it a significant advantage in a modern cache based implementation.

The 16 MHz front side bus is usually recognised as being the most significant fault of the computer ; and the arrival of the ( five times faster ) StrongARM processor in 1996 meant that the RiscPC had a CPU significantly faster than that for which the computer had been designed.

This reduced reliance upon L2 cache also allowed AMD to make their L2 cache higher latency and lower bandwidth without significant performance loss, which lessened processor complexity and allowed better manufacturing yields.

" Intel also claims significant performance improvements with a hyper-threading-enabled Pentium 4 processor in some artificial intelligence algorithms.

The GeForce was a single-chip processor with integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup / clipping ( hardware T & L ), and rendering engines, giving it a significant performance advantage over the Voodoo3.

Equally significant is the fact that the terminal's multi-chip CPU ( processor ) became the embryo of the x86 architecture upon which the original IBM PC and its descendants are based.

VM's role changed within IBM when hardware evolution led to significant changes in processor architecture.

While sampled sound could be achieved on the PC speaker using pulse width modulation, doing so required a significant proportion of the available processor power, rendering its use in games rare.

Whitefield, the first Xeon processor to feature QuickPath, suffered significant project delays and was cancelled.

Although the hardware QSystem ( TM ) professional mixing processors and plug-in producer-side software tools were significant product offerings in the 1990s, most QSound technology is now incorporated in end-user products ( such as video game software, computer sound cards and home entertainment electronics ) by means of analog integrated circuits, digital signal processor ( DSP ) software libraries, host processor software and the like.

A much more detailed search of compression possibilities is performed, at the expense of significant further processor time spent searching.

However, in multitasking environments such as BSD, Linux, Microsoft Windows operating systems, other processes are often running at the same time ; if they require significant CPU time, each core of the Pentium D branded processor can handle different programs, improving overall processing speed over its single-core Pentium 4 counterpart.

: If the least significant nibble of the result is 10 or higher, or if the adjust flag is set, then the processor adds 6 to the result.

: Then, if the most significant nibble of the result is 10 or higher, or if the carry flag is set, then the processor adds 96 ( 6 times 16 ) to the result and sets the carry flag.

: If the least significant nibble of the result is 10 or higher, then the processor adds 6 to it and stores it in the least significant byte.

: The processor will have set the adjust flag if a borrow occurred in the least significant nibble, and the carry flag if a borrow occurred in the most significant nibble.

: If the least significant nibble of the result is 10 or higher, or if the adjust flag is set, then the processor subtracts 6 from the result.

: Then, if the most significant nibble of the result is 10 or higher, or if the carry flag is set, then the processor subtracts 96 ( 6 times 16 ) from the result and sets the carry flag.

: If the least significant nibble of the result is 10 or higher, then the processor subtracts 6 from it and stores it in the least significant byte.

Internally, the Athlon is a fully seventh generation x86 processor, the first of its kind.

An interesting feature of this processor is that it was the first x86 processor with protected mode.

The 32-bit flat memory model of the 386 would arguably be the most important feature change for the x86 processor family until AMD released x86-64 in 2003.

Despite many successes, RISC has made few inroads into the desktop PC and commodity server markets, where Intel's x86 platform remains the dominant processor architecture.

" Rosetta " is the name of a " lightweight dynamic translator " that enables applications compiled for PowerPC processor to run on Apple systems using an x86 processor.

Sun products included computer servers and workstations built on its own RISC-based SPARC processor architecture as well as on x86 based AMD's Opteron and Intel's Xeon processors ; storage systems ; and a suite of software products including the Solaris operating system, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications.

The standard x86 processor architecture as used in the modern PCs does not actually meet the Popek and Goldberg virtualization requirements.

Virtual memory was introduced to the x86 architecture with the protected mode of the Intel 80286 processor, but its segment swapping technique scaled poorly to larger segment sizes.

In April 2003, AMD released the first x86 processor with 64-bit physical memory address registers capable of addressing much more than 4 GB of memory using the new x86-64 extension ( also known as x64 ).

Thus, the Transmeta chip is internally a VLIW processor, effectively decoupled from the x86 CISC instruction set that it executes.

) However, since processor support for any SSE revision also implies support for MMX, the removal does not limit the types of data types usable by x86 SIMD.

* The CPUID opcode is a processor supplementary instruction ( its name derived from CPU IDentification ) for the x86 architecture.

The program counter ( PC ), commonly called the instruction pointer ( IP ) in Intel x86 and Itanium microprocessors, and sometimes called the instruction address register ( IAR ) or just part of the instruction sequencer, is a processor register that indicates where a computer is in its program sequence.

Generation 2 competed against the 80386 ( the first 32-bit x86 processor ), and generation 3 against the 80486.

The original x86 processor, the 8086, was in turn a non-strict extension of the 8080, therefore loosely resembling the original Datapoint 2200 design as well.

) but also, in most cases, in the large 32-bit based instruction set of a modern x86 processor ( although the encodings are different in all three ).

Resource Interchange File Format is a format developed by Microsoft and IBM in 1991 that is based on IFF, except the byte order has been change to little endian to match the x86 processor architecture.

Developers began to target the P5 Pentium processor family almost exclusively with x86 assembly language optimizations which led to the usage of terms such as Pentium compatible processor for software requirements.

Before the 386 the only way to switch from protected mode back to real mode was to reset the processor ; after a reset it always starts up in real mode to be compatible with earlier x86 CPUs back to the 8086.