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Topics on this blog include computing, retro-computing, operating systems, math, and whatever other technical subjects I happen to be exploring that I find interesting enough to take and share notes about.
Posts
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Installing Centos 5.11 with-2.6.17.8 kernel
A note describing the process of installing Centos 5.11 with the 2.6.17.8 kernel in order to be able to work along with Kroah-Hartman’s 2007 book, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, in the modern era.
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Installing Centos 5.11 with 2.6.18-kernel
A note describing the process of installing Centos 5.11 with 2.6.18-kernel in order to be able to work along with Kroah-Hartman’s 2007 book, Linux Kernel in a Nutshell, in the modern era.
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Installing Centos 4.8 with 2.6.11 Kernel
A note describing the process of installing Centos 4.8 with 2.6.11 Kernel in order to be able to work along with Bovet & Cesati’s 2006 book, Understanding the Linux Kernel, 3rd. ed., in the modern era.
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Installing Centos 6.9 with 2.6.34 Kernel
A note describing the process of installing Centos 6.9 with 2.6.34 Kernel in order to be able to work along with Robert Love’s 2010 book, Linux Kernel Development, 3rd. ed., in the modern era.
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Algebra of sets
A note about the algebra of sets. This note informs Boolean Algebra Notes (Jan 4, 2018). The algebra of sets is a somewhat intuitive boolean algebra and it was the study of the algebra of sets that helped me better understand boolean algebra. I was introduced to the idea in NAVEDTRA, but this development is based solely on Whitesitt (1961).
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Boolean Algebra Notes
This set of notes is a synthesis of many sources. I was having a very difficult time understanding some of the simplifications that were being done in videos and texts on digital logic, so I dug a little deeper until I had enough of a grasp to appreciate the elegance of the boolean logic system.
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v6 Bootable Tape
A note describing how to boot from Dennis Rithchie’s v6 disk-set. It shows two methods, one that builds a bootable tape from scratch, and another that extracts the bootblock of a running v6 system.
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Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 in the SimH PDP-11/45 and 11/70 Emulators v1.6
Revision 1.6 of Installing and Using Research Unix Version 7 in the SimH PDP-11/45 and 11/70 Emulators is out, get it here: research-unix-7-pdp11-45.pdf
Last Updated November 4, 2017
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Hello, World! in Assembly on Research Unix Version 6
A note demonstrating the process of assembling and running a simple hello, world Unix assembly language application on Research Unix Sixth Edition. It’s short and sweet, but gets the job done!
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Quick Setup RT-11v5.3 (Mac/Linux)
A quick start note for getting up and running with RT-11v5.3 on PDP-11 with little to no fuss.
see Tutorial - Setting up RT-11 v5.3 on SimH PDP-11 (Dec 30, 2015) for a more verbose version.