chorltonwheelies

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A nice reminder to re-watch "Hackers" and repurpose an old Pager from @biglesp
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-hacking-like-its-1995
Raspberry Pi Hacking Like Its 1995

"HACK THE PLANET!"

Tom's Hardware
@SwiftOnSecurity I think you are conflating The Daily Mail with the British People. Most Brits don't give a shit either way.
1969 - The interconnection masks on this device were generated on Fairchild's computer-aided design system and implemented with t he first three layer metal process. This is a 48-gate custom TTL logic array.
From: A Solid State of Progress - 1973 - Fairchild Camera and Instrument Company
@teletextr is that the compact version?
Pictures of early Internet maps I took while working at #ICANN:
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Prefetching added a lot of complications to the memory control circuitry since prefetches and "regular" memory accesses both needed to use the bus and needed to avoid conflict. My blog post has more information on how 8086 prefetching works: https://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-8086-processors-instruction.html
Inside the 8086 processor's instruction prefetch circuitry

The groundbreaking 8086 microprocessor was introduced by Intel in 1978 and led to the x86 architecture that still dominates desktop and se...

This one, from 1975, predicts the limits to computer architecture by the year 2000 http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/Seminars/211.pdf
Newcastle Uni computer science seminar proceedings going right back to 1968! http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/Seminars/
NEWCASTLE SEMINARS

On New Years Day in a Galaxy Far Far Away.