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2 unusual facts about 8-bit


Robot Honey

The track features heavy use of 8-bit-style synths and electric guitar, and is a love song written fron a robot's point of view.

Telegraph code

(Demand for accented vowels led to the 8-bit ISO 8859-1. Demand for Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, and other letters led to many variations of ISO 8859. Demand for using more than one of these sets of letters at the same time led to the 16 bit Unicode. Demand for Chinese characters led to 20-bit Unicode, which clearly is impossible for any typewriter like formed character mechanical teleprinter, although dot-matrix printers can print Chinese characters.)


36-bit

Prior to the introduction of computers, the state of the art in precision scientific and engineering calculation was the ten-digit, electrically powered, mechanical calculator, such as those manufactured by Friden, Marchant and Monroe.

A Bit O'Gold

Out of the mare, Annasan, A Bit O'Gold was sired by Grade I winner Gold Fever, a son of the 1987 American Champion Two-Year-Old Colt, Forty Niner.

AltiVec

Unlike SSE2, AltiVec supports a special RGB "pixel" data type, but it does not operate on 64-bit double precision floats, and there is no way to move data directly between scalar and vector registers.

Biniax

The game is usually ported (Biniax-2 mainly), but some remakes exist (like Mojon Twin's version for 8 bit Sinclair ZX Spectrum).

Bodhi Linux

The hard float application binary interface of the ARM11, a 32-bit RISC microprocessor ARM architecture with ARMv6 architectural additions, provides enormous performance gains for many use cases.

Brad Fregger

He was the producer of Activision's Ghostbusters, the game Hacker, the Atari and Commodore 64 versions of Pitfall II and Shanghai (the first commercial version of Brodie Lockard's Mahjong solitaire), and he designed and produced the first commercial version of computer solitaire (Solitaire Royale, published by Spectrum Holobyte).

CcTalk

ccTalk protocol stacks have been implemented on a range of devices from tiny Microchip microcontrollers with 512 bytes of ROM to powerful ARM7 32-bit processors.

Code page

IBM introduced the concept of systematically assigning a small, but globally unique, 16 bit number to each character encoding that a computer system or collection of computer systems might encounter.

Cry Just a Little Bit

"Cry Just a Little Bit" is a song originally a hit for British singer Shakin' Stevens in 1983, reaching #3 in the UK charts.

Dallas Sportatorium

However, it did gain one last bit of notoriety when Dallas-based Southwest Airlines held an arm-wrestling match between chairman Herb Kelleher and Kurt Herwald, chairman of Stevens Aviation, resulting from controversy over Southwest's use of the slogan "Just Plane Smart" (Stevens claimed that it infringed on its own "Plane Smart" slogan).

Dead Bishop

After a bit of discussion as to why dead bishops keep appearing on the landing, they call for the Church Police (led by Michael Palin), who arrive exactly two seconds later and beseech God to "tell us who croaked Leicester".

Distant Past

The episode title Distant Past was taken from the title of a bit of underscoring in Stephen Sondheim's film score for Alain Resnais's Stavisky.

Egaro

Mayukh-Moinak’s music is very good but the background score by Arijit Singh is a bit too loud drowning the ambient sounds and the dialogue at some places.

Frisky Tom

Mouskattack, a game with similar visuals and gameplay, was published in 1982 by Sierra On-Line for the Atari 8-bit computers and Apple II.

Gotthelf Greiner

Gotthelf Greiner invented together with his cousin and brother-in-law, Gottfried Greiner, independently to Johann Friedrich Böttger, over many years of research work, and in a little bit different chemical composition Porcelain.

Greenplum

Greenplum Database was supported for production use on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.2 (64-bit), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (64-bit), CentOS Linux 5.x (64-bit) and Sun Solaris 10U5+ (64-bit).

Hammersmith Odeon London '75

#*Contains a portion of "Come A Little Bit Closer" by Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart and Wes Ferrell and "Theme From Shaft" by Isaac Hayes

Henry Katzenstein

The company's first product to reach the market was an 8-bit CMOS D/A converter intended for video applications.

