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Re:The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:53AM (#16221320)
Thanks. A simple search returned that it is still being used by some universities. I should take a closer look after I'm done reading "Code".
Re:The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:48AM (#16221303)
Thanks! I'll take a look at his book. You're talking about "MOS", right?
Re:The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:47AM (#16221297)
Thanks! My object is actually merely to understand it myself. I'll stick to reading the book, and then finding a book on OS design etc. as the other commentators suggested.
Re:The new microcode from Intel and AMD adds three new features on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @03:11AM (#16221158)
This might be fundamentally irrelevant to this thread, but it got me wondering and I would like some assistance/guidance:

Whenever I read the mailing list, or threads related to it, I don't understand 99% of the stuff. Do I need to know C _very well_? Do I need to be familiar with kernel? If so, how do I go about doing that? At the moment I'm reading "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software".