The collected works of ivelegacy - Page 18

seclorum wrote: f anyone has an upgrade for sale, let me know.

I do not have one, but I can provide one, even if it's not cheap





what I think about the above? I wouldn't do it for no reason at all
instead I suggest to buy (or build) a VGA adaptor

Trippynet wrote: Solution is to physically disconnect the faulty drive and reboot

In Cerberus each hard disk power interface is connected to a switch, and each switch is controlled independently
If an hard disk becomes faulty, it will be physically disconnected, and the master node control will reboot the node where the faulty hard drive gets disconnected

a very interesting Architecture: The Onyx

FORE Systems, ATM 25Mbps card



FORE Systems has two ATM PCI cards, { 200Mbit, 25Mbit }, suitable for Octane



they come with RJ45, so I wonder, if one got two of those, how should he/she wire up a cable (CAT5?) between them

excellent, thank you

miod wrote:

ivelegacy wrote: There used to be some experimental support for it in NetBSD/arm32 in the 1.x days; I'm not sure it survived the split of the arm32 ports afterwards.

Hydra, as hardware, is very difficult (and expensive) to be found, it needs a special patch for RiscOS, and I do now know if v4.39 has support (probably no), so my interest is about its documentation, just because it looks like a multiprocessing system

never checked NetBSD/arm32 v1.* (does it come with support for Hydra?), but I can try to download





I have built a switching DC/DC, 5V/-20V (yes, negative, 20 under zero)
I have also bought a few DC/AC, 5V/HC inverters, to be used with neon (typically used in LCD backlighting)

I think it should be ported to Irix

is it possible to port Inkscape to Irix ?
it's useful for laser-cutter machines
(home made, or professional)

excellent

I'm really surprised, I would have thought Unix(1) would be one of the ideal fields for EDA tools
I mean tools with the purpose of facilitating the design of schematics for electronic circuits and their conversion to PCBs tools
however I can't find the equivalent of Eagle CAD

here, on my boring peeeeeceeeeee, I am experienced with

Altium Design , used by ACME System Engineering, etc, Non-free, >5000 USD – Altium Designer has excellent user feedback (I confirm it as "user"), in my opinion, if one is looking for professional suite to work with and can handle the price tag, then Altium may be the best option
EagleCAD , used by Sparkfun, Adafruit Industries, DangerousPrototypes, etc, Free with limitations, upgrades from 150 - 1700 USD, Eagle is a powerhouse in the hobbyist world and comes the most community support, but has some quirks (woes, great sorrow or distress with CAM integration, and handling more than 2 layers) that led me to choose a different suite.

they are commercial applications, closed source expensive (Altium Design >> EagleCad) Applications
and they but do not run on Irix (perhaps under the win95 emulator, who knows, btw it would be insane )

this list reports open source alternatives
never used before (with the exception of gtkwave), I am going to give a try to the following



in order to understand if we'd better port to & use them on our IRIX boxes

last not least, there is a project called kicad , I can't emerge it easily, I will try downloading the pre built package
in case, I do absolutely not know how difficult would be to port it to IRIX


(1) { IRIX,HPUX,AIX }

ClassicHasClass wrote: I like computers. I just prefer the old ones.

me too, e.g. I'd rather use my PowerBook-G3 (hacked, it has became G4)
and about programming, I simply do not like the modern stuff, too many complexity

robespierre wrote: The predecessor to Altium, Protel, might run in SoftWindows95.

yes, Altium requires a strong modern machine, e.g. i5, i7, and a lot of ram

I have an old version of Protel, but isn't it too insane ?
I mean, running x86 software inside SoftWindows95 instead of natively on Irix ?

robespierre wrote: There are some IRIX-native EDA tools, but Solaris and HPUX were what those companies mainly used, for systems like Mentor Graphics, Cadence, and Synopsis.

do you know these applications name?
a friend of mine owns an HP/PA2 C3750, and it comes with HPUX-v11

robespierre wrote: I know that Alliance and Icarus (free software tools) have been ported to IRIX

