- Reverse-engineering the ModR/M addressing microcode in the Intel 8086 processor (righto.com)
One interesting aspect of a computer’s instruction set is its addressing modes, how the computer determines the address for a memory access. The Intel 8086 (1978) used the ModR/M byte, a special byte following the opcode, to select the addressing mode.1 The ModR/M byte has persisted into the modern x86 architecture, so it’s interesting to look at its roots and original implementation.
- Woodland, Minnesota (Wikipedia)
Woodland is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, with lake shore property on Lake Minnetonka. The population was 384 at the 2020 census. Woodland was incorporated as the independent village of Maplewoods in December 1948. It was renamed “Woodland” in 1949.