Glossary

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64DD
Is a magnetic disk drive peripheral mounted to the bottom of the console.
64drive
Is a flash cart which supports USB connectivity and microSD card storage.
ASM
An abbreviation for "Assembly" or the "Assembly language".
COP2
Is the RSP's vector coprocessor
CPU
Central Processing Unit
ED64
Is a flash cart clone of the Everdrive 64.
EON64
Also known as the EON Super 64, is an HDMI adapter which plugs into the standard A/V out port and requires no console modifications.
exeGCC
F3DEX
F3DEX1
F3DEX2
FGR
Floating-Point General Purpose Register
FPU
Floating-Point Unit, part of the VR4300
GCC
The GNU Compiler Collection is a widely used, open-source compiler.
HVQ
An acronym for hybrid vector quantization, which is a static image encoding system.
HVQM
Is a motion picture/animation encoding system.
MIPS
Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages
NUS
Nintendo ULTRA Sixtyfour
PIF
Peripheral InterFace
PTE
Page Table Entry
RDP
Is a dedicated hardware drawing process with a hard coded command set.
RFU
Reserved for Future Use
RSP
Is a MIPS R4000 32-bit Processor with an SIMD Co-Processor.