Technical Reading

PAPERS

• IBM VLIW
• The End of Architecture (computer architecture)
• Usenix Papers (for members)
• Nikhil - Mutithreaded Architectures Tutorial (slides)
• Sun S3.mp papers
• ASPLOS-VII
• SIGARCH 97
• SELF programming language
• Bershad's LRPC.ps
  Cryptography:
• Various Sources
• Block Cipher Lounge
• RSA FAQ
• Loki97 encryption
• TwoFish encryption
• RC6 encryption
  
  INFORMATION
  
• Ham Radio | ARRL | AMRAD | Packet Radio | Dale Heatherington's 56k radio modem | WWW Virtual Library: Amateur Radio | Matjaz Vidmar's 1.2Mb/s packet radio
• Ham Radio Online
• Spread-spectrum Internet by Metricom
• InSat wireless by AlphaCom
• Mark Smotherman's old computer info
• High-Speed Packet Radio Equipment
  
  RAM
  
• Fujitsu fast-cycle RAM

  Processors:
  [ Amd K6 | 604e | IBM 6x86 | DEC 21264 | StrongARM | Mips 10000 ]
  
  BENCHMARKS
  

• Linux Spec95
• Linux F77 Linpack
• Stream memory throughput
  
  COLLECTIONS
  
• FOLDOC - The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• EngLib - WWW Virtual Library (Engineering)
• dict - E E Times list of acronyms
• Central Processing Units
  • CPU Info Center and web sites (Tom Burd, UCBerkeley)
  • Instruction Sets
  • Computer Architectures (UWisc)
  • SPARC - Sun UltraSPARC technical white papers
  • Exponential Technology - Fast PowerPC
  • HP-PA architecture manual (and future Intel processors)
  • IBM PowerPC and RS/6000 papers
  • Motorola PowerPC (604)
  • Inte/HP IA-64 (EPIC)
  • SGI MIPS
  • DEC Alpha AXP
  • ARM (Advanced RISC Machines)
  • Intel P6 (686)
    • "Appendix H" - undocumented X86 processor info
  • AMD K6 (aka Nx686), a very good writeup on this P-Pro beater
  • AMD K5
  • Cyrix 6x86 (aka M1 and M2) and 6x86 flaws from C't Magazin
• OS/2 Warp - by IBM (...formerly by Microsoft :-)
• ISDN - ISDN info
• 28.8 - FAQ on 28800 bps modems