the Xbox 360’s CPU, called Xenon, is a custom triple-core 64-bit PowerPC-based design developed by IBM. This architecture was derived from IBM’s PowerPC 970, & heavily customized for the Xbox 360.
Oh fun!
Microsoft… in the year 2025, Sept… has open-sourced its 6502 BASIC interpreter from 1976. This version of BASIC was adapted for the MOS 6502 CPU that powered Apple II, Commodore PET, VIC-20, +. The released asm (version 1.1) consists of nearly 7,000 lines and includes features such as floating-point arithmetic, string handling, array support, and efficient memory use for 8-bit systems 😎
Microsoft licensed this BASIC to Commodore in 1977 for a flat fee of $25,000 …tech business historians will know a bit 😉 about dat.
Gemini Space Station, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, announced its initial public offering seeking up to $317 million by selling 16.67 million shares at $17-19 per share. $GEMI 🤔
AF_XDP stands for Address Family eXpress Data Path. It provides a mechanism for handling network packets efficiently by bypassing much of the traditional networking stack, 😎 optimizing packet processing for use cases that demand high speed and low latency. #linux #networking
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“The Texas Linux Fest 2025 will be held at the Commons Conference Center located at the J.J. Pickle Research Campus at the University of Texas Austin. The address for the venue is 2901 Read Granberry Trail, Austin, TX 78758. This event site, the Commons Conference Center, is part of the UT Austin campus. dates October 3-4, 2025.”
This was fun to learn, that in Star Trek, NCC stands for “Naval Construction Contract.” This designation is used for commissioned starships in Starfleet, such as the USS Enterprise with registry number NCC-1701. Nx is for experimental or prototype ships.