Ken Shirriff (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image In the 1980s, if you wanted your IBM PC to be faster for spreadsheets or CAD, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point chip. Internally, the chip runs special code called microcode. We opened the chip, extracted the microcode, and are figuring out how it works. 1/n

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Stéphane Bortzmeyer (@[email protected])

#jeRecrute Pas moi mais l'Université du Luxembourg, dans une équipe très sympa, recrute un·e thésard·e en histoire de l'informatique https://www.uni.lu/en/jobs/doctoral-researcher-in-history-of-computing/

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