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Love these kinds of articles. (Now, I can only imagine how insanely more complex the modern hardware is!)


If you want something interesting on that topic, here's a fantastic explanation of one complex part of modern graphics hardware and how it varies across vendors https://www.gfxstrand.net/faith/blog/2022/08/descriptors-are...


Modern hardware is complex (there's a computer at the other end too), but sometimes people actually succeed in making the interface simpler. NVMe is a surprisingly simple hardware interface from the driver's perspective, just ringbuffers in memory. Many modern network devices are similar, but not standardized.




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