It is not an easy task to make the #80286 perform multitasking or mode switching. [..] Jerry Pournelle describes the process this way: "You have to clunk it over the head and knock it out When it's waking up -- but before it realize it's been reset -- you shout: 'Stop! Stop! Don't reset! It's all a terrible dream.'" (f h) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989

I do more traveling than I like – for all the mess, #ChaosManor is a pretty comfortable place – but there is one advantage. No one has yet found a way to telephone me on a train or in flight.

Alas, I suppose it's just a question of time: Mr. #Heinlein's 'Between Planets' has teenagers carrying personal telephones on backpacking expeditions, and #GeoffGoodfellow has been carrying a personal telephone to the Hackers' Conference deep in the Peninsula Hills for severals years; someday, I just know I'll get saddled with one. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1989

Is somebody aware of something like an “all time index” over all BYTE magazine issues? I'm specifically searching for BYTE articles on DTP (desktop publishing). The magazines itself are available via @internetarchive (mostly complete) but I don't want to manually walk through every single issues table of contents. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #byte

Puzzled, I asked, "But if you can't run the EtherLink Plus LAN Manager drivers, and you don't supply a LAN Manager driver for your board, how can you say that you support the LAN Manager?"

"I think we mean that we support the LAN Manager kind of like we support Nelson Mandela," he chuckled.

Caveat emptor, Or, mor appropriate for this business, cave canem (beware of the dog). (m m) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1988 #OS2

BYTE (1995) Hyer-G Organizes The Web
#byte #web #90s

https://archive.org/details/eu_BYTE-1995-11_OCR/page/n70/mode/1up

The 44 Year Old Computer Magazine That Changed Everything [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSnw5pPEPBc
#ycombinator #1980s_software #80s #1980s #smalltalk #DOS #MS_DOS #retro #1990s #byte #byte_magazine #retro_software #windows #mouse #retro_computing #free_programming_lesson #learn_to_program #programming_tutorial #huw_collingbourne

Just a quick update for those who’ve been asking: the 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐕 and 𝐁𝐲𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐊 𝐈𝐈𝐈 will be back in stock shortly and are now available for pre-order. You can find more details on our website.

https://starlabs.systems/

#tablet #minipc #StarLabsSystems #distro #linux #opensource #starlite #byte #developers

Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09871

#HackerNews #Byte #Latent #Transformer #Patches #Tokens #AI #Research #Machine #Learning

Часть 3. Векторизация на Go: CGo, транзакции, компиляторы, поддержка, байтовые инструкции

В первой части статьи мы рассмотрели , как можно вручную ускорить Go-код с помощью векторизации и SIMD-инструкций, реализованных через Go-ассемблер. Написали простую, но показательно быструю реализацию sliceContains и увидели, что даже базовая векторизация может дать ускорение в 10–14 раз по сравнению со стандартной реализацией. Во второй части статьи погрузились в практическое применение SIMD в Go-ассемблере, реализовали функцию SliceContainsV1 и изучили, как с помощью VADD, VDUP и других инструкций можно добиться 10–14-кратного ускорения простых задач. Но возможности оптимизации Go-программ на этом не заканчиваются. В этой части мы пойдём дальше: рассмотрим другие техники низкоуровневой оптимизации — от использования C-кода и альтернативных компиляторов с поддержкой векторизации до работы с аппаратными транзакциями памяти на Intel. Поговорим о том, как внедрять ассемблер в продакшен-код, не боясь за его поддержку, и как обойти ограничения стандартного Go-компилятора. Привет, Хабр! Меня зовут Игорь Панасюк, я работаю в Яндекс, преподаю в ИТМО, а также в свободное время выступаю на конференциях, делюсь опытом в соцсетях и помогаю развитию Go-сообщества, веду телеграм-канал и youtube-канал. Если вы уже знакомы с базовыми техниками векторизации, эта часть поможет глубже понять, как устроены продвинутые способы ускорения Go-кода и на что стоит обратить внимание при работе с архитектурно-зависимыми оптимизациями.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/oleg-bunin/articles/905972/

#golang #optimizations #компилятор #gccgo #gollvm #ассемблер #word #byte #производительность

#BYTE Magazine, 1981

Mark Eppley of Traveling Software doesn't seem to know the rules: he held a press conference at #COMDEX to announce a product they're actually shipping.

I understand that seven different PR agencies were so horrified they tried to straighten him out: you hold press conferences to announce stuff that you're going to ship #RealSoonNow, not something that you've actually got out the door. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1988

It bytes, okay?

#byte #coding #programming #meme #funny

If all the hype about #HyperCard were laid end to end, it would probably circle the earth; but, in fact, much of it is deserved. (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1988

In some ways, owning computers is like being a parent.

I often find myself wishing my "children'' had more memory, did their chores faster, and re­quired less nagging.

And I up­grade my system with add-ins, add-ons, and accessories with the same sinking feeling in the pit of my wallet that a parent experiences buying clothing for a rapidly growing infant. (e s) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1988

It wouldn't compile. #QuickBasic 4 kept telling me I had a duplicate definition of a variable named TEACHER. This made so little sense I wanted to sit down and cry. The program doesn't have a variable named TEACHER. There was a TEACHER$, but... (j p) #Byte #ByteMagazine #Anno1988

Happy 5 years of Tower Heroes! #fanart #byte #chef #heroes #scientist #spectre #tower #wizard #5thanniversary #kingslime #roblox #robloxart #robloxfanart #dumpsterchild #lemonadecat #towerheroes #robloxtowerheroes #towerheroesfanart #pixelbitstudio #towerheroesart #mana

The manual was written by a graduate of that secret school that teaches you how to write so that you can prove you covered the subject, but no one who doesn't already know will find out what you mean. (j p) #TurboBasic #Byte #ByteMagazine

Nu startar trädgårdssäsongen, sakta men säkert. Har grävt upp några plommon och slånbär. Även sticklingar av svart vinbär finns.

Byts mot en donation för Ukraina.

#vastmanland #trädgård #byte

After deliberation by my 8 years old daughter, our next #puppies will be named:
#bit, #byte, #nibble and #script 😍

It was a long recording session, and Jason did an excellent job on editing it to make me sound far more coherent. I did kind of laugh listening back to it when he asked me at the end "Do you have anything more to add to the topic?" and I just said "Nope!"

In under 2 hours for the episode, which I consider a win. We could have held a symposium on that issue of #BYTE alone...