We’ve often noted that whether had ancient man known binary, we could all count to 1023 on our fingers. We thought about that while watching [Numberphile’s] latest video about “Russian” multiplication ...

[Ken Shirriff] has been sharing a really low-level look at Intel’s Pentium (1993) processor. The Pentium’s architecture was highly innovative in many ways, and one of [Ken]’s most recent discoveries ...

This article was originally published by computer historian Ken Shirriff on his blog. Thanks to his kind permission, the article is reproduced here. Eine Übertragung ins Deutsche ist ebenfalls ...