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ALT A blue background features white text: "The Old New Thing" at the top. Below, there's a question about undefined opcodes ud0 and ud1, asking how they can have parameters. The bottom encourages reading Raymond Chen's Blog.

ALT A blue background features an image of an open book and glasses. Text reads: 'The Old New Thing'. Below, it asks why the compiler uses 'ud2' and 'int 3' for non-executing code. At the bottom is a prompt to read Raymond Chen's Blog.

ALT A blue background features white text titled 'The Old New Thing'. Below, it discusses 'Windows on Itanium' and mentions hot-patching in a simple way. A pair of glasses rests atop stacked books in the bottom right corner.

ALT A blue background features white text titled 'The Old New Thing'. Below, a question reads, 'Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS?' A textline mentions 'Read Raymond Chen’s Blog' and a pair of glasses and a book silhouette.

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