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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/14
For my link archive: below a series of articles my Raymond Chen on “The AArch64 processor (aka arm64)” in the order of appearance from a few years back and still very relevant today.
It is part of a few more series on processors that (were) supported by Windows. A good reference to find which version supported which processor architecture is the tables in List of Microsoft Windows versions – Wikipedia.
Posted in AArch64/arm64, ARM, Assembly Language, Development, History, MIPS R4000, PowerPC, Software Development, The Old New Thing, Windows Development, x64, x86 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2020/06/19
On my places to visit:
The Centre for Computing History is a computer museum based in Cambridge, UK. With a collection of vintage computers and game consoles, many of the exhibits are hands on and interactive.
[WayBack] Computing History – The UK Computer Museum – Cambridge.
When I bumped into it, this was their collection size, ranging from the 1960s until recent history:
Archive Statistics :
- Computers = 993
- Peripherals = 1446
- Mobile Devices = 31
- Game Consoles = 213
- Video Games = 10259
- Software Packages = 2605
- Books = 2045
- Manuals = 4106
- Magazines = 9057
Looking at their archived brands (having [WayBack] MITS – Altair and [WayBack] Raspberry Pi in the collection) is such a joy.
Archiving the older parts is a tough job, as they stem from way before the web era, so information has been lost, parts are hard to source, a lot of hardware got thrown away or is hard to find at all, people have died. More on that at [WayBack] About – Computing History.
Without a physical visit, you can find what they have at [WayBack] Search Our Archive – Computing History.
The video below on their archive is impressive.
–jeroen
Posted in 6502, 68k, Apple I, BBC Micro B, BBS, C64, Commodore, CP/M, dial-up modems, FidoNet, History, IBM SAA CUA, PowerPC, Tesseract, VIC-20, Z80 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/12/23
A while ago that bitsavers published a picture of an Apple 1992 Tesseract Motherboard.
It’s from the 68k to PowerPC RISC transition Apple made in the second half of the 1980s and first half of the 1990s where several groups within Apple were working on new equipment.
More details of those are here:
Note this is not [Wayback] TesSeRact from the DOS TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) days:
- [Wayback/Archive.is] INT 2F – TesSeRact RAM-RESIDENT PROGRAM INTERFACE AX = 5453h (less colors and no navigation at the top of the page, but indentation makes it easier to grasp calling register values)
- [Wayback/Archive.is] Int 2F/AX=5453h: Int 2F/AX=5453h TesSeRact RAM-RESIDENT PROGRAM INTERFACE AX = 5453h (seems easier to read because of colorations, but lacks indentation, so it is harder to understand calling register values)
Via [Wayback] Ralf Brown’s Files
Downloadable files by Ralf Brown:x86/MS-DOS Interrupt List, RBcomm, SPAWNO, AMISLIB, DV-GLUE, RBdualVGA,RBkeyswap, RBspeed, PCICFG, CMU-EBMT. (20aug10)
–jeroen
Posted in 68k, History, MS-DOS, Power User, PowerPC, Tesseract, TSR Terminate and Stay Resitent | Leave a Comment »
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