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About On The Metal
As a part of starting Oxide Computer Company, Bryan Cantrill and Jess Frazelle decided to also create the podcast that they always wanted. Joined frequently by their boss, Steve Tuck, Bryan and Jess interview incredible guests retelling stories of adventure at the hardware/software interface. It’s unapologetically technical and as Jess says, “the nerdiest podcast on the face of the planet” -- but if you're their kind of nerd, you'll find yourself hanging on every word!
- Publisher
- Oxide Computer Company
- Category
- history · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 15 Nov 2019
- Latest episode
- 25 Feb 2023
Latest episodes
15 episodes in the feed.
25 Feb 2023
Oxide and Friends
Bryan and Steve are joined by Adam to revisit some highlights from almost two years of the Oxide and Friends live show and podcast. Bryan’s blog entry on Twitter Spaces: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2021/05/02/twitter-spaces-a-few-weeks-in/ (http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2021/05/02/twitter-spaces-a-few-weeks-in/) Oxide and Friends, “Mr. Leventhal, Come here I want you”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/mr-leventhal-come-here-i-want-to-see-you-2021-05-03 (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/mr-leventhal-come-here-i-want-to-see-you-2021-05-03) (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-WSU3kiXVg#t=28m10s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-WSU3kiXVg#t=28m10s)) Oxide and Friends, “NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/next-objective-c-and-contrasting-histories-2021-07-05 (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/next-objective-c-and-contrasting-histories-2021-07-05) Oxide and Friends, “Tales from the Bringup Lab”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-the-bringup-lab-2021-12-06 (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-the-bringup-lab-2021-12-06) Flying Blind: Boeing's Max Tragedy and the Lost Soul of an American Icon by Peter Robison: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55994102 (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55994102) Oxide and Friends, “Flying Blind with Peter Robison”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/flying-blind-with-peter-robison-2022-01-10 (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/flying-blind-with-peter-robison-2022-01-10) (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6i9NPslfE4&t=1141s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6i9NPslfE4&t=1141s)) Oxide and Friends, “Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/losing-the-signal-with-sean-silcoff (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/losing-the-signal-with-sean-silcoff) Oxide and Friends, “The Pragmatism of Hubris”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmatism-of-hubris-2021-12-13 (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmatism-of-hubris-2021-12-13) Oxide and Friends, “The Books in the Box”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-books-in-the-box-2021-09-27 (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-books-in-the-box-2021-09-27) Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust by Alex Payne: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57118893 (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57118893) Oxide and Friends, “Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/podcasts-for-podcast-lovers (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/podcasts-for-podcast-lovers) Playdate podcast: https://podcast.play.date/ (https://podcast.play.date/) Dijkstra quote on BASIC: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF) Oxide and Friends, “Dijkstra's Tweetstorm”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/dijkstras-tweetstorm-2021-10-18 (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/dijkstras-tweetstorm-2021-10-18) Oxide and Friends, “Economics and Open Source”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/economics-and-open-source-2021-10-04 (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/economics-and-open-source-2021-10-04) (Clip with Tim Burnham reading his tweet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDd8xGSP9DA&t=249s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDd8xGSP9DA&t=249s)) Oxide and Friends, “Open Source Inside Baseball (with Stephen O'Grady)”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/open-source-inside-baseball-with-stephen-ogrady (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/open-source-inside-baseball-with-stephen-ogrady) Oxide and Friends, “The Oxide Supply Chain“: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/epi=-sodes/the-oxide-supply-chain (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/epi=-sodes/the-oxide-supply-chain) Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32774875 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32774875) Oxide and Friends, “The Rise and Fall of DEC”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-rise-and-fall-of-dec (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-rise-and-fall-of-dec) (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m6GFs3GuU0&t=12s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m6GFs3GuU0&t=12s)) Oxide and Friends, “Potpourri: Product, Platform, Paravirtualization”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/potpourri-product-platform-paravirtualization (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/potpourri-product-platform-paravirtualization) Oxide and Friends, “Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/oxide-and-the-chamber-of-mysteries (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/oxide-and-the-chamber-of-mysteries) Oxide and Friends, “Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/theranos-silicon-valley-and-the-march-madness-of-tech-fraud-2021-09-20 (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/theranos-silicon-valley-and-the-march-madness-of-tech-fraud-2021-09-20) (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdk9CKML2g&t=2901s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdk9CKML2g&t=2901s)) Bad Bets Season 2, “The Unraveling of Trevor Milton”: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/the-journal/8whnlvj (https://gimletmedia.com/shows/the-journal/8whnlvj) Oxide and Friends, “Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/engineering-incentives-and-misincentives (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/engineering-incentives-and-misincentives) (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU4WT5RZAPY&t=461s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU4WT5RZAPY&t=461s)) Oxide and Friends, “The Power of Proto Boards!”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-power-of-proto-boards (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-power-of-proto-boards) Oxide and Friends, “A Debugging Odyssey”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/a-debugging-odyssey (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/a-debugging-odyssey) Oxide and Friends, “Debugging Methodologies”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/debugging-methodologies (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/debugging-methodologies) Oxide and Friends, “from /proc to proc_macro”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/from-proc-to-proc_macro-2021-05-24 (https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/from-proc-to-proc_macro-2021-05-24) (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85eApYSj3ic&t=108s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85eApYSj3ic&t=108s)) Oxide and Friends, “Tech Layoffs”: (https:/...)
