The Alpha AXP, epilogue: A correction about file system compression on the Alpha AXP August 31, 2017 Aug 31, 2017 08/31/17 Raymond Chen Setting the record straight, even though the lie has already circumnavigated the world.
The Alpha AXP, part 17: Reconstructing a call stack August 30, 2017 Aug 30, 2017 08/30/17 Raymond Chen Putting the information into practice.
The Alpha AXP, part 16: What are the dire consequences of having 32-bit values in non-canonical form? August 29, 2017 Aug 29, 2017 08/29/17 Raymond Chen It depends on what the next calculation is.
The Alpha AXP, part 15: Variadic functions August 28, 2017 Aug 28, 2017 08/28/17 Raymond Chen Keeping two sets of books that eventually become one.
The Alpha AXP, part 14: On the strange behavior of writes to the zero register August 25, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 08/25/17 Raymond Chen Room for future optimization.
Yes, that was a horrifically awkward video, but it wasn’t the Windows 95 launch August 24, 2017 Aug 24, 2017 08/24/17 Raymond Chen Some sort of sales event, probably.
The Alpha AXP, part 13: On treating a 64-bit processor as if it were a 32-bit processor August 23, 2017 Aug 23, 2017 08/23/17 Raymond Chen It's all in the point of view.
The Alpha AXP: Part 12: How you detect carry on a processor with no carry? August 22, 2017 Aug 22, 2017 08/22/17 Raymond Chen The same way you do it in C, which also doesn't have a carry.
The Alpha AXP, part 11: Processor faults August 21, 2017 Aug 21, 2017 08/21/17 Raymond Chen Sometimes you know where it happened. Sometimes you don't.
The Alpha AXP, part 10: Atomic updates to byte and word memory units August 18, 2017 Aug 18, 2017 08/18/17 Raymond Chen Putting together some things we've learned.