On The Metal

Tom Lyon


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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!

Some of the highlights of the show include:

  • Williams tube (CRT-based memory): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_tube
  • Mercury delay lines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
  • Datapoint: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint
  • Datapoint: The Lost Story of the Texans who Invented the Personal Computer Revolution by Lamont Wood: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16214216-datapoint
  • ARCNET: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARCNET
  • AppleTalk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk
  • Z8530 UART: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_SCC
  • Apple LaserWriter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter
  • DECnet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECnet
  • X.25: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.25
  • Tom's notes from the NFS offsite in 1983: https://twitter.com/aka_pugs/status/985941297327366144
  • Automounter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automounter
  • CAP theorem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
  • Sun's Network Disk (nd) protocol: https://github.com/senjan/ndd/blob/master/nd_pkt.h (if you find nd(4P) from the SunOS 3.x man pages, let us know!)
  • The Internet Collapse of 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_congestion#Congestive_collapse
  • Larry Roberts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Roberts_(scientist)
  • Telenet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenet
  • Tandem Computers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers
  • Token ring: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token_ring
  • Ipsilon Networks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks
  • FDDI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_Distributed_Data_Interface
  • Crescendo Communications: https://books.google.com/books?id=PDsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA44&lpg=PA44
  • CDC 3400: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDC_3000_series
  • Ones' Complement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ones%27_complement
  • IBM 1130: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130
  • Olivetti Programma 101: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programma_101
  • TI-83: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-83_series
  • HP 48G: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series
  • HP-35: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-35
  • ed(1): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_(text_editor)
  • IBM System/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370
  • APL\360: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#APL%5C360
  • IBM 2741 with APL keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741#/media/File:IBM2741.JPG
  • VM/370: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM_(operating_system)
  • Unibus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibus
  • Interdata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdata
  • Greg Chesson: https://grainger.illinois.edu/alumni/distinguished/7939
  • Joe Ossanna: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Ossanna
  • nroff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nroff
  • IBM 1403: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1403
  • Amdahl UTS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl_UTS
  • IBM 3270 terminal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270
  • Dick Lyon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_F._Lyon
  • MAXC, PARC's PDP-10 clone: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/parts/maxc-board/index.html
  • Berkeley Computer Corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genie
  • Bob Lyon: https://www.facebook.com/bob.lyon.98
  • Optical mouse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_mouse
  • The Oxide garage Sun art work of mysterious origin (a Sun-3/160, perhaps?): https://oxide.computer/img/garage-sun.jpg
  • Steve Kirsch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Kirsch
  • Dick Lyon's (color!) technical report on the optical mouse: http://www.dicklyon.com/tech/OMouse/OpticalMouse-Lyon.pdf
  • Ipsilon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipsilon_Networks
  • ATM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_transfer_mode
  • Andy Bechtolsheim on "Death to ATM" (July 1996): https://web.archive.org/web/20001217105700/https://www.redherring.com/mag/issue33/atm.html
  • Tom's original announcement of VFIO: https://lwn.net/Articles/391459/
  • Open Source Firmware Conference: htt...
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