26 Jan 2021
Ken Shirriff
You can find Ken on Twitter at twitter.com/kenshirriff (https://twitter.com/kenshirriff) and his blog righto.com (https://www.righto.com/). - Soyuz blog post: http://www.righto.com/2020/01/inside-digital-clock-from-soyuz.html - IBM System/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370 - Amdahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_Corporation - Build Your Own Z80 Computer: https://books.google.com/books?id=mVQnFgWzX0AC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false - Euler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler - Commodore PET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET - TRS-80 (Trash-80): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 https://techland.time.com/2012/08/03/trs-80/ - Visual 6502: http://www.visual6502.org/ - MOS 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502 - Metallurgy microscope: https://www.amscope.com/compound-microscopes/metallurgical-microscopes.html - AM2900: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am2900 - MOS transistor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET - Cray-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 - Intel 4004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004 - Datapoint 2200: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200 - Intel 8008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8008 - Endianness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness - TTL chips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor%E2%80%93transistor_logic - Big Endian and Little Endian: https://chortle.ccsu.edu/AssemblyTutorial/Chapter-15/ass15_3.html - Xerox Alto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto - Charles Simonyi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simonyi - Punched cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card - Why did line printers have 132 columns?: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7838/why-did-line-printers-have-132-columns - Teletype 33: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33 - Analogue computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer - Analogue computer thread: https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1223675683387265024 - Differential analyser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser - Bitcoin mining on a 1401: http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-ibm-1401.html - Mining bitcoin with pencil and paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dqhixzGVo - Bitcoin mining on a Xerox Alto: http://www.righto.com/2017/07/bitcoin-mining-on-vintage-xerox-alto.html - Bitcoin mining on the Apollo Guidance computer: http://www.righto.com/2019/07/bitcoin-mining-on-apollo-guidance.html - Colossus computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer - Accounting machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_machine - Memory phosphor: https://www.britannica.com/science/memory-phosphor - Rowhammer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer - Core memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory - Williams tube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube - Core rope memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory - Honeywell 800: https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/h800.html - Honeywell 1800: https://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/doc-4372956da1170/ http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-h.html#HONEYWELL-1800 - SPARC delayed branching: https://arcb.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/codeopt/codeopt00/notes/delaybra.html - IBM 360 Model 50: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_50 - RR Auction: https://www.rrauction.com/
18 Jan 2021
Star Simpson
You can find Star on Twitter at https://twitter.com/starsandrobots (https://twitter.com/starsandrobots). Super Munchers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchers) Metrowerks CodeWarrior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior) RadioShack (RIP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack) "Marilyn Monroe's World War II Drone Program": https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/upshot/marilyn-monroes-world-war-ii-drone-program.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/upshot/marilyn-monroes-world-war-ii-drone-program.html) Radioplane Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_Company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_Company) Piasecki PA-97: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_PA-97 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_PA-97) TacoCopter: https://tacocopter.com/ (https://tacocopter.com/) TacoCopter on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742676 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742676) TacoCopter's cameo on Stephen Colbert: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/53yh09/the-colbert-report-thought-for-food---tacocopter (http://www.cc.com/video-clips/53yh09/the-colbert-report-thought-for-food---tacocopter) Wired on TacoCopter: https://www.wired.com/2012/03/qa-with-tacocopter/ (https://www.wired.com/2012/03/qa-with-tacocopter/) FAA Section 333 (now Section 44807): https://www.faa.gov/uas/advanced_operations/certification/section_44807/ (https://www.faa.gov/uas/advanced_operations/certification/section_44807/) FAA Part 107: https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/part_107_summary.pdf (https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/part_107_summary.pdf) Canidu: http://www.canidu.com/ (http://www.canidu.com/) Boeing 737 MAX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX) Road train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train) Checklists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checklist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checklist) United Airlines Channel 9: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/726789-consolidated-interesting-things-heard-channel-9-thread-merged.html (https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/726789-consolidated-interesting-things-heard-channel-9-thread-merged.html) United Airlines ad from 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch/mU2rpcAABbA (https://www.youtube.com/watch/mU2rpcAABbA) TRACON-II PC game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracon_II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracon_II) National Transportation Safety Board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board) ValuJet 592: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592) Amelia Earhart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart) Skunk Works by Ben Johnson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101438.Skunk_Works (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101438.Skunk_Works) Lockheed Skunk Works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works) Clarence "Kelly" Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_(Unix_shell) Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On by Stuart Banner: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402086-who-owns-the-sky (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402086-who-owns-the-sky) Turbulent Skies by T. A. Heppenheimer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1492469.Turbulent_Skies (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1492469.Turbulent_Skies) Hard Landing by Thomas Petzinget: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438607.Hard_Landing SKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am by Robert Gandt: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13010881-skygod (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13010881-skygods) Deregulation Knockouts: Round One by Tom Norwood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4718255-deregulation-knockouts (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4718255-deregulation-knockouts) Convertiplane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertiplane (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertiplane) The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey by Richard Whittle: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8008152-the-dream-machine (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8008152-the-dream-machine)
11 Jan 2021
John Graham-Cumming
