8-bit CPUs are generally larger than 8-bit, usually 16-bit. 8-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 8-bit microprocessors. The term '8-bit'...
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8-bit color graphics are a method of storing image information in a computer's memory or in an image file, so that each pixel is represented by 8 bits...
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8-Bit Theater is a sprite comic, meaning the art is mainly taken from pre-existing video game assets, created by Brian Clevinger that ran from 2001 to...
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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...
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8-Bit Christmas is a 2021 American Christmas comedy film directed by Michael Dowse, from a screenplay by Kevin Jakubowski based upon his novel of the...
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8-bit clean is an attribute of computer systems, communication channels, and other devices and software, that process 8-bit character encodings without...
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1991 platform game. It is a companion to the 16-bit Sega Genesis game Sonic the Hedgehog for the 8-bit Sega Master System and Game Gear consoles. Ancient—a...
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Look up 8-bit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. 8-bit computing is computing with 8-bit addresses or units of data. 8-bit may also refer to: Octet (computing)...
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File Allocation Table (redirect from 8-bit FAT)
designed as an 8-bit file system, the maximum number of clusters must increase as disk drive capacity increases, and so the number of bits used to identify...
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David Murray (born 1975), commonly known as The 8-Bit Guy, is an American retrocomputing enthusiast and video game developer who runs a YouTube channel...
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The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with...
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IT 8-bit was a computer museum in Mariupol, Ukraine. It was founded by Dmitry Cherepanov. Before its destruction it used to be one of the largest privately...
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Data structure alignment (redirect from 8 bit alignment)
on a 32-bit machine, a data structure containing a 16-bit value followed by a 32-bit value could have 16 bits of padding between the 16-bit value and...
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Byte (redirect from 8-bit byte)
the common 8-bit definition, network protocol documents such as the Internet Protocol (RFC 791) refer to an 8-bit byte as an octet. Those bits in an octet...
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Color depth (redirect from 32-bit color)
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...
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published by Sega for the Master System and Game Gear. It is the sequel to the 8-bit Sonic the Hedgehog (1991) and follows Sonic as he attempts to get the Chaos...
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Chiptune (redirect from 8-bit (music))
influence on much of the video game and chiptune music produced during the 8-bit and 16-bit eras. Sega's 1982 arcade game Super Locomotive for example featured...
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Transformation Format – 8-bit. UTF-8 is capable of encoding all 1,112,064 valid Unicode code points using one to four one-byte (8-bit) code units. Code points...
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Extended ASCII (redirect from 8-bit ASCII)
Hewlett-Packard started to add European characters to their extended 7-bit / 8-bit ASCII character set HP Roman Extension around 1978/1979 for use with...
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Third generation of video game consoles (redirect from 8-bit era)
the third generation of video game consoles, commonly referred to as the 8-bit era, began on July 15, 1983, with the Japanese release of two systems: Nintendo's...
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List of Intel processors (section The 8-bit processors)
Performance 8-bit Microcontroller 8744 – High Performance 8-bit Microcontroller 8051 – 8-bit Control-Oriented Microcontroller 8052 – 8-bit Control-Oriented...
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(PCM), bit depth is the number of bits of information in each sample, and it directly corresponds to the resolution of each sample. Examples of bit depth...
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A parity bit, or check bit, is a bit added to a string of binary code. Parity bits are a simple form of error detecting code. Parity bits are generally...
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Word (computer architecture) (redirect from 10-bit)
were a multiple of 8-bits, with 16-bit machines being popular in the 1970s before the move to modern processors with 32 or 64 bits. Special-purpose designs...
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Bitwise operation (redirect from Bit-shift)
operation operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits. It is a fast and simple...
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8-Bit Rebellion! is a massively multiplayer online, and single player, video game released and based on the American rock band, Linkin Park for iOS. The...
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Character (computing) (redirect from 8-bit character)
number of contiguous bits. While a character is most commonly assumed to refer to 8 bits (one byte) today, other options like the 6-bit character code were...
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Microprocessor (section 8-bit designs)
transistors on a chip allowed word sizes to increase from 4- and 8-bit words up to today's 64-bit words. Additional features were added to the processor architecture;...
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had an 8-bit ALU, 8-bit internal data paths, and an 8-bit path to memory, and the original Motorola 68000 had a 16-bit data ALU and a 16-bit external...
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telecommunications and computing, bit rate (bitrate or as a variable R) is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. The bit rate is expressed...
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