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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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)
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/
You can find Star on Twitter at https://twitter.com/starsandrobots.
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=
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You can find Jonathan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow.
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You can find Jon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/jonmasters.
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You can find Rick on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kc8apf and read his blog at https://www.kc8apf.net/.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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You can find Amir on Facebook at https://facebook.com/amir and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/digiamir.
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