You can find John on Twitter at [twitter.com/jgrahamc](https://twitter.com/jgrahamc). - Babbage overview and the Difference Engine: https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/overview/ - Difference Engine No. 2 at the London Science Museum: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co526657/difference-engine-no-2-designed-by-charles-babbage-built-by-science-museum-difference-engine - BBC Micro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro - Sinclair ZX81: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 - BBC Micro Advanced User Guide: http://stardot.org.uk/mirrors/www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/essentials/BBC%20Microcomputer%20Advanced%20User%20Guide.pdf - Sharp MZ-80K: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_MZ - John's TED Talk, The greatest machine that never was: https://www.ted.com/talks/john_graham_cumming_the_greatest_machine_that_never_was - Hilbert's Problems: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HilbertsProblems.html - Gödel's incompleteness theorems: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/ - The Lovelace–De Morgan mathematical correspondence - A critical re-appraisal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086017300319 - The mathematical correspondence of Ada Lovelace and Augustus De Morgan: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2867731.2867738 - Douglas Engelbart: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-Engelbart - "Mother of all demos": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY - John's OSCON talk "Turing's Curse": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZxkFAIziA - Design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.pdf - Engines of Creation - The Coming Era of Nanotechnology: https://www.amazon.com/Engines-Creation-Nanotechnology-Scientific-Revolution/dp/1872180469/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
3 Feb 2020
Jess, Steve, and Bryan reflect on Season 1
Some of the highlights of the show include: Amir Michael's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-2-amir-michael/ (https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-2-amir-michael/) Jeff Rothschild's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-1-jeff-rothschild/ (https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-1-jeff-rothschild/) Ron Minnich's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-3-ron-minnich/ (https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-3-ron-minnich/) Dr. Nim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Nim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Nim) Turing Tumble: https://www.turingtumble.com (https://www.turingtumble.com) Rick Altherr's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-7-rick-altherr/ (https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-7-rick-altherr/) Kenneth Finnegans's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-6-kenneth-finnegan/ (https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-6-kenneth-finnegan/) Tom Lyon's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-4-tom-lyon/ (https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-4-tom-lyon/) Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution by Lamont Wood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16214216-datapoint (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16214216-datapoint) Jonathan Blow's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-9-jonathan-blow/ (https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-9-jonathan-blow/) Jon Masters's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-8-jon-masters/ (https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-8-jon-masters/) Jon Masters fiancée learns of his secret cache of old hardware: https://twitter.com/SRobTweets/status/1219314500232310784 (https://twitter.com/SRobTweets/status/1219314500232310784) Trammell Hudson's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-5-trammell-hudson/ (https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-5-trammell-hudson/) Teletype 33: https://trmm.net/Model_ASR33_Teletype (https://trmm.net/Model_ASR33_Teletype) Datapoint 3300: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_3300 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_3300) The Witness hidden videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkluW5M4MQENLM6WHwhcC30y5ZqRW6FVN (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkluW5M4MQENLM6WHwhcC30y5ZqRW6FVN) The Witness candle video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOS4GqMbSA&list=PLkluW5M4MQENLM6WHwhcC30y5ZqRW6FVN&index=5&t=0s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOS4GqMbSA&list=PLkluW5M4MQENLM6WHwhcC30y5ZqRW6FVN&index=5&t=0s) Brian Moriarty, "The Secret of Psalm 46": http://ludix.com/moriarty/psalm46.html (http://ludix.com/moriarty/psalm46.html) Trinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)) Robert Mustacchi: https://fingolfin.org/blog/20191202/oxide.html (https://fingolfin.org/blog/20191202/oxide.html) Alex Wilson reflects on his and Robert's work on KPTI: https://blog.cooperi.net/a-long-two-months (https://blog.cooperi.net/a-long-two-months) Windows NT on MIPS: https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS) (https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS))
27 Jan 2020
Jonathan Blow
You can find Jonathan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow. Some of the highlights of the show include: The Witness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_(2016_video_game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_(2016_video_game)) Prince of Persia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_game)) Prince of Persia source code: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II (https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II) Sprite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)) Atari 800: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family) Atari CTIA (chip performing, among many other things, collision detection for the Atari 800): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTIA_and_GTIA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTIA_and_GTIA) Commodore 64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64) VIC-II (CTIA-equivalent chip found in the C64): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_VIC-II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_VIC-II) Skeletal animation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_animation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_animation) GPGPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units) GeForce 2080 Ti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_20_series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_20_series) Cell microprocessor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)) Dennard scaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling) Amdahl's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law) Embarrassingly parallel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel) Client-side prediction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_prediction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_prediction) Particle system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_system) Minecraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft Red Dead Redemption 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Redemption_2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Redemption_2) Rewinding time to address lag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag#Rewind_time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag#Rewind_time) Chronostasis (the illusion of time standing still after eye movement): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis) Counter-strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike) SimCity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity) Trinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)) Brian Moriarty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Moriarty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Moriarty) Infocom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom) Lost Treasures of Infocom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom) Netrek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek) Apollo Computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer) Silicon Graphics (SGI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics) Time Warner's "Full Service Network" (SGI Orlando project): https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/12/business/time-warner-s-time-machine-for-future-video.html (https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/12/business/time-warner-s-time-machine-for-future-video.html) Netscape Communications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape) Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)) Wolfenstein 3D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D) Ultima series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_(series) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_(series)) SGI engineers transferred to Nvidia, ca. 1999: https://www.eetimes.com/sgi-graphics-team-moves-to-nvidia/ (https://www.eetimes.com/sgi-graphics-team-moves-to-nvidia/) Quake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game)) Quake source code: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake (https://github.com/id-Software/Quake) John Carmack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack) Michael Abrash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash) Total