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  2. Byte addressing - Wikipedia

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    Their 32-bit linear addresses can address 4 billion different items. Using word addressing, a 32-bit processor could address 4 Gigawords; or 16 Gigabytes using the modern 8-bit byte. If the 386 and its successors had used word addressing, scientists, engineers, and gamers could all have run programs that were 4x larger on 32-bit machines.

  3. x32 ABI - Wikipedia

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    A presentation at the Linux Plumbers Conference on September 7, 2011, covered the x32 ABI. [2] The x32 ABI was merged into the Linux kernel for the 3.4 release with support being added to the GNU C Library in version 2.16. [14] In December 2018 there was discussion as to whether to deprecate the x32 ABI, which has not happened as of April 2023 ...

  4. Power Management Bus - Wikipedia

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    In PMBus, blocks may include up to 255 bytes (vs. the 32-byte limit of SMbus). As in SMBus 2.0, only seven-bit addressing is used. Some commands use the SMBus 2.0 block process calls. Either the SMBALERT# mechanism or the SMBus 2.0 host notify protocol may be used to notify the host about faults.

  5. Power ISA - Wikipedia

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    Intended for server grade Linux, adding features like 64-bit, optional SIMD/VSX, Radix MMU, little-endian mode and hypervisor support. ACS – AIX Compliancy Subset. 1099 instructions. Intended to run AIX, adding features like decimal and quad-precision floating point, big-endian mode and symmetric multiprocessing.

  6. Segment descriptor - Wikipedia

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    If set, the limit is in units of 4096-byte pages, for a maximum of 2 32 bytes. D/B D = Default operand size : If clear, this is a 16-bit code segment; if set, this is a 32-bit segment. B = Big: If set, the maximum offset size for a data segment is increased to 32-bit 0xffffffff. Otherwise it's the 16-bit max 0x0000ffff.

  7. Memory address - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Data General Nova minicomputer, and the Texas Instruments TMS9900 and National Semiconductor IMP-16 microcomputers used 16 bit words, and there were many 36-bit mainframe computers (e.g., PDP-10) which used 18-bit word addressing, not byte addressing, giving an address space of 2 18 36-bit words, approximately 1 megabyte of ...

  8. IA-32 - Wikipedia

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    The primary defining characteristic of IA-32 is the availability of 32-bit general-purpose processor registers (for example, EAX and EBX), 32-bit integer arithmetic and logical operations, 32-bit offsets within a segment in protected mode, and the translation of segmented addresses to 32-bit linear addresses. The designers took the opportunity ...

  9. Motorola 68000 - Wikipedia

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    The 68000 has a 24-bit external address bus and two byte-select signals "replaced" A0. These 24 lines can therefore address 16 MB of physical memory with byte resolution. Address storage and computation uses 32 bits internally; however, the 8 high-order address bits are ignored due to the physical lack of device pins.