Ken Shirriff's blog
Computer history, restoring vintage computers, IC reverse engineering, and whatever.
- By Ken Shirriff
- Based in United States of America
- Roughly two posts per month
Posts per month
| Month starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| Jan 2023 | 8 |
| Feb 2023 | 5 |
| Mar 2023 | 4 |
| Apr 2023 | 2 |
| May 2023 | 1 |
| Jun 2023 | 0 |
| Jul 2023 | 3 |
| Aug 2023 | 2 |
| Sep 2023 | 1 |
| Oct 2023 | 3 |
| Nov 2023 | 2 |
| Dec 2023 | 4 |
| Jan 2024 | 3 |
| Feb 2024 | 3 |
| Mar 2024 | 2 |
| Apr 2024 | 1 |
| May 2024 | 1 |
| Jun 2024 | 1 |
| Jul 2024 | 2 |
| Aug 2024 | 2 |
| Sep 2024 | 3 |
| Oct 2024 | 1 |
| Nov 2024 | 1 |
| Dec 2024 | 1 |
| Jan 2025 | 3 |
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Most recent posts
Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer. Computers use multiple types of adder circuits with different tradeoffs of size versus speed. In this article, I reverse-engineer an 8-bit adder in the …
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a vivid description of South Seas cargo cults. However, this metaphor has three major …
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1 The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials. But how …