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* The refrain in the folk song "[[Old McDonald Had a Farm]]" |
* The refrain in the folk song "[[Old McDonald Had a Farm]]" |
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* '''Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O''', an assembly language instruction used on the PowerPC computer processor used to prevent one memory or I/O operation from starting until the previous memory or I/O operation completed. This instruction is |
* '''Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O''', an assembly language instruction used on the PowerPC computer processor used to prevent one memory or I/O operation from starting until the previous memory or I/O operation completed. This instruction is needed as I/O controllers on the system bus require that accesses follow a particular order, while the CPU reorders accesses to optimize memory bandwidth usage. |
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* EIEIO, an errno code on the GNU Hurd computer kernel, printed as '''Computer bought the farm''' (see [[Computer bought the farm#Error messages]]) used on a variety of "hopeless" error conditions |
* EIEIO, an errno code on the GNU Hurd computer kernel, printed as '''Computer bought the farm''' (see [[Computer bought the farm#Error messages]]) used on a variety of "hopeless" error conditions |
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* 'Email, Internet, Electronic Information Officer', a system administration job title used by one of the crew of ''[[South Park]]'' |
* 'Email, Internet, Electronic Information Officer', a system administration job title used by one of the crew of ''[[South Park]]'' |
Revision as of 08:35, 22 March 2010
EIEIO may be:
- The refrain in the folk song "Old McDonald Had a Farm"
- Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O, an assembly language instruction used on the PowerPC computer processor used to prevent one memory or I/O operation from starting until the previous memory or I/O operation completed. This instruction is needed as I/O controllers on the system bus require that accesses follow a particular order, while the CPU reorders accesses to optimize memory bandwidth usage.
- EIEIO, an errno code on the GNU Hurd computer kernel, printed as Computer bought the farm (see Computer bought the farm#Error messages) used on a variety of "hopeless" error conditions
- 'Email, Internet, Electronic Information Officer', a system administration job title used by one of the crew of South Park
- The "Expo for Interactive Entertainment: Independent and Original", an alternate 'Electronic Entertainment Expo' for independent game developers