While 32-bit architectures are still widely-used in specific applications, the PC and server market has moved on to 64 bits with x86-64 and other 64-bit architectures...
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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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Single-precision floating-point format (redirect from 32-bit floating point)
called FP32 or float32) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values...
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File Allocation Table (redirect from FAT (32 bits))
16-bit disk sector count to 32 bits in the BPB. Although the on-disk changes were minor, the entire DOS disk driver had to be converted to use 32-bit sector...
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Word (computer architecture) (redirect from 32-bit word)
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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48 bits of virtual memory address space (8 TB or 256 TB) and 44 bits of physical memory address space (16 TB). A change from a 32-bit to a 64-bit architecture...
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ARM architecture family (section 32-bit architecture)
the following 32 bits. M (bits 0–4) is the processor mode bits. T (bit 5) is the Thumb state bit. F (bit 6) is the FIQ disable bit. I (bit 7) is the IRQ...
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to the 16-bit 286 instruction set) are: 32-bit integer capability All general-purpose registers (GPRs) are expanded from 16 bits to 32 bits, and all arithmetic...
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computer architecture, 16-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 16 bits (2 octets) wide. Also, 16-bit central processing unit...
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encode Unicode code points that uses exactly 32 bits (four bytes) per code point (but a number of leading bits must be zero as there are far fewer than 232...
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introduced October 26, 1992 32-bit internal architecture External data bus width: 16 bits External address bus width: 24 bits 275,000 transistors at 1 μm...
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Data structure alignment (redirect from 32 bit alignment)
example, 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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Fifth generation of video game consoles (redirect from History of video games (32-bit - 64-bit era))
The fifth generation era (also known as the 32-bit era, the 64-bit era, or the 3D era) refers to computer and video games, video game consoles, and handheld...
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Year 2038 problem (redirect from 32 bit Apocalypse)
bytes, has an extra 32-bit field per timestamp, of which 30 bits are used for the nanoseconds part of the timestamp, and the other 2 bits are used to extend...
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8-bit bytes, as opposed to bit-addressable or decimal digit-addressable or word-addressable memory, although its general-purpose registers were 32 bits...
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24 bits. The size of the "byte offset" from the address being translated is still 12 bits, so total physical address size increases from 32 bits to 36 bits...
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X86-64 (redirect from 64-bit compatibility mode)
changes in the 64-bit extensions include: 64-bit integer capability All general-purpose registers (GPRs) are expanded from 32 bits to 64 bits, and all arithmetic...
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Classless Inter-Domain Routing (redirect from /32)
IPv4 address is 32 bits so an n-bit CIDR prefix leaves 32 − n bits unmatched, meaning that 232−n IPv4 addresses match a given n-bit CIDR prefix. Shorter...
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WoW64 (redirect from Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit)
WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit) is a subsystem of the Windows operating system capable of running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows. It is...
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to 0. Key (32 bits) Present if the K bit is set; contains an application-specific key value. Sequence Number (32 bits) Present if the S bit is set; contains...
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LEB128 (section Encode Unsigned 32-bit integer)
multiple of 7 bits (such that if the number is non-zero, the most significant 7 bits are not all 0). Break the number up into groups of 7 bits. Output one...
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a data size of 16 bits will cause only the bottom 16 bits of the 32-bit general-purpose registers to be modified – the top 16 bits are left unchanged...
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Hamming weight (redirect from Number of bits set)
//put count of each 32 bits into those 32 bits x = (x & m32) + ((x >> 32) & m32); //put count of each 64 bits into those 64 bits return x; } //This uses...
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GUID Partition Table (section Windows: 32-bit versions)
the limitations of master boot record (MBR) partition tables, which use 32 bits for logical block addressing (LBA) of traditional 512-byte disk sectors...
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X86 assembly language (redirect from 32-bit x86 assembly programming)
When a 32-bit value is stored into eg edx, the high bits 63:32 are ; automatically zeroed too in every case. This saves you having to set ; the bits with...
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4,294,967,295 (redirect from Highest unsigned 32-bit integer)
highest unsigned (that is, not negative) 32-bit integer, which makes it the highest possible number a 32-bit system can store in memory. Since the prime...
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odd number of "1" bits in the word. This bit is set to 0 or 1 to ensure that the correct number of bits are set to 1 in the word. Bits 30 to 31 are the...
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Floating-point arithmetic (redirect from Hidden bit)
format (32 bits, "6-digit BASIC"), the MBF extended-precision format (40 bits, "9-digit BASIC"), and the MBF double-precision format (64 bits); each of...
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32-bit file access refers to the higher performance, protected mode disk caching method introduced in Windows for Workgroups 3.11, which replaced SmartDrive...
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