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If firmware is a CS concept, how is it defined?
I have a problem understanding the term firmware (as a type of software);
If it is a CS concept, it might be good to ask about it here to get a formal definition and a correction for my mistake, as a ...
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x86 i386 i686 amd64 i5 i7 architecture processor confusion
I noticed those terms x86, i386, i686, amd64, i5, i7, archtecture, processor from the web, from my own notebook, from book readings.
But I am really confused by those terminologies. I try my best to ...
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CISC and VLIW, and instruction and opcode
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_set
CISC processors include "complex" instructions in their instruction set. A single "complex" instruction does something that may ...
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Bits of CPU, architecture and OS
I was wondering if the bits of OS, of
instruction set, of CPU registers,
of data bus from CPU to memory, and of
address bus from CPU to memory must
be consistent in some sense and how?
When we cay ...
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