Entertainment Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Entertainment_Network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Entertainment_Network) boo.com: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com) Braid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game)) SIMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD) Pentium U-pipe and V-pipe: https://en.wikichip.org/w/index.php?title=File:24281603.pdf&page=8 (https://en.wikichip.org/w/index.php?title=File:24281603.pdf&page=8) Data-oriented design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design) Jonathan's rant on Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk%20) Catherine West's closing keynote at RustConf 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M) JAI language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blow#JAI_language (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blow#JAI_language) "Worse is better" and the "MIT approach": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better) Smart pointer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_pointer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_pointer) D language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)) Entity-component-system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system) Jonathan's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization": https://ww... (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk)
20 Jan 2020
Jon Masters
You can find Jon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jonmasters (https://twitter.com/jonmasters). Some of the highlights of the show include: "Negative Result: Reading Kernel Memory From User Mode" (blog post from July 2017): https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-memory-from-user-mode/ (https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-memory-from-user-mode/) Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)) Meltdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability)) Speculative execution: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261792-what-is-speculative-execution (https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261792-what-is-speculative-execution) ICL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited) Hacker News front page, January 1st, 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-01-01 (https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-01-01) Boogie Nights, the death of Little Bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFX-qfYbHKg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFX-qfYbHKg) BBC Micro 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro) BBC Master: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master) Storage Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_Wars (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_Wars) PA-8000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-8000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-8000) SPARCbook 3000ST: https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/04/01/sparcbook-3000st-the-coolest-90s-laptop-sparc-vintagecomputing-retrocomputing-eckmeister/ (https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/04/01/sparcbook-3000st-the-coolest-90s-laptop-sparc-vintagecomputing-retrocomputing-eckmeister/) Itanium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium) McKinley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Itanium_microprocessors#McKinley_(180_nm) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Itanium_microprocessors#McKinley_(180_nm)) Leon Czolgosz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Czolgosz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Czolgosz) Humartia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia) Transmeta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta) Transmeta Crusoe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe) Richard (Dick) Sites: https://sites.google.com/site/dicksites/ (https://sites.google.com/site/dicksites/) Dick Sites, "It's the Memory, Stupid!": http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/architects_look_to_future.pdf (http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/architects_look_to_future.pdf) John Crawford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crawford_(engineer) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crawford_(engineer)) John Hennessy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy) Kernel page-table isolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_page-table_isolation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_page-table_isolation) Hot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo) Panel at Hot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo#t=1h17m (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo#t=1h17m) The Omega Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Directive (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Directive) L1TF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshadow_(security_vulnerability) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshadow_(security_vulnerability)) iDRACula: https://www.servethehome.com/idracula-vulnerability-impacts-millions-of-legacy-dell-emc-servers/ (https://www.servethehome.com/idracula-vulnerability-impacts-millions-of-legacy-dell-emc-servers/) MDS, including Zombieload and RIDL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarchitectural_Data_Sampling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarchitectural_Data_Sampling) Heartbleed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed) Lazy FPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_FP_state_restore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_FP_state_restore) Pentium FDIV bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug) Pentium F00F bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug) Hyper-threading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading) Acorn Archimedes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes) Acorn RISC machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture) RISC-V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V) ARM Thumb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb) ARMv8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARMv8-A (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARMv8-A) Chris Celio et al., "Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V": https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318) Chris Celio, "ISA Shootout": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii_pEXKKYUg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii_pEXKKYUg) BeagleBoard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard) ARM Ares: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures/neoverse_n1 (https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures/neoverse_n1) SeaMicro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMicro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMicro) Calxeda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calxeda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calxeda) AppliedMicro X-Gene: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apm/x-gene (https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apm/x-gene) UEFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface) Broadcom Vulcan: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/cavium/microarchitectures/vulcan (https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/cavium/microarchitectures/vulcan) Savaged by Systemd: An Erotic Unix Encounter by Michael Warren Lucas: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36190710-savaged-by-systemd (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36190710-savaged-by-systemd) Coreboot kexec'ing Linux: https://twitter.com/hugelgupf/status/1158466881373630464 (https://twitter.com/hugelgupf/status/1158466881373630464) IOMMU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_memory_management_unit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_memory_management_unit) Slackware: https://en.wikipedi... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware)
13 Jan 2020
Rick Altherr
