Welcome to IBM1130.org! The IBM 1130 Computing System was introduced in 1965. It was IBM’s least-expensive computer to date, and was aimed at price-sensitive, computing-intensive technical markets like education and engineering. It became quite popular, and the 1130 and its … Read more
How surveillance capitalism and DRM turned home tech from friend to foe. For a while—in the ’80s, ’90s, and early 2000s—it felt like nerds were making the world a better place. Now, it feels like the most successful tech companies … Read more
What would it mean to treat AI as a tool instead of a person? Since the launch of ChatGPT, explorations in two directions kicked into high gear. The first direction is about technical capabilities. How big a model can we … Read more
Abstract Side-channel attacks, such as Spectre, rely on properties of modern CPUs that permit discovery of microarchitectural state via timing of various operations. The Weird Machine concept is an increasingly popular model for characterization of execution that arises from side … Read more
Introduction Three, as Schoolhouse Rock! told children of the 1970s, is a magic number. Three little pigs; three beds, bowls and bears for Goldilocks; three Star Wars trilogies. You need at least three legs for a stool to stand on … Read more
Shares of Raspberry Pi on Tuesday were up 31% in morning trade, as the British computing startup seeks to raise some £166 million ($211.2 million) from its initial public offering. Shares of Raspberry Pi begun “conditional dealing” on Tuesday with … Read more
When I’m not sixty-four Control Data Corporation 6600 Sometimes looking at historic systems can prompt us to challenge our thinking. The Control Data Corporation 6600 was the fastest computer in the world from 1964 to 1969. It was, in many … Read more
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It’s an exciting time for developments in computer performance, not just for the BPF technology (which I often write about) but also for processors with 3D stacking and cloud vendor CPUs (e.g., AWS Graviton2); for memory with the arrival of … Read more
Viewpoint By Diomidis Spinellis Communications of the ACM, July 2021, Vol. 64 No. 7, Pages 36-3810.1145/3437254Comments Credit: Bakhtiar Zein [embedded content] Learning to program is—for many practical, historical, as well as some vacuous reasons—a rite of passage in probably all … Read more