Although the ability to expand a home computer with more RAM, storage and other features has been around for as long as home computers exist, it wasn’t until the IBM PC that the concept of a fully ...

Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle through to system RAM and ...

The 60X bus uses decoupled (split) address and data buses to allow address-only bus cycles used for processor-to-processor communication. This mechanism eliminates the need to arbitrate and to use the ...

Apple recently made available the Developer Notes for the new PowerBook models. This documentation reveals that the 15" and 17" models (but not the 12" model) support processor/bus"slewing." Slewing ...