You can find Rick on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kc8apf (https://twitter.com/kc8apf) and read his blog at https://www.kc8apf.net/ (https://www.kc8apf.net/). Some of the highlights of the show include: USBAnywhere: https://eclypsium.com/2019/09/03/usbanywhere-bmc-vulnerability-opens-servers-to-remote-attack/ (https://eclypsium.com/2019/09/03/usbanywhere-bmc-vulnerability-opens-servers-to-remote-attack/) Rick's talk at OSFC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrcdHHsfaKQ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrcdHHsfaKQ) OpenBMC: https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc (https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc) https://lwn.net/Articles/683320/ (https://lwn.net/Articles/683320/) Wireshark: https://www.wireshark.org/ (https://www.wireshark.org/) https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark (https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark) Ghidra: https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/ (https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/) https://ghidra-sre.org/ (https://ghidra-sre.org/) https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra (https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra) ASPEED: https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=440 (https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=440) Nuvoton: https://www.nuvoton.com/products/cloud-computing/ibmc/?__locale=en (https://www.nuvoton.com/products/cloud-computing/ibmc/?__locale=en) CRAY 1: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/cray/CRAY-1/2240004C_CRAY-1_Hardware_Reference_Nov77.pdf (http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/cray/CRAY-1/2240004C_CRAY-1_Hardware_Reference_Nov77.pdf) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1) Deutsches Museum: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/exhibitions/communication/computers/ (https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/exhibitions/communication/computers/) Seymour Cray: https://www.cray.com/company/history/seymour-cray (https://www.cray.com/company/history/seymour-cray) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seymour-R-Cray (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seymour-R-Cray) CDC 6600: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600) https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/104327 (https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/104327) Alpha Station: https://web.archive.org/web/20060701073452/http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20060701073452/http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations.html) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStation) Tru64: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/bit.listserv.esl-l/BovGe3q9yWE/cqlcCYfxmbAJ (https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/bit.listserv.esl-l/BovGe3q9yWE/cqlcCYfxmbAJ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_UNIX (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_UNIX) Windows NT: https://web.archive.org/web/20040610122846/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/winntfs.asp (https://web.archive.org/web/20040610122846/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/winntfs.asp) https://web.archive.org/web/20020503172231/http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=4494 (https://web.archive.org/web/20020503172231/http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=4494) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT) Windows NT on Mips: https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS) (https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS)) Palo Alto Goodwill: https://goodwillsv.org/store/palo-alto-store/ (https://goodwillsv.org/store/palo-alto-store/) SGI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation) Cray 1 on ebay: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/24/cray_1_gate_module_ebay/ (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/24/cray_1_gate_module_ebay/) root calvin: https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln306783/dell-poweredge-what-is-the-default-username-and-password-for-idrac?lang=en (https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln306783/dell-poweredge-what-is-the-default-username-and-password-for-idrac?lang=en) https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wem6s/is_there_any_story_or_history_behind_rootcalvin/ (https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wem6s/is_there_any_story_or_history_behind_rootcalvin/) Redfish: https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish (https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish) https://redfish.dmtf.org/ (https://redfish.dmtf.org/) iKVM: https://www.ikvm.net/ (https://www.ikvm.net/) http://www.ikvm.net/userguide/intro.html (http://www.ikvm.net/userguide/intro.html) IPMI: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/servers/ipmi/ipmi-home.html (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/servers/ipmi/ipmi-home.html) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface) I2C: https://i2c.info/ (https://i2c.info/) Non maskable interrupt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-maskable_interrupt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-maskable_interrupt) Read and write heads: https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/thin-film-heads-introduced-for-large-disks/ (https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/thin-film-heads-introduced-for-large-disks/) https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hard-drive-magnetic-storage-hdd,3005-2.html (https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hard-drive-magnetic-storage-hdd,3005-2.html) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_read-and-write_head (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_read-and-write_head) Fly height: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_height (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_height) http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/callafon/publications/2011/UweIEEETonM.pdf (http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/callafon/publications/2011/UweIEEETonM.pdf) The legend of the walking drives: http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html (http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html) http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=103;t=000500;p=1 (http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=103;t=000500;p=1) Open Source Firmware Conference: https://osfc.io/ (https://osfc.io/) Coreboot: https://www.coreboot.org/ (https://www.coreboot.org/) ChromeOS Firmware: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmware (https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmware) EDK II: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2 (https://github.com/tianocore/edk2) Open Compute Project: https://www.opencompute.org/ (https://www.opencompute.org/) Width of a Horse's butt: http://www.naute.com/stories/rail.phtml (http://www.naute.com/stories/rail.phtml)
6 Jan 2020
Kenneth Finnegan
You can find Kenneth on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KWF (https://twitter.com/KWF) and read his blog at https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/ (https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/). You can follow the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange at https://twitter.com/FremontCabalIX (https://twitter.com/FremontCabalIX). Some of the highlights of the show include: Gallium arsenide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide) Lam Research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research) Applied Materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Materials (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Materials) Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Electron (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Electron) Tier 2 network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_2_network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_2_network) Hurricane Electric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Electric (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Electric) Autonomous system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)) Border Gateway Protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol) ASN 7034: https://peeringdb.com/asn/7034 (https://peeringdb.com/asn/7034) "Creating an Autonomous System for Fun and Profit": https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-for-fun-and.html (https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2017/11/creating-autonomous-system-for-fun-and.html) Internet exchange point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point) Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange: https://fcix.net/ https://twitter.com/FremontCabalIX (https://fcix.net/%20https://twitter.com/FremontCabalIX) Small form-factor pluggable transceiver (SFP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_transceiver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_transceiver) Content delivery network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network) Google Global Cache: https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en (https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en) Google Global Cache node install guide: https://www.gstatic.com/isp/docs/ggc-installation.pdf (https://www.gstatic.com/isp/docs/ggc-installation.pdf) Comcast/Netflix dispute: https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-to-pay-comcast-for-internet-traffic/ (https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-to-pay-comcast-for-internet-traffic/) Internet outage involving Allegheny Technologies: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/ (https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/) DNS root servers: https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers (https://www.iana.org/domains/root/servers) M-ROOT DNS server: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/825 (https://www.peeringdb.com/net/825) BGP Design and Implementation: https://amzn.to/2NE3SXl (https://amzn.to/2NE3SXl) Norton Internet Peering Playbook: https://amzn.to/2QRkHA0 (https://amzn.to/2QRkHA0)
