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Consensus is that the first ARM devices will be 13.3-inch MacBook Pro and a new redesigned 24" iMac, based mostly on Ming Chi Kuo's report from just before WWDC2020. https://9to5ma…

A 3 chip solution was very common for that era. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northbridge_(computing) The only unusual thing here is that the GPU and Northbridge are the same c…

HP also was a leader in device ergonomics. Their devices were pretty and easy to use, as well as reliable. I don't think anyone had offices. It was all cubicles. (I worked at HP La…

I'd be careful about giving too much credit to the original ARM design. In retrospect, like many early RISC designs, it was over-optimised for its original application. Most of the…

Register renaming was IBM 360/91 1967 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasulo_algorithm

The main reason Google launches popular products by invitation only is to manage server load. Otherwise you get situations like the Pokemon Go launch, where the service was unrelia…

It was a dig at Palmer Luckey, who wrote a scathing review of the MLP. https://palmerluckey.com/magic-leap-is-a-tragic-heap/

One of the early pop-culture mentions of googol was Peanuts, 23rd Jan 1963 http://www.peanuts.com/search/?pubdate=&sort_by=bydate&seaso...

He was a fellow at Atari too, without helping them very much. Alan's a great guy, a great speaker, and he made fundamental contributions to OO with Smalltalk. But probably his sing…

Have you read the mini-Msft blog? The big problem for msft employees is the up-or-out review system. If you don't make partner, the review process seems designed to kick you out of…

FWIW Java based mDNS libraries works fine on stock Android. I believe mDNS is the standards body name for the protocol that Bonjour uses.

Consider a ubiquity networks edge router lite. It is $99 and has 3 gigabit Ethernet ports and dual core MIPS CPU and hardware packet forwarding. Runs Debian Linux. Active community…