- I first learned of Jesse Day when looking into the history of Dayton, Washington. Dayton is the namesake of Jesse Day (sometimes written as Jesse N. Day and Jesse Newberry Day). At the time of writing this, I am sitting in a campground a few miles from Dayton.
- Why did x86 support self-modifying code in the 80s and 90s? (stackexchange.com)
On the simplest microprocessors, self-modifying code is not a special problem. On an 8080, you can write just ahead of the instruction pointer, and a few clock cycles later, the instruction you just wrote, will be fetched and executed as though it had been there all along. But as pipelines and instruction cache are introduced, this becomes more problematic.