I'm Just a Little Bit ...

I'm Just a Little Bit ...

My mum was a jump in assembly lang. code,
A conditional one in dual processor mode.
My dad was an integer in C++
And together they fired up the slave data bus.
Conceived and then born we were sent through the chips,
Along soldered paths to add to the MIPS.
With my sev’n siblings we make up one byte.
Together we number Oh-Oh-Dee-Eight.

I became self-aware in a CMOS transistor,
From quantum effects in a high ohm resistor.
Capacitors trapped me, charged up in their plates
But a diode allowed me a one way escape.
Grouped as two nibbles, defined as one char,
We rode on a pointer to pointer to far
And waited for tick interrupt on the heap,
Which gave us an msec to have a thread Sleep().

A pre-emptive process woke us from our state
And shifted our bits through an F logic gate,
Where we were appended to table of hash
And rudely inserted into a cache.
A momentary 50 Hertz power aberration
Affected our home in this memory location.
A page fault correction was wrongly repeated.
My siblings and I were abruptly deleted.

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