Ron Minnich

On The Metal

• Episode: Ron Minnich
• Website: On The Metal
• Feed URL: https://feeds.transistor.fm/on-the-metal-0294649e-ec23-4eab-975a-9eb13fd94e06
• Duration: 01:32:34
• Published: 2019-12-16 12:00

Some of the highlights of the show include: 

• Netboot - Sun Microsystems: https://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/intro.sun.html https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sparc/Netboot/de
• PCI - self defining hardware: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/pdfs/pci_ssc_quick_guide.pdf
• Dip switches and jumpers: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/pc-hardware-in/059600513X/ch02s03s05.html
• VA Linux cluster: https://itsfoss.com/story-of-va-linux/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geeknet
• Intel L440 motherboard: https://www.ebay.com/c/1079625591
• Autoexec.bat: https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/a/autoexec.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUTOEXEC.BAT 
• LinuxBIOS: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888 https://doc.coreboot.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreboot
• DRAM training code (DDR): https://blog.asset-intertech.com/test_data_out/2014/11/memory-training-testing-and-margining.html https://github.com/librecore-org/librecore/wiki/Understanding-DDR-Memory-Training
• Eric Biederman: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4888 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_namespaces
• Open Source Firmware Conference: https://osfc.io 
• Buildroot: https://buildroot.org/
• Source code for cat: https://twobithistory.org/2018/11/12/cat.html https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/cat.c
• whereis command: https://linux.die.net/man/1/whereis
• Gentoo: https://www.gentoo.org/
• ChromeOS project & source code: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os https://opensource.google/projects/chromium-os https://chromium.googlesource.com/
• Gentoo USE flags: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/USE_flag
• Gentoo compiling GCC meme: https://twitter.com/mrtazz/status/674319383951446016
• Rust LLVM: https://rust-lang.github.io/rustc-guide/codegen/updating-llvm.html https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/tree/master/src/rustllvm
• Ken Thompson’s C compiler in plan9: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/new_c_compilers/
• Reflections on Trusting Trust paper: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf
• 1145 computer
• Relay computers: http://relaysbc.sourceforge.net/history.html
• HP 2100: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_2100 https://www.hpmuseum.net/exhibit.php?class=3&cat=31
• SR33 paper tape punch in reader: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33
• Dr. Nim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Nim
• Think-a-Dot: https://www.jaapsch.net/puzzles/thinkadot.htm
• E.S.R Inc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.S.R.,_Inc.
• Digi-Comp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_II
• Turning Tumble (modern day Dr. Nim): https://www.turingtumble.com/
• ILLIAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILLIAC 
• Geniac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geniac
• Edmund Berkeley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Berkeley
• Artist in France made a digital clock where the flip flops are LEDs
• Quantum Supremacy: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-programmable.html
• Stored-program computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored-program_computer
• ACPI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Configuration_and_Power_Interface
• Plan9: https://9p.io/plan9/ http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
• Microservices revolution: https://www.infoq.com/articles/microservices-revolution/
• Unix synthetic filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_file_system http://9p.cat-v.org/ http://man.cat-v.org/unix_8th/4/proc
• /dev/tcp
• Rob Pike talk on how to go wrong with naming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE
• Los Alamos Q cluster: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2338572/los-alamos-builds-largest-infiniband-cluster.html
• VPROC: https://books.google.com/books?id=sr71_M6r3cAC&pg=PA567&lpg=PA567&dq=Vproc&source=bl&ots=Od936MFpvu&sig=ACfU3U3XSlMkeII4fMtpN3QOCRaOkSZJzw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjI3d_ZpLnmAhWVoJ4KHQTRD0cQ6AEwCXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Vproc&f=false
• InfiniBand: https://en...