Archive for category: Computer Science

Smalltalk Book Now Free

September 24, 2004 | Computer Science, Link of the Day | By: Mark VandeWettering

The book Smalltalk-80: BIts of History, Words of Advice is now available for free download as a PDF file. Cool!

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AMD K8 has reprogrammable microcode

August 16, 2004 | Hardware, Security | By: Mark VandeWettering

Real World Technologies lists an interesting article about the AMD K8 processor and its previously unnoticed ability to patch its own microcode. Apparently AMD has used this to repair a couple of bugs in the processor in the past, but nobody really noticed it before. A couple of quotes from the article: The ability to […]