Hey, Landlord

Roos discovered counterculture sketch group The Committee in San Francisco and cast all members in bit parts in Hey, Landlord.

IBM Series/1

The IBM Series/1 computer is a 16-bit minicomputer, introduced in 1976, that in many respects competed with other minicomputers of the time, such as the PDP-11 from Digital Equipment Corporation and similar offerings from Data General and HP.

Internet in South Korea

The ex-CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, made a negative remark on the South Korean internet environment for falling "a little bit behind" due to governmental regulations during a conference with Choi See-Joong, chairman of Korea Communications Commission, and President Park Geun hye

IPhone 5S

It also introduced the A7 dual-core processor, the first 64-bit processor to be used on a smartphone, accompanied by the M7 "motion co-processor", a dedicated processor for processing motion data from its accelerometer and gyroscopes without requiring the attention of the main processor.

Jonathan Lamas

In 2005, Lamas played a bit part in the independent film Mute, directed by Melissa Joan Hart.

Little Bit

"Little Bit" is a song by Swedish recording artist Lykke Li from her debut album, Youth Novels.

Lotus Thompson

An August 1933 Los Angeles Times article made reference to Thompson among a list of actors who accepted $10 to $15 a day for bit roles in films.

NaN

most processors (including those of the Intel/AMD x86-32/x86-64 family, the Motorola 68000 family, the AIM PowerPC family, the ARM family, and the Sun SPARC family) set the signaled/quiet bit to non-zero if the NaN is quiet, and to zero if the NaN is signaling.

Nicole Fiscella

When asked why she wanted to study Nutrition, by The New York Observer, Fiscella replied "Both of my parents are doctors, so we were always the health-nut family. I think I always wanted to do something in the medical field a little bit, but not as far as being a doctor, so this is a good median".

Night Hostess

Silver screen legend Katharine Hepburn (using the alias "Katharine Burns") made her Broadway debut in Night Hostess, playing the bit part of "Other Hostess".

Nonce

Cryptographic nonce, a number or bit string used only once, in security engineering

North on South St.

Both of the singles had a video, yet North on South St. got a bit of popularity because the video was featured on Beavis and Butt-head several years later.

Robert Crouch

He was nominated to make a party political broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1948, which he began by saying that he was not sorry to have the chance to do a bit of grumbling on the air.

Roland XP-50

The XP-50's sound engine utilizes a custom 32-bit RISC chip to accommodate its sound generation and effects processing.

Scaniornis

Situated a bit southwestwards — between 44° and 54° North — of its present location due to plate tectonics, in a fairly wet and warm epoch, the region had probably a warm-temperate to subtropical and fairly humid climate, altogether not too dissimilar from today's Black Sea region or French Mediterranean.

Sega Meganet

Sega's 16-bit console, the Sega Genesis (known as Mega Drive in most areas outside of North America) was released in Japan on October 29, 1988, though the launch was overshadowed by Nintendo's release of Super Mario Bros. 3 a week earlier.

Smaky

The Smaky is a line of mostly 8-bit personal computers and accompanying operating system developed by Professor Jean-Daniel Nicoud and others at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland beginning in 1974.

Smart Lock

Smart locks may use Bluetooth SMART and SSL to communicate, encrypting communications using 128/256-bit AES.

Sonic X-treme

He also was given permission by Hirokazu Yasuhara, the level designer for the majority of the original 16-bit Sonic titles, to post level designs that were going to be put in the game.

Space Communications and Navigation Program

PRN coding - used to reduce power spectral density for low bit rate signals, and for time transfer.

Texas Instruments TMS9900

The TMS9900 was designed as a single chip version of the TI 990 minicomputer series, much like the Intersil 6100 was a single chip PDP-8 (12 bit), and the Fairchild 9440 and Data General mN601 were both one-chip versions of Data General's Nova.

The Cool Kids

Their song "A Little Bit Cooler" was used in a "Most Valuable Puppets" commercial from Nike with LeBron James and Kobe Bryant entitled "Mrs. Lewis".

