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Developer's Edge book free pdf on Oracle Blogs

by vintagecoder＠aol.com

A book containing blog entries and articles from Darryl Gove, one of Sun's compiler guys, has been made available as a free download on Oracle. http://blogs.oracle.com/d/tags/sparc Look for "The Developer's Edge" on the right margin and click to download the book as a PDF. Lots of good stuff in there including much SPARC info I haven't seen elsewhere. Get it while quantities last! -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Vintage Coder America Online ivagntrpbqre at nby.pbz <ROT13> | | | | Collecting: DOS assemblers, compilers, & books (Z80, M68K, 6502, 808X) | | Software & doc for IBM S/360 through OS/390 | | | | Wants: Ada 95 compilers for MVS/ESA & Solaris SPARC | | PL/I X Optimizing Compiler for MVS, APL/SV for MVS | | Stony Brook Modula-2 for Solaris SPARC | |---------------------------------------+--------------------------------| | Powered by Slackware 64 Intel and Solaris 10 SPARC | |=======================================+================================| | PGP Key 4096R 0x1CB84BEFC73ACB32 Encrypted email preferred | | PGP Fingerprint 5C1C 3AEB A7B2 E6F7 34A0 2870 1CB8 4BEF C73A CB32 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+

12 years, 8 months

can someone identify these boards?

by trestivo＠cfl.rr.com

I know the M8417 AA is 16k, and the BB is 32k, but I have a BE and a BF. Anyone have a list with these numbers on it? Thom Thomas Restivo Technical Assurance Resources, Inc. PH/Fax: (321)768-0006 Cell: (321)537-2384

12 years, 8 months

FPGA history (was Re: VHDL PDP11)

by swtpc6800＠comcast.net

Signetics started using the term Field Programmable Gate Array in 1977 or 1978 to describe their 82S102 (open collector) and 82S103 (tri-state) bipolar devices. They had 16 inputs and 9 outputs with a programmable AND array. The name was mostly a marketing ploy because they were small devices similar to MMI's PALs. Gate Arrays were the popular large scale mask programmable logic device at the time. Signetics introduced the 82S100/82S101, the Field Programmable Logic Array, in 1975. The term FPGA became popular with larger devices such as the Xilinx LCA (1985) and the Actel ACT devices (1988). Both of these had many small logic elements as opposed to the wide AND gates of the early Altera devices. You also designed these devices by creating a schematic using a standard macro cell library, just like a real Gate Array. Actel even mimicked the LSI Logic Gate Array library. In a few years, hardware description languages started making inroads into FPGA designs. I worked at Data I/O from 1981 to 1997 developing commercial software for designing with programmable logic. The PLD language, ABEL, was one of projects I worked on. Michael Holley

12 years, 8 months

A Lisp Machine on an FPGA

by brad＠heeltoe.com

>From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> >... >This is a new one on me. I don't know enough to judge, but it seems to >be more of a /de novo/ implementation than anything directly >compatible with a classic Symbolics or LSI Lisp Machine. > >http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/index.html Yes, it's a fun project but not related to any prior lispm hardware. On a similar note, I'm still plugging away on my MIT CADR fpga. It boots fine in simulation, but crashes on real FPGA hardware. It does show the debugger on a VGA screen with keyboard input, which is mildly interesting. You can even get emacs to run briefly. I don't know of any Symbolics compatible lispm-fpga work. I keep looking for a CAD files for the Ivory but no luck yet. -brad

12 years, 8 months

Needed: Diskette for "Dissecting DOS: A Code-Level Look at the DOS Operating System"

by rich.cini＠verizon.net

Mike -- I believe I have this at home somewhere. Contact me off-list and I'll send it to you. ------Original Message------ From: Michael B. Brutman Sender: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org To: CCTalk ReplyTo: CCTalk Subject: Needed: Diskette for "Dissecting DOS: A Code-Level Look at the DOS Operating System" Sent: Nov 14, 2011 8:53 AM I purchased this new from Amazon with the expectation that there would be a diskette in it. Perhaps not readable, but still present. To my amazement there is no diskette at all and no provision for even holding one in the book despite the prominent "DISK Included" on the front cover. Rather than return it and try for a used one, does anybody have the diskette? I'd like a raw image of it, but even just a Zip of the files would be fine. On a slightly related note, I have enough older books like this where I'm thinking it's time to start an online archive. The books are still good without the disks, but the disks often have code that the book didn't bother to print. Thanks, Mike Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

12 years, 8 months

Needed: Diskette for "Dissecting DOS: A Code-Level Look at the DOS Operating System"

by mbbrutman-cctalk＠brutman.com

I purchased this new from Amazon with the expectation that there would be a diskette in it. Perhaps not readable, but still present. To my amazement there is no diskette at all and no provision for even holding one in the book despite the prominent "DISK Included" on the front cover. Rather than return it and try for a used one, does anybody have the diskette? I'd like a raw image of it, but even just a Zip of the files would be fine. On a slightly related note, I have enough older books like this where I'm thinking it's time to start an online archive. The books are still good without the disks, but the disks often have code that the book didn't bother to print. Thanks, Mike

12 years, 8 months

A Lisp Machine on an FPGA

by lproven＠gmail.com

This is a new one on me. I don't know enough to judge, but it seems to be more of a /de novo/ implementation than anything directly compatible with a classic Symbolics or LSI Lisp Machine. http://www.aviduratas.de/lisp/lispmfpga/index.html -- Liam Proven ? Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lproven at gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884 ? Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven ? MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? ICQ: 73187508

12 years, 8 months

PDP11 time table

by gerhard.kreuzer＠liftoff.at

Hi folks, get some question here, so is somebody out there who can give a good answer (because he was part of the team at this time??) Citate starts here: Hi, found this website via your comment on Sytse's site. One remark on the PDP-11 history table: wasn't the 11/40 an earlier model than the 11/45? Regards, Hans Submitted By: Hans Vlems Thanks for helping With best regards Gerhard

12 years, 8 months

Storage of LCD Monitors?

by healyzh＠aracnet.com

Are there any temperature concerns when storing LCD Monitors? I'm concerned as this winter looks like it will probably be very cold, and it could get below freezing in our garage. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |

12 years, 8 months

Futurama

by technobug＠comcast.net

It's Saturday afternoon and it is raining here in Arizona. So I'm sitting around inside sorting parts with the boob tube on. Futurama comes on (Season 2, Episode 4). The professor pulls out his new "F" ray and scans Bender (the robot) to find why he's sick and lo and behold he's running on a 6502! <http://www.watchcartoononline.com/futurama-episode-113-fry-and-the-slurm-fa…> @ 4 minutes - > CRC

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