Archive - Blog System/5

The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade

If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about…

Oct 7 •

September 2024

Revisiting the DOS memory models

At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There…

Sep 30 •

Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison

NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?

Sep 9 •

August 2024

Picking glibc versions at runtime

Using a glibc version that is different from the system-provided one shouldn't require the use of containers, as I recently heard someone claim. Let's…

Aug 11 •

The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks

Aug 2 •

July 2024

Rust doesn't solve the CrowdStrike outage

Look, I like Rust.

Jul 23 •

EndBASIC 0.11 is here

Support for user-defined functions, an LCD, and a disassembler

Jul 20 •

June 2024

20 years of blogging

A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a newsletter using Substack.

Jun 22 •

April 2024

Porting the EndBASIC console to an LCD

In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of porting the EndBASIC hybrid console to the ST7735s 1.44" LCD, which sports a resolution of 128x128…

Apr 26 •

March 2024

How "new type" helps avoid production outages

My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra.

Mar 9 •

February 2024

Links: February 2024 edition

Interesting articles, videos and projects from this time period—with commentary

Feb 29 •

To C or not to C

That's the dilemma at Twitter over the weekend

Feb 21 •

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