Aug 31, 2017 0 0 The Alpha AXP, epilogue: A correction about file system compression on the Alpha AXP Raymond Chen Setting the record straight, even though the lie has already circumnavigated the world.
Aug 30, 2017 0 0 The Alpha AXP, part 17: Reconstructing a call stack Raymond Chen Putting the information into practice.
Aug 29, 2017 0 0 The Alpha AXP, part 16: What are the dire consequences of having 32-bit values in non-canonical form? Raymond Chen It depends on what the next calculation is.
Aug 28, 2017 0 0 The Alpha AXP, part 15: Variadic functions Raymond Chen Keeping two sets of books that eventually become one.
Aug 25, 2017 0 0 The Alpha AXP, part 14: On the strange behavior of writes to the zero register Raymond Chen Room for future optimization.
Aug 24, 2017 0 1 Yes, that was a horrifically awkward video, but it wasn’t the Windows 95 launch Raymond Chen Some sort of sales event, probably.
Aug 23, 2017 0 0 The Alpha AXP, part 13: On treating a 64-bit processor as if it were a 32-bit processor Raymond Chen It's all in the point of view.
Aug 22, 2017 0 0 The Alpha AXP: Part 12: How you detect carry on a processor with no carry? Raymond Chen The same way you do it in C, which also doesn't have a carry.
Aug 21, 2017 0 0 The Alpha AXP, part 11: Processor faults Raymond Chen Sometimes you know where it happened. Sometimes you don't.
Aug 18, 2017 0 0 The Alpha AXP, part 10: Atomic updates to byte and word memory units Raymond Chen Putting together some things we've learned.