Ulrich Giezendanner

Giezendanner supported the expansion of the Baregg tunnel (a bit of a bottleneck in the Swiss motorway network) in 2003, and the adding of a second tube of the Gotthard road tunnel.

Virtual DOS machine

VDMs generally also implement support for running 16- and 32-bit protected mode software (DOS extenders), which has to conform to the DOS Protected Mode Interface.

Wes Mannion

In 2001, Wes was involved in a serious incident in which a captive Australian Saltwater crocodile named Graham bit him on the thigh.

Women's Patriotic Association

The WPA began in St. John’s on August 31, 1914, when the wife of the Governor, Lady Margaret Davidson, called upon the women of Newfoundland to “do their bit” for the war effort.

Xcode

Thanks to the Mach-O executable format, which allows for “fat binaries," containing code for multiple architectures, Xcode can build universal binaries, which allow software to run on both PowerPC and Intel-based (x86) platforms and that can include both 32-bit and 64-bit code for both architectures.

Yan Can Cook

Martin's style of presentation is infused with a little bit of humour, with the series shown widely on public television in the United States, on Food Network in Canada and on HTV in Vietnam.

Yes-R

In 2006, Yes-R made his debut as a TV actor in the role of Omar in the film 'n Beetje Verliefd (meaning "Little Bit in Love") directed by Martin Koolhoven.

Yorkton Film Festival

In the era of the Red Scare, the arrival of two Soviet diplomats in small town Saskatchewan caused a bit of a stir.

You're Cut Off!

Gia, Jaqueline, Pamela, Erica, and Jessica get into a fight (not the least bit helped by Jessica's response to Erica's rendition of Kumbaya or Gia's deflated air mattress).


see also

3-Way

3-Way is designed to be very efficient in a wide range of platforms from 8-bit processors to specialized hardware, and has some elegant mathematical features which enable nearly all the decryption to be done in exactly the same circuits as did the encryption.

32-bit

In digital images/pictures, 32-bit usually refers to RGBA color space -- 24-bit truecolor images with an 8-bit alpha channel—i.e., 8 bits each for red, green, blue, and transparency; a total of 32 bits per pixel.

8-Bit Rebellion!

The game features Linkin Park promotional art as the basis of the game, including posters on the walls, paintings by Mike Shinoda himself, and all six band members drawn as 8-bit styled characters.

8-Bit Theater

As a sprite comic, much of the art in 8-Bit Theater is sampled from video games, particularly Final Fantasy I and Final Fantasy III.

8bitpeoples

Many artists who have appeared on 8bitpeoples have also appeared on compilations on other labels, most notably Astralwerks' 8 Bit Operators compilation, a collection of Kraftwerk songs as done in the 8-bit style.

Ascii85

When ZMODEM programs send pre-compressed 8-bit data files over 7-bit data channels,

Backslash

In the Japanese encodings ISO 646 (a 7-bit code based on ASCII), JIS X 0201 (an 8-bit code), and Shift JIS (a multi-byte encoding which is 8-bit for ASCII), the code point 0x5C that would be used for backslash in ASCII is instead rendered as a yen mark (¥), while in Korean encoding, it is drawn as a won currency symbol (₩).

Batman: The Caped Crusader

Batman; The Caped Crusader is an action adventure game developed by Special FX Software (Jonathan Smith, Zach Townsend, Charles Davies, and Keith Tinman) and published by Ocean Software for the 8-bit home computers such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 and by Data East for other platforms such as the Apple II, Commodore Amiga and PC in 1988.

BMP file format

Indexed color images may be compressed with 4-bit or 8-bit RLE or Huffman 1D algorithm.

Built by Snow

The video, Directed by Andy Garibay, was designed by Built By Snow guitarist Matt Murray who created a virtual 8-bit Nintendo video game world as the setting.

Cops and Robbers

Cops 'n' Robbers, a 1980s video game by Atlantis for various 8-bit computers

Cosmic Conflict

Cosmic Conflict from 1978 is one of the games for the Philips Magnavox Odyssey², a console from the 1970s in the 8-bit home video game console era.

