Human folly for 02020-06-23

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• OberonStation (web.archive.org):

  The "OberonStation" #Oberon #FPGA #Wirth-RISC workstation site has gone offline but survives in the Archive for now.

• Riscimg (projectoberon.net):

  The #Oberon SD card image for #Wirth-RISC.

• PO (people.inf.ethz.ch):

  The Project #Oberon book #PDF has a chapter about the #Wirth-RISC #hardware, largely the same as the people.inf.ethz.ch PDFs, but covering the Verilog in detail, and for example describing the floating-point format and logic, the PS/2 mouse protocol and its Verilog implementation on #FPGA, and quadrature decoding. #smallisbeautiful

• Thacker a tiny computer (cl.cam.ac.uk):

  #PDF of Chuck Thacker's "Tiny Computer for Teaching" #hardware design for a 32-bit Harvard RISC computer with 4KiB each of instruction and data RAM, based on the Dirty Genitals Nova, occupying 83 lines of Verilog source (if I counted right) and 200 LUTs and four BRAMs on a Xilinx Virtex-5 #FPGA, getting 60 MIPS. #smallisbeautiful

• 502890 Fauci why the public wasnt told to wear masks (thehill.com):

  Fauci says #covid #facemasks were recommended against in the US at first due to concerns about PPE shortages.

• The open book (github.com):

  an open ebook reader (similar to Amazon Kindle/Swindle, Nook, or Kobo) based on the Adafruit Feather

• Fugaku report (dropbox.com):

  Jack Dongarra’s report on the new Fugaku 400-petaflop supercomputer (3.9 theoretical peak exa-int-ops-per-second for ANN inference), now #1 on the TOP500 list; ORNL University of Tennessee Tech Report No. ICL-UT-20-06 #HPC

• AIM (bitsavers.org):

  #PDF of Henry Wu’s #Scheme 86 #hardware #paper.

• Pdp8 (people.cs.clemson.edu):

  how the #PDP-8 subroutine-call structure worked.