Especially within the world of multi-threaded programming does atomic access become a crucial topic, as multiple execution contexts may seek to access the same memory locations at the same time. Yet ...

I've took an assembly programming class last year, and between that and my OS1 course last semester, I'm really interested in low-level programming: tweaking BIOS, drivers, the whole nine...<BR><BR>In ...

We've seen in the previous articles how Ada can be used to describe high-level semantics and architecture. The beauty of the language, however, is that it can be used all the way down to the lowest ...