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The stack circuitry of the Intel 8087 floating point chip, reverse-engineered
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Early microprocessors were very slow when operating with floating-point numbers. But in 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point copro...
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Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic
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I've been studying the standard cell circuitry in the Intel 386 processor recently. The 386, introduced in 1985, was Intel's most co...
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Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver
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The New York Times recently introduced a new daily puzzle called Pips . You place a set of dominoes on a grid, satisfying various condition...
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A Navajo weaving of an integrated circuit: the 555 timer
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The noted Diné (Navajo) weaver Marilou Schultz recently completed an intricate weaving composed of thick white lines on a black background, ...
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Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?
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I was reading the latest issue of the journal Science , and a paper mentioned the compound Cr 2 Gr 2 Te 6 . For a moment, I thought my knowl...
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