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The least expensive model was the Model 20 with as little as 4096 bytes of core memory, eight 16-bit registers instead of the sixteen 32-bit registers of other System/360 models, and an instruction set that was a subset of that used by the rest of the range. The initial announcement in 1964 included Models 30, 40, 50, 60, 62, and 70.
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IBM Personal Computer models Type IBM P/N Date announced Date withdrawn Bus No. of slots No. of bays Processor Clock speed (MHz) Stock onboard RAM (KB) Maximum onboard RAM (KB) FDD HDD Notes Ref(s). Personal Computer: 5150-001 August 1981: March 1983: ISA, 8-bit 5 2 Intel 8088: 4.77 16 KB 64 KB none none
The 16-bit slots were a superset of the 8-bit configuration, so most 8-bit cards were able to plug into a 16-bit slot (some cards used a "skirt" design that physically interfered with the extended portion of the slot) and continue to run in 8-bit mode. One of the key reasons for the success of the IBM PC (and the PC clones that followed it) was ...
Byte 1 specifies two 4-bit length fields or one 8-bit length field; bytes 2-3 and 4-5 each specify a base and displacement. The encoding of the length fields is length-1. Instructions must be on a two-byte boundary in memory; hence the low-order bit of the instruction address is always 0.
Many 32-bit computers have 32 physical address bits and are thus limited to 4 GiB (2 32 words) of memory. [3] [4] x86 processors prior to the Pentium Pro have 32 or fewer physical address bits; however, most x86 processors since the Pentium Pro, which was first sold in 1995, have the Physical Address Extension (PAE) mechanism, [5]: 445 which allows addressing up to 64 GiB (2 36 words) of memory.
In 2002, there were 101 interns in North America from 42 schools. [22] IBM Almaden Research Center located in San Jose, California, USA (2000-current) 4 teams in 2009; IBM Silicon Valley Lab located in San Jose, California, USA; Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA [23] (1999–2004) Debut location of Extreme Blue [23] Did not host EB in 2001. [23]
A 32-bit register can store 2 32 different values. The range of integer values that can be stored in 32 bits depends on the integer representation used. With the two most common representations, the range is 0 through 4,294,967,295 (2 32 − 1) for representation as an binary number, and −2,147,483,648 (−2 31) through 2,147,483,647 (2 31 − 1) for representation as two's complement.