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Tech HistoryDeep Dive August 9, 2026 3 min read

The Berkeley RAID Paper: Naming Redundant Disk Arrays Without Inventing Every Technique

What the 1988 Patterson-Gibson-Katz RAID paper actually proposed, how its levels organized tradeoffs, which ideas predated it, and why naming mattered.

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Tech HistoryDeep Dive August 9, 2026 3 min read

The RISC Research Projects That Changed Commercial Processor Design

A careful history of Berkeley RISC and Stanford MIPS, their compiler and pipeline assumptions, register strategies, measured claims, and commercial descendants.

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