- 1 hour 4 minutesOxide 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/
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 (Clip: 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
Oxide and Friends, “Tales from the Bringup Lab”: 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
Oxide and Friends, “Flying Blind with Peter Robison”: 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)
Oxide and Friends, “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
Oxide and Friends, “The Books in the Box”: 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
Oxide and Friends, “Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/podcasts-for-podcast-lovers
Playdate podcast: https://podcast.play.date/
Dijkstra quote on BASIC: 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
Oxide and Friends, “Economics and Open Source”: 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)
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
Oxide and Friends, “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=32774875Oxide and Friends, “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)
Oxide and Friends, “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
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 (Clip: 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
Oxide and Friends, “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)
Oxide and Friends, “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
Oxide and Friends, “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 (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85eApYSj3ic&t=108s)
25 February 2023, 1:30 am - 1 hour 20 minutesKen Shirriff
You can find Ken on Twitter at twitter.com/kenshirriff and his blog 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/
26 January 2021, 2:00 pm - 1 hour 35 minutesStar Simpson
You can find Star on Twitter at https://twitter.com/starsandrobots.
- Super Munchers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchers
- Metrowerks CodeWarrior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior
- RadioShack (RIP): 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
- Radioplane Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_Company
- Piasecki PA-97: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_PA-97
- TacoCopter: https://tacocopter.com/
- TacoCopter on HackerNews: 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
- Wired on 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/
- FAA Part 107: https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/part_107_summary.pdf
- Canidu: http://www.canidu.com/
- Boeing 737 MAX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAX
- Road train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train
- Checklists: 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
- United Airlines ad from 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch/mU2rpcAABbA
- TRACON-II PC game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracon_II
- National Transportation Safety Board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_Board
- ValuJet 592: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592
- Amelia Earhart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
- Skunk Works by Ben Johnson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101438.Skunk_Works
- Lockheed 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/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
- Turbulent Skies by T. A. Heppenheimer: 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
- Deregulation Knockouts: Round One by Tom Norwood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4718255-deregulation-knockouts
- 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
18 January 2021, 2:00 pm - 1 hour 23 minutesJohn 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=
11 January 2021, 2:00 pm - 41 minutes 10 secondsJess, 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/
- Jeff Rothschild's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-1-jeff-rothschild/
- Ron Minnich's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-3-ron-minnich/
- Dr. Nim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Nim
- Turing Tumble: https://www.turingtumble.com
- Rick Altherr's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-7-rick-altherr/
- Kenneth Finnegans's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-6-kenneth-finnegan/
- Tom Lyon's episode: 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
- Jonathan Blow's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-9-jonathan-blow/
- Jon Masters's episode: 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
- Trammell Hudson's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-5-trammell-hudson/
- Teletype 33: https://trmm.net/Model_ASR33_Teletype
- Datapoint 3300: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_3300
- The Witness hidden videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkluW5M4MQENLM6WHwhcC30y5ZqRW6FVN
- The Witness candle video: 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
- Trinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)
- Robert Mustacchi: 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
- Windows NT on MIPS: https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS)
3 February 2020, 11:00 am - 2 hours 51 minutesJonathan 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)
- Prince of Persia: 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
- Sprite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)
- Atari 800: 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
- 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
- Skeletal animation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_animation
- GPGPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units
- GeForce 2080 Ti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_20_series
- Cell microprocessor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)
- Dennard scaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
- Amdahl's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law
- Embarrassingly parallel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel
- Client-side prediction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_prediction
- 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
- Rewinding time to address lag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag#Rewind_time
- Chronostasis (the illusion of time standing still after eye movement): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis
- Counter-strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike
- SimCity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity
- Trinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)
- Brian Moriarty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Moriarty
- Infocom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom
- Lost Treasures of Infocom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom
- Netrek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek
- Apollo Computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer
- Silicon Graphics (SGI): 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
- Netscape Communications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape
- Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)
- Wolfenstein 3D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D
- 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/
- Quake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game)
- Quake source code: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake
- John Carmack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
- Michael Abrash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash
- Total Entertainment Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Entertainment_Network
- boo.com: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com
- Braid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game)
- 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
- Data-oriented design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
- Jonathan's rant on Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk
- Catherine West's closing keynote at RustConf 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M
- 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
- Smart pointer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_pointer
- D language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)
- Entity-component-system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system
- Jonathan's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization": https://ww...
