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A new section has been added, to tell old MS-DOS-related computing stories
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There appears to be a simple way to protect against a few hundreds of MS-DOS viruses.
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In an excellent demonstration of procrastination, it takes me almost three years to test code I had written and support an obscure and rare device.
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Using storage devices of the (long) past is not an eventless journey, but it can be done and brings its share of surprises.
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OpenSSH source archives have been tampered with once.
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HP's 9000/300 systems are long gone, but some of their legacy can still be found in BSD code today.
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Implementing a vendor specification allows OpenBSD to easily support compatible hardware... but turns out to also be a walled garden limiting such support to minimal capabilities.
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In which we learn that names can be deceiving, and that the speed of computers is sometimes measured in kilometers per hour...
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The story of OpenBSD/zaurus
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The story of OpenBSD/zaurus
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The story of how (and why) the SPARC console code, which had been mostly unchanged since 4.4BSD, got rewritten to use a machine-independent framework, gaining support for more devices in the process.
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The long and bumpy story of OpenBSD running on Motorola 88000 processors.
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The long and bumpy story of OpenBSD running on Motorola 88000 processors.
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The long and bumpy story of OpenBSD running on Motorola 88000 processors.
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The long and bumpy story of OpenBSD running on Motorola 88000 processors.
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The long and bumpy story of OpenBSD running on Motorola 88000 processors.
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A discussion of how the kernel discovers devices and initializes their drivers, with some old code explanation, and a subtle bug causing some devices not to be seen by the kernel.
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The long story of free operating systems being ported to SGI hardware.
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The long story of free operating systems being ported to SGI hardware.
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The long story of free operating systems being ported to SGI hardware.
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The long story of free operating systems being ported to SGI hardware.
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Added a few links to the LSX-3010 model pictures and information I stumbled upon recently in the Olivetti introduction page.
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The long story of free operating systems being ported to SGI hardware.
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The long story of free operating systems being ported to SGI hardware.
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The oldest BSD architectures do not have any audio capabilities.
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Kernel stack overflows are among the most difficult bugs to make sense of.
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When improving a driver comes with a high cost, unless it becomes non-portable, what should be done?
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An unsupported device looks very close to another device, for which code used to be available long ago.
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Explaining the story of a one-line change in sparc assembly leads to a BSD history lesson, looking at how a particular routine was implemented over the years.
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A new device driver sets up new constraints against some parts of the kernel code, which need to be addressed
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Modifying the boot loader code is sometimes not for the faint of the heart
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A new section has been added, to tell OpenBSD-related events
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The story of Propolice, the gcc stack-smashing protection