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That's nice. (Not uncommon in early RISC, (e.g. PowerPC had some similar limitations for 64 bit ints), and various assembly fun ensued).

Fun fact - Linus first trip to the United States was related to Linux-on-Alpha port and sponsored by Digital Equipment Corporation.

One thing I wonder about is how these high-profile startups handle their engineering hiring - in this case, it's just a link to an Ashby form. They probably already got 10,000 resu…

Good product management is mostly about saying No.

One of the interesting things they have is an in-browser visual simulation of the 6502 die - http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html - "In the summer of 2009, working from a sin…

Previously posted by me here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46182669 - but didn't get any interest, not complaiing, good that it got noticed this time.

Indeed, it is often amazing to me to see what catches on and what doesn't. However, the concept of cooperative, event-based processing coupled with an existing and popular language…

Sorry, that's annoying indeed - not my site..

"General Radio was founded in Cambridge in 1915 by Melville Eastham and four other investors to manufacture radio measuring instruments and parts. Initially, the company focused on…

Am I the only one who read this to mean a Urinary Tract Infection has afflicted the latest versions of MacOS and iOS, perhaps some special case of markdown ens--ttification? But ap…

"The superjunction (SJ) charge balancing concept has been successfully implemented in silicon (Si) MOSFET power devices. Greater focus is now being placed on improving the performa…

There are few in the same category, perhaps Widlar or Gilbert for pure analog circuit design, or Bill Atkinson in later Mac software? It's a very short list.

Indeed. I have often wondered why university courses tend to use their own made-up machines to teach this stuff, as opposed to using the Apple II (or some of its near-contemporarie…

Agree, that's why I think it is so interesting - but it's also a rule that works in both directions (hardware->software and software->hardware). The copy-protection stuff was compl…