Archive of posts tagged: history
A Brief and Biased History of Computer Architecture (Part 1)
I’ve always envied my Physics colleagues, because their field has a history rich with heroes and epic stories1I have other reasons for Physics envy—it’s the hardest of the “hard sciences”, one step away from the pure rigor of Mathematics. I worry that CS needs...
RISCy History
I recently went through old files in preparation for the Turing Award Lecture on June 4, and discovered a paper that was rejected by IEEE Computer yet was a stepping stone to Reduced Instruction Set Computers: “The Case for a New Control Store for the Next...Subscribe