27 January 2020, 11:00 am - 1 hour 38 minutesJon Masters
You can find Jon on Twitter at 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/
- Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)
- Meltdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability)
- Speculative execution: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261792-what-is-speculative-execution
- ICL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_Limited
- Hacker News front page, January 1st, 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-01-01
- Boogie Nights, the death of Little Bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFX-qfYbHKg
- BBC Micro 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro
- BBC Master: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master
- Storage Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_Wars
- 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/
- Itanium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium
- McKinley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Itanium_microprocessors#McKinley_(180_nm)
- Leon Czolgosz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Czolgosz
- Humartia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamartia
- Transmeta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta
- Transmeta Crusoe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_Crusoe
- Richard (Dick) Sites: 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
- John Crawford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crawford_(engineer)
- John Hennessy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Hennessy
- Kernel page-table isolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_page-table_isolation
- Hot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo
- Panel at Hot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo#t=1h17m
- The Omega Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_Directive
- L1TF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshadow_(security_vulnerability)
- iDRACula: 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
- Heartbleed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
- Lazy FPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_FP_state_restore
- Pentium FDIV bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
- Pentium F00F bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bug
- Hyper-threading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading
- Acorn Archimedes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes
- Acorn RISC machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture
- RISC-V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V
- ARM Thumb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#Thumb
- ARMv8: 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
- Chris Celio, "ISA Shootout": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii_pEXKKYUg
- BeagleBoard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoard
- ARM Ares: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures/neoverse_n1
- SeaMicro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMicro
- Calxeda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calxeda
- AppliedMicro X-Gene: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apm/x-gene
- UEFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface
- Broadcom 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
- Coreboot kexec'ing Linux: https://twitter.com/hugelgupf/status/1158466881373630464
- IOMMU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_memory_management_unit
- Slackware: https://en.wikipedi...
20 January 2020, 11:00 am - 57 minutes 53 secondsRick Altherr
You can find Rick on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kc8apf and read his blog at 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/
- Rick's talk at OSFC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrcdHHsfaKQ
- OpenBMC: https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc https://lwn.net/Articles/683320/
- Wireshark: https://www.wireshark.org/ https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark
- Ghidra: https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/ https://ghidra-sre.org/ https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra
- ASPEED: https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=440
- Nuvoton: 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1
- Deutsches Museum: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/exhibitions/communication/computers/
- Seymour Cray: https://www.cray.com/company/history/seymour-cray https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seymour-R-Cray
- CDC 6600: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600 https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/104327
- Alpha Station: https://web.archive.org/web/20060701073452/http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStation
- Tru64: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/bit.listserv.esl-l/BovGe3q9yWE/cqlcCYfxmbAJ 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/20020503172231/http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=4494 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
- Windows NT on Mips: https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS)
- Palo Alto Goodwill: https://goodwillsv.org/store/palo-alto-store/
- SGI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics 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/
- 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.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wem6s/is_there_any_story_or_history_behind_rootcalvin/
- Redfish: https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish https://redfish.dmtf.org/
- iKVM: https://www.ikvm.net/ http://www.ikvm.net/userguide/intro.html
- IPMI: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/servers/ipmi/ipmi-home.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface
- I2C: https://i2c.info/
- 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.tomshardware.com/reviews/hard-drive-magnetic-storage-hdd,3005-2.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_read-and-write_head
- Fly height: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_height 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://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=103;t=000500;p=1
- Open Source Firmware Conference: https://osfc.io/
- Coreboot: https://www.coreboot.org/
- ChromeOS Firmware: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmware
- EDK II: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2
- Open Compute Project: https://www.opencompute.org/
- Width of a Horse's butt: http://www.naute.com/stories/rail.phtml
13 January 2020, 11:00 am - 1 hour 5 minutesKenneth Finnegan
You can find Kenneth on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KWF and read his blog at https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/. You can follow the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange at https://twitter.com/FremontCabalIX.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
- Gallium arsenide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide
- Lam Research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research
- Applied Materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Materials
- Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Electron
- Tier 2 network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_2_network
- Hurricane Electric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Electric
- Autonomous system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet)
- Border Gateway Protocol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol
- 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
- Internet exchange point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point
- Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange: https://fcix.net/ https://twitter.com/FremontCabalIX
- Small form-factor pluggable transceiver (SFP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_form-factor_pluggable_transceiver
- Content delivery network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
- Google Global Cache: https://support.google.com/interconnect/answer/9058809?hl=en
- Google Global Cache node install guide: 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/
- Internet outage involving Allegheny Technologies: 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
- M-ROOT DNS server: https://www.peeringdb.com/net/825
- BGP Design and Implementation: https://amzn.to/2NE3SXl
- Norton Internet Peering Playbook: https://amzn.to/2QRkHA0
6 January 2020, 11:00 am - 1 hour 17 minutesTrammell Hudson
You can find Trammell on Twitter at https://twitter.com/qrs, his blog at https://trmm.net/, and his GitHub at https://github.com/osresearch.
