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After I posted 8086 microcode disassembled, Ken Shirriff sent me a high-resolution image of the microcode ROM from the 80386.

Recently I realised that, as part of his 8086 reverse-engineering series, Ken Shirriff had posted online a high resolution photograph of the 8086 die with the metal layer removed.

Dear Miss N…., Thank you for your letter of the 28th of November regarding the Department for Education census.

National governments are some of the most powerful entities in the world today.

These days it seems like the vast majority of websites are stuffed with adverts.

A nice feature of most places on the internet is that people can easily create a new identity (you might have to solve a captcha but that’s about it).

The high cost of housing is a big problem for a lot of people.

In C++ there are two kinds of things you can use as template arguments.

Several very smart people are worried about artificial intelligences becoming smarter than people, taking over the world, and not necessarily having our best interests at heart.

Ravioli memory is something that could benefit significantly from hardware support.