The collected works of ivelegacy - Page 20

oh, an article by the magazine "Iris Universe number 39, 1996"
was titled " Architecture of Workstations Silicon Graphics SGI "
while number 38 of Iris Universe is dedicated to the 1996
incoming new OCTANE workstation among other articles.

is it a must-have for every computer geek or high end SGI user?

RISC family, Understanding stacks and registers in the Sparc architecture

arianon wrote: I'm looking for a Phobos G130 10/100 network card

I can import and provide a brand new unit to you for 60 euro + shipping
sorry for the price, I have to pay the VAT, which is up to the 22% + 10% of extra TAX

arianon wrote: Sony APS81 power supply for an Indy

I can provide you a working SONY PSU unit, the electronics is perfectly 100% working
It's here as "replacement part", I miss the fan-cooler

I can ship:
- the electronics
- the power connector cable
- the signal cable
- the metal
(I can post a few pictures, if you need)

you just need to find, buy, and mount the fan-cooler (in case you can replace with a modern one made by ARCTIC)
if it's a problem, I can try to assembly it for you (I just need to buy the fan-cooler)

I am asking 20 euro for the PSU (without the fan-cooler), + shipping, I do not need to import, it's already here, ready to be shipped

If you want to save money, I can remove the metal, as you can recycle your metal case, the parcel will cost the less

up, still for sale

reading about the Transporter technology used in Star Trek

if such a devices allow near instantaneous transport between two fixed points, one can … spy the whole volley girls team (GaGa has subscribed as her new sport activity) and get evaporated in a whistle - emm transported away (in a safe place) - before they (or she) can react

marvelous technology, I still have to understand if I can control it under Irix

I am going to improve the above design (soft core, fpga): suggestions, tips, are the welcome

BP stands for "break point"
WP stands for "watch point"
EA stands for "effective address" (physical address)

all the boards like in the above picture are gone, everything else is still available and offered for a super cheap price
also I found a chip shipping way: within europe the shipping will be 15 euro if you buy it
(technically it's an import, you import from me, so you pay the shipping agency from your VAT instead of mine
resulting a cheaper price for you, as Italy has more expensive TAX)

I will give you instructions in PM

oh, say I can sell everything in the lot for 25 euro, plus shipping

p.s.
unfortunately the shipping tricks doesn't work for
- Canada
- USA
- Japan
- Asia
- Africa

in short it's ok if you live within Europe, otherwise I'd better check if it's applicable

ClassicHasClass wrote: Working on resurrecting Linux for the Dreamcast with an impossibly old kernel.

do not feed the zombies

I really hate today - with no love for tomorrow - linux for things like these because it's a slaughter, with more blood than the killing of humans for food in a zombie-party

Loooooniiiiixxx is not really written in C, the Santa Schoolmarm of safeC taught that " everything that is written in C should be portable without hurting your brain ", but linux is written in GNU-C, which doesn't know if It can open up, everytime is like a birthday present, aggressive regressive, where the past is over so pathetic, fated, faithful, or fatal? One has to genuflect on GNU cross, are we fated, faithful, or fatal? And if you are feeling stoned and alone like a heretic, then you are ready to meet your maker, asking him the why on the why GCC comes incompatible with itself, as gcc v3 can't recompile gcc v4, and gcc v4 can't recompile v3 without blathering a lot of blasphemy on the console.

My " Atlas board " (made by MIPS inc.) was developed before kernel 2.6.16, say 2.6.10, the age of gcc-v3, or v2.95: every attempt to recompile this old kernel with gcc-v4 comes into a so deep depression with billion errors followed by million of WTF?!?!?!? on the console, that I was praying up to twelve kind of aliens (including the most beast ones from the Alien" movie,1986, by James Cameron) to lead me out on the martian floor, since no doubt that life as their toasted lunch would be better than hearing all of those bullshit about geGNUflecting on double-crossed glossed over in your pathos.

Hence, instead of frying my brain with tomato and sausage to feed the zombies, I offered my finger _|_ to looooooniiiiiix, Lazarus has got no dirt on me, I'll rise to every occasion without headache and I am feeling fine.

