Igor Delovski Board

Ike · Kapetan Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3247 Location: Europe

What actually happens when you plug in a USB device?

"Today I started wondering what actually happens when you plug in a USB
device. The little tour below goes from starting the USB subsystem to plugging
something in, and I hope it is reasonably accurate."

delovski · Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 3524 Location: Zagreb

JoS: Introduction to floating-point arithmetic

"What every computer scientist should know about floating-point arithmetic
by David Goldberg

Is an interesting read. One has to be very careful when
using computers to calulate important decimal numbers... "

Ike · Kapetan Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3247 Location: Europe

so - Download source code from Apple's website

"How do I download source code from Apple's website? In particular, I am
interested in http://opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-55110/.

wget -r is downloading HTML files.I finally figured it out, sources can be
conveniently downloaded from http://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/ "

Ike · Kapetan Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 3247 Location: Europe

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/bcg58u/windows_10_source_code_over_05_tb_source_code/

Windows 10 source code: over 0.5 TB source code, over 4 million files, more than a half million folders (quora.com)

Here's a post about Microsoft's effort to store it in Git:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/bharry/the-largest-git-repo-on-the-planet/
TL;DR: They invented a "Git Virtual File System" to do the job.