Count Duckula

The game was available for various 8-bit computers such as the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, & Amstrad CPC, and was also released as a "Kid's Pack" with other TV shows that Alternative Software turned into games, including "Postman Pat," "Sooty and Sweep," "Count Duckula," "Popeye 2," "The Wombles," and "Superted".

DEC 7000/10000 AXP

The LEVI also implement the Gbus, an 8-bit bus to which hardware providing console functionality is connected to.

Demo effect

For example, 3D objects rendered in dots are somewhat tricky on systems without byte-per-pixel displays or limited video memory bandwidth, or systems with slow and/or limited (e.g. 8 bit, no FPU) CPUs.

Hudson Soft HuC6280

The HuC6280 8-bit microprocessor is Japanese company Hudson Soft's improved version of the WDC 65C02 CPU, an upgraded CMOS version of the popular NMOS-based MOS Technology 6502 8-bit CPU.

Industry Standard Architecture

Some XT-IDE adapters were available as 8-bit ISA cards, and XTA sockets were also present on the motherboards of Amstrad's later XT clones.

John Doerr

Doerr joined Intel Corporation in 1974 just as the firm was developing the 8080 8-bit microprocessor.

Kilobaud Microcomputing

Even more than Byte magazine, kilobaud contained articles written for people who were building their own 8-bit microcomputers at home, or were writing homebrew software for these systems.

LatticeMico8

The LatticeMico8 is an 8-bit microcontroller soft processor core optimized for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and crossover programmable logic device architecture from Lattice Semiconductor.

Lucas 14CUX

The engine control unit (ECU) of the 14CUX system is run by a Motorola MC6803U4 8-bit microprocessor, which is an uncommon variant of the otherwise ubiquitous 6803.

MSX Video access method

Compared to the unified system and video memory used by other 8-bit computers of the time, such as the Apple II, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64, separate memory has the advantage of freeing up of the Z80 processor's 64 KiB address space for main RAM, and the VDP doesn't need to steal CPU cycles to access video memory.

NABU Network

The logic module included four socketed chips: a TR1865CL-04, a full-duplex UART, an SC87253P 8-bit microprocessor, an N8X60N FIFO I/O controller and a pre-programmed ROM.

Nintendo S-SMP

The Sony SPC 700 is the S-SMP's integrated 8-bit CPU core manufactured by Sony with an instruction set similar to that of the MOS Technology 6502 (as used in the Commodore 64 and Vic 20, Apple II, BBC Micro and the original NES).

Nintendocore

The Depreciation Guild, who disbanded in 2011, were an indie band that incorporated 8-bit sounds, video game music, and elements of shoegaze.

Parallax scrolling

These include most of the classic 8-bit systems (such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, the original Game Boy, and the TurboGrafx-16).

Sissyfight 2000

The graphics are also simple, and were inspired by the work of "outsider artist" Henry Darger, illustrator Edward Gorey, Japanese anime, and early, 8-bit video games of the 1980s.

ST6

ST6/ST7, an 8-bit microcontroller product line from STMicroelectronics

Starglider

Rainbird also commissioned Realtime Games to produce 8-bit versions for the Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, and ZX Spectrum (128k, with a cut-down 48k version without sampled speech or special missions), and also for the IBM-compatible PC running in CGA.

Tandy 1000

While the Tandy DAC's features were comparable to those offered by Creative's 8-bit Sound Blaster audio cards, unlike the Sound Blaster or the Tandy's PCjr-compatible audio the DAC never saw widespread adoption by software developers.

The Ultimate Entrepreneur

One of his chief engineers, Edson de Castro, left after failing to get permission to design a 16-bit version of the 8-bit PDP-8 and founded Data General.

Tiigrihüpe

Due to an economic and technologic lag effected on Estonia by the Soviet occupation, CP/M based 8-bit computer systems were not yet a rare sight in Estonian schools in the middle of the 1990s.