Xinu (is it "uniX" on the mirror?) is a piece of cake to be used, easy to be ported, well written, with ugly-unsafe-code segregation

happy coding

I was thinking about the following instruction (from PowerPC):


if rsel isEqualTo 0 then rdest gets the value of ra
if rsel isNotEqualTo 0 then rdest gets the value of rb

I got the following advice:

HCF. Halt and Catch Fire. The only instruction you need

from IBM S/360

why I will be using the RISC-V in my next chip

guardian452 wrote: automatically convers " u " to " you "

I was worried that the title was too long, so I contracted

Geoman wrote: already have a dual 64-bit-MIPS-machine.

Octane2? Octeon?

every attempt to decrypt the above GaGa-message is resulting into a bloody dead spot
she says. … - invitation or play your fate - because she wants to be accompanied to a party,
and I only like Acid Rave HardCore parties, but umm it seems I can't say - no! -

Geoman wrote: why isn't there an R18.000 out there already?

because the whole world, 9 billion people (including this topic), is waiting for Arise

I can imagine the wild power of 4096 Arise cores inside a single chip, like in the epiphany family

for things like this


mini epiphany cluster, 4 Parallella boards stacked on MPI

which adds an unbelievable power on your fingertips just under the sticker:

yo man, now you have the power, play if you dare

I suggest a second sticker to be applied just under the previous sticker:

use it carefully

Iomega ZIP SCSI unit, 100Mbyte
it comes with cable 25pin and 5V PSU
I will include 5 cartridges of 100Mbyte each

give me an offer

any user ?
I'd like to hear your feedbacks

a third sticker applied just under the previous sticker:

out for holidays

ODROID-XU4 vs ODROID-C2, ARM machines
but the first one comes with a funny sticker

in HMP I trust

_____Heterogeneous
__________Multi
_______________Processing

it's MIPS topic, but Arm knows what it can do-u-u-u: loooooooooliiiiiiinnnnn , can't get you out of my head , like a pop-dance song by Kylie Minogue , as it's more hot than an explosive experience with a sizzling backdrop in the spirit of the Moulin Rouge of Paris. Oh yeah, when a guy says " loooooooniiiiiix ", it's so exciting (especially on ARM) that …. in my head ... I have to imagine up to twenty Moulin Rouge-dancer-girls naked under the shower, which worth the compare with forty four rubbit-girls and eighty eight pon pons in the wonderland, in order to have an equal excitement

in my head, they are dancing in a circle, in my head " HMP " sounds like a group of four heterogeneous blonde-Cheerleaders, each one with a letter on her t-shirt

girl1 says "give me H "
girl2 says "… give me O "
girl3 says "…… give me P "
girl4 says "……… give me E "

.H.O.P.E. Hole On, Pains End

fu wrote: @ive welcome aboard young dadaist, i had a hunch we’ll reach an understanding

new word learnt: artistic anarchy that challenged the social, political and cultural values of the time.
hey yo? that's me

fu wrote: if for reasons of taxonomy (you mention MIPS vs ARM) you’d prefer the last posts split in a different topic, please ask a moderator to do so. i wasn’t aware that they belong to a different family, sorry about that.

not the point, buddy

MIPS is the weak ring of the RISC family, everybody loves A dvanced R isc M achines , as easily as, everybody hates Ned Flanders , they say - they love you when you are on the covers, and when you are not they love another - thus, since the raspberry-PI , and oragne-PI , and banana-PI , all these fruits are on the covers, more than the top ten " Tutti Frutti " by Elvis Presley

I gotta go, can’t stop,
Down to the candy shop.

ARM candy, ohh yeah

while MIPS …. is going into extinction, like dinos, it survives relegated into routers, like a soft reincarnation (MIPS32? MIPS64?), it survives even if it gets no love from people, because things like routers come sold by chineses for few bucks (say less than a chips bag, TL703? 10 USD, OMG) and hidden somewhere in the living room, like dwarfs in the deep cave

thus the point is: ARM everywhere is boring, and the last Cortex implementation has become less elegant and more complex than the arm60 we had by Acorn on PIE60 boards, and I'd like to see an huge MIPS computer on my desktop with billion cores, iMac shaped, 17" inc LCD, with an interface with Zynq fpga (by Xilinx) and a few Epiphany IV chip, each with no less than 4096 cores

extra excitement bonus if equipped with Haiku/OS instead of looooooooooooooonix/OS , which is almost exciting like an autograph by Giovanna Maria Pataniello

