On The Metal

Oxide Computer Company
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On The Metal

As a part of starting Oxide Computer Company, Bryan Cantrill and Jess Frazelle decided to also create the podcast that they always wanted. Joined frequently by their boss, Steve Tuck, Bryan and Jess interview incredible guests retelling stories of adventure at the hardware/software interface. It’s unapologetically technical and as Jess says, “the nerdiest podcast on the face of the planet” -- but if you're their kind of nerd, you'll find yourself hanging on every word!

  1. 02/25/2023

    Oxide and Friends

    Bryan and Steve are joined by Adam to revisit some highlights from almost two years of the Oxide and Friends live show and podcast. Bryan’s blog entry on Twitter Spaces: http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2021/05/02/twitter-spaces-a-few-weeks-in/ Oxide and Friends, “Mr. Leventhal, Come here I want you”:https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/mr-leventhal-come-here-i-want-to-see-you-2021-05-03 (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-WSU3kiXVg#t=28m10s) Oxide and Friends, “NeXT, Objective-C, and contrasting histories”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/next-objective-c-and-contrasting-histories-2021-07-05 Oxide and Friends, “Tales from the Bringup Lab”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-the-bringup-lab-2021-12-06 Flying Blind: Boeing's Max Tragedy and the Lost Soul of an American Icon by Peter Robison: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55994102 Oxide and Friends, “Flying Blind with Peter Robison”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/flying-blind-with-peter-robison-2022-01-10 (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6i9NPslfE4&t=1141s) Oxide and Friends, “Losing the Signal with Sean Silcoff”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/losing-the-signal-with-sean-silcoff Oxide and Friends, “The Pragmatism of Hubris”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmatism-of-hubris-2021-12-13 Oxide and Friends, “The Books in the Box”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-books-in-the-box-2021-09-27 Built to Fail: The Inside Story of Blockbuster's Inevitable Bust by Alex Payne: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57118893 Oxide and Friends, “Podcasts for Podcast-Lovers”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/podcasts-for-podcast-lovers Playdate podcast: https://podcast.play.date/ Dijkstra quote on BASIC: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd04xx/EWD498.PDF Oxide and Friends, “Dijkstra's Tweetstorm”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/dijkstras-tweetstorm-2021-10-18 Oxide and Friends, “Economics and Open Source”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/economics-and-open-source-2021-10-04 (Clip with Tim Burnham reading his tweet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDd8xGSP9DA&t=249s) Oxide and Friends, “Open Source Inside Baseball (with Stephen O'Grady)”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/open-source-inside-baseball-with-stephen-ogrady Oxide and Friends, “The Oxide Supply Chain“: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/epi=-sodes/the-oxide-supply-chain Hacker News discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32774875 Oxide and Friends, “The Rise and Fall of DEC”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-rise-and-fall-of-dec (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m6GFs3GuU0&t=12s) Oxide and Friends, “Potpourri: Product, Platform, Paravirtualization”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/potpourri-product-platform-paravirtualization Oxide and Friends, “Oxide and the Chamber of Mysteries”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/oxide-and-the-chamber-of-mysteries Oxide and Friends, “Theranos, Silicon Valley, and the March Madness of Tech Fraud”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/theranos-silicon-valley-and-the-march-madness-of-tech-fraud-2021-09-20 (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdk9CKML2g&t=2901s) Bad Bets Season 2, “The Unraveling of Trevor Milton”: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/the-journal/8whnlvj Oxide and Friends, “Engineering Incentives... and Misincentives”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/engineering-incentives-and-misincentives (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SU4WT5RZAPY&t=461s) Oxide and Friends, “The Power of Proto Boards!”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-power-of-proto-boards Oxide and Friends, “A Debugging Odyssey”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/a-debugging-odyssey Oxide and Friends, “Debugging Methodologies”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/debugging-methodologies Oxide and Friends, “from /proc to proc_macro”: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/from-proc-to-proc_macro-2021-05-24 (Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85eApYSj3ic&t=108s) Oxide and Friends, “Tech Layoffs”:

    1h 5m

  2. 01/26/2021

    Ken Shirriff

    You can find Ken on Twitter at twitter.com/kenshirriff and his blog righto.com. - Soyuz blog post:     http://www.righto.com/2020/01/inside-digital-clock-from-soyuz.html - IBM System/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370 - Amdahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_Corporation - Build Your Own Z80 Computer:     https://books.google.com/books?id=mVQnFgWzX0AC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false - Euler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonhard_Euler - Commodore PET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET - TRS-80 (Trash-80): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 https://techland.time.com/2012/08/03/trs-80/ - Visual 6502: http://www.visual6502.org/ - MOS 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502 - Metallurgy microscope: https://www.amscope.com/compound-microscopes/metallurgical-microscopes.html - AM2900: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Am2900 - MOS transistor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET - Cray-1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1 - Intel 4004: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004 - Datapoint 2200: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_2200 - Intel 8008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8008 - Endianness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness - TTL chips: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor%E2%80%93transistor_logic - Big Endian and Little Endian:     https://chortle.ccsu.edu/AssemblyTutorial/Chapter-15/ass15_3.html - Xerox Alto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto - Charles Simonyi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Simonyi - Punched cards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card - Why did line printers have 132 columns?:     https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/7838/why-did-line-printers-have-132-columns - Teletype 33: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33 - Analogue computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer - Analogue computer thread: https://twitter.com/kenshirriff/status/1223675683387265024 - Differential analyser: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser - Bitcoin mining on a 1401:     http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-ibm-1401.html - Mining bitcoin with pencil and paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3dqhixzGVo - Bitcoin mining on a Xerox Alto:     http://www.righto.com/2017/07/bitcoin-mining-on-vintage-xerox-alto.html - Bitcoin mining on the Apollo Guidance computer:     http://www.righto.com/2019/07/bitcoin-mining-on-apollo-guidance.html - Colossus computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer - Accounting machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_machine - Memory phosphor: https://www.britannica.com/science/memory-phosphor - Rowhammer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer - Core memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory - Williams tube: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube - Core rope memory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory - Honeywell 800: https://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/h800.html - Honeywell 1800: https://www.computerhistory.org/brochures/doc-4372956da1170/     http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/BRL64-h.html#HONEYWELL-1800 - SPARC delayed branching:     https://arcb.csc.ncsu.edu/~mueller/codeopt/codeopt00/notes/delaybra.html - IBM 360 Model 50: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360_Model_50 - RR Auction: https://www.rrauction.com/

    1h 21m

  3. 01/18/2021

    Star Simpson

    You can find Star on Twitter at https://twitter.com/starsandrobots. Super Munchers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MunchersMetrowerks CodeWarrior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarriorRadioShack (RIP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RadioShack"Marilyn Monroe's World War II Drone Program": https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/04/upshot/marilyn-monroes-world-war-ii-drone-program.htmlRadioplane Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_CompanyPiasecki PA-97: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_PA-97TacoCopter: https://tacocopter.com/TacoCopter on HackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742676TacoCopter's cameo on Stephen Colbert: http://www.cc.com/video-clips/53yh09/the-colbert-report-thought-for-food---tacocopterWired on TacoCopter: https://www.wired.com/2012/03/qa-with-tacocopter/FAA Section 333 (now Section 44807): https://www.faa.gov/uas/advanced_operations/certification/section_44807/FAA Part 107: https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/part_107_summary.pdfCanidu: http://www.canidu.com/Boeing 737 MAX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_737_MAXRoad train: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_trainChecklists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChecklistUnited Airlines Channel 9: https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/united-airlines-mileageplus/726789-consolidated-interesting-things-heard-channel-9-thread-merged.htmlUnited Airlines ad from 1990: https://www.youtube.com/watch/mU2rpcAABbATRACON-II PC game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracon_IINational Transportation Safety Board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Transportation_Safety_BoardValuJet 592: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592Amelia Earhart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_EarhartSkunk Works by Ben Johnson: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/101438.Skunk_WorksLockheed Skunk Works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_WorksClarence "Kelly" Johnson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Johnson_(engineer)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_(Unix_shell)Who Owns the Sky?: The Struggle to Control Airspace from the Wright Brothers On by Stuart Banner: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6402086-who-owns-the-skyTurbulent Skies by T. A. Heppenheimer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1492469.Turbulent_SkiesHard Landing by Thomas Petzinget: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438607.Hard_LandingSKYGODS: The Fall of Pan Am by Robert Gandt: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13010881-skygodDeregulation Knockouts: Round One by Tom Norwood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4718255-deregulation-knockoutsConvertiplane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConvertiplaneThe Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey by Richard Whittle: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8008152-the-dream-machine

