The Intel 8088 (and its big brother 8086) processor was among the first microprocessors to implement (instruction) prefetching in hardware, which [Ken Shirriff] has analyzed based on die images ...

An operational state in an Intel CPU that allows it to perform as multiple 8086/8088 CPUs, which was the architecture of the first x86 chip. Virtual 8086 Mode divides the computer into multiple ...

When the 8086 processor recovers from a hardware reset ... and load the Code Segment and Instruction Pointer to the place where your program actually starts. What a brilliant design!

We recently ran a piece that summarized an IEEE study of programming language popularity based on job listings. It definitely fostered some conversation, including some debate about whether the ...

Programming skills are perhaps the most important technical/hard skill sets you need to learn in 2024. While computer programming as a standalone profession might be suffering a decline ...

They thus highlight a dynamic of the semiconductor industry: as transistors, the main type of electronic component found in ...

Sep. 9, 2024 — Scientists have developed a new AI algorithm that can separate brain patterns related to a particular behavior. This work promises to improve brain-computer interfaces and aid ...

A programming language is a set of symbols whose strings are governed by rules apt to communicate instructions to a particular machine. Such strings may be concatenated into longer code and ...

However, with appliances, sensors and myriad other electronic devices dedicated to only one set of tasks, a single program is generally stored permanently. Before any data are processed ...

Iteration is implemented in programming using FOR and WHILE statements. In programming, iteration is often referred to as ‘looping’, because when a program iterates it ‘loops’ to an ...