Glossary
A
Address Bus
Address Space
ALU
AMD
Amdahl
ARM Architecture
AS/400
As of 2005 (64-bit)
Athlon64
Athlon64 X2
B
C
C99
C
Cell Processor
CPU
Character
Computer Architecture
Core 2
Computer Memory
D
Data bus
Data
Data Model
Database
DEC Alpha
DEC Prism
Decimal
Driver
DEC
Direct Memory Access
Double Precision
E
F
Floating Point
Freescale
Fujitsu
G
H
HAL Computer Systems
Hewlett-Packard
High Performance Computing
High Level Language
Hitachi
I
IA-32
IA-64
IBM
IBM-PC
IBM-Power
IMac
Instruction Set
Instruction Set Architecture
Integer
Intel 80386
IPV6
IRIX
Itanium
Itanium 2
J
L
Linux
Linux Distro
Linux Kernel
Linux on zSeries
M
Mac Pro
Mac OS X
Mainframe
Memory Address
Memory Mapping
Microsoft Windows
MIPS
MIPS Architecture
MIPS Technology
Moore’s Law
O
OpenVMS
Operating System
Opteron
OS/400
OSF/1
P
PA-RISC
PA-RISC Family
Pentium
Pentium 4
Pentium D
Personal Computer
Play Station 3
Plug-compatible
Porting
PowerPC
Power3
PowerPC 970
PowerPC G4
PowerPC G4 e700
Power Mac G5
Process
Processor Architecture
Processor Register
R
S
Server
Silicon Graphics
SGI Crimson
Solaris 10
Solaris Environment
SPARC
SPARC64
Streaming SIMD Extensions
Sun Microsystems
Supercomuter
System/360
System/370
U
V
VAX
Virtual Machine
Virtual Memory
W
Windows XP x64 Professional Edition
Workstation
X
Xeon
X86-64
Xserve
X86
Xbox360
X87
Z
