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Reverse-engineering the register codes for the 8086 processor's microcode
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Like most processors, the Intel 8086 (1978) provides registers that are faster than main memory. As well as the registers that are visibl...
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Reverse-engineering the electronics in the Globus analog navigational computer
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In the Soyuz space missions, cosmonauts tracked their position above the Earth with a remarkable electromechanical device with a rotating ...
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How the 8086 processor determines the length of an instruction
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The Intel 8086 processor (1978) has a complicated instruction set with instructions ranging from one to six bytes long. This raises the q...
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Reverse-engineering the ModR/M addressing microcode in the Intel 8086 processor
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One interesting aspect of a computer's instruction set is its addressing modes, how the computer determines the address for a memory ...
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