I was recently moving from California to Tennessee (just couldn’t take CA anymore). I wanted to compare truck rental prices between UHaul, Budget, and Penske. I made the mistake of going to the Budget truck rental website, entering email and phone number (required to get an estimate from them). I expected a phone call with […]

Recently I decided it was about time to translate my “Art of Assembly Language” book from the 80×86 CPU to the ARM processor. Of course, the first question I had to answer was “which ARM CPU to use?” There are a wide variety of ARM CPUs out there, with different instruction sets. There are 32-bit […]

The term RISC was first coined in the early 1980s. RISC architectures were a reaction to the ever-increasing complexity in architecture design (epitomized by the DEC VAX-11 architecture). It rapidly became the darling architecture of academia and almost every popular computer architecture textbook since that period has trumpeted that design philosophy. Those text books (and […]

I created my first web page back at the dawn of the World-Wide Web while teaching at UC Riverside in the 1990s. Back then, all the coding was done strictly in HTML using a plain text editor. Twenty-five years later, my web pages still looked like they are hand-written in HTML, despite the fact that […]