Tom Lyon

On The Metal

• Episode: Tom Lyon
• Website: On The Metal
• Feed URL: https://feeds.transistor.fm/on-the-metal-0294649e-ec23-4eab-975a-9eb13fd94e06
• Duration: 01:47:56
• Published: 2019-12-23 12:00

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...