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• Byte addressing — refers to hardware architectures which support accessing individual bytes of data rather than only larger units called words.The basic unit of digital storage is called a bit. In most common computer architectures, 8 bits are grouped together to… …   Wikipedia

• Byte — A byte (pronounced bite , IPAEng|baɪt) is the basic unit of measurement of information storage in computer science. In many computer architectures it is a unit of memory addressing, most often consisting of eight bits. A byte is one of the basic… …   Wikipedia

• byte — (B)    a unit of information used in computer engineering. Technically the byteis a unit of addressable memory, and its size can vary depending on themachine or the computing language. However, in most contexts the byte isequal to 8 bits (or 1… …   Dictionary of units of measurement

• byte —    A small group of bits, usually eight, that represent the smallest addressable unit in memory. See also ASCII and BSC …   IT glossary of terms, acronyms and abbreviations

• Word-addressable — is a computer science term.In computer science, a word is an ordered set of bytes or bits (typically 2 bytes, or 16 bits) that is the normal unit in which information may be stored, transmitted, or operated on within a given computer. Typically,… …   Wikipedia

• Memory address — A digital computer s memory, more specifically main memory, consists of many memory locations, each having a memory address, a number, analogous to a street address, at which computer programs store (except when the address is in mask ROM) and… …   Wikipedia

• Endianness — Endian redirects here. For the Linux routing/firewall distribution, see Endian Firewall. In computing, the term endian or endianness refers to the ordering of individually addressable sub components within the representation of a larger data item …   Wikipedia

• IBM System/360 — The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a mainframe computer system family announced by IBM on April 7, 1964. It was the first family of computers making a clear distinction between architecture and implementation, allowing IBM to release a suite of… …   Wikipedia

• Bus error — In computing, a bus error is generally an attempt to access memory that the CPU cannot physically address. Bus errors can also be caused by any general device fault that the computer detects. A bus error rarely means that computer hardware is… …   Wikipedia

• Linear Data Set — An Linear Data Set (LDS) is a type of data set used by the VSAM computer data storage system. A Linear Data Set contains data that can be accessed as byte addressable strings in virtual storage. The LDS is composed of VSAM Control Intervals (CI… …   Wikipedia

• 16-bit — This article is about 16 bit in computer architecture. For the color encoding, see Highcolor. For the era of computer gaming commonly referred to as 16 bit, see History of video game consoles (fourth generation) Processors 1 bit 4 bit 8 bit 12… …   Wikipedia