30 Dec 2019
Trammell Hudson
You can find Trammell on Twitter at https://twitter.com/qrs (https://twitter.com/qrs), his blog at https://trmm.net/ (https://trmm.net/), and his GitHub at https://github.com/osresearch (https://github.com/osresearch). Some of the highlights of the show include: Sandia National Labs: https://www.sandia.gov/ (https://www.sandia.gov/) Intel Paragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Paragon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Paragon) OSF/1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSF/1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSF/1) Intel i860: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860) Intel Pentium Pro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro) Red Storm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_(computing) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm_(computing)) RISC architecture is going to change everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL9yCWv7NS0&feature=emb_title (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL9yCWv7NS0&feature=emb_title) Message passing interface (MPI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface) System management mode (SMM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode) Modchips of the State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7H3V7tkxeA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7H3V7tkxeA) Modchips: https://trmm.net/modchips (https://trmm.net/modchips) Bloomberg Supermicro story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-hack-how-china-used-a-tiny-chip-to-infiltrate-america-s-top-companies) SPI flash reader: https://trmm.net/SPI_flash (https://trmm.net/SPI_flash) spispy flash emulator: https://github.com/osresearch/spisp (https://github.com/osresearch/spisp) https://trmm.net/Spispy (https://trmm.net/Spispy) ChromeOS firmware: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/firmware/+/e295ff701af589df9eae9f4549792700c4cbe1f3/README.md (https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/firmware/+/e295ff701af589df9eae9f4549792700c4cbe1f3/README.md) https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmware (https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmware) Trusted Platform Module (TPM): https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/work-groups/trusted-platform-module/ (https://trustedcomputinggroup.org/work-groups/trusted-platform-module/) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module) UEFI "Chain of Trust": https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20Forum%20White%20Paper%20-%20Chain%20of%20Trust%20Introduction_Final.pdf (https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%20Forum%20White%20Paper%20-%20Chain%20of%20Trust%20Introduction_Final.pdf) Evil Maid Attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_maid_attack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_maid_attack) https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike_FAQ#Does_anyone_actually_use_evil-maid_attacks.3F (https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike_FAQ#Does_anyone_actually_use_evil-maid_attacks.3F) TPMGenie: https://github.com/nccgroup/TPMGenie (https://github.com/nccgroup/TPMGenie) Google's Titan Chip: https://2018.osfc.io/uploads/talk/paper/7/gsc_copy.pdf (https://2018.osfc.io/uploads/talk/paper/7/gsc_copy.pdf) https://trmm.net/OSFC_2018_Security_keynote (https://trmm.net/OSFC_2018_Security_keynote) Open Source Firmware Conference (OSFC): https://osfc.io/ (https://osfc.io/) LinuxBIOS: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888 (https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888) https://www.coreboot.org/ (https://www.coreboot.org/) LinuxBoot: https://www.linuxboot.org/ (https://www.linuxboot.org/) Open Compute Project (OCP): https://www.opencompute.org/ (https://www.opencompute.org/) Bunnie's Laptop: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686 (https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686) Open Titan: https://opentitan.org/ (https://opentitan.org/) iCE40 FPGA: http://www.latticesemi.com/iCE40 (http://www.latticesemi.com/iCE40) iCEBreaker FPGA: https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga (https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga) Project Trellis: https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjtrellis (https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjtrellis) nextpnr: https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr (https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr) yosys: https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys (https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys) UPduino v2.0 FPGA: https://www.tindie.com/products/tinyvision_ai/upduino-v21-low-cost-fpga-board/ (https://www.tindie.com/products/tinyvision_ai/upduino-v21-low-cost-fpga-board/) ULX3S FPGA: https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiona/ulx3s (https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiona/ulx3s) PiDP-11: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11 (https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11) PiDP-8: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8 (https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8) Trammell's PDP-11 prject: https://trmm.net/PDP-11 (https://trmm.net/PDP-11) Digitized Monkey Brains (PDP-11 post): https://www.nycresistor.com/2014/05/15/pdp-11/ (https://www.nycresistor.com/2014/05/15/pdp-11/) Model ASR33 Teletype: https://trmm.net/Model_ASR33_Teletype (https://trmm.net/Model_ASR33_Teletype) All of Trammell's Retrocomputing posts: https://trmm.net/Category:Retrocomputing (https://trmm.net/Category:Retrocomputing) Baud rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud) Mac SE Easter Egg: https://trmm.net/Mac-SE_Easter_Egg (https://trmm.net/Mac-SE_Easter_Egg) Zigbee: https://trmm.net/Ikea (https://trmm.net/Ikea) https://zigbeealliance.org/ (https://zigbeealliance.org/) Magic Lantern firmware: https://trmm.net/Magic_Lantern_firmware (https://trmm.net/Magic_Lantern_firmware) Home Assistant (Open Source): https://www.home-assistant.io/ (https://www.home-assistant.io/) https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant (https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant) Node-RED: https://flows.nodered.org/ (https://flows.nodered.org/) MicroPython: https://micropython.org/ (https://micropython.org/) https://github.com/micropython/micropython (https://github.com/micropython/micropython) Mirai Webcam Vulnerability: https://www.wired.com/2016/12/botnet-broke-internet-isnt-going-away/ (https://www.wired.com/2016/12/botnet-broke-internet-isnt-going-away/) Trammell's research on Bootguard: https://trmm.net/Bootguard (https://trmm.net/Bootguard) Rust on the Teensy: https://branan.github.io/teensy/ (https://branan.github.io/teensy/) Oreboot: https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot (https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot) ht... (https://osfc.io/talks/oreboot)
23 Dec 2019
Tom Lyon
You can find Tom on Twitter at https://twitter.com/aka_pugs (https://twitter.com/aka_pugs) and find his blog at https://akapugs.blog/ (https://akapugs.blog/). You can learn more about DriveScale at https://drivescale.com/ (https://drivescale.com/). Tom brought us a present: an IBM 360-era "Ready" button (https://oxide.computer/img/ibm-360-ready.jpg)! Some of the highlights of the show include: Williams tube (CRT-based memory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube) Mercury delay lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory) Datapoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint) Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution by Lamont Wood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16214216-datapoint (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16214216-datapoint) ARCNET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET) AppleTalk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk) Z8530 UART: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_SCC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_SCC) Apple LaserWriter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter) DECnet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnet) X.25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.25 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.25) Tom's notes from the NFS offsite in 1983: https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/985941297327366144 (https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/985941297327366144) Automounter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automounter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automounter) CAP theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem) Sun's Network Disk (nd) protocol: https://github.com/senjan/ndd/blob/master/nd_pkt.h (https://github.com/senjan/ndd/blob/master/nd_pkt.h) (if you find nd(4P) from the SunOS 3.x man pages, let us know!) The Internet Collapse of 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_congestion#Congestive_collapse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_congestion#Congestive_collapse) Larry Roberts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_(scientist) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_(scientist)) Telenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet) Tandem Computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers) Token ring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_ring (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_ring) Ipsilon Networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks) FDDI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Distributed_Data_Interface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Distributed_Data_Interface) Crescendo Communications: https://books.google.com/books?id=PDsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44 (https://books.google.com/books?id=PDsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44) CDC 3400: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_3000_series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_3000_series) Ones' Complement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27_complement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27_complement) IBM 1130: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130) Olivetti Programma 101: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101) TI-83: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-83_series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-83_series) HP 48G: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series) HP-35: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-35 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-35) ed(1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)) IBM System/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370) APL\360: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#APL%5C360 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#APL%5C360) IBM 2741 with APL keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741#/media/File:IBM2741.JPG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741#/media/File:IBM2741.JPG) VM/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)) Unibus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibus) Interdata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdata (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdata) Greg Chesson: https://grainger.illinois.edu/alumni/distinguished/7939 (https://grainger.illinois.edu/alumni/distinguished/7939) Joe Ossanna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ossanna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ossanna) nroff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff) IBM 1403: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1403 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1403) Amdahl UTS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UTS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UTS) IBM 3270 terminal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270) Dick Lyon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Lyon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Lyon) MAXC, PARC's PDP-10 clone: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/parts/maxc-board/index.html (http://www.digibarn.com/collections/parts/maxc-board/index.html) Berkeley Computer Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genie) Bob Lyon: https://www.facebook.com/bob.lyon.98 (https://www.facebook.com/bob.lyon.98) Optical mouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_mouse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_mouse) The Oxide garage Sun art work of mysterious origin (a Sun-3/160, perhaps?): https://oxide.computer/img/garage-sun.jpg (https://oxide.computer/img/garage-sun.jpg) Steve Kirsch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kirsch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kirsch) Dick Lyon's (color!) technical report on the optical mouse: http://www.dicklyon.com/tech/OMouse/OpticalMouse-Lyon.pdf (http://www.dicklyon.com/tech/OMouse/OpticalMouse-Lyon.pdf) Ipsilon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks) ATM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_transfer_mode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_transfer_mode) Andy Bechtolsheim on "Death to ATM" (July 1996): https://web.archive.org/web/20001217105700/https://www.redherring.com/mag/issue33/atm.html (https://web.archive.org/web/20001217105700/https://www.redherring.com/mag/issue33/atm.html) Tom's original announcement of VFIO: https://lwn.net/Articles/391459/ (https://lwn.net/Articles/391459/) Open Source Firmware Conference: htt... 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16 Dec 2019
Ron Minnich
Some of the highlights of the show include: Netboot - Sun Microsystems: https://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/intro.sun.html (https://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/intro.sun.html) https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sparc/Netboot/de (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sparc/Netboot/de) PCI - self defining hardware: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_ssc_quick_guide.pdf (https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_ssc_quick_guide.pdf) Dip switches and jumpers: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/pc-hardware-in/059600513X/ch02s03s05.html (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/pc-hardware-in/059600513X/ch02s03s05.html) VA Linux cluster: https://itsfoss.com/story-of-va-linux/ (https://itsfoss.com/story-of-va-linux/) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeknet (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeknet) Intel L440 motherboard: https://www.ebay.com/c/1079625591 (https://www.ebay.com/c/1079625591) Autoexec.bat: https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/autoexec.htm (https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/autoexec.htm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOEXEC.BAT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOEXEC.BAT) LinuxBIOS: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888 (https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888) https://doc.coreboot.org/ (https://doc.coreboot.org/) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot) DRAM training code (DDR): https://blog.asset-intertech.com/test_data_out/2014/11/memory-training-testing-and-margining.html (https://blog.asset-intertech.com/test_data_out/2014/11/memory-training-testing-and-margining.html) https://github.com/librecore-org/librecore/wiki/Understanding-DDR-Memory-Training (https://github.com/librecore-org/librecore/wiki/Understanding-DDR-Memory-Training) Eric Biederman: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888 (https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_namespaces (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_namespaces) Open Source Firmware Conference: https://osfc.io (https://osfc.io) Buildroot: https://buildroot.org/ (https://buildroot.org/) Source code for cat: https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html (https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html) https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c (https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c) whereis command: https://linux.die.net/man/1/whereis (https://linux.die.net/man/1/whereis) Gentoo: https://www.gentoo.org/ (https://www.gentoo.org/) ChromeOS project & source code: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os (https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os) https://opensource.google/projects/chromium-os (https://opensource.google/projects/chromium-os) https://chromium.googlesource.com/ (https://chromium.googlesource.com/) Gentoo USE flags: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USE_flag (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USE_flag) Gentoo compiling GCC meme: https://twitter.com/mrtazz/status/674319383951446016 (https://twitter.com/mrtazz/status/674319383951446016) Rust LLVM: https://rust-lang.github.io/rustc-guide/codegen/updating-llvm.html (https://rust-lang.github.io/rustc-guide/codegen/updating-llvm.html) https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/rustllvm (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/rustllvm) Ken