That brings back memories. I think it was Dave Milway who gave
a talk on the BFI at UNSW, where he revealed during question
time at the end that 'BFI' stood for 'Beut Fast Interface'.
Regards,
DigbyT
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 05:17:07PM +1000, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> I went to that fest, it was an ear
Way back in the dim distant pre-IBMPC days of Z80 PCs, my favourite
debugging technique was to use the screen memory.
My original Exidy Sorcerer had 1920 bytes of character oriented
screen memory (this was when 8K was a respectable amount of main
memory). Each byte displayed a 8x8 character define
When I did the port to the PS2 there wasn't even a light to blink. To
get thru l.s I discovered a register I could write that resets the
video.
Only a hundred lines (most innocent) to binary chop.
Ken has a better tale of a device that only had a speaker and
debugging by tones.
brucee
On 5/28/0
I went to that fest, it was an early AUUGM.
I think it was the BFI interface team at UNSW.
I'll check the c-side library (I keep everythng).
brucee
On 5/28/08, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Not quite the sam
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FWIW, we used a similar technique just last summer debugging some PS3
code. The dev system is kind enough to include 4 front panel lights
and a very lightweight API for setting them. We wound up "printing"
out the program counter during a dead
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Bakul Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not quite the same but perhaps you are thinking of "Hardware
> Profiling of Kernels" by Andrew McRae in Winter 1993 usenix.
> From his paper:
it's good enough, and my memory probably is bad enough that this is
the right one
On Tue, 27 May 2008 15:02:15 PDT "ron minnich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, this is a long shot, but i'm running out of ideas.
>
> Long, long ago, at a Usenix, I saw a talk by some adventurous
> australians (are there any other kind?). It was concerning some neat
> hardware designed for kerne
Don't know where to find that paper, but it reminds of a friend
at UNSW (in Sydney) that used to instrument the OS9 kernel by setting
and clearing bits in the parallel port.
The monitoring hardware was indeed simple - an analogue voltmeter
connected to the bit of interest to produce a simple but
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 3:54 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, I wasn't around that time :-) But I was looking for the Hello World X11
> paper a while back, which was pre-website USENIX. But on the USENIX website
> it seems that you can purchase papers from before 1991(?). Perha
No, I wasn't around that time :-) But I was looking for the Hello
World X11 paper a while back, which was pre-website USENIX. But on the
USENIX website it seems that you can purchase papers from before
1991(?). Perhaps they had a paper?
On May 27, 2008, at 6:02 PM, ron minnich wrote:
OK,
OK, this is a long shot, but i'm running out of ideas.
Long, long ago, at a Usenix, I saw a talk by some adventurous
australians (are there any other kind?). It was concerning some neat
hardware designed for kernel monitoring.
They had done a very neat hack. Basically, they modified the C
compile
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