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Intel introduced the first processor in the x86 series on this day in 1978

Probably the most important processor in PC history was introduced on this day 48 years ago. June 8, 1978, marked the birth of the x86 architecture with the arrival of the 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU. This ...
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The Pride and Struggles of Domestic Processors: Looking Back at the History of NEC's "V Series"

After reading the ITmedia series article NEC's "V Series" Disappears from the Market Despite Connecting Fates in Embedded Systems: Microprocessor Reminiscences (17) (Page 1/3), I wanted to organize ...
Hackaday

He Comes To Bury Segmented Memory, Not To Praise It

BillPg] has been designing a fantasy 1980s-era home computer. As part of the exercise, he’s reevaluating all the assumptions that have grown organically over time in the small computer ...

Software Is Now Written at the Speed of Thought. Security Isn't.

Every evolution in software development has reduced the friction between an idea and a deployable application. AI may remove ...
Communications of the ACM

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure

LLVM powers the core development tools, operating systems, and most applications at Apple Computer, where it long ago ...
Hackaday

74 logic

It implements a fairly conventional Von Neumann architecture using TTL with a couple of tricks that use modern chips but could have been done in the same way in decades past. Instruction microcode is ...
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Paul Heckbert

As of 2014, I am a software consultant for Duke University on the AWARE Gigapixel Camera, living and working in Pittsburgh. Prior to that I worked for GigaPan. In the naughts I worked for Google and ...