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I definitely would have gone for “close the lid” as a title rather than “close the book”. An opportunity for prime journalistic comedy missed!

I agree - my main point is that an OS is ‘just a program’ as well I suspect we’re both making a similar point in a roundabout way - the operating system is both another layer of ab…

I think this is the biggest problem with learning x86 assembly (or ARM or anything else) on modern systems (or more specifically modern operating systems). It’s sometimes difficult…

The code above I believe is the point to jump to when the register has been assigned some value for x. Think along the same lines as a function call once the pre-amble is out of th…

I think it’s created by the man himself - having been through it it’s a very thorough coverage of the basic instruction set without delving too much into the windows specifics (it …

I’d like to add to this comment to say that the author has a fantastic assembly course available on udemy - very thorough and practical (teaching the basics in a win32 environment)…

The original requirements were for bread and meat. With an optional drink of water if there was time and it came in under budget.

Don't forget your towel!

grep -v .*[nN].x will solve the infrastructure problem... As you say, the way to make money (with any tool) is to get good enough at using them to be useful to someone that wants t…

>> if your code needs a comment to be understood, it would be better to rewrite it so it's easier to understand. I both agree and disagree with this... C is a small language, and i…

To clarify - I agree the BSDs are keeping Unix alive, however separating BSD from those Unixes with System V roots which are starting to wither and die is the point I was making - …

If you don't mind me asking, what are you using the horsepower for? Is it in use for day-to-day operations?

It's a real shame that the last line of System V Unixes/ Unices / Unii is starting to die off. Market share aside, it's sad that the history of UNIX(r) appears to be coming to a cl…

Agreed... although x86 port for Solaris from SPARC wasn't enough to keep Solaris alive and kicking, despite the huge advancements Sun had made with the kernel and filesystem etc.

Nothing like long-term legacy support contracts for a bit of cash injection...

My concern would be that as they look to carve off the less profitable areas of their enterprise divisions, that the HP/UX team (as a smaller subset of the overall quoted number of…

They also create several workstations used quite extensively in the video editing world, along with other power-user oriented industrial uses

Could we be possibly be looking at HP taking HP/UX the same way that Oracle took Solaris? i.e. tossing it overboard?

Addison Lee also tend to seemingly employ many drivers who drive as if they're doing their best to kill you, themselves, and any cyclists or unwary pedestrians around them. Worse s…

:set sarcasm Hey, That's unfair to C! If an OS is reckless enough to give a process memory when it asks for it, it should have no business worrying about what the process does with…

Not only reading source code - how many people disassemble their compiled code and check for any unwanted side effects the compiler may have generated? For any non-trivial code bas…

Most of the TV and movies you've been watching since things went digital are cases where 'high dynamic range' has been jammed into a standard dynamic range container (most features…