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OK so, I've started cleaning up the PCIe code but also took this opportunity to do some tests.
I'm just writing to a random old SSD I have lying around that I used for some tests a while ago, I have no idea what writing to a random address is doing (I haven't even set a BAR on it so it's probably ignoring me) but the goal is to test the SoC not do anything real.
Here's a 128 byte memcpy to the BAR. It turns into eight 16-byte TLPs, presumably each generated by…

See https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1975-12/page/n42/mode/2up for the full ad

Japan faces bottlenecks in data center construction due to labor shortages and more; DC Byte says Japan's capacity has tripled to 6.8 GW in the past five years (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Bottlenecks in data center construction threaten Japan's AI ambitions
Labor shortages, rising costs and outdated building processes delay construction

Missing Link: Vor 50 Jahren eröffnet der erste Byte Shop
Im Dezember 1975 öffnet in Kalifornien der erste Byte Shop. Ohne diese spätere Computerhandelskette wäre Apple heute vielleicht in Vergessenheit geraten.

From the December 1975 issue of BYTE Magazine

Visualize All 23 Years of BYTE Magazine in All Its Glory, All at Once https://www.404media.co/byte-magazine-zoomable-map-archive/

"Two years later, the same BYTE Magazine asked on its January 1997 cover: “Can Java Replace Windows?” (Spoiler alert 2: it did not, and… seriously?) Reflecting the myopic insanity of the warlords commanding troops from the comfort of their bunkers, Scott McNealy’s interview on page 40 is just a puzzling diatribe against Microsoft PowerPoint instead of an actual argument in favor of Java."

Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars
During the 1980s and 90s, computer companies waged an open war for supremacy. We are witnesses of an age that could be described as post-apocalyptic. The dust has settled for the past 20 years, with a small ignition of hostilities around 2010, between members of the mobile duopoly and some late challengers. But to a large degree, we can say that the Kernel Wars are over, and we are privileged observers of their aftermath. But everyone was surprised to discover the winner emerging from the ashes…

„Ready for the Byte Fight“ by Vasyl
Platform: Atari ST/E
Released: 22 November 2025
Specification: 320x200px, 9 colors
Note: 1st in the Silly Venture 2025 WE Atari ST/STE Graphics competition
#GFX_Vasyl #YR_2025

The Allen Institute of AI launches Bolmo 7B and Bolmo 1B, claiming they are "the first fully open byte-level language models", built on its Olmo 3 models (Emilia David/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/bolmos-architecture-unlock…

@… @… À propos uni: mein romanistik-prof (herausgeber eines kapverdischen wörterbuchs) hatte ein späteres modell (anfang der 1990er). Ich hatte das bis dahin nur in anzeigen in BYTE gesehen …

@… @… À propos uni: mein romanistik-prof (herausgeber eines kapverdischen wörterbuchs) hatte ein späteres modell (anfang der 1990er). Ich hatte das bis dahin nur in anzeigen in BYTE gesehen …

Spent way too much time chasing some confusing segfaults before realizing that I was 4-byte offsetting and aligning my stack pointer out of habit.
On aarch64.

Has anyone made a good video on the obscure IBM System 9000?
It's a 68000-based architecture that can support "large amounts of RAM", the article brags about "as much 2 megabytes".
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-09/page/n225/mode/2up

My old HP laptop, 8470p is getting keyboard problems; I guess it's a hardware problem - I guess it could be software (on Debian trixie). Tricky to know where it is - could just be too many crumbs, but it seems more broken::
atkbd_receive_byte: 122 callbacks suppressed
atkbd serio0: Spurious NAK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying to access hardware directly.
atkbd serio0: Failed to deactivate keyboard on isa0060/serio0
atkbd serio0: Failed to enable key…

@… is `ArgumentError: UTF-16 string byte length (51) is not a multiple of 2` something that should be handled in my PR or in TruffleRuby?
ArgumentError is semantically off but I vaguely remember that it was some encoding performance stuff or so?
It would be nice if it would act like the other Rubies though 😄

While the data still looked garbled it turns out that was my fault due to an endianess bug in my non-vibed #pico code: https://github.com/stsquad/mp-depth/co

Ich mach grad was kompliziertes mit #auphonic… also theoretisch. Praktisch sitze ich rum und warte auf ein Byte hier und ein Byte da…

Guessing from the current RAM price increases we'll be back at 1976 prices in a few months!
16,384 bytes for $795 adjusted for inflation is $4,527, which is about 28¢ per byte.
32GB of memory would therefore be roughly 9.5 billion dollars.