    1h 35m

  4. 01/11/2021

    John Graham-Cumming

    You can find John on Twitter at [twitter.com/jgrahamc](https://twitter.com/jgrahamc). - Babbage overview and the Difference Engine:     https://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/overview/ - Difference Engine No. 2 at the London Science Museum:     https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co526657/difference-engine-no-2-designed-by-charles-babbage-built-by-science-museum-difference-engine - BBC Micro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro - Sinclair ZX81: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81 - BBC Micro Advanced User Guide:     http://stardot.org.uk/mirrors/www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/essentials/BBC%20Microcomputer%20Advanced%20User%20Guide.pdf - Sharp MZ-80K: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_MZ - John's TED Talk, The greatest machine that never was: https://www.ted.com/talks/john_graham_cumming_the_greatest_machine_that_never_was - Hilbert's Problems: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HilbertsProblems.html - Gödel's incompleteness theorems: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel-incompleteness/ - The Lovelace–De Morgan mathematical correspondence - A critical re-appraisal: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086017300319 - The mathematical correspondence of Ada Lovelace and Augustus De Morgan:     https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2867731.2867738 - Douglas Engelbart: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-Engelbart - "Mother of all demos": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY - John's OSCON talk "Turing's Curse": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVZxkFAIziA - Design of the RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture:     https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krste/papers/EECS-2016-1.pdf - Engines of Creation - The Coming Era of Nanotechnology: https://www.amazon.com/Engines-Creation-Nanotechnology-Scientific-Revolution/dp/1872180469/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

    1h 23m

  5. 02/03/2020

    Jess, Steve, and Bryan reflect on Season 1

    Some of the highlights of the show include:  Amir Michael's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-2-amir-michael/Jeff Rothschild's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-1-jeff-rothschild/Ron Minnich's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-3-ron-minnich/Dr. Nim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._NimTuring Tumble: https://www.turingtumble.comRick Altherr's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-7-rick-altherr/Kenneth Finnegans's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-6-kenneth-finnegan/Tom Lyon's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-4-tom-lyon/Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution by Lamont Wood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16214216-datapointJonathan Blow's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-9-jonathan-blow/Jon Masters's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-8-jon-masters/Jon Masters fiancée learns of his secret cache of old hardware: https://twitter.com/SRobTweets/status/1219314500232310784Trammell Hudson's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-5-trammell-hudson/Teletype 33: https://trmm.net/Model_ASR33_TeletypeDatapoint 3300: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint_3300The Witness hidden videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkluW5M4MQENLM6WHwhcC30y5ZqRW6FVNThe Witness candle video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDOS4GqMbSA&list=PLkluW5M4MQENLM6WHwhcC30y5ZqRW6FVN&index=5&t=0sBrian Moriarty, "The Secret of Psalm 46": http://ludix.com/moriarty/psalm46.htmlTrinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)Robert Mustacchi: https://fingolfin.org/blog/20191202/oxide.htmlAlex Wilson reflects on his and Robert's work on KPTI: https://blog.cooperi.net/a-long-two-monthsWindows NT on MIPS: https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS)

