Linux on an 8bit Microcontroller(dmitry.gr)

107 points by exar0815 3 years ago | 27 comments

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.

My business card runs Linux and Ultrix (2022)(dmitry.gr)

130 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 56 comments

I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350(dmitry.gr)

660 points by elipsitz 2 years ago | 325 comments

Dmitry Grinberg's blog post explaining why he loves the Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller, covering his earlier RP2040 wish list and how the new chip addresses it.

A minimal-part-count way to connect an SD card to a 68K(dmitry.gr)

77 points by dmitrygr 2 years ago | 21 comments

DIY open-source ultrasound hardware on the rp2040/rp2350(un0rick.cc)

70 points by kelu124 5 months ago | 6 comments

Writing a C compiler in 500 lines of Python(vgel.me)

454 points by vgel 3 years ago | 142 comments

Blog post by vgel describing the design and architecture of a small C compiler written in about 500 lines of Python.

Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux(loss32.org)

322 points by akka47 10 months ago | 411 comments

Project page for loss32, a proposed Linux desktop distribution built around running Win32 software and a Windows-like userland via Wine/ReactOS components.

What every developer should know about GPU computing(codeconfessions.substack.com)

422 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 149 comments

A Substack primer by Abhinav Upadhyay explaining GPU architecture and computing concepts for software developers familiar mainly with CPUs.

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers(crescentro.se)

457 points by sbt567 1 year ago | 63 comments

Blog post recounting how the author wrote a basic Linux USB driver for the Nanoleaf Pegboard Desk Dock using protocol docs from Nanoleaf support.

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features(xda-developers.com)

930 points by haunter 5 months ago | 571 comments

XDA Developers article explaining how Linux gaming performance is improving as Windows API behaviors are implemented as Linux kernel features.

The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three(righto.com)

354 points by Tomte 1 year ago | 138 comments

Ken Shirriff's blog post reverse-engineering the Pentium's ×3 multiplier circuit, used in its base-8 floating-point multiplication, and explaining how it works.