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hackclub
A technical explainer by @kognise of how your computer runs programs, from start to finish.
I just read chapter 2 and I really like the article so far. I wanted to add a bit of clarification regarding the coop multitasking: > Rather than the OS...
Hi, Just noted in the end of Chapter 2 it reads “ For these reasons, the tech world switched to preemptive multitasking a long time ago and never looked back.”...
EPUB Version
If possible, I would appreciate it if you could provide an EPUB version of this text as well. I think this format might be more suitable for reading on electronic...
This is related to issue #36, but with some differences: - This also optimizes JPEG image(s), including one PNG image that was a JPEG image, which is reconverted to JPEG....
> That you for the pdf version. Is it possible to add bookmarks to help jump to specific topics / table of contents in line with the 7 chapters in...
The only thing that I miss a little bit is a kind of "disclaimer" that what gets presented is "just" the result of a market race, and not how computers...
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2303.en.html (first attachment; second attachment is the slides) provides a good summary of the behavior of the MacOS (then known as Mac OS X) kernel, XNU, including the memory space...
From dreamcompiler on HN: "The first mass-produced CPU was the Intel 4004, designed in the late 60s by an Italian physicist and engineer named Federico Faggin." The first microprocessor (CPU...
Hi, I read this sentence and it didn't read well without adding the word `of`.
I think "indirection" is a better choice of words here than "misdirection" since the latter sounds a bit malicious.
