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Comment by nixpulvis

7 years ago

Great overview of much of the firmware and general "OS" stack (for lack of a better word).

I'm surprised not to read a mention of the micro-code which all instructions our programs ask the processor to run actually convert to. I suppose that's starting to get too close to a discussion of open hardware, which this post mostly sidesteps. Both are important issues.

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