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Apple In China
Patrick McGee's important new book
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Babbage
2
The birth, rise and eclipse of the personal computer
A look back at the 'personal computer' at fifty.
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Babbage
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Learning Assembly for Fun, Performance and Profit
Why take an interest in assembly language and which to learn?
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Babbage
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How Intel Missed the iPhone: XScale Era
Challenging the conventional narrative on Intel's smartphone miss
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Babbage
8
Demystifying GPU Compute Architectures
Getting 'low level' with Nvidia and AMD GPUs
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Babbage
9
Huang's Law
"There's a new law going on"
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Babbage
1
The End of Simplification: Intel Abandons X86S
Backwards compatibility wins again
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Babbage
5
Personal Computer Origins: The Datapoint 2200
The innovative desktop terminal that paved the way for the first personal computers
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Babbage
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Markdown and Substack - A Bear Workflow
How to keep your writing in Markdown and easily publish to Substack.
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Babbage
2
David Patterson on Software Engineering Daily
RISC-V, AI and more ...
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Babbage
COBOLers
Risk and reward in updating legacy systems
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Babbage
3
Nvidia's PTX
The history and motivation for the 'virtual instruction set' that underpins the CUDA ecosystem
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Babbage
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The Soul of an Old Machine
How to win a Pulitzer Prize writing about computers
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Babbage
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Happy 18th Birthday CUDA!
CUDA reaches maturity and AlexNet's source code is released
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Babbage
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