Some of the highlights of the show include:
- Sandia National Labs: https://www.sandia.gov/
- Intel Paragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Paragon
- OSF/1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSF/1
- Intel i860: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860
- Intel Pentium Pro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro
- Red Storm: 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
- Message passing interface (MPI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message_Passing_Interface
- System management mode (SMM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode
- Modchips of the State: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7H3V7tkxeA
- 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
- SPI flash reader: https://trmm.net/SPI_flash
- spispy flash emulator: https://github.com/osresearch/spisp https://trmm.net/Spispy
- ChromeOS firmware: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/firmware/+/e295ff701af589df9eae9f4549792700c4cbe1f3/README.md 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://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
- Evil Maid Attack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_maid_attack https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike_FAQ#Does_anyone_actually_use_evil-maid_attacks.3F
- TPMGenie: https://github.com/nccgroup/TPMGenie
- Google's Titan Chip: https://2018.osfc.io/uploads/talk/paper/7/gsc_copy.pdf https://trmm.net/OSFC_2018_Security_keynote
- Open Source Firmware Conference (OSFC): https://osfc.io/
- LinuxBIOS: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888 https://www.coreboot.org/
- LinuxBoot: https://www.linuxboot.org/
- Open Compute Project (OCP): https://www.opencompute.org/
- Bunnie's Laptop: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686
- Open Titan: https://opentitan.org/
- iCE40 FPGA: http://www.latticesemi.com/iCE40
- iCEBreaker FPGA: https://www.crowdsupply.com/1bitsquared/icebreaker-fpga
- Project Trellis: https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjtrellis
- nextpnr: https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr
- yosys: https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys
- UPduino v2.0 FPGA: https://www.tindie.com/products/tinyvision_ai/upduino-v21-low-cost-fpga-board/
- ULX3S FPGA: https://www.crowdsupply.com/radiona/ulx3s
- PiDP-11: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-11
- PiDP-8: https://obsolescence.wixsite.com/obsolescence/pidp-8
- Trammell's PDP-11 prject: https://trmm.net/PDP-11
- Digitized Monkey Brains (PDP-11 post): https://www.nycresistor.com/2014/05/15/pdp-11/
- Model ASR33 Teletype: https://trmm.net/Model_ASR33_Teletype
- All of Trammell's Retrocomputing posts: https://trmm.net/Category:Retrocomputing
- Baud rate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baud
- Mac SE Easter Egg: https://trmm.net/Mac-SE_Easter_Egg
- Zigbee: https://trmm.net/Ikea https://zigbeealliance.org/
- Magic Lantern firmware: https://trmm.net/Magic_Lantern_firmware
- Home Assistant (Open Source): https://www.home-assistant.io/ https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant
- Node-RED: https://flows.nodered.org/
- MicroPython: https://micropython.org/ https://github.com/micropython/micropython
- Mirai Webcam Vulnerability: https://www.wired.com/2016/12/botnet-broke-internet-isnt-going-away/
- Trammell's research on Bootguard: https://trmm.net/Bootguard
- Rust on the Teensy: https://branan.github.io/teensy/
- Oreboot: https://github.com/oreboot/oreboot ht...
30 December 2019, 11:00 am - 1 hour 47 minutesTom Lyon
You can find Tom on Twitter at https://twitter.com/aka_pugs and find his blog at https://akapugs.blog/. You can learn more about DriveScale at https://drivescale.com/.
Tom brought us a present: an IBM 360-era "Ready" button!
Some of the highlights of the show include:
- Williams tube (CRT-based memory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
- Mercury delay lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
- 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
- ARCNET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET
- AppleTalk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk
- Z8530 UART: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_SCC
- Apple LaserWriter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter
- DECnet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnet
- 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
- Automounter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automounter
- 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 (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
- Larry Roberts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_(scientist)
- Telenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet
- Tandem Computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers
- Token ring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_ring
- Ipsilon Networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks
- FDDI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Distributed_Data_Interface
- Crescendo Communications: https://books.google.com/books?id=PDsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44
- CDC 3400: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_3000_series
- Ones' Complement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27_complement
- IBM 1130: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130
- Olivetti Programma 101: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101
- TI-83: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-83_series
- HP 48G: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series
- HP-35: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-35
- ed(1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)
- IBM System/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370
- APL\360: 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
- VM/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)
- Unibus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibus
- Interdata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdata
- Greg Chesson: https://grainger.illinois.edu/alumni/distinguished/7939
- Joe Ossanna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ossanna
- nroff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff
- IBM 1403: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1403
- Amdahl UTS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UTS
- IBM 3270 terminal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270
- Dick 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
- Berkeley Computer Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genie
- Bob Lyon: https://www.facebook.com/bob.lyon.98
- 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
- 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
- Ipsilon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks
- ATM: 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
- Tom's original announcement of VFIO: https://lwn.net/Articles/391459/
- Open Source Firmware Conference: htt...
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