10-letter words containing n, e, t, l
- intel 8051 — (processor) A microcontroller developed by Intel in 1980 for use in embedded products and still (1999) one of the most popular microcontrollers. The 8051/8031 cores are used in over 100 devices from 10 independent manufacturers such as Dallas and Philips. See also CAS 8051 Assembler, as31 assembler, 51forth.
- intel 8080 — (processor) The successor to the Intel 8008. The 8080 had a 16-bit address bus and an 8-bit data bus. It had seven 8-bit registers (six which could also be combined as three 16-bit registers), a 16-bit stack pointer to memory which replaced the 8008's internal stack and a 16-bit program counter. It also had 256 I/O ports (so I/O devices could be connected without needing to allocate any addressing space as is required for memory mapped devices) and a signal pin that allowed the stack to occupy a separate bank of memory. Shortly after the 8080, the Motorola 6800 was introduced.
- intel 8085 — (processor) A microprocessor intended to be an improved Intel 8080, as was the Zilog Z80.
- intel 8086 — (processor) A sixteen bit microprocessor chip used in early IBM PCs. The Intel 8088 was a version with an eight-bit external data bus. The Intel 8086 was based on the design of the Intel 8080 and Intel 8085 (it was source compatible with the 8080) with a similar register set, but was expanded to 16 bits. The Bus Interface Unit fed the instruction stream to the Execution Unit through a 6 byte prefetch queue, so fetch and execution were concurrent - a primitive form of pipelining (8086 instructions varied from 1 to 4 bytes). It featured four 16-bit general registers, which could also be accessed as eight 8-bit registers, and four 16-bit index registers (including the stack pointer). The data registers were often used implicitly by instructions, complicating register allocation for temporary values. It featured 64K 8-bit I/O (or 32K 16 bit) ports and fixed vectored interrupts. There were also four segment registers that could be set from index registers. The segment registers allowed the CPU to access 1 meg of memory in an odd way. Rather than just supplying missing bytes, as most segmented processors, the 8086 actually shifted the segment registers left 4 bits and added it to the address. As a result, segments overlapped, and it was possible to have two pointers with the same value point to two different memory locations, or two pointers with different values pointing to the same location. Most people consider this a brain damaged design. Although this was largely acceptable for assembly language, where control of the segments was complete (it could even be useful then), in higher level languages it caused constant confusion (e.g. near/far pointers). Even worse, this made expanding the address space to more than 1 meg difficult. A later version, the Intel 80386, expanded the design to 32 bits, and "fixed" the segmentation, but required extra modes (suppressing the new features) for compatibility, and retains the awkward architecture. In fact, with the right assembler, code written for the 8008 can still be run on the most recent Intel 486. The Intel 80386 added new op codes in a kludgy fashion similar to the Zilog Z80 and Zilog Z280. The Intel 486 added full pipelines, and clock doubling (like the Zilog Z280). So why did IBM chose the 8086 series when most of the alternatives were so much better? Apparently IBM's own engineers wanted to use the Motorola 68000, and it was used later in the forgotten IBM Instruments 9000 Laboratory Computer, but IBM already had rights to manufacture the 8086, in exchange for giving Intel the rights to its bubble memory designs. Apparently IBM was using 8086s in the IBM Displaywriter word processor. Other factors were the 8-bit Intel 8088 version, which could use existing Intel 8085-type components, and allowed the computer to be based on a modified 8085 design. 68000 components were not widely available, though it could use Motorola 6800 components to an extent.
- intel 8088 — (processor) An Intel 8086 with 16-bit registers and an 8-bit data bus. The 8088 was the processor used in the original IBM PC.
- intel 8751 — (processor) A microcontroller from Intel including a CPU, two timers. 128 bytes of RAM, 4 kBytes of EEPROM, four eight-bit biderectional I/O ports and an EIA-232 port. The 8751 belongs to the Intel i51 Microcontroller family. It was designed by Intel but is now manufactured by Intel, Philips, Siemens, AMD and others. Motorola's microcontroller families (68HC05, 68HC08 and 68HC11) are meant to compete with the i51 family.
- intel i960 — (processor) A superscalar 32-bit RISC microprocessor from Intel intended for embedded applications. The i960 CA variant can reach 66 native MIPS peak performance with a sustained execution of two instructions per clock cycle. The i960 CF has an on-chip, four kilobyte two-way set-associative instruction cache and a one kilobyte data cache. Both the CA and CF processors have on-chip RAM; a four-channel DMA unit; and integrated peripherals.
- intellects — Plural form of intellect.
- intendedly — purposed; designed; intentional: an intended snub.
- inter alia — among other things.
- interaxial — of, pertaining to, characterized by, or forming an axis: an axial relationship.
- interblend — (transitive) To blend or mingle so as to form a union.
- intercalar — intercalary
- interclass — between classes; involving different classes.
- interclude — to confine
- intercycle — Between cycles.
- interfiled — Simple past tense and past participle of interfile.
- interfluve — the land area separating adjacent stream valleys.
- interglyph — a surface between two grooves, as on a triglyph.
- interiorly — being within; inside of anything; internal; inner; further toward a center: the interior rooms of a house.
- interlaced — Simple past tense and past participle of interlace.
- interlaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlace.
- interlaken — a town in central Switzerland between the lakes of Brienz and Thun: tourist center.
- interlards — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlard.
- interlayer — A layer sandwiched between two others.
- interleave — to provide blank leaves in (a book) for notes or written comments.
- interlevel — Between levels.
- interlined — Simple past tense and past participle of interline.
- interlinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlink.
- interlocal — pertaining to or characterized by place or position in space; spatial.
- interlocks — Plural form of interlock.
- interloped — Simple past tense and past participle of interlope.
- interloper — a person who interferes or meddles in the affairs of others: He was an athiest who felt like an interloper in this religious gathering.
- interlopes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlope.
- interludes — Plural form of interlude.
- interlunar — pertaining to the moon's monthly period of invisibility between the old moon and the new.
- intermodal — pertaining to or suitable for transportation involving more than one form of carrier, as truck and rail, or truck, ship, and rail.
- intermodel — Between models.
- intermural — of, relating to, or taking place between two or more institutions, cities, etc.: an intermural track meet.
- internally — situated or existing in the interior of something; interior.
- internodal — Of or pertaining to an internode.
- interplant — to plant (a crop) among another crop, or to plant (land) with a variety of crops
- interplays — Plural form of interplay.
- interplead — to litigate with each other in order to determine which of two parties is the rightful claimant against a third party.
- interpolar — connecting or being between poles: an interpolar flight.
- interposal — (dated) interposure.
- interramal — situated between the rami
- interregal — existing between kings
- interrenal — located between the kidneys
- intertidal — of or relating to the littoral region that is above the low-water mark and below the high-water mark.