Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into ….

You probably don't have much of a choice..

The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to wor….

Computer monitors can operate in many different video modes. In most cases, the decision about how many pixels and colors to display is yours - but n….

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick.

Free lunches don't come cheap..

To a programmer, an operating system is defined by its API..

I started out with machine code and assembly language..

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that dev….

NOP stands for (and is pronounced) no op, as in no operation. The NOP causes the processor to do absolutely nothing. What's it good for? Filling spac….

I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You dont pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works..

Owning a computer without programming is like having a kitchen and using only the microwave oven.