    41 min

  6. 01/27/2020

    Jonathan Blow

    You can find Jonathan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow. Some of the highlights of the show include:  The Witness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_(2016_video_game)Prince of Persia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_game)Prince of Persia source code: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-IISprite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics)Atari 800: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_familyAtari CTIA (chip performing, among many other things, collision detection for the Atari 800): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTIA_and_GTIACommodore 64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64VIC-II (CTIA-equivalent chip found in the C64): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_VIC-IISkeletal animation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_animationGPGPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_unitsGeForce 2080 Ti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_20_seriesCell microprocessor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)Dennard scaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scalingAmdahl's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_lawEmbarrassingly parallel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallelClient-side prediction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_predictionParticle system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_systemMinecraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinecraftRed Dead Redemption 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Redemption_2Rewinding time to address lag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag#Rewind_timeChronostasis (the illusion of time standing still after eye movement): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChronostasisCounter-strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike SimCity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCityTrinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)Brian Moriarty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_MoriartyInfocom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfocomLost Treasures of Infocom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_InfocomNetrek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetrekApollo Computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_ComputerSilicon Graphics (SGI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_GraphicsTime Warner's "Full Service Network" (SGI Orlando project): https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/12/business/time-warner-s-time-machine-for-future-video.htmlNetscape Communications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetscapeDoom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)Wolfenstein 3D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3DUltima series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_(series)SGI engineers transferred to Nvidia, ca. 1999: https://www.eetimes.com/sgi-graphics-team-moves-to-nvidia/Quake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game)Quake source code: https://github.com/id-Software/QuakeJohn Carmack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_CarmackMichael Abrash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_AbrashTotal Entertainment Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Entertainment_Networkboo.com: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.comBraid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game)SIMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMDPentium U-pipe and V-pipe: https://en.wikichip.org/w/index.php?title=File:24281603.pdf&page=8Data-oriented design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_designJonathan's rant on Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk Catherine West's closing keynote at RustConf 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27MJAI language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blow#JAI_language"Worse is better" and the "MIT approach": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_betterSmart pointer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_pointerD language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)Entity-component-system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_systemJonathan's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization": https://ww...

    2h 51m

  7. 01/20/2020

    Jon Masters

    You can find Jon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jonmasters. Some of the highlights of the show include: "Negative Result: Reading Kernel Memory From User Mode" (blog post from July 2017): https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-memory-from-user-mode/Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)Meltdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability)Speculative execution: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/261792-what-is-speculative-executionICL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Computers_LimitedHacker News front page, January 1st, 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-01-01Boogie Nights, the death of Little Bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFX-qfYbHKgBBC Micro 6502: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_MicroBBC Master: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_MasterStorage Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_WarsPA-8000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-8000SPARCbook 3000ST: https://blog.adafruit.com/2019/04/01/sparcbook-3000st-the-coolest-90s-laptop-sparc-vintagecomputing-retrocomputing-eckmeister/Itanium: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ItaniumMcKinley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Itanium_microprocessors#McKinley_(180_nm)Leon Czolgosz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_CzolgoszHumartia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HamartiaTransmeta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransmetaTransmeta Crusoe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmeta_CrusoeRichard (Dick) Sites: https://sites.google.com/site/dicksites/Dick Sites, "It's the Memory, Stupid!": http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/architects_look_to_future.pdfJohn Crawford: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Crawford_(engineer)John Hennessy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._HennessyKernel page-table isolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_page-table_isolationHot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZoPanel at Hot Chips 30 keynote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XzVF0sAZo#t=1h17mThe Omega Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omega_DirectiveL1TF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreshadow_(security_vulnerability)iDRACula: https://www.servethehome.com/idracula-vulnerability-impacts-millions-of-legacy-dell-emc-servers/MDS, including Zombieload and RIDL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarchitectural_Data_SamplingHeartbleed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeartbleedLazy FPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy_FP_state_restorePentium FDIV bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bugPentium F00F bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_F00F_bugHyper-threading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threadingAcorn Archimedes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_ArchimedesAcorn RISC machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architectureRISC-V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-VARM Thumb: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ThumbARMv8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture#ARMv8-AChris Celio et al., "Avoiding ISA Bloat with Macro-Op Fusion for RISC-V": https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318Chris Celio, "ISA Shootout": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii_pEXKKYUgBeagleBoard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeagleBoardARM Ares: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/arm_holdings/microarchitectures/neoverse_n1SeaMicro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaMicroCalxeda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CalxedaAppliedMicro X-Gene: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/apm/x-geneUEFI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_InterfaceBroadcom Vulcan: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/cavium/microarchitectures/vulcanSavaged by Systemd: An Erotic Unix Encounter by Michael Warren Lucas: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36190710-savaged-by-systemdCoreboot kexec'ing Linux: https://twitter.com/hugelgupf/status/1158466881373630464IOMMU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input%E2%80%93output_memory_management_unitSlackware: https://en.wikipedi...

