Tag
segmentation
- Aug 26, 2026 VLAN Segmentation and the Limits of Layer 2 Isolation How 802.1Q tags create separate broadcast domains on shared hardware, why trunk links and layer 3 boundaries decide whether isolation holds, and where VLAN hopping attacks get their leverage. security
- Oct 5, 2025 DOS Extenders and the Cost of Leaving Real Mode Loading a protected-mode segment table, moving the interrupt path into extended memory, and reflecting calls back to real mode: what a 32-bit program had to build before it could run. computing history
- Jul 3, 2025 Chunk Boundaries Decide What Can Be Retrieved How fixed-size, sentence, and structural chunking place boundaries, what overlap recovers and what it duplicates, and why the split point is an index-time commitment. inference systems
- May 27, 2024 Segment Arithmetic and the One-Megabyte Wall How sixteen-bit segment registers produce a twenty-bit address, why the resulting space wraps at the top, and what the A20 gate and the high memory area cost. computing history