The Old New Thing

Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

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Feb 4, 2019
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The Intel 80386, part 12: The stuff you don’t need to know

Raymond Chen

For completeness but not for usefulness.

Feb 3, 2019
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The Intel 80386, part 11: The TEB

Raymond Chen

I need another register, let's see what scraps I can find.

Jan 31, 2019
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The Intel 80386, part 10: Atomic operations and memory alignment

Raymond Chen

Not much to work from.

Jan 30, 2019
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The Intel 80386, part 9: Stack frame instructions

Raymond Chen

For creating and tearing down stack frames.

Jan 29, 2019
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The Intel 80386, part 8: Block operations

Raymond Chen

One of the highly specialized groups of instructions.

Jan 28, 2019
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The Intel 80386, part 7: Conditional instructions and control transfer

Raymond Chen

Maybe yes, maybe no.

Jan 27, 2019
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The Intel 80386, part 6: Data transfer instructions

Raymond Chen

Keeping things moving.

Jan 24, 2019
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The Intel 80386, part 5: Logical operations

Raymond Chen

Fiddling with bits.

Jan 23, 2019
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The Intel 80386, part 4: Arithmetic

Raymond Chen

The things that computers do.