Microcontroller firmware, FPGAs, SW Defined Radio, Retrocomputing Damned dirty ape Call sign N2ES he/him cis male Not a tame programmer
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🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd retweeted
New fastest shortest-path algorithm in 41 years!
Tsinghua researchers broke Dijkstra’s 1984 “sorting barrier,” achieving O(m log^(2/3) n) time. This means faster route planning, less traffic, cheaper deliveries, and more efficient networks - and a CS curriculum revamp =)
🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd retweeted
I worked at Apparat as well .. I was the last support technician for NEWDOS/80.
Good times while it lasted!
🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd retweeted
Not a byte, not RAM, but it is from ENIAC in 1946.
That tube module holds one decimal digit. It's from an "accumulator", which counts and stores numbers. It uses 10 tubes in a ring counter to hold the values 0 through 9. Bytes didn't exist at the time.
archive.computerhistory.org/…
ALT A diagram showing the components of the ENIAC accumulator: transmitting circuit, carry-over circuit, pulse standardizer, decade ring counter, and neon bulbs.
ALT A schematic of the decade ring counter from "Electronic Computing Circuits of the ENIAC"
🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd retweeted
OK... they tell me I should go on Twitter to tell a bit about the coming PiDP-10. And tell the story of the past year. Scary. social? media? Not really me.
But: in a month or two, you can have a PDP-10 in your living room. groups.google.com/g/pidp-10
#PiDP10
🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd retweeted
An archive of the Incompatible Timesharing System Boot Camp orientation live stream can be found here
toobnix.org/w/cc9df0ae-9366-…
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #ai #lab
🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd retweeted
I did have to pause and check that this wasn't a @NanoRaptor project :-)
🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd retweeted
TIL "breadboard" comes from people using literal bread cutting boards as the base for their electronics back in the day
ALT The Grimes Inverse Duplex on a cutting board
🇺🇦 Nonstandard Nerd retweeted
I love the @wavedrom plugin for VisualCode. It's so nice to be able to do timing diagrams right there and not have to use a standalone app or online service.
