Despite my lack of website updates, I actually have continued work on my Cray-1 project. In addition to some progress in recovering an operating system for it, I’ll (hopefully) be releasing another hardware update pretty soon. Major new features that seem to be mostly working: – I/O channels! I actually implemented the I/O channel hardware for the Cray-1. Initially I had just been using memory-mapped hardware for everything, but I’d like to actually use that space for memory in the near future, so I took some time to add real DMA hardware. 12 Input and 12 Output channels (I think
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Let there be blogging!
For the last couple of years I’ve just been using my website to host pages about my finished projects (which typically means 2-3 updates a year, at the most). I do a fair amount of work that either 1) never goes anywhere, or 2) is kind of ‘follow-up’ work on some of my projects that might be interesting to some people (as it turns out people actually read this site occasionally – thanks all you people who have e-mailed me!). I have no idea if I’ll do this with any more regularity than I normally update my site, but we’ll
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