about odroid-xu4 , I have opened here a topic (EEVBlog forum), asking users for their feedbacks

he is using the solution that I was thinking about: two GFX-boards instead of one DCD, which costs the less by an order of magnitude in the logarithmic scale (20 euro instead of 200 euro)

oh, and I envy his two monitors

playing with HDL and fpga, I have developed a super simple VDU (video display unit) able to display 80x40 chars on a 640x480-VGA screen with 1 bit of color, green only

jan-jaap wrote: So far we've only confirmed the 2nd part of the claim

thus, there should be a scientific reason to explain why, after the concert, someone has uploaded a few songs onto my iPod,
and since then, I have been singing the one by Eurythmics like Marilyn Manson did


… Sweet Dreams are Made Of This
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world, and the seven seas,
Everybody's looking for something.

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused ...


GaGa claps her hands, laughing " Hallelujah, what a miracle event, Hard Core is dead, I am your Personal Jesus "
o'man, is she a wicked witch ?
the accompanying her to the concert is evil, I'd better backup my mind, erase and rewind

uunix wrote: after slackware

I am going to do something similar with a laptop I have recently bought. Linux takes the second slice (40Gbyte free), and there I have emerged gentoo/x86-32bit in 3 days (from stage1 to stage4 ), I still have to emerge something, say as miscellanea, the problem with gentoo: you have to spend a bit of your time choosing what (including flags, masks, etc) pleases to your profile, and then you have to emerge things, which takes machine time, sometimes you have solve problems with the portage

let me know if you need some recipe in order to cook your " stage4 "

…. and the meal eaten in the morning, the first of the day
looked like Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole into the Barbie world
where you don't need to use your imagination, GaGa goes Barbie , sitting in front of you
she has really changed the color of her hair, and she is really dressed in plastic
long black leggings over a pink tight-fitting black top, OMG

thus, I said - hi, Barbie ?!? -
she laughed - sure, I am, hi Ken! -

I felt like René Diff from Aqua , even if every attempt in understanding why was completely pointless
(including, who do you think you are, GaGa? Lene Grawford Nystrøm?)

Progress

I have confirmed the following classes & instructions:

Class.Alu.Logic
and
nand
or
nor
xor
xnor
Shift.R
Shift.L

Class.Alu.Arithmetic
Add.signed
Add.unsigned
Sub.signed
Sub.unsigned
Mul.signed
Mul.unsigned
Div.signed
Div.unsigned

Class.Alu.Bitfield
Bit.get
Bit.set
Bit.toggle
Bit.get.first
Bit.set.first
Bit.rotate
Bit.sign-extend
Bit.swap

Class.IO
Load.8
Load.16
Load.32
Store.8
Store.16
Store.32

yes, it's the easiest shift-right I can implement, and it takes 1 cpu cycle to complete
but I have 2 empty classes, so, I can add more instructions (and ALU modules)
suggestions ?

do I have to implement Circular Shift units ?

Spartan s3e-500 board by Digilent, and ISE v10.1 by Xilinx

progress with my VDU, the vhdl code is almost stable, even if you can see a warning yellow star in the check box, it's caused by a module that I am using as debugger, so it's not strictly part of the project, it works as expected supporting 80 columns 40 rows, 1 bit color (red/black), hardware cursors, hardware scroll, a marvelous 8x8 font rom, and a large 8Kbyte dual port ram

I am working on these things just 3-4 hours per weekend

In order to assist "my backup" in protecting data in such storage devices, I'd like a compact flash card featuring a " write-protection "-lock-switch for data storage safety, something with the lock switch on the bottom side of the memory card prevents data from being tampered with when bad things happen, things like logical damages/data corruption due to file system crashes.

In case, I need a card with no less than 64Gbyte of storage capacity: tips? suggested-products?

thanks

I need something like "write once" "read many", I mean I'd like to clone the whole partition0 (windowsXp) inside the complact flash, switch it into write-protection, and keep it within the laptop in case of corruption damages in the windows partition

this way, instead of formatting and reinstalling all the applications (which is boring and wastes too much time)
I can switch into linux, and clone back the whole partition from the CF

thus, the compact flash won't be used for writing, it will be used for reading, at 50-80Mbyte/sec

I was imagining the write-protection feature performed by the embedded disk controller inside the Compact Flash cartridge, I mean the feature can be triggered by an external lock-switch during the bootstrap of disk controller. Firmware matter in short

the question is: do these devices exist ?

