mnemonics
Noun
Meaning
The art of memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.
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; 7. Image mnemonics : The information is constructed into a picture -- e.g. the German weak declension can be remembered as five '-e's', looking rather like the state of Oklahoma in America, in a sea of '-en's'.
; 4. Model mnemonics : A model is used to help recall information.
; 2. Name mnemonics : The first letter of each word is combined into a new word.
; 6. Note organization mnemonics : The method of note organization can be used as a memorization technique.
; 8. Connection mnemonics : New knowledge is connected to knowledge already known.
All of them were actually shorthand mnemonics for I/O instructions on channel 63, the CPU's self-referential I/O channel.