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Phil Park
Personal blog · computerparkitecture.substack.comhardwaresystems
Phil Park writes Computer Parkitecture, a personal blog at computerparkitecture.substack.com about hardware and systems. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Long Mode Chronicles: How the World Became x86-64 Inside”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack as a detailed article on Yamhill, a feature from the Athlon 64 era that one commenter says has been known since 2002. The post's slug also refers to long mode.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Life in the industry? I don't know. Launched a year ago.
Most-linked posts?
- The Long Mode Chronicles: How the World Became x86-64 Inside3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-09-23
What Hacker News says?
It wasn't recent; Yamhill has been known since 2002. A detailed article about this topic just came out: https://computerparkitecture.substack.com/p/the-long-mode-ch...
Comment linking /p/the-long-mode-chronicles
on “Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel”Submitted The Long Mode Chronicles: How the World Became x86-64 Inside as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the World Became x86-64 Inside as a story · 1 points
HN discussion