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, ...
Feb 25, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 14
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.or...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 13
You can find Star on Twitter at https://twitter.com/starsandrobots . Super Munchers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munchers Metrowerks CodeWarrior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeWarrior RadioShack (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.html Radioplane Company: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioplane_Company Piasecki PA-97: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Jan 18, 2021•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 12
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 - ...
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 11
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._Nim Turing Tumble: https://www.turingtumble.com Rick Altherr's episode: https://oxide.computer/blog/on-the-metal-7-rick-altherr/ Kenneth Finnegans's episode: https://...
Feb 03, 2020•41 min•Ep. 10
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-II Sprite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics) Atari 800: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family Atari CTIA (chip p...
Jan 27, 2020•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 9
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-spe...
Jan 20, 2020•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 8
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=QrcdHHsfaKQ OpenBMC: https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc https://lwn.net/Articles/683320/ Wireshark: https://www.wireshark.org/ https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark Ghidra: https://www.nsa...
Jan 13, 2020•58 min•Ep. 7
You can find Kenneth on Twitter at https://twitter.com/KWF and read his blog at https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/ . You can follow the Fremont Cabal Internet Exchange at https://twitter.com/FremontCabalIX . Some of the highlights of the show include: Gallium arsenide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium_arsenide Lam Research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lam_Research Applied Materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Materials Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Jan 06, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 6
You can find Trammell on Twitter at https://twitter.com/qrs , his blog at https://trmm.net/ , and his GitHub at https://github.com/osresearch . Some of the highlights of the show include: Sandia National Labs: https://www.sandia.gov/ Intel Paragon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Paragon OSF/1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSF/1 Intel i860: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860 Intel Pentium Pro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro Red Storm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Storm...
Dec 30, 2019•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 5
You can find Tom on Twitter at https://twitter.com/aka_pugs and find his blog at https://akapugs.blog/ . You can learn more about DriveScale at https://drivescale.com/ . Tom brought us a present: an IBM 360-era "Ready" button ! Some of the highlights of the show include: Williams tube (CRT-based memory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube Mercury delay lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory Datapoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint Datapoint: The Lost Story of t...
Dec 23, 2019•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 4
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: htt...
Dec 16, 2019•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 3
You can find Amir on Facebook at https://facebook.com/amir and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/digiamir . Some of the highlights of the show include: Silcon wafers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer_(electronics) The "Turbo button": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button BBSs: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/the-lost-civilization-of-dial-up-bulletin-board-systems/506465/ Turbo Pascal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal Anders Hejlsberg: https://en.wikipedia...
Dec 06, 2019•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 2
Some of the highlights of the show include: Dis-assembling MS-DOS on an IBM PC: https://github.com/microsoft/ms-dos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS PC Interface: allowing a MS-DOS program to use a unix host as its remote filesystem AT&T 3B2 Machine: http://www.unixwiz.net/3b2.html http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/westernElectric/3b20s/234-301-910WE_3B20S_System_Index_and_Description_Jul81.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3B_series_computers 32-bit Sigma 7 Machine: http://www.bits...
Dec 02, 2019•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 1
Welcome to our new podcast, On the Metal! As a part of starting Oxide Computer Company, we decided to also create the podcast we always wanted. It’s unapologetically technical and as Jess says, “the nerdiest podcast on the face of the planet.” Join us as we interview various guests from the hardware / software interface. Their stories have captivated us all and kept us wanting more, we can’t wait to share them with you! Stay tuned!
Nov 15, 2019•3 min
