Aug 25, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 14: On the strange behavior of writes to the zero register
Room for future optimization.
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Aug 23, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 13: On treating a 64-bit processor as if it were a 32-bit processor
It's all in the point of view.
Aug 22, 2017
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The Alpha AXP: Part 12: How you detect carry on a processor with no carry?
The same way you do it in C, which also doesn't have a carry.
Aug 21, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 11: Processor faults
Sometimes you know where it happened. Sometimes you don't.
Aug 18, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 10: Atomic updates to byte and word memory units
Putting together some things we've learned.
Aug 17, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 9: The memory model and atomic memory operations
When does it happen? I have no idea!
Aug 16, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 8: Memory access, storing bytes and words and unaligned data
Those little pieces.
Aug 10, 2017
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The Alpha AXP, part 4: Bit 15. Ugh. Bit 15.
Let's make some bits.
Aug 4, 2017
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Wrapping some other scripting language inside a batch file
Polyglot to the rescue.
Aug 3, 2017
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Decomposing file paths (and extracting other information like file size, date and time, and attributes) from a batch file
FOR to the rescue.