From rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Mon Apr 5 07:46:02 2004 From: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk (Robert Swindells) Date: Mon Apr 5 06:46:02 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation Message-ID: <200404051441.i35EfqHQ023954@ren.fdy2.net> Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? Robert Swindells From ford@objs.com Mon Apr 5 08:53:01 2004 From: ford@objs.com (ford@objs.com) Date: Mon Apr 5 07:53:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <200404051441.i35EfqHQ023954@ren.fdy2.net> References: <200404051441.i35EfqHQ023954@ren.fdy2.net> Message-ID: <40718013.7080506@objs.com> I think I do. Steve Robert Swindells wrote: >Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor >Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? > >Robert Swindells > >http://lists.unlambda.com/mailman/listinfo/lispm-hackers > > > From rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Wed Apr 7 03:05:01 2004 From: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk (Robert Swindells) Date: Wed Apr 7 02:05:01 2004 Subject: [LMH] Ooh, look! List traffic! In-Reply-To: <707239AA-6E7D-11D8-9283-000A959B403C@caltech.edu> (message from Jaap Weel on Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:04:12 -0800) Message-ID: <200404070959.i379xBXE035981@ren.fdy2.net> As a followup to the thread on putting a CPU in a FPGA, anyone interested might like to look at the JOP CPU. It is designed to run Java, but is implemented as a microcoded stack architecture. Robert Swindells From rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Wed Apr 7 03:14:00 2004 From: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk (Robert Swindells) Date: Wed Apr 7 02:14:00 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <40718013.7080506@objs.com> (ford@objs.com) Message-ID: <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> Steve Ford wrote: >Robert Swindells wrote: > >>Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor >>Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? >I think I do. If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ? Robert Swindells From ford@objs.com Wed Apr 7 04:22:01 2004 From: ford@objs.com (ford@objs.com) Date: Wed Apr 7 03:22:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> References: <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> Message-ID: <4073E38C.6040900@objs.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040300080608010001000105 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, but probably not 'til the weekend. Steve Robert Swindells wrote: >Steve Ford wrote: > > >>Robert Swindells wrote: >> >> >> >>>Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor >>>Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? >>> >>> > > > >>I think I do. >> >> > >If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ? > >Robert Swindells > >http://lists.unlambda.com/mailman/listinfo/lispm-hackers > > > --------------040300080608010001000105 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, but probably not 'til the weekend.

Steve

Robert Swindells wrote:
Steve Ford wrote:
  
Robert Swindells wrote:

    
Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor
Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ?
      

  
I think I do.
    

If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ?

Robert Swindells

http://lists.unlambda.com/mailman/listinfo/lispm-hackers
--------------040300080608010001000105-- From nyef@softhome.net Wed Apr 7 04:27:01 2004 From: nyef@softhome.net (Nyef) Date: Wed Apr 7 03:27:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> References: <40718013.7080506@objs.com> <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> Message-ID: <20040407112051.GA27258@miyu.paradiesanalytics.com> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:09:35AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote: > > Steve Ford wrote: > >Robert Swindells wrote: > > > >>Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor > >>Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? > > >I think I do. > > If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ? > > Robert Swindells Wait, isn't this the file E2-proc-gen.pdf.bz2 at http://www.unlambda.com/lispm/explorer-docs/e3-docs/ ? --Alastair From rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Wed Apr 7 05:49:01 2004 From: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk (Robert Swindells) Date: Wed Apr 7 04:49:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <20040407112051.GA27258@miyu.paradiesanalytics.com> (message from Nyef on Wed, 7 Apr 2004 07:20:51 -0400) Message-ID: <200404071244.i37CisQu036283@ren.fdy2.net> >On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:09:35AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote: >> >> Steve Ford wrote: > >Robert Swindells wrote: >> > >> >>Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor >> >>Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? >> >> >I think I do. >> >> If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ? >> >> Robert Swindells >Wait, isn't this the file E2-proc-gen.pdf.bz2 at >http://www.unlambda.com/lispm/explorer-docs/e3-docs/ ? It is. Thanks. It references the "Explorer Lisp Microprocessor Specification" document, is this available anywhere ? My interest is in trying to work out why my microExplorer fails it's self-test as well as thinking about emulating it. Robert Swindells From ford@objs.com Wed Apr 7 05:52:01 2004 From: ford@objs.com (ford@objs.com) Date: Wed Apr 7 04:52:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <20040407112051.GA27258@miyu.paradiesanalytics.com> References: <40718013.7080506@objs.com> <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> <20040407112051.GA27258@miyu.paradiesanalytics.com> Message-ID: <4073F898.6020607@objs.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070104090401030208080408 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nyef wrote: >On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:09:35AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote: > > >>Steve Ford wrote: >> >> >>>Robert Swindells wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor >>>>Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? >>>> >>>> >>>I think I do. >>> >>> >>If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ? >> >>Robert Swindells >> >> > >Wait, isn't this the file E2-proc-gen.pdf.bz2 at >http://www.unlambda.com/lispm/explorer-docs/e3-docs/ ? > >--Alastair > Yep. I'm off the hook. Steve --------------070104090401030208080408 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nyef wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:09:35AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
  
Steve Ford wrote:
    
Robert Swindells wrote:

      
Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor
Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ?
        
I think I do.
      
If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ?

Robert Swindells
    

Wait, isn't this the file E2-proc-gen.pdf.bz2 at
http://www.unlambda.com/lispm/explorer-docs/e3-docs/ ?

--Alastair
Yep. 

I'm off the hook.

