Apr 4, 2019 Post comments count12 Post likes count1 Why do we need atomic operations on the 80386, if it doesn’t support symmetric multiprocessing anyway? Raymond Chen You might race with yourself.
Apr 3, 2019 Post comments count11 Post likes count1 Dubious security vulnerability: Code execution via LNK file Raymond Chen The hard part is getting them to execute it in the first place.
Apr 2, 2019 Post comments count3 Post likes count0 On the bogosity of speculation: Guessing the price of the original Surface Raymond Chen Scraping the barrel.
Apr 1, 2019 Post comments count10 Post likes count1 Oh no, it’s inspection time again Raymond Chen Great moments in history.
Mar 29, 2019 Post comments count5 Post likes count1 C++/WinRT envy: Bringing thread switching tasks to C# (WPF and WinForms edition) Raymond Chen More magic tasks that break out of the thread configuration mold.
Mar 28, 2019 Post comments count20 Post likes count2 C++/WinRT envy: Bringing thread switching tasks to C# (UWP edition) Raymond Chen Magic tasks that break out of the thread configuration mold.
Mar 27, 2019 Post comments count5 Post likes count1 How do I wait for the completion of the delegate I passed to CoreDispatcher.RunAsync and ThreadPool.RunAsync? Raymond Chen You'll need your own signal.
Mar 26, 2019 Post comments count2 Post likes count0 When do CoreDispatcher.RunAsync and ThreadPool.RunAsync actions complete? Raymond Chen When the delegate returns, not when it completes.
Mar 25, 2019 Post comments count6 Post likes count1 What does the N in nmake stand for? Raymond Chen It's old now, but at the time, it was new.
Mar 22, 2019 Post comments count0 Post likes count0 Vintage Computer Festival Pacific Northwest 2019 Raymond Chen For all your retro-computing gawking.