mode bit
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Definition of mode bit words
- noun Technical meaning of mode bit A flag, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation. The connotations are different from flag bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program. The classic example was the EBCDIC-vs.-ASCII bit (#12) of the Program Status Word of the IBM 360. Another was the bit on a PDP-12 that controlled whether it ran the PDP-8 or the LINC instruction set. 1
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Parts of speech for Mode bit
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
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Matching words
- Words starting with m
- Words starting with mo
- Words starting with mod
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