Thompson’s C compiler in plan9: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/new_c_compilers/ (http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/new_c_compilers/) Reflections on Trusting Trust paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf) 1145 computer Relay computers: http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/history.html (http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/history.html) HP 2100: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2100 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2100) https://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?class=3&cat=31 (https://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?class=3&cat=31) SR33 paper tape punch in reader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33) Dr. Nim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Nim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Nim) Think-a-Dot: https://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/thinkadot.htm (https://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/thinkadot.htm) E.S.R Inc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.S.R.,_Inc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.S.R.,_Inc.) Digi-Comp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_II) Turning Tumble (modern day Dr. Nim): https://www.turingtumble.com/ (https://www.turingtumble.com/) ILLIAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILLIAC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILLIAC) Geniac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac) Edmund Berkeley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Berkeley (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Berkeley) Artist in France made a digital clock where the flip flops are LEDs Quantum Supremacy: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html (https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html) Stored-program computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-program_computer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-program_computer) ACPI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface) Plan9: https://9p.io/plan9/ (https://9p.io/plan9/) http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/ (http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs) Microservices revolution: https://www.infoq.com/articles/microservices-revolution/ (https://www.infoq.com/articles/microservices-revolution/) Unix synthetic filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_file_system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_file_system) http://9p.cat-v.org/ (http://9p.cat-v.org/) http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/4/proc (http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/4/proc) /dev/tcp Rob Pike talk on how to go wrong with naming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE) Los Alamos Q cluster: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2338572/los-alamos-builds-largest-infiniband-cluster.html (https://www.networkworld.com/article/2338572/los-alamos-builds-largest-infiniband-cluster.html) VPROC: https://books.google.com/books?id=sr71_M6r3cAC&pg=PA567&lpg=PA567&dq=Vproc&source=bl&ots=Od936MFpvu&sig=ACfU3U3XSlMkeII4fMtpN3QOCRaOkSZJzw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjI3d_ZpLnmAhWVoJ4KHQTRD0cQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Vproc&f=false (https://books.google.com/books?id=sr71_M6r3cAC&pg=PA567&lpg=PA567&dq=Vproc&source=bl&ots=Od936MFpvu&sig=ACfU3U3XSlMkeII4fMtpN3QOCRaOkSZJzw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjI3d_ZpLnmAhWVoJ4KHQTRD0cQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Vproc&f=false) InfiniBand: https://en... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniBand)
6 Dec 2019
Amir Michael
You can find Amir on Facebook at https://facebook.com/amir (https://facebook.com/amir) and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/digiamir (https://twtter.com/digiamir). Some of the highlights of the show include: Silcon wafers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer_(electronics) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer_(electronics)) The "Turbo button": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button) BBSs: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/the-lost-civilization-of-dial-up-bulletin-board-systems/506465/ (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/the-lost-civilization-of-dial-up-bulletin-board-systems/506465/) Turbo Pascal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal) Anders Hejlsberg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg) UCSB's Basic Undergraduate RISC Processor (BURP): https://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~strukov/ece152BSpring2012/Labs/Lab2.pdf (https://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~strukov/ece152BSpring2012/Labs/Lab2.pdf) Thermal grease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grease (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_grease) "The Datacenter as Computer: Designing Warehouse-Scale Machines" https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00874ED3V01Y201809CAC046 (https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/pdf/10.2200/S00874ED3V01Y201809CAC046) Sun Modular Data Center, née Project Blackbox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Modular_Datacenter) Google Modular Data Center: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Modular_Data_Center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Modular_Data_Center) SPD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_presence_detect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_presence_detect) DRAM training: https://www.systemverilog.io/ddr4-initialization-and-calibration (https://www.systemverilog.io/ddr4-initialization-and-calibration) Origins of 19" rack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19-inch_rack#Overview_and_history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19-inch_rack#Overview_and_history) Open Compute Project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Compute_Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Compute_Project) Facebook Wedge switch: https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/facebook-open-switching-system-fboss-and-wedge-in-the-open/ (https://engineering.fb.com/data-center-engineering/facebook-open-switching-system-fboss-and-wedge-in-the-open/) Backblaze drive reports: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/ (https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2019/) Busbar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busbar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busbar)
2 Dec 2019
Jeff Rothschild
Some of the highlights of the show include: Dis-assembling MS-DOS on an IBM PC: https://github.com/microsoft/ms-dos (https://github.com/microsoft/ms-dos) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS) PC Interface: allowing a MS-DOS program to use a unix host as its remote filesystem AT&T 3B2 Machine: http://www.unixwiz.net/3b2.html (http://www.unixwiz.net/3b2.html) http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/westernElectric/3b20s/234-301-910WE_3B20S_System_Index_and_Description_Jul81.pdf (http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/westernElectric/3b20s/234-301-910WE_3B20S_System_Index_and_Description_Jul81.pdf) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B_series_computers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B_series_computers) 32-bit Sigma 7 Machine: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sds/sigma/sigma7/900950J_Sigma7_RefMan_Oct73.pdf (http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sds/sigma/sigma7/900950J_Sigma7_RefMan_Oct73.pdf) https://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/profess/SDSigma7.htm (https://www.andrews.edu/~calkins/profess/SDSigma7.htm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_Sigma_series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_Sigma_series) Teletype 110: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Corporation) PDP-10: http://www.bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/DEC-10-HMAA-D%20PDP-10%20KA10%20Central%20Processor%20Maintenance%20Manual%20Volume%2 (http://www.bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/DEC-10-HMAA-D%20PDP-10%20KA10%20Central%20Processor%20Maintenance%20Manual%20Volume%20I.pdf)
15 Nov 2019
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Welcome to our new podcast, On the Metal! As a part of starting Oxide Computer Company, we decided to also create the podcast we always wanted. It’s unapologetically technical and as Jess says, “the nerdiest podcast on the face of the planet.” Join us as we interview various guests from the hardware / software interface. Their stories have captivated us all and kept us wanting more, we can’t wait to share them with you! Stay tuned!
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