How Is Data Stored?

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bombcar

This whole thing is exceptionally well done - and a free resource!

https://www.makingsoftware.com

smartmic

For those interested in learning about the inner workings of computers, I also recommend the book Code by Charles Petzold.

https://codehiddenlanguage.com/

vkat

I always wondered why L1 caches couldn't just be bigger. L1 caches need to be close to clock speed of the core and bigger caches means increased latency because the bottleneck is length of the bit line and number of word lines which increases with capacity.

weregiraffe

How is babby formed?

noman-land

This is a crazy good explanation and the illustrations go a long way.

jrootabega

how disk get fragment?

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rabbitlord

This is so nice. Great up!

quantum_state

Thanks for sharing this very nice collection.

canadiantim

Very nicely designed page