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  • All Weekend: Here's your chance to shoot ducks out of the sky without having to go to your local bar and shell out a dollar or excavating that eight-bit Nintendo and add-on shotgun controller from your basement.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Evan Bayh Jumps Into Scrooge McDuck Equity Pool Eliot Nelson 2011

  • All Weekend: Here's your chance to shoot ducks out of the sky without having to go to your local bar and shell out a dollar or excavating that eight-bit Nintendo and add-on shotgun controller from your basement.

    HUFFPOST HILL - Evan Bayh Jumps Into Scrooge McDuck Equity Pool Eliot Nelson 2011

  • For one thing, the programs are relatively simple and are designed to be embedded in simple components — typically eight-bit and 16-bit computer chips, compared with more advanced 32-bit and 64-bit microprocessors found in most personal computers.

    Now, Even NASA Is Involved in Toyota Crisis Ben Worthen 2010

  • For one thing, the programs are relatively simple and are designed to be embedded in simple components — typically eight-bit and 16-bit computer chips, compared with more advanced 32-bit and 64-bit microprocessors found in most personal computers.

    Now, Even NASA Is Involved in Toyota Crisis Ben Worthen 2010

  • And the move from a six-bit byte to an eight-bit byte, which was large enough to handle lower-case characters, opened the door to modern language processing on computers.

    Nostalgia for a More Innovative Era? Not From This Bunch - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • And when we look to the ways in which games have grown up since the eight-bit era, we can project some of the directions in which we need them to continue developing in order to call it a mature medium.

    Archive 2008-01-01 SVGL 2008

  • For one thing, the programs are relatively simple and are designed to be embedded in simple components — typically eight-bit and 16-bit computer chips, compared with more advanced 32-bit and 64-bit microprocessors found in most personal computers.

    Now, Even NASA Is Involved in Toyota Crisis Ben Worthen 2010

  • And the move from a six-bit byte to an eight-bit byte, which was large enough to handle lower-case characters, opened the door to modern language processing on computers.

    Nostalgia for a More Innovative Era? Not From This Bunch - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • I went the usual route for programmers of my generation; started off in BASIC on an eight-bit home micro, then got a PC and messed around with BASIC there before moving up to Pascal then to C and C++, with meddling with assembly in parallel; assembly was never your main language, just something you had to learn for special things like inner loops and messing with low-level things.

    Snell-Pym » C++ 2009

  • I went the usual route for programmers of my generation; started off in BASIC on an eight-bit home micro, then got a PC and messed around with BASIC there before moving up to Pascal then to C and C++, with meddling with assembly in parallel; assembly was never your main language, just something you had to learn for special things like inner loops and messing with low-level things.

    Snell-Pym » 2009 » January 2009

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