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B Vance posted <1138220390.11529.4.camel@×××××××××××.ShadowRealm>, |
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excerpted below, on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:19:50 -0500: |
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> Thank you for explaining that Duncan. Guess it's time for me to start |
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> reading a bit more then I have lately. |
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Take a look at the stuff "Hannibal" has written for ArsTechnica. The |
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articles are originally released "gratis" in HTML format. PDFs are |
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available to ArsTech registered members (paid). He's very good at |
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including lots of nice diagrams and the like, and explaining things in |
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normal English. Reading the articles doesn't require all sorts of |
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technical literacy. He also put out some articles explaining what pixel |
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shaders and the like are, and how modern graphics cards work, again, with |
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all sorts of nice diagrams and easily understood explanations that |
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actually help one understand what it is those $500 cards have in them that |
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allows them to charge that kind of money! |
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ArsTechnica is of course a tech forum primarily aimed at gamers, altho |
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they cover enough other stuff to be on my knewsticker feed (I don't |
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consider myself a gamer). http://arstechnica.com |
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The early article list: http://arstechnica.com/cpu/index.html |
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Of special interest: |
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Understanding Bandwidth and Latency (11/2002), Understanding the |
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Microprocessor (12/2002), Understanding Pipelining and Superscalar |
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Execution (12/2002), and Intro to 64-bit Computing and x86-64 (3/2003). |
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The second list, bottom of http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu.ars |
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Of interest there: |
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Intro to Multithreading, Superthreading, and Hyperthreading, Pipelining |
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parts I & II, and Inside AMD's Hammer: the 64-bit arch behind the Otperon |
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and Athlon 64. |
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Of course, if you are interested in articles on the Power arch, Intel's |
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stuff, and the XBox 360, there are articles on that and more there as well. |
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I /believe/ I've seen some of his articles reprinted elsewhere, too. |
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I stumbled upon one that I recognized while googling at one point, on some |
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Linux related site, IIRC. However, I'm not sure whether that was |
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single-time or a regular thing, or how much after Ars gets them they can |
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be reprinted elsewhere. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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