such a processor is a 64-bit computer. From the software perspective, 64-bit computing means the use of machine code with 64-bit virtual memory addresses...

personal computing. Many 16-bit CPUs already existed in the mid-1970s. Over the next 30 years, the shift to 16-bit, 32-bit and 64-bit computing allowed...

architecture, 32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in 32-bit units. Compared...

x86-64 (also known as x64, x86_64, AMD64, and Intel 64) is a 64-bit version of the x86 instruction set, first announced in 1999. It introduced two new...

Extension. Modern 64-bit processors such as designs from ARM, Intel or AMD are typically limited to supporting fewer than 64 bits for RAM addresses....

IA-64 (Intel Itanium architecture) is the instruction set architecture (ISA) of the discontinued Itanium family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors. The basic...

the foundation for the modern computing landscape. The 1976 Zilog Z80, one of the most popular 8-bit CPUs (though with 4-bit ALU, at least in the original)...

control of the system. It is intended to make 64-bit computing a more secure environment. The Athlon 64 CPUs have been produced with 130 and 90 nm silicon...

architecture, 512-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 512 bits (64 octets) wide. Also, 512-bit central processing...

4-bit computing is the use of computer architectures in which integers and other data units are 4 bits wide. 4-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic...

Sixty-Four by The Beatles Other powers of two: 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, ... 64-bit computing Sloane, N. J. A. (ed.). "Sequence A024675 (Average of two consecutive...

inspired by the mathematical constants pi and e with a reference to 64-bit computing power. Pine64 initially operated as Pine Microsystems Inc. (Fremont...

computing on Microsoft platforms, WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit) is a subsystem of the Windows operating system capable of running 32-bit applications...

with 16-bit memory addresses can directly access 64 KB (65,536 bytes) of byte-addressable memory. If a system uses segmentation with 16-bit segment offsets...

Directory and more. Newer versions of Windows NT support 64-bit computing, with a 64-bit kernel and 64-bit memory addressing. Windows NT is a group or family...

Intel and the whole x86 ecosystem needed 64-bit memory addressing if x86 was to survive the 64-bit computing era, as workstation and desktop software...

Edition home page". Microsoft. "Microsoft 64-bit Computing Overview". Microsoft. "MSDN: Getting Ready for 64-bit Windows". Microsoft. WISE Archived 2008-03-30...

64-bit, 128-bit, 256-bit, or higher. CPUs feature SIMD instruction sets (Advanced Vector Extensions and the FMA instruction set etc.) where 256-bit vector...

Retrieved 2007-08-06. James, Daniel (September 2004). "Dweezil Zappa: 64-bit Computing & The Frank Zappa Archive". Sound on Sound. Retrieved 2008-02-20. "RAISE...

scheme, a VAX quadword is 64 bits. They continued this 16-bit word/32-bit longword/64-bit quadword terminology with the 64-bit Alpha. Another example is...

in some 1-bit systems. Opcodes for at least one 1-bit processor architecture were 4-bit and the address bus was 8-bit. While 1-bit computing is mostly...

signed numbers in a binary computing system. The most common is two's complement, which allows a signed integral type with n bits to represent numbers from...

representable in eight or fewer bits and processor designers commonly optimize for this usage. The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided...

differences), also known as bit depth, is either the number of bits used to indicate the color of a single pixel, or the number of bits used for each color component...

expressed in binary. The alternate wording b-bit aligned designates a b/8 byte aligned address (ex. 64-bit aligned is 8 bytes aligned). A memory access...

bits with the introduction of ATA-6. The Ext4 file system physically limits the file block count to 48 bits. The minimal implementation of the x86-64...

"It's a Unix system, I know this!". VMware Blogs. VMware. "Support for 64-bit Computing". Vmware.com. 19 April 2004. Archived from the original on 2 July 2009...

FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values...

The bit is the most basic unit of information in computing and digital communication. The name is a portmanteau of binary digit. The bit represents a logical...

interest in producing native UEFI 32-bit firmware because of the current status of mainstream 64-bit computing and platform costs. Therefore, Microsoft...