8-bit
In computer architecture, 8-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are at most 8 bits (1 octet) wide. Also, 8-bit CPU and ALU architectures are those that are based on registers, address buses, or data buses of that size. 8-bit is also a term given to a generation of microcomputers in which 8-bit microprocessors were the norm.
The IBM System/360 introduced byte-addressable memory with 8-bit bytes, as opposed to bit-addressable or decimal digit-addressable or word-addressable memory, although its general purpose registers were 32 bits wide, and addresses were contained in the lower 24 bits of those addresses. Different models of System/360 had different internal data path widths; the IBM System/360 Model 30 (1965) implemented the 32-bit System/360 architecture, but had an 8 bit native path width, and performed 32-bit arithmetic 8 bits at a time.
The first widely adopted 8-bit microprocessor was the Intel 8080, being used in many hobbyist computers of the late 1970s and early 1980s, often running the CP/M operating system; it had 8-bit data words and 16-bit addresses. The Zilog Z80 (compatible with the 8080) and the Motorola 6800 were also used in similar computers. The Z80 and the MOS Technology 6502 8-bit CPUs were widely used in home computers and second- and third-generation game consoles of the '70s and '80s. Many 8-bit CPUs or microcontrollers are the basis of today's ubiquitous embedded systems.
8-bit (disambiguation)
8-bit is a computer architecture.
8-bit may also refer to:
Technology
Music
See also
8-bit (band)
8-Bit is an American 8-bit comedic rap group
Discography
References
Podcasts:
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- Past Perfect released: 2006
- In the Mix: Techno 2 released: 1998
- Digitalhut: Noisecore, Volume 1 released: 1998
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- We Sold Our Souls for Nothing released: 2007
- 8 Bit released: 2003
- You Ain't No Robot released:
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- Re Cognition: The Clan Analogue Legacy Collection released: 2010
- Cognition Three released: 2000
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- Ministry of Sound: The Sound of UK Garage released: 2011
Ministry of Sound: The Sound of UK Garage
Released 2011- What a Feeling (Sunship edit)
- Unorthodox (Wideboys remix)
- Finish Line (The Mike Delinquent Project remix)
- Seek Bromance (Danny Dubbz remix)
- Take It Back (DJ Q remix)
- Love Shy (Club Asylum Mix)
- It Aint Enough (dub mix)
- Gotta Have It
- Imagine (Club Asylum remix)
- Break Me Down (Sunship mix)
- Shopaholic (future garage mix)
- Something on Your Mind (Control-S remix)
- Breaking Up (Artifact remix)
- Something in Your Eyes (K Warren mix)
- Enough Is Enough
- Borrowed Time (Wookie mix)
- Naked (Control-S mix)
- Fallin' (Delinquent remix)
- Master Blaster 2000 (Oracles mix)
- Friendly Pressure (Sunship Into the Sunshine remix)
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- Futurism Ain't Shit to Me 2 released: 2006
- Freaky Loops 2 released: 1999
- Triple J: Mix Up Presents Tweek released: 1999
Futurism Ain't Shit to Me 2
Released 2006- Ungst Func Slag Collision
- Soulhack
- The Return of the Menstruation Man (Data MC remix)
- On Martyrdom
- Disthant
- Come on Feet (feat. Melvin Van Peebles)
- Hold Dat (club mix) (feat. Jemini & Rell)
- Set It
- Common Like Baseball Cards
- I-Deez
- Missing
- Rock On
- Tivoli
- Earjuice Synthesis (Jamie Lidell's Hair Does Not Loose About This House Remoox)
- Keep Life Right (Dabrye remix/instrumental) (feat. MC Soom T)
- O Silent Bed
- Central Park
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