I do not know Alliance, I have used Icarus because it supports Verilog, but I'd rather use VHDL, which is not supported
also Icarus needs an ADA compiler






22 years ago, I designed and built the above 8052 board
and concerning by which EDA tool? I used an old-school OrCAD for DOS




NOTEs about Eagle/CAD:
It comes in different versions, the free version of eagle is size limited, and also limited to 1 schematic sheet, there is also a non-profit version that goes for USD 125, and It has limitations on board size (160mm x 100mm) and signal layers (up to 4) but doesn't seem to limit the number of schematic sheets. You aren't supposed to use it for professional uses, because in case, there is the professional version

NOTEs about kicad:
at least, it has the following dependencies

IBM ?

and google AI algorithm masters ancient game of go , Deep-learning software defeats human professional for first time

guardian452 wrote: If you had an RPi and actually used it as a desktop, like with kb and mouse, I would still call it a PC

no no, absolutely no,I would not call it peeceeee
if it's not heavy and big, it gets no trust from me
going to convert my Woody Box into VT100

don't expect to emulate Octane, Fuel, Tezro, etc
the best we can do is within: { Indy/R5K, O2/R5K }

dexter1 wrote: That is not entirely true. GXEmul claims partial O2-R10K emulation

who cares, chap ? do you know how much effort is required in order to support R10K decently ?
and it's not reasonable at all, it's absolutely not the point(1), unless you can allocate a lot of human resources

(1) the real problem is: in first place all the ASIC around the CPU, and in second place we need a way to speed up the whole
which implies optimization tricks, dynamical translation voodoo, etc etc etc


edit:
I also wonder if we'd better
- use a real MIPS4 machine (OCTEON MIPS64 Processors by Cavium?)
- do a bit of voodoo in order to virtualize Irix over a linux kernel
- and try to emulate the IP22/IP32's ASIC by software

I am going to develop the above ram disk

it will be plugged into my 68060 board
it comes with 8Mbyte non volatile static ram, asynchronous bus, PLL burst, 32bit data bus
each chip is 8 bit data path, they work in parallel, and say @ ~12Mbyte/sec

oh, the CPLD implements the FSM bus driver, and a funny mount mechanism (which looks like flash unlock)
the ram-disk bootstraps in read-only mode, if you want to write on it, you have to unlock the protection









ADS-100 Unigraphics Standalone Workstation (circa 1982)


would you call it "PC" ? try if you dare

I can split parts (5 euro each ISA card, 10 euro each PCI card )
but keep in mind shipping is a bit expensive from italy
say no less than 20 euro for 2-3 board (small parcel)

I should add 3com 1000Mbit/s, pci, brand new (boxed), 15 euro each

no doubt the award for the most Pointless is GaGa's

currently she is having her shower,
and 9 billion people can't listen to what she is singing

- Eh Eh, Nothing Else I Can Say, Electric Chapel -

Live Fun Concert under the Shower

FDDI double ring ? 200Mbit/s ?
I think I would be a good idea for a backbone between two servers located in different buildings / rooms

isn't possible to use the second ring for bonding purpose (doubling the bandwidth) ?

kshuff wrote: 10. Wacom Digitizer Tablet UD-1212-R - $45
With interface cable and pen

https://flic.kr/p/DvQrfL
https://flic.kr/p/DvQraW

is it supported by IRIX ?
in case, can I use it with StudioPaint ?

skywriter wrote: One thing I really like to do with a Apple MacBook Air with ad-on 3rd party is the same I was able to do with Sun gear - although I can use three full color monitors instead an individual color

to what are those LCDs attached ?

with my MacBookAir I can't easily have X11
the best I can have is XQuartz (it's 3rd parts)
which partially supports X11

e.g. I can export " Mathematica " from IRIX, even if it misses Xfonts (already fixed)
and I can export " geany" and " nedit " and a few X11 Apps (excluding KDE based) from linux
but I can't export " Illustrator " for IRIX because it does not support Xlook

ohh good, I am really tempted
do you know about the shipping cost to Europe/Italy ?

