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I960, the first superscalar CPU (2023)

A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer

"Special register groups" invaded computer dictionaries for decades (2019)

Here be dragons: Preventing static damage, latchup, and metastability in the 386

Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?

Reverse-engineering the Globus INK, a Soviet spaceflight navigation computer (2023)

A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package

How to reverse engineer an analog chip: the TDA7000 FM radio receiver

Reverse Engineering the Mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo

Tracing the roots of the 8086 instruction set to the Datapoint 2200 minicomputer

Inside the Apollo “8-Ball” FDAI (Flight Director / Attitude Indicator)

The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI (2017)

Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry

The complicated circuitry for the 386 processor's registers

A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips

Ever wonder how a quartz-based oscillator works?

A USB Interface to the "Mother of All Demos" Keyset

Undocumented 8086 instructions, explained by the microcode (2023)

Notes on the Pentium's microcode circuitry

The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three

The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"

It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor

Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium

Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered

Reverse Engineering the Constants in the Pentium FPU

Antenna diodes in the Pentium processor

Intel's $475M error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug

Antenna Diodes in the Pentium Processor

Wealth Distribution in the United States

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