sinrostro

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by sinrostro 11y ago
To clarify: this is to counter the statement that security through obscurity is a good thing. Yeah, that worked out well for the Enigma and countless other systems.
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by sinrostro 11y ago
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by sinrostro 11y ago
Thanks. And I didn't even mention security in ARM chips (or lack thereof)
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by sinrostro 11y ago
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by sinrostro 11y ago
I imagine Prof. Wirth must have thought that 32032 wasn't going anywhere soon 20 years ago. As I see it, the ARM instruction sets (note the use of plural) are a moving target (look at Cortex chips with Thumb2 only). They are far from
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by sinrostro 11y ago
It is foolish to assume that HSAs don't already have access to whatever you, some guy on the Internet, know. So you can be an asshat, or do the right thing and try to 'protect the muggles' by letting information be available
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by sinrostro 11y ago
Oberon is a pretty interesting system to muck with. Another approach is to blackbox USB and HDMI, and consider them outside the project, much like the VGA monitor or whatever is in the keyboard to send PS/2 signals. You can connect to
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by sinrostro 11y ago
You really should publish, as security through obscurity only hurts us! Out in the open, there is a chance that some measures will be taken. Concealment is a guarantee that bad guys will be doing bad things quietly.
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by sinrostro 11y ago
It has an interesting GUI. Text is live (as in everything can be a menu), and selections can become objects of commands. See http://ignorethecode.net/blog/2009/04/22/oberon/
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by sinrostro 11y ago
One of the goals of Project Oberon is a system that can be understood in its entirety by a single individual. A USB controller, or an HDMI encoder would take several books to describe. There are hundreds of FPGA boards that do not meet the
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by sinrostro 11y ago
There are many FPGA devboards with dynamic RAM. This appears to be the only board with 32-bit 10ns static rams, required for Oberon. It is unique in its ability to boot Oberon in 1 second, straight out of the box.
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OberonStation, an Oberon RISC workstation(oberonstation.x10.mx)
130 points by sinrostro 11y ago|96 comments