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Bil Herd (right) and chip designer Dave DiOrio circa 1983.
Bil Herd (right) and chip designer Dave DiOrio circa 1983.

Bil Herd was a designer of 8-bit home computers while working for Commodore Business Machines in the early-to-mid 1980s. Eight-bit CPUs normally use an 8-bit data bus and a 16-bit address bus which means that their Address space is limited to 64 KBs This is not a "natural A home computer was a class of Personal computer entering the market in 1977 and becoming common during the 1980s Commodore, the commonly used name for Commodore International, was a US-American Electronics company based in West Chester Pennsylvania After first acting as the principal engineer on the Commodore Plus/4, C16/116, C264, and C364 machines, Herd designed the significantly more successful Commodore 128, a dual-CPU, triple-OS, compatible successor to the Commodore 64. The Commodore Plus/4 was a Home computer released by Commodore International in 1984 The Commodore 16 was a Home computer made by Commodore with a 6502 -compatible 7501 CPU, released in 1984. The Commodore 128 ( C128, CBM 128, C=128) home / Personal computer was the last 8-bit machine which was commercially An operating system (commonly abbreviated OS and O/S) is the software component of a Computer system that is responsible for the management and coordination Prior to the C128, Herd had done the initial architecture of the Commodore LCD computer, which was not released. The Commodore LCD (sometimes known in short as the CLCD) was an LCD -equipped Laptop made by Commodore International.

After leaving Commodore, Herd continued to design faster and more powerful computers with emphasis on machine vision and is a co-author on a patent involving n-dimensional pattern matching. Machine vision (MV System is the application of Computer vision to industry and manufacturing In Computer science, pattern matching is the act of checking for the presence of the constituents of a given Pattern. Herd also designed an ultrasonic backup sensor for vehicles while working for Indian Valley Mfg. in 1986, a feature found on many modern vehicles today.

Bil Herd (left) Brian Bagnal Author of On the Edge and Bob Russell of VIC20 and C64 (2005)
Bil Herd (left) Brian Bagnal Author of On the Edge and Bob Russell of VIC20 and C64 (2005)

Herd has undertaken an entrepreneurial role and is owner of several small companies: InterActive Network Systems, Inc, InterActive Design Solutions, Inc and JerseyNet. Robert or Bob Russell may refer to Robert Hamilton Russell (1860–1933 English-born Australian surgeon Robert Russell (actor As for recent low-level computer hacking, he did a "cameo appearance" by contributing a snippet of sprite logic code to the C64 DTV product designed by Jeri Ellsworth. A cameo role or cameo appearance (often shortened to just cameo) is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the Performing arts, such as In Computer graphics, a sprite (also known by other names see Synonyms below is a two-dimensional/three-dimensional Image or Animation that The C64 Direct-to-TV, called C64DTV for short is a single- chip implementation of the Commodore 64 computer contained in a Joystick with 30 Jeri Ellsworth (born 1974 is an American Entrepreneur and self-taught Computer chip designer

Commodore Plus/4

Commodore 116

Commodore 16

Commodore C128

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Dave Haynie is the former Commodore International chief engineer on high end and advanced projects
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