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386SX revisited

I have been kicking around the idea of designing a 386 based system sometime this summer, so I am looking at references and looking at what a minimal system would be. Something that had a serial...

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Steganography in x86 executables

Hiding information in plain sight has allways been an interesting subject. I recently came across a paper, describing Hydan, that does this by exploiting the redundancy in the x86 instruction set. For...

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IBM: Migrating from x86 to PowerPC

While looking at some low level system design documents, I came across this article from IBM by Lewin Edwards. His case is that the x86 architecture is not the most flexible and financially feasible...

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