Daily Archives: 2019-05-17

nesdev.com • View topic – Koei bytecode

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Pointed out to me the other day, Koei made a nifty VM obviously designed to be an easy C target that runs on top of the NES' 6502. Uses a "left" and "right" register and a stack.

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Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider

Source: Hacker News

Article note: I knew it was bad, and I knew it was especially bad for virtualized workloads, but _damn_. AMD needs to get their Zen2/7nm production up to volume so they can steal some large customers.
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HP Enterprise Nears Deal to Buy Cray

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Woop. Looks like last Cray is going into the HPE maw (With the remnants of DEC, and SGI, and Apollo and...). Interesting. First theory: Maneuver to have network tech that isn't Infiniband (due to Mellanox buyout), and access to Cray's existing contracts/market.
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