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   Vertigo #$FF (vertigo@hackers.town)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 14:09:52 JST Vertigo #$FF

   • theruran 🌐🏴
   • Sergey Bugaev
   • Janneke

   @bugaevc @theruran @janneke I have ideas on how to handle hardware interfaces.

   I tried to realize this before with my Kestrel Computer Project. But, zero people showed any willingness to help, because it was still kinda sorta too abstract. Or, maybe I was just too nostalgic (the idea was to "revert progress" and develop a neo-retro platform from which we could once again move forward from).

   One of my core ideas was to standardize (memory-mapped) I/O register interfaces for a wide variety of peripheral classes using an I/O fabric like (or even forking) RapidIO, kind of like how the most sophisticated video cards of today still support true-blue VGA emulation. I reject the idea that it's "impossible" to achieve with other classes of peripherals. UUIDs would have been used to identify device classes and revisions to a specific binary interface.

   But, that project is dead now due to (1) nobody willing to help out, and (2) me burning out.

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     Janneke (janneke@todon.nl)'s status on Sunday, 28-May-2023 14:14:57 JST Janneke

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     • theruran 🌐🏴
     • Sergey Bugaev

     @vertigo @bugaevc @theruran
     Yeah. One of the things that helped a lot, especially in the first couple of years, was the enormous amount of mental support that I got.

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