Collaborate Disseminate
In the course of a career, you may run up against projects that get cancelled, especially those that are interesting, but deemed unprofitable in the eyes of the corporate overlords. …read more Continue reading Shipping Your Illicit Software on Launch Hardware
When you look at your home router, the first thought that comes to mind probably isn’t about playing games on it. But that doesn’t stop [Manwyrm] and [tSYS] from taking …read more Continue reading Gaming on a TP-Link TL-WDR4900 Wireless Router
Over Apple’s decades-long history, they have been quick to adapt to new processor technology when they see an opportunity. Their switch from PowerPC to Intel in the early 2000s made …read more Continue reading The Apple Silicon That Never Was
The start-up chime on Macs is probably as recognizable as the default Nokia ringtone in this day and age. Yet much like a ringtone, so too one might want to …read more Continue reading Customizing the Start-Up Chime On a 1999 G3 iMac
When it comes to modern operating systems for PowerPC-based systems like pre-Intel Macs, or other PowerPC-based systems like older or newer AmigaOS-compatible systems, there is an increasing lack of options. …read more Continue reading MorphOS: A Modern Operating System for PowerPC
Back in 2020, we reported on the effort to create a brand new open-source laptop platform using the PowerPC architecture. At the time they had big plans and a PCB …read more Continue reading An Open Source PowerPC Notebook Edges Closer
When it comes to internet connections, here in 2022 so many of us have it easy. Our ISP provides us with a fibre, cable, or DSL line, and we just …read more Continue reading Dissecting A T1 Line
Since Apple switched to Intel chips in the mid-00s, the PowerPC chips from Motorola and the PowerPC Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that they had been using largely fell by the wayside. While true that niche applications like supercomputing still use the Power ISA on other non-Apple hardware, the days of …read more
Apple computers will be moving away from Intel chips to its own ARM-based design. An interesting thing about Apple as a company is that it has never felt the need to tie itself to a particular system architecture or ISA. Whereas a company like Microsoft mostly tied its fortunes to …read more
Part of why people can’t stop talking about Meltdown/Spectre is the fact that all the individual pieces have been sitting in plain sight for a long time. When everyone saw how it all came together last week, many people (and not even necessarily security focused people) smacked themselves on the forehead: “Why didn’t I see that earlier?” Speculative execution has caused headaches going way back. [Bruce Dawson] tells one such story he experienced back in 2005. (Warning: ads on page may autoplay video.)
It’s centered around Xbox 360’s custom PowerPC processor. Among the customization on this chip was the addition …read more
Continue reading Speculative Execution Was A Troublemaker For Xbox 360