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Relatively speaking, it wasn't (still) not hostile. I've seen worse.

This was more of a fact vs fact indirect disagreement rather than being completely foolish

I see, I see... I wonder why we (as in me) don't hear anything about Brainfuck anymore. I kind of see it as a 20th century meme language that proves boomers were trying as hard as they could to make it work, basically what I call a living example. I (100%) believe your JIT story.

dang, I appreciate the long winded explanation and how you took control over this. Not just for being on my side, but that's exactly what people are missing when it comes to HN posting. They somehow pulled the hammer on me because I included my age in the title (which makes 40% of the case to my project). Everything i wrote here is original, and almost all of the feedback is seemingly positive/constructive for the good.

I get the feeling that if I didn't include my age (which, again it's the main thing) this submission wouldn't have received much attention. big thanks to learning copywriting beforehand.

Small clarification: I eat haters for a living.

Well guess what? I wasn't rude either. Honestly i only addressed a bad habit you seem to have.

In all of it's glory, insults are criticism.

That was spot on Middle Eastern powers you got right here!

I bet it's not as easy to figure it out now.

Well, i didn't claim i know it all. But i gave it my best because it's true that one person can't have the detailed knowledge of all the now-existing complicated subsystems.

If the information exists then it's "possible" to learn it.

Not with most of the terrible (i.e Lenovo, Wikipedia) information found online, It's never impossible but very unlikely.

hardware companies no longer actually tell us everything.

Rambus :P

We already have that, instead you should write a book on how to not be rude

Especially in today's hardware (/software?), all the bins on the system are 64bit even if it's a 32bit binary, the remaining bits get filled by 0s so that the system treats it as a 64bit bin.

Yes, a handful of times. Everything seemed positive to me so i knew it was ready

Appreciate it!

there is an opportunity to “extend” this.

Ofc there is, and im already up to it. So apparently my username is screaming 'Algerian' lol, It's so good to see a Tunisian here (or HN).

It's nothing but WORTH the effort-

If it helped its author understand computers..

Probably the main reason this book even existed in first place and the perfect example of "The best way to understand something is to explain it to someone else."

These are some of the useful link that i wish came up when googling, and DOS is fairly interesting in itself knowing it's behind everything from medical equipment to today's common refrain of teenagers.

So true.

Especially with term highlighting, makes it 2x easier to read and keep the information flow to process (and funnier?).

My pleasure, happy that you liked it

Disclaimer: I'm 30

This says it all- jokes aside, i couldn't resist writing a book without including combustion engines.

I can say the same! I considered doing so at some point during my research, might actually give it a go.

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The key-terms highlight was a very late addition, the text without it was a bit uncomfortable to read.

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I hope this catches the eyes of Gen Z/Alpha so they can understand how the tablet they're using to watch skibidi videos with works.

You're welcome. It wasn't as easy as it looks now, but i managed to pull it off at this age.

I have such a deep and profound love for them.

Oh god, i wish i included more about registers but it isn't the main focus- And thank you for clarifying which REG it is, It's added to the book!

Oopsie, good catch! I intended it as 'the smallest space X can take'

i corrected it.

Haha, that was the #1 priority while writing!

Let them kids know what happens under the hood of their systems.

ty! Those days and people like you are what made these things last long.

while they were still comprehensible

They, in fact still are. Only if you put the time and effort to know what goes inside, It's not fun in terms of learning, but interesting. Then it becomes fun after you really know what goes on.

Greetings! This is coming from a.. as the title says, a 16 year old who wrote a mini-book on how computers operate internally focusing on RAM and CPU aspects, respectively. Because almost all of us (if not all) use computers and similar devices on a daily basis without an ACTUAL idea on how they work, even though you might have a brief view of your system. You get my point.

Just the fact that I've been using something and not knowing the way it really works, made me go insane. And that's exactly why i stepped up and taught myself all of it, from start to finish, While Apparently my coding knowledge didn't undermine me from writing this in a way of "Im teaching you what i learned" rather than "learning and writing" that took nearly 6 months to finish completely!

If you're the background person.. fine, some acknowledgments you might want: Something that made me crazier? web-dev, no disrespect to you folks out there but i had to add some extra time to the writing (which is exhausting in itself) just to code a (yet) simple HTML/CSS/JS website for the book. But since then, i fell in love with web-design and styling after using Figma to draw all the illustrations seen throughout the segments. Also I had the idea to initiate this project when i was 15! So i think it's pretty safe to say that this article went through a draft-phase of randomly collecting technical information.

And i'm finally happy to share it with the globe! to put it in simple Hacker News fashion, any feedback and/or suggestion(s) is greatly appreciated hoping this becomes a learning material. Check it out and i guarantee you will learn a thing or two: https://github.com/hackclub/RAM-a-thon