I have opened this request

and found these two products

• CF300XSLC
• Cactus

step2, where to buy ?



the SD technology seems to have the write-protection switch

• SanDisk-Extreme-SDSDXPA
  Lexar-Professional-UHS

I do not know if the switch is read by the software (Windows XP driver?), or by the firmware (the built-in SD controller inside the SD card) …



p.s.
the CF pinout is reporting the /wr signal, what do you think about …
- checking if the CF can work in true-ide mode
- opening the laptop
- finding the /wr signal in the CF connector
- cutting it
- wiring it out onto a jumper, to be put inside the laptop as "write enabled/disabled"

does it sound too evil ?

are you going to build an octane2 cluster, buddy ?
(and can you sell me the shoebox cartridge ?)

she say " you be-fut-stop making dus t", because I am more like juggler, things (except ex-girl-friends, don't say ex-girl friends (1)) go round in circles: machines go, machines come

(1) last time we had this conversation, one of my ex-girl-friends said we should be friend, but things never go so easy with ex-girl friends, and GaGa threatened her - " careful, slut, my spells are more harmful than ones by the most wicked witch who attempts to square the circle, mine won't go round in circles, instead it will explode into a bloody line with a fut-stop at the end " - she said that, directly, face to face, laughing louder than the Hemwick witch in the darkness, probably in her head she was making sweet dreams, like the squaring of her enemy behind the microwave door, like a surprising ending in Hänsel and Gretel … thus, still frightened to say "circle", it's a taboo word here

…. and, do you really think I have to open a blood-and-guts topic ?
to comment my humor about things going round in circles ?!?

speaking about the Octane in the title, I am waiting for an answer by his friend
thus, a few humor came about his philosophy - keep everything, sell nothing - which is funny

concerning the pci-shoebox , well … owners? yes, I envy all of you
which also means: does anyone have one for sale ?!?!?!?
let me know here or in PM, otherwise, soon or later, I will open a specific topic in the bazaar area

Unfortunately I do not have books about the POWER architecture, and I do not have yatta materials about Power/PC, not in details

I have to take a decision about the branch-instructions

• the 68K way : do ALU, which modifies the condition code register, then test CCR.bit, in case it matches then branch
• the 88K way : compare and set a register with results (equal? greater? zero? ….), then get-bit, and if it's "1" than branch
• the MIPS way : compare and branch (1 instruction)
• the ARM60 way : similar to m68k, it adds 4 bit as " conditional execution ", an instruction is executed if these 4 bits match the CCR status

Ironically, I can implement all of these branch-methods

ups, I had forgotten to ask … tips about SCSI/Scanner (A4 size) compatible with SGI ?
and in case, which Irix App do you suggest ?

jan-jaap wrote: The 'app' is Impressario, and it comes with IRIX. The release notes or manual will tell you which scanners it supports, but it does support certain older HP SCSI scanners: the HP ScanJet IIc/IIcx/3c/4c/4p/5p. I have one of those. It's been a while, but it did work.

thank you JJ, I got a list-price for a second hand HP ScanJet 3C: 50 euro, including its SCSI-2 cable
It's located in Bologna, 250Km far from where I live, ironically I will go there for a job task, so … I am tempted to pick up

umm, I need an adapter, say SCSI25p to SCSI68p, as, on the back of my Octane, the 68p is the only SCSI port I currently have

excuse me, where " Impressario " is located? I am equipped with an original IRIX 6.5.27 cd-set

edit: as usual, google.search did its work, found an old topic , and an updated topic

In Irix 2.6.14, Impressario seems to be located in Overlay3, good, I have to check my 6.5.27
impr_base_6514m: Impressario 2.9.5 Base
impr_dev_6514m: Impressario 2.9.5 Developer's Kit
impr_print_6514m: Impressario 2.9.5 Print Server
impr_rip_6514m: Impressario 2.9.5 PostScript Renderer (Requires Optional Impressario License)
impr_rip_printers_6514m: Impressario 2.9.5 Host RIP Printers
impr_scan_6514m: Impressario 2.9.5 Scanner Software

say the " Parallella " might be a valid modern alternative

guys, I am developing an " A*/+ " modified algorithm, it might be good for path planning , it's written in " schoolmarm C "
interested ?