    1h 39m

  8. 01/13/2020

    Rick Altherr

    You can find Rick on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kc8apf and read his blog at https://www.kc8apf.net/. Some of the highlights of the show include: USBAnywhere: https://eclypsium.com/2019/09/03/usbanywhere-bmc-vulnerability-opens-servers-to-remote-attack/Rick's talk at OSFC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrcdHHsfaKQOpenBMC: https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc https://lwn.net/Articles/683320/Wireshark: https://www.wireshark.org/ https://github.com/wireshark/wiresharkGhidra: https://www.nsa.gov/resources/everyone/ghidra/ https://ghidra-sre.org/ https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidraASPEED: https://www.aspeedtech.com/products.php?fPath=20&rId=440Nuvoton: https://www.nuvoton.com/products/cloud-computing/ibmc/?__locale=enCRAY 1: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/cray/CRAY-1/2240004C_CRAY-1_Hardware_Reference_Nov77.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1Deutsches Museum: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/exhibitions/communication/computers/Seymour Cray: https://www.cray.com/company/history/seymour-cray https://www.britannica.com/biography/Seymour-R-CrayCDC 6600: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_6600 https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/104327Alpha Station: https://web.archive.org/web/20060701073452/http://h18002.www1.hp.com/alphaserver/workstations.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaStationTru64: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!original/bit.listserv.esl-l/BovGe3q9yWE/cqlcCYfxmbAJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_UNIXWindows NT: https://web.archive.org/web/20040610122846/http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1998/winntfs.asp https://web.archive.org/web/20020503172231/http://www.win2000mag.com/Articles/Print.cfm?ArticleID=4494 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NTWindows NT on Mips: https://gunkies.org/wiki/Installing_Windows_NT_4.0_on_Qemu(MIPS)Palo Alto Goodwill: https://goodwillsv.org/store/palo-alto-store/SGI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_WorkstationCray 1 on ebay: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/24/cray_1_gate_module_ebay/root calvin: https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/04/sln306783/dell-poweredge-what-is-the-default-username-and-password-for-idrac?lang=en https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wem6s/is_there_any_story_or_history_behind_rootcalvin/Redfish: https://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish https://redfish.dmtf.org/iKVM: https://www.ikvm.net/ http://www.ikvm.net/userguide/intro.htmlIPMI: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/servers/ipmi/ipmi-home.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_InterfaceI2C: https://i2c.info/Non maskable interrupt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-maskable_interruptRead and write heads: https://www.computerhistory.org/storageengine/thin-film-heads-introduced-for-large-disks/ https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hard-drive-magnetic-storage-hdd,3005-2.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_read-and-write_headFly height: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_height http://maeresearch.ucsd.edu/callafon/publications/2011/UweIEEETonM.pdfThe legend of the walking drives: http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/walking-drives.html http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=103;t=000500;p=1Open Source Firmware Conference: https://osfc.io/Coreboot: https://www.coreboot.org/ChromeOS Firmware: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-for-chrome-os-devices/custom-firmwareEDK II: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2Open Compute Project: https://www.opencompute.org/Width of a Horse's butt: http://www.naute.com/stories/rail.phtml

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As a part of starting Oxide Computer Company, Bryan Cantrill and Jess Frazelle decided to also create the podcast that they always wanted. Joined frequently by their boss, Steve Tuck, Bryan and Jess interview incredible guests retelling stories of adventure at the hardware/software interface. It’s unapologetically technical and as Jess says, “the nerdiest podcast on the face of the planet” -- but if you're their kind of nerd, you'll find yourself hanging on every word!

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    Oxide Computer Company
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    2019 - 2023
  • Episodes
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    © Oxide Computer Company
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