guardian452 wrote: I know mathematica 10 on OSX is a gazillion times better than 5.2, even if 8-ish was the best. You don't need any X at all

but Irix is gazillion times better than MacOSX

I quoted Mathematica on Irix, exported to MacOSX by XQuartz, just to say how good is the X11 support on MacOSX
and, in my opinion, I say "decent", but far from the definition of "brilliant"

vishnu wrote: no conductive path back

clever fox

lucky you are guys, I am going to order a few modules , planning to attach them to my home-made m68k board. The good news, those lan modules come for cheap and easy to be attached and programmed, the bad news there are is optical choice, just ethernet (Ethernet controller, and Ethernet LAN transformer, including the Ethernet Collision detect unit)

thank you, so kind
yes, I am still looking for these stuff, including locker-pins

kokoboi wrote: 50gbp 10years ago. It turns out it's a good investment

sir, as Possible Refund Opportunity, I offer you a few Banknotes
with a portrait of Charles Darwin and Edward Elgar on the back
for the total amount of Fifty Pounds and Eighty-Seven Pence
plus One Shilling with the portrait of Her Majesty the Queen


( kidding )



p.s.
have you already tried the last DDE ?
the most wonderful development suite ever
worth the money, ironically exactly 50 UKP

there is a potential confusion of what RISC-five really means:

• RISC-V , Roman five, leads us to UC Berkeley project
• RISC-5 , Arabic five, leads us to Project Oberon

I am designing a PLL PCB in Eagle/CAD, forcing 1 layer, instead of using Altium

frightened about AI ? the best movie ever seen

Title: Automata
Category: Feature Film
Year: 2014
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Playtime: 109 minutes
Starring: Antonio Banderas Birgitte Hjort Sørensen Dylan McDermott
Director: Gabe Ibáñez
Plot: An insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation routinely investigates the case of a robot apparently modifying itself, in direct violation of its cognitive rules. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.

vishnu wrote: Orcad

Altium here, it costs in order of thousand euro
unfortunately I do not have a personal license
(my boss is the owner, he paid for that)

and of course I can't install it on Octane

vishnu wrote: LT Spice

LT Spice is the light-free version of Tina, which comes with the full features enabled and more
I have bought a 150 euro version, I am satisfied, but again … I can use it only under Windows XP on my job-laptop
while I'd like to have a schematic and a PCB layout on my blue Irix box

edit: ok, ok

2016-01-27--18-12-17---2016-01-27--18-23-32 - emerge sci-electronics/ngspice - success - root
2016-01-28--12-57-21---2016-01-28--16-35-46 - emerge sci-electronics/kicad - success - root

ok, I am also emerged Kicad on gentoo/IP30 (octane, running linux), but this is another story

uunix wrote: Xcircuit for IRIX, Hamei told me about it

is it this one ?

sci-electronics/xcircuit
Latest version available: 3.7.48
Size of files: 1611 KiB
Homepage: http://opencircuitdesign.com/xcircuit
Description: Circuit drawing and schematic capture program

and this is the TINA Design Suite
made by DesignSoft, it's a Circuit Simulator and PCB layout for Analog, RF, Digital, MCU, HDL & Mixed Circuit Simulation
and it comes with

• a powerful yet affordable schematic editor which is Spice based, so it can be used as "circuit simulator"
• PCB design software for analyzing, designing, and real time testing of analog, digital and mixed electronic circuits and their PCB layouts
• Advanced Circuit Simulation & Design, including HDL (if you but the advanced license)

Found this page which lists a lot of Cyberpunk movies
a few of them deal in detail the Fear of Artificial Intelligence

does someone know where is stored the MAC-address on the Pbook's motherboard ?
I mean which chip, and it's position on the motherboard, as I can't locate it

thank you

p.s.
it's the last PowerBook-G4 made by Apple before they switched into x86

yes, I need to change it, but I need to make it permanently changed.

I have opened a similar topic here , in case someone is interested

thank you