He’s been called the godfather of the open-source movement. He’s the creator of the Linux kernel and GIT. Linus Torvalds is the first recipient of the Intel Innovation Award for his lifetime’s worth of technical achievement. #IntelON Learn more: intel.ly/3CaHGxr

Apparently Linus Torvalds lost his copy of "Programming the 386" book. So Pat Gelsinger gave him another one (together with Intel Innovator Award) 😃 #IntelON

Back in Stock! Flock - RC2014-Compatible Module Kit tindie.com/products/weird… #vintagecomputing

I documented some of the 8086/8088/V20/V30 weirdness before I forget it. Hopefully it will be helpful to others too: github.com/skiselev/vinta…

Ordered a year and two months ago... Finally shipped... Still 4 switches are missing... Mouser Electronics Omron Automation what's up with you guys?

"Smart" devices suck. This particular @generalelectric Z-Wave $30 outlet failed after 3.5 years of gentle use. It will be replaced with a $3 "dumb" outlet, that would works 30+ years. Kids don't buy smart stuff. It is unreliable incompatible, and generally PITA #SmartSucks

Intel kind of tried this in the past with "legacy free" 32-bit only 80376. Although, back then the situation was different. A lot of software was made to run in 16-bit mode under DOS. Perhaps now there's less need for backward compatibility with 32-bit and 16-bit software

I've added the official Book8088 support to my 8088 BIOS project. Consider running that instead of the manufacturer supplied pirated BIOS. Pro tip: Keep the original BIOS ROM and use a Winbond W27C512 Flash ROM instead (doesn't require UV lamp for erasing) github.com/skiselev/8088_…

PSA: Scam alert for Costco customers: Something was hacked, probably at Xfinity. Maybe elsewhere. If you go to costco<dot>com, for whatever reason you get to 4powetboost<dot>com, where any clicking on any link will ask for your Costco username, password, and then your credit card

More 8088 BIOS EPROMs are coming to my Tindie store shortly tindie.com/products/weird…

#NEW Flock V2 - RCBus Module Kit tindie.com/products/weird… #vintagecomputing

#NEW Flock V2 - RCBus Module: PCB, FDC, and SPLD tindie.com/products/weird… #vintagecomputing

The Floppy Disk Controller and Real Time clock for RCBus (RC2014-compatible) systems - Flock V2 is here. Changes from V1: selectable RTC address; option to use CR2032 battery; RCBus form-factor Complete Kit: tindie.com/products/weird… PCB, FDC, and SPLD only: tindie.com/products/weird…

A bit of soldering tonight. It's getting late. I will populate the ICs and test the board tomorrow... 🌃 A RCBus refresh of my Z80 CPU, 512 KiB SRAM, and 512 KiB Flash ROM module. I'll update the GitHub repo (github.com/skiselev/Z80-5…) once I test the new PCBs.

Back in Stock! 8088 BIOS and XT-IDE extension ROM for Book8088 tindie.com/products/weird… #vintagecomputing

I updated the Z80-512K module to the RCBus form factor. It includes: Z80 CPU, 512 KiB of SRAM and 512 KiB of Flash ROM, clock oscillator and programmable clock divisor. GitHub: github.com/skiselev/Z80-5… Kit Tindie Maker Marketplace: tindie.com/products/weird… PCB & CPLD only: tindie.com/products/weird…

Year 2024... Meanwhile Microsoft Windows error messages are... (1) Is it an error message at all?! (2) Why did it fail? And what a user can do to fix the issue? (3) Why this message is in a mixed case? No money to hire a technical writer that actually knows English? #UXcrap

I wrote an MS-DOS / PC DOS driver for DS12885/DS12887 based real time clocks. It is intended to be used with the RTC8088 card (Aitor Gómez García and I designed a new revision of that card recently). MS-DOS drivers programming is fun 😉 Weekend well spent! 😅 github.com/skiselev/RTC80…