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Notes on calculating constants in SSE registers - The Old New Thing - Site Home - MSDN Blogs edit / delete

Optimising instruction sequences for loading SSE constants.

to ag0700 ag0803 architecture bitwise simd sse x86 ... on 03 January 2015

Modern Microprocessors - A 90 Minute Guide! edit / delete

This covers nearly all of the architecture side of AG0803, and some more stuff besides; a nice overview.

to ag0803 architecture cpu memory performance pipelining superscalar ... on 24 August 2014

How to get away with disabling DRAM refresh « Reenigne blog edit / delete

Speeding up a demo for the IBM PC by disabling DRAM refresh, since the program accesses all the memory that needs refreshing regularly anyway. Neat.

to architecture demo dram pc refresh retrocomputing ... on 26 July 2014

The Descent to C edit / delete

An excellent overview of what makes C (and the C subset of C++) an unusual programming language. Students: well worth a read.

to ag0700 ag0803 architecture c language-design programming teaching ... on 10 February 2014

Computers edit / delete

Some of the history of Unisys, including their military machines. The interesting thing here is the wide range of word sizes they employed!

to architecture retrocomputing unisys univac ... on 14 December 2013

Understanding ARM Assembly Part 1 - Ntdebugging Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs edit / delete

The basics of the ARM architecture for Windows programmers.

to ag0700 architecture arm windows ... on 01 December 2013

x86oddities edit / delete

"This page enumerates various oddities of the x86/x64."

to ag0700 ag0803 amd64 architecture ia32 x86 ... on 12 November 2013

The Cray Files | Modular Circuits edit / delete

Emulating the Cray XMP. Most impressive. Sounds like it'd be a fun machine to program for -- these days the thing it resembles most is a GPU architecture like the VideoCore...

to architecture cray retrocomputing supercomputing ... on 06 May 2013

VideoCore IV Programmers Manual · hermanhermitage/videocoreiv Wiki edit / delete

Reverse-engineering the instruction set for the Raspberry Pi's GPU. I'm starting to think this might be my final 0700 or 0803 lecture this year...

to architecture gpu raspberry-pi reverse-engineering teaching ... on 05 March 2013

The Elements of Computing Systems / Nisan & Schocken edit / delete

Companion site.

to ag0700 architecture cs teaching ... on 25 November 2012