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Introduction to Paging

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This post introduces paging, a very common memory management scheme that we will also use for our operating system. It explains why memory isolation i…

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Computer Memory

This is the second revision of this article. At first I thought of explaining all the minor details, but then I realized it would be very overwhelming for all kinds of audiences. Too much explanation of simple stuff bores experienced readers and too much depth could overwhelm newcomers. I decided to revise the article with more concise goal and trimmed down some bits. Introduction The modern CPU architecture (aka Von Neumann architecture) relies heavily on having a part of the system responsible for storing the current state.

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Long-form Texts on Interesting Details of Computers

It seems especially recently I’ve come across more and more long-form texts (think: hour-long blog posts; free books; series of posts). I especially like the ones that go into the very fine details of …

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