Any Linux kernel devs here in MWGLF?

The last thing I did with the Linux kernel was compile 2.4 and install it myself. I was very proud of that back then.
 
Not me. I know Colonel Angus well, but not Kernel Linux. :embarrassed:

I use Linux on a couple of my computers. But, I’m no power user.

 
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Frank Prince said:
Maybe? I have no idea. Why was it in there?
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Many years ago, I built a data collection system that allowed functional testers to store test results to a central server using ARCNet (the testers were Z80 based and ARCNet was all that was available). When I moved the central server to Linux (Slackware 1.0 IIRC), I had to write a linux driver for the ARNet card. The driver was simple as we didn't use a higher level protocol like IP. I think I posted the driver on usenet.

A guy picked up my code and created a proper network driver for the SMC ARCnet card which was distributed with the kernel source code. His driver source code mentioned me as supplying him with base code and documentation.

You've probably never heard of ARCNet because ethernet pretty much supplanted it within a a couple of years. The ARCNet driver was dropped from the kernel sources years ago.
 
GomezAddams said:
Many years ago, I built a data collection system that allowed functional testers to store test results to a central server using ARCNet (the testers were Z80 based and ARCNet was all that was available). When I moved the central server to Linux (Slackware 1.0 IIRC), I had to write a linux driver for the ARNet card. The driver was simple as we didn't use a higher level protocol like IP. I think I posted the driver on usenet.

A guy picked up my code and created a proper network driver for the SMC ARCnet card which was distributed with the kernel source code. His driver source code mentioned me as supplying him with base code and documentation.

You've probably never heard of ARCNet because ethernet pretty much supplanted it within a a couple of years. The ARCNet driver was dropped from the kernel sources years ago.
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I used to install and support ARCNet with Novell Netware servers.

Coax connectors.
Passive hubs in the ceiling - daisy-chained.
So much fun…
 
dodgechargerfan said:
I used to install and support ARCNet with Novell Netware servers.

Coax connectors.
Passive hubs in the ceiling - daisy-chained.
So much fun…
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Yes, I remember doing that. Good times.
We most likely built the ARCNet cards you were using. And probably the first ethernet cards you were using too.
 
GomezAddams said:
Many years ago, I built a data collection system that allowed functional testers to store test results to a central server using ARCNet (the testers were Z80 based and ARCNet was all that was available). When I moved the central server to Linux (Slackware 1.0 IIRC), I had to write a linux driver for the ARNet card. The driver was simple as we didn't use a higher level protocol like IP. I think I posted the driver on usenet.

A guy picked up my code and created a proper network driver for the SMC ARCnet card which was distributed with the kernel source code. His driver source code mentioned me as supplying him with base code and documentation.

You've probably never heard of ARCNet because ethernet pretty much supplanted it within a a couple of years. The ARCNet driver was dropped from the kernel sources years ago.
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That’s cool!
 
GomezAddams said:
Many years ago, I built a data collection system that allowed functional testers to store test results to a central server using ARCNet (the testers were Z80 based and ARCNet was all that was available). When I moved the central server to Linux (Slackware 1.0 IIRC), I had to write a linux driver for the ARNet card. The driver was simple as we didn't use a higher level protocol like IP. I think I posted the driver on usenet.

A guy picked up my code and created a proper network driver for the SMC ARCnet card which was distributed with the kernel source code. His driver source code mentioned me as supplying him with base code and documentation.

You've probably never heard of ARCNet because ethernet pretty much supplanted it within a a couple of years. The ARCNet driver was dropped from the kernel sources years ago.
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I did some Z80 assembly coding in college in the early 90s.
 
Frank Prince said:
I did some Z80 assembly coding in college in the early 90s.
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The first day on the job at my current employer (34 years ago) my new boss hands me an inch thick listing of the Z80 source code for the functional testers we built and maintained to test antilock brake modules. There was not a single comment in the entire listing. Fortunately, the Z80 stuff we were using was getting super expensive, and we were running out of memory space on the Z80, so we switched to industrial PCs and re-wrote the test code in C. Life was MUCH better after that.
 
GomezAddams said:
The first day on the job at my current employer (34 years ago) my new boss hands me an inch thick listing of the Z80 source code for the functional testers we built and maintained to test antilock brake modules. There was not a single comment in the entire listing. Fortunately, the Z80 stuff we were using was getting super expensive, and we were running out of memory space on the Z80, so we switched to industrial PCs and re-wrote the test code in C. Life was MUCH better after that.
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It's nice to know that there's still some coders out there that didn't learn utter garbage from poorly written Pearson books...
 
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GilmourD said:
It's nice to know that there's still some coders out there that didn't learn utter garbage from poorly written Pearson books...
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After writing pretty much exclusively perl for the last 25 years, I've just started learning powershell. Not having a good time so far.
 
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