PSW

Noun

Meaning

(computing) Initialism of program status word.

(video games) Initialism of persistent-state world: one that continues to exist even when no players are present.

(healthcare) Initialism of personal support worker.

Examples

However, IBM did not document the 145's virtual memory capability, nor annotate the relevant bits in the control registers and PSW that were displayed on the operator control panel when selected using the roller switches. Source: Internet

Only 8 bytes of that range are used at any given time, determined by the two bank select bits in the PSW. Source: Internet

Only the ADD, ADDC and SUBB instructions set PSW flags. Source: Internet

Such an example is that the S/370 architecture specifies that the 64 bit PSW register bit number 32 has to be set to 0 and that doing otherwise leads to an exception. Source: Internet

This capability was not included in System/370; bit 12 of the PSW was redefined to switch between System/360 (BC mode) and System/370 (EC mode) PSW format. Source: Internet

When the I/O channel commands are complete, the first group of eight bytes is then loaded into the processor's Program Status Word (PSW) and the startup program begins execution at the location designated by that PSW. Source: Internet

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