asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: iirc he's still alive even nao
asciilifeform finally got recursive bracket regexing to work in the motherfucking geshi pile o'shit
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in archaeology, apparently possible to enable eccism-with-amd-fx on certain board which route the pins but have retarded bios.
asciilifeform: lobbes: at local uni here, 'book' shop was always full of 'student ver.' shitware, incl. adobeism lineup
asciilifeform: iirc adobe also 'market leader' in the 'retouch undesirable people out of photos / put obama in' , aka 'news' , tooling.
asciilifeform: entirely even possible that they add up to moar dough than the advercrap etc
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there's prolly a population of 'aspirational' wankers who 'i want same proggy as used to make 'time magazine' 'you, person of the year' pic' etc
asciilifeform: only with adobeolade, apparently, can the mcd 'freedom fried' be painted the just-so shade of yellow.
asciilifeform: as it is, asciilifeform's snailmailbox has to be emptied daily of superbly colour-calibrated spamola liquishit.
asciilifeform: near as i can tell, adobe et al sustained by advert 'industry'. if errybody involved contracted mysterious virus and keeled over tonight, wouldn't be soon enuff imho.
asciilifeform: like number of other dead things, it's zombiein' along, nobody put stake in its heart just yet
asciilifeform: classic microshit-style format lock-in.
asciilifeform: also supposedly monopoly on proggy that eats 'raw' inputs from various heavy (40+mpixel) industrial camera
asciilifeform: at one time i tried to find out who. apparently in world of printing (i.e. where 'colour calibrations' etc) it is monopoly, the presses for last decade or so demand adobism☟︎
asciilifeform: ^ lulzily, for coupla yrs nao, they dun even ~sell~ the proggies, but moved to 'subscription' chumpatron☝︎
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: asciilifeform's serv log fwiw loox ~exactly like this.
asciilifeform: 'magnetic ram' also claimed to have serious radiation resistance ( unlike conventional sram ) , but i have not verified . physically sound claim tho.
asciilifeform: principal competition is of course 'ordinary sram + battery'. but batteries gotta be kept fresh, and misbehave at temperature extremes, occupy space, catch fire, etc
asciilifeform: ( last i looked, coupla month ago, their flagship product was a 35nsec nonvolatile ram, 256mbit , guaranteed for ~infinite write cycles )
asciilifeform: ^ in related noose, reportedly 'everspin', the 'magnetic ram' people , is tanking. which on one hand is sad, 'eeprom that dun wear out' is imho neat and moar or less required for sane computer . but on other hand, perhaps usg.patentholder co. gotta die for the thing to become economically viable
asciilifeform: there's the famous 'KFN4-D16' asus, afaik the very last to support the very last amd-sans-fritzchip. but that was 'opteron' , rather than 'fx' (and quite rare.)
asciilifeform: neato -- i.e. there's a 'switch on ecc' in bios ?
asciilifeform: supports, imho, mp_en_viaje's thesis where 'tallest wall is in head'
asciilifeform: ditto berlin, for several yrs 'wall' was made of chalk and rope, and not really obstacle
asciilifeform: nly 1 company~. others -- not walked.
asciilifeform: briefly upstack to http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-14#1913412 : i find it interesting that the 'vhs' cultural programming is apparently needed, to lubricate the chumpatron. in e.g. 1950s, it was considerably easier to walk out of sovok than '60-70s ( e.g. unguarded border with iran, buncha places ) and for instance in '56 a company of tank men traded their tanks to the hungarians for a map to 'which way is austria', and walked. but ~o☝︎
asciilifeform: 'key' is worth 0 w/out its 'lock' etc
asciilifeform: and incidentally asciilifeform is not even 'worst case', at least '1 legged'. typical child emigres i meet, are entirely 'legless', many even 'esltarded'
asciilifeform: mp_en_viaje: i dislike ddr3 (3, 4, +) for safety-critical applications -- 'rowhammer' . but i have nfi for what mp_en_viaje uses these, then again.
asciilifeform: ownership changed at least 4 times, and each time was given to a minor-league 'oligarch' who could be relied on to 1) not manufacture 2) not release to public 3) not sell to anyone suspected of manufacturing anything☝︎
asciilifeform: iirc 'sunstone' was actually cancelled several years ~before~ smbx died.
asciilifeform: 'ivory' + os, on other hand, was extremely polished product (unequaled dev environ, multi-year uptime, etc) , so my interest is specifically there.
asciilifeform: there is not even enough public info to say exactly what it was.
asciilifeform: will watch it, just in case, when i have some time. but i dun expect much , from these.
asciilifeform: at this point (where i have pinout, approx description of the internal movements, timings, leaked instruction set spec , a working machine to probe ) i dun expect to find much in the way of useful clue in old talk by designer
asciilifeform: 'cadr' is quite well documented, but not particularly informative re 'ivory', which built after more than decade of refinement/simplification
asciilifeform: amberglint: not seen. from fast look , seems to be more about orig lispm ('cadr') tho.
asciilifeform: it isn't anywhere enuff info , however, to make a cycle-accurate clone ( i.e. reliable emulation ) . for this, will need the actual internals .
asciilifeform: amberglint: was given not only pinout, but timing, addressing, etc. spec, theoretically could bring up the chip and boot something.
asciilifeform: (originally question was how to get pinout spec)
