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Ericsson to WhatsApp: The Story of Erlang
How a programming language from Sweden powered one of the most valuable startup of the 2010s.
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Satya Nadella uses an IBM AS/400 in 1993
Symbolic of the transfer of power from IBM to Microsoft?
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A History of C Compilers – Part 1: Performance, Portability and Freedom
Let's talk compilers with part one of a whistle stop tour of their history
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Motorola's pioneering 8-bit 6800: Origins and architecture
Part 1 of the story of Motorola's 8-bit microprocessor design
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Spur – RISC IV: The Lisp Multiprocessor Workstation
The hugely ambitious 'Symbolic Processing Using RISC' project from UC Berkeley
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How Intel Missed the iPhone: The XScale Era
Challenging the conventional narrative on Intel's smartphone miss
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iAPX432: Gordon Moore, Risk and Intel’s Super-CISC Failure
The legacy of Intel's over-ambitious 32-bit 'micromainframe' failure.
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The mainframe in your pocket running minicomputer software
Running Minicomputer Software
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Leaving Arizona – the Story of the Motorola 6800 part 2 and creation of the 6502
Part 2 of The Story of the Motorola 6800
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The 8-bit era: Eight processor designs
Why do the 8-bit designs of the 1970s still generate so much interest?
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AT&T's Hobbit Microprocessor (2023)
An unexpected journey for AT&T with it's own low power processor
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RISC on a Chip: David Patterson and Berkeley RISC-I
David Patterson and team at UC Berkeley give RISC its name and make the first RISC microprocessor design.
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Cash, Canadians and CPUs: Intel's 'Lost' Early Microprocessor
The story of Microsystems International and the Intel 4005