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You were in good company. The Xerox Alto CPU used four 74181 ALUs.

Somes lines in PDP-11 assembly from 2.11BSD: mov r1,-(sp) mov $1024.,-(sp) mov $outbuf,-(sp) mov fout,-(sp) jsr pc,_write add $6,sp mov (sp)+,r1 tst r0 bpl 2f jmp wrterr

I've looked at a few dozen of the designs featured on the front page, and most of them don't make sense. What is the purpose of this?

The 80s kid me lived in a small town with no access to technical manuals or people who could help. The developer manuals for $80 each or a compuserve account to get access to the s…

> This is true of any language Is it? Java has changed a lot, but in such a way that it's still easy to mentally map new features to the old ones, provided you have understood the …

They still do.

Spanish vale and English value have the same Latin origin. Persian bale is an Arabic loanword.

When reading an article written by Bjorn Lomborg, you should also do the effort to read the cited sources. This is not an ad hominem attack, just an observation. Do it and you will…

The title says "dialects" but most comments here are only about accents. Can people here give examples of non-standard grammar or vocabulary (that goes beyond some temporary slang …

Great article. Wish list of topics to add: - branch predictors that can detect patterns (edit: I guess it's already covered in the paragraph about raising prediction accuracy) - LR…

I highly recommend the NHK documentary "10 years with Hayao Miyazaki" that shows how he works (and also his sometimes difficult character).

Ah, that makes more sense than my theory. It's a weak copy protection method, though, as you can just try and see what happens, and I think they dropped it in M&M3.

A few years ago, I decompiled a good part of the PC version of Might & Magic 1 for fun. According to Wikipedia, it had been released in 1986, although I don't know whether that ref…

VisiCalc was published in 1979.

Wow. That's really impressive. Here is more background: https://magazin.wienmuseum.at/die-387-haeuser-des-peter-frit... And the virtual exhibition of the museum: https://sammlung.w…

That's funny because I have two objects on my desk for which I know that they use 555s. One is a no-name joystick with "autofire" function from the late 1980's. The other is a mass…

I don't know much about app development, but I was curious and downloaded the Albert Heijn apk for ARM64. Inside the apk, the three largest entities are: - libflutter.so 140 MBytes…

Similar results here. I'm curious to know what the problem of Firefox is. For example, the 3d-raytrace-SP benchmark is nearly three times faster on Edge than on Firefox on my i7 la…

I know the answer to 1.5. And I know the story behind 1.6, but not the name of the town... That's it :)

I searched a little bit and found these numbers for t-shirts in a 20 foot container: - Shipping container from China to the US: $3000-$9000 (tariffs?) - Number of t-shirts per cont…

"OSS projects have been able to gain a foothold in many server applications because of the wide utility of highly commoditized, simple protocols. By extending these protocols and d…

There are two approaches (sometimes mixed): (a) you reverse engineer the application writing or reading the file. Even without fully understanding the application it can give you v…