Modern processors come with all kinds of power management features, which you don’t typically notice as a user until you start a heavy program and hear the CPU fan spin up. Back in the early 1990s ...

If you cut your teeth on Z-80 assembly and have dabbled in other assembly languages, you might not find much mystery in creating programs using the next best thing to machine code. However, if you ...

Over at the Macintoshian Achaia section of the forum, there is quite some talk about the (assumed) impending move from Intel CPUs to Apple's own ARM CPUs to power the Mac. A lot of people assume that ...

For no real practical purpose, I want to get back into low-level programming. I've done assembly programming before (MIPS), but would like to take a look at writing some x86 assembly. Can someone ...

Starting with Windows Vista, the 64-bit versions of Windows have two Program Files folders. The regular Program Files folder holds 64-bit applications, while "Program Files (x86)" is used for 32-bit ...

Farewell, x86All good things must come to an end. After more than 20 years, Intel is pulling the plug on its embedded x86 processors. The '186, '286, '386, and '486 will cease production in a few ...