asciilifeform: reconstructed can have whatever one likes, that aint the tricky bit.
asciilifeform: ( i dun recall if the 'xl' actually could be fed 256MB, possibly phf knows )
asciilifeform: re bolix, iirc of the 36bit, 28 were available for addressing, so theoretically can 256MB.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: x86 was ~ok when 64k (i.e. prior to introducing 'segments' )
asciilifeform: so will be same thing, only less mass.
asciilifeform: i dun think it has any extra addr lines
asciilifeform: while on subj, from the extant photo i already can see that ~90% of the board surface is sram/dram, each of which respectively would fit on a '90s-era 5v 1chip
asciilifeform: ( not banking on it tho, i suspect their heads have fully tissue grafted into arse at this pt )
asciilifeform: and whoknows, perhaps the folx who attempted this in the past will finally pull their heads out of arse and come out into the light
asciilifeform: really a 'sapper errs once' sorta job, if i zap so much as 1 GAL i'ma need whole new orchestra again.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'physical copy' + place to put logic analyzer sausage, if not obv. earlier (the orig item is pretty cramped)
asciilifeform miser, prolly oughta have gone to dks and bought 1 of these aeons ago. hell, the comp i'm sitting on nao cost > than the thing
asciilifeform: 1 of those things that was approx on par with 'amiga'
asciilifeform: ( the crapple box the thing sits in, incidentally, is about 100bux on the junk markets, quite handily )
asciilifeform: let weitekism run in soft that bolix helpfully wrote, at fpga speed
asciilifeform: phf may find interesting , that this 'macivory' happens to be the one with no weitek. which normally would be a sad, but in my case is gold, from my pov the weitek is just extra crud to emulate
asciilifeform: ( then can sell the original back to the wanker people )
asciilifeform: 1st logical step , on the magic day when asciilifeform has both pcb layout and GAL contents nailed down, will prolly be to make an exact physical copy of the board.☟︎
asciilifeform: if the orig maker didn't bother to set the 'no read' bit, it'll be 9000x easier (whether so, not known yet, afaik nobody's ever fessed up to so much as trying)
asciilifeform: a coupla of them are of the kind that have flipflops ( so not susceptible to pure combinatorial brute )
asciilifeform: xray i expect is the 'easy' part. the real bitch will be the GALs
asciilifeform: the 1 item of concern is heatsink on the cpu, i'ma pull cpu out prior to the magic moment
asciilifeform: it's a board of same type as FG ( but 100% through-hole )
asciilifeform: so it'll be a straight subtraction ( of the visible bottom tracks ) .
asciilifeform: the board has 1 component side ( and 2 track sides, 0 sandwich, 1980s recall ) , the item of interest is the track side obscured by the components ( all through-holes ) .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 10 or so KeV oughta suffice, by my napkin reckoning
asciilifeform: ( i.e. starting with ch.6 can already rsa )
asciilifeform: juliankunkel: it's 'proof' now. most of what remains is performance opt.
asciilifeform: juliankunkel: as a maths fella, you may also find 'ffa' ( asciilifeform's current item, http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=49 ) interesting, world's only sidechannelism-proof crypto lib, ~80% done
asciilifeform: ( and funnily enuff, that thing was not even the highest-priced ancient desktop comp on lulzbay -- for mysterious reasons, crapple 'lisa' sells for e.g. 70k u.s... )
asciilifeform: in other lulz, asciilifeform finally bought that bolix
asciilifeform: but the 2012 rationale b00k seems to contain'em
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i haven't tried'em myself
asciilifeform: ( did they end up having secondarystackism glued in, or what was it )
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i could've sworn that the standard provided queues
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'normies', to the great wrath (and eventual demise) of that empire, imitated the 'bright'
asciilifeform: ( there's ~infinitely many of these, for aficionado )
asciilifeform: eh even 15yos mocked the crapola. e.g. the Official 'Как повяжешь галстук, Береги его: Он ведь с красным знаменем. Цвета одного' turned into '...он ведь с носом пьяницы цвета одного' and even '...Есть на чем повеситься, В случае - чего'
asciilifeform: the latter is exactly the former, but perma-wedged -- rather like dwarfism
asciilifeform: fwiw i have nfi why d00d is banging on ~this~ door, there's 9000 others where could bang
asciilifeform: carefully avoiding thought is simplest way not to 'thoughtcrime'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my current impression is that ( possibly unlike the 'sjw chix' ) the 'bright young' douchebags dun even bother to consider the political substance of the oddball gymnastics they participate in, but see moar as simple mechanical motion, like plowing field
asciilifeform: !Q later tell ben_vulpes canhaz logbot again in #a plox ? ty
asciilifeform: only problem is that they typically expect the d00d who drew on the board to later show up in their shithole 9-5
asciilifeform: Mocky: fwiw i've rarely been >6mo of battery charge away from hunger ( and on the few occasions when were, blew it on attempt at jailbreaking out ) , and at times was 6wk also.
asciilifeform pictures Mocky as diana_coman's butler
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo ( who iirc took this duty ) plox to comment re mircea_popescu's q ^
asciilifeform: 'handy' in sense of 'here's this list of some-gurlz-some-elizas', for i in L... do '
asciilifeform: fetlife is a handy corral for gurlz. what'd be equiv, in mircea_popescu's eye, for this ?
asciilifeform would switch, in a heartbeat, to fulltiming at hypothetical tmsr consultancy, if it could be made to get off ground
asciilifeform: in abstract yes -- this is why folx form consultancies
asciilifeform: ( and in my experience the worx that actually pay, don't 1024chicken-ize at all )
asciilifeform: ( while sat in salt mine with ~0 juice available for productive tmsr worx )
asciilifeform: took, e.g., asciilifeform , most of 2016 to find 1
asciilifeform: in practice, they're scarce (esp. if impose the condition of no 'office commute' idjicies ). ~possibly~ for world-class specialists this aint so, i suppose i've never reached this level so cannot comment there
asciilifeform: farmer can certainly walk away from his dirt, but then is naked but for shirt on his back.
asciilifeform: buncha dirt is also notaperson, but farmer -- stuck giving a shit re dirt
asciilifeform: ( and keeping the dev envir around, etc ) ?
asciilifeform: i can speak only for self. but for instance asciilifeform , in saeculum, maintains a 100s-kloc winblowz atrocity. and this requires keeping it loaded into head. how would this go under mircea_popescu's scheme ? each d00d in bourbaki stuck also loading it ?
asciilifeform: 'bridge will carry 50 tanks' 'but what about 51st' is sorta what asciilifeform does for living, lol
asciilifeform: rather than anyffing anybody here would touch
asciilifeform: afaik items that actually cuttable into 15min packets are generally 'deskilled minwage' horror
asciilifeform: how do you do 'voice full time' but other hands do the works, with short latency ?
asciilifeform: but even aside from ameri-tardation, generally they also want short-latency. ( what if nobody in bourbaki picks up ? )
asciilifeform: so that means d00d does full-time neh
asciilifeform: rright, but the ameri-afflicted will balk if diff voice each time.
asciilifeform does remote, for yrs nao. but it's still packaged in the form of 'here's this 1 d00d, and we rub lamp and he grants wishes, with voice command'. nao conceivably ~someone~ ~somewhere~ aint ameri-tarded and actually packages ~work~, rather than 'we rent a d00d and command via voice' , but i haven't seen this with own eyes yet.
asciilifeform: i dunno where in saeculum works are packaged in parcels like this ( outside of 'fiverr' )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for my enlightenment, plox describe brief algo for 'try'
asciilifeform: and could even be possible, if heathens weren't jawdroppingly retarded
