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  2. ModR/M - Wikipedia

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    Under MIB addressing, the base and displacement are used to compute an effective address as base + displacement. [ 1 ] : §3.1.1.3 The register specified by the SIB byte's INDEX field does not participate in this effective-address calculation, but is instead treated as a separate input argument to the instructions using this addressing mode.

  3. Base address - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a base address is an address serving as a reference point ("base") for other addresses. Related addresses can be accessed using an addressing scheme . Under the relative addressing scheme, to obtain an absolute address , the relevant base address is taken and an offset (aka displacement) is added to it.

  4. Orthogonal instruction set - Wikipedia

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    Direct address: ADD.A address 1 — add the value stored at address 1; Memory indirect: ADD.M address 1 — read the value in address 1, use that value as another address and add that value; Many ISAs also have registers that can be used for addressing as well as math tasks. This can be used in a one-address format if a single address register ...

  5. Memory paging - Wikipedia

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    In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves data from secondary storage [a] for use in main memory. [1] In this scheme, the operating system retrieves data from secondary storage in same-size blocks called pages.

  6. Simplified Instructional Computer - Wikipedia

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    The Simplified Instructional Computer (abbreviated SIC) is a hypothetical computer system introduced in System Software: An Introduction to Systems Programming, by Leland Beck. Due to the fact that most modern microprocessors include subtle, complex functions for the purposes of efficiency, it can be difficult to learn systems programming using ...

  7. Addressing mode - Wikipedia

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    An addressing mode specifies how to calculate the effective memory address of an operand by using information held in registers and/or constants contained within a machine instruction or elsewhere. In computer programming, addressing modes are primarily of interest to those who write in assembly languages and to compiler writers.

  8. Capability-based addressing - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, capability-based addressing is a scheme used by some computers to control access to memory as an efficient implementation of capability-based security.

  9. Fixed-block architecture - Wikipedia

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    From RAMAC until the early 1960s most hard disk drive data were addressed in the form of a three number block addressing scheme Cylinder, Head & Sector (CHS); the cylinder number, which positioned the head access mechanism; the head number, which selected the read-write head; and the sector number, which specified the rotational position of a ...