Why did the Motorola 68000 processor family fall out of use in PCs?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

175 points by SeenNotHeard 3 years ago | 220 comments

How much better was DEC Alpha than contemporaneous x86? (2020)(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

78 points by stevefan1999 3 years ago | 54 comments

Why did base64 win against uuencode?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

200 points by egorpv 2 years ago | 91 comments

How could the early Unix OS comprise so few lines of code?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

200 points by peter_d_sherman 3 years ago | 130 comments

How were the signs for logical and arithmetic operators decided?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

129 points by edent 3 years ago | 33 comments

Since when does Windows support forward slash as path separator?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

34 points by signa11 2 years ago | 40 comments

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs(github.com)

351 points by epestr 2 months ago | 95 comments

GitHub repository for Project Rosenbridge by xoreaxeaxeax, documenting and demonstrating a hardware backdoor found in some x86 CPUs.

No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead(pretalx.com)

731 points by zdw 2 years ago | 385 comments

DevConf.cz 2024 talk page with embedded video proposing replacing traditional boot loaders like GRUB with the Linux kernel itself.

Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2013)(timdbg.com)

329 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 114 comments

Blog post by a former WinDbg developer describing odd x86/amd64 trivia learned while writing the CPU emulator for Microsoft's Time Travel Debugging.

Exploring the Internals of Linux v0.01(seiya.me)

458 points by ingve 3 years ago | 112 comments

A blog post walking through the source code and internals of Linux v0.01, the roughly 10,000-line first release of the Linux kernel.

Linux/4004: booting Linux on Intel 4004 for fun, art, and no profit(dmitry.gr)

517 points by dmitrygr 2 years ago | 136 comments

Dmitry Grinberg's project page describing booting Debian Linux on a custom board powered by a 1971 Intel 4004 4-bit microprocessor via MIPS emulation.

First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5(blog.calif.io)

438 points by quadrige 5 months ago | 122 comments

Calif blog post describing the first public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5 silicon that bypasses Memory Integrity Enforcement, built in five days.