Steve
--------------070104090401030208080408-- From aek@spies.com Thu Apr 15 22:04:01 2004 From: aek@spies.com (Al Kossow) Date: Thu Apr 15 21:04:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]nevermore progress? Message-ID: <200404160507.i3G57II7020225@spies.com> I see there is an image up now from 04/08 with the standalone diag menu. From nyef@softhome.net Sat Apr 17 00:07:01 2004 From: nyef@softhome.net (Nyef) Date: Fri Apr 16 23:07:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]nevermore progress? In-Reply-To: <200404160507.i3G57II7020225@spies.com> References: <200404160507.i3G57II7020225@spies.com> Message-ID: <20040416103520.GA7279@miyu.paradiesanalytics.com> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:07:18PM -0700, Al Kossow wrote: > > I see there is an image up now from 04/08 with the standalone > diag menu. Indeed so, even if it did require patching the partition table in order to get it to come up (and figuring that out took about a day and a half). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to do too much since then. I got a rather difficult-to-interpret result from the ALU tests, and then got bogged down in the I-Memory tests (which won't accept an abort command). Then between messing with SBCL and actual for-pay work (unfortunately not Lisp related), I haven't had much time for Nevermore recently. The situation is improving now, but I probably won't be releasing a new version until after it can pass a few more of the standalone diagnostics. --Alastair Bridgewater From jm@mak.com Mon Apr 26 08:57:01 2004 From: jm@mak.com (John Morrison) Date: Mon Apr 26 07:57:01 2004 Subject: [LMH] Ooh, look! List traffic! In-Reply-To: <200404070959.i379xBXE035981@ren.fdy2.net> References: <200404070959.i379xBXE035981@ren.fdy2.net> Message-ID: <200404261157.28508.jm@mak.com> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 05:59 am, Robert Swindells wrote: > As a followup to the thread on putting a CPU in a FPGA, anyone interested > might like to look at the JOP CPU. > > It is designed to run Java, but is implemented as a microcoded stack > architecture. > > > There's also: http://www.tensilica.com/html/tensilica_instruction_extensio.html (So much to do, so little time...) -jm -- ==== John Morrison ==== MAK Technologies Inc. ==== 185 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, MA 02138 ==== http://www.mak.com/ ==== vox:617-876-8085 x115 ==== fax:617-876-9208 ==== jm@mak.com From rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Mon Apr 5 07:46:02 2004 From: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk (Robert Swindells) Date: Mon Apr 5 06:46:02 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation Message-ID: <200404051441.i35EfqHQ023954@ren.fdy2.net> Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? Robert Swindells From ford@objs.com Mon Apr 5 08:53:01 2004 From: ford@objs.com (ford@objs.com) Date: Mon Apr 5 07:53:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <200404051441.i35EfqHQ023954@ren.fdy2.net> References: <200404051441.i35EfqHQ023954@ren.fdy2.net> Message-ID: <40718013.7080506@objs.com> I think I do. Steve Robert Swindells wrote: >Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor >Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? > >Robert Swindells > >http://lists.unlambda.com/mailman/listinfo/lispm-hackers > > > From rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Wed Apr 7 03:05:01 2004 From: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk (Robert Swindells) Date: Wed Apr 7 02:05:01 2004 Subject: [LMH] Ooh, look! List traffic! In-Reply-To: <707239AA-6E7D-11D8-9283-000A959B403C@caltech.edu> (message from Jaap Weel on Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:04:12 -0800) Message-ID: <200404070959.i379xBXE035981@ren.fdy2.net> As a followup to the thread on putting a CPU in a FPGA, anyone interested might like to look at the JOP CPU. It is designed to run Java, but is implemented as a microcoded stack architecture. Robert Swindells From rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Wed Apr 7 03:14:00 2004 From: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk (Robert Swindells) Date: Wed Apr 7 02:14:00 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <40718013.7080506@objs.com> (ford@objs.com) Message-ID: <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> Steve Ford wrote: >Robert Swindells wrote: > >>Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor >>Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? >I think I do. If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ? Robert Swindells From ford@objs.com Wed Apr 7 04:22:01 2004 From: ford@objs.com (ford@objs.com) Date: Wed Apr 7 03:22:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> References: <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> Message-ID: <4073E38C.6040900@objs.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040300080608010001000105 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, but probably not 'til the weekend. Steve Robert Swindells wrote: >Steve Ford wrote: > > >>Robert Swindells wrote: >> >> >> >>>Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor >>>Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? >>> >>> > > > >>I think I do. >> >> > >If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ? > >Robert Swindells > >http://lists.unlambda.com/mailman/listinfo/lispm-hackers > > > --------------040300080608010001000105 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok, but probably not 'til the weekend.

Steve

Robert Swindells wrote:
Steve Ford wrote:
  
Robert Swindells wrote:

    
Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor
Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ?
      

  
I think I do.
    

If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ?

Robert Swindells

http://lists.unlambda.com/mailman/listinfo/lispm-hackers
--------------040300080608010001000105-- From nyef@softhome.net Wed Apr 7 04:27:01 2004 From: nyef@softhome.net (Nyef) Date: Wed Apr 7 03:27:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> References: <40718013.7080506@objs.com> <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> Message-ID: <20040407112051.GA27258@miyu.paradiesanalytics.com> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:09:35AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote: > > Steve Ford wrote: > >Robert Swindells wrote: > > > >>Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor > >>Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? > > >I think I do. > > If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ? > > Robert Swindells Wait, isn't this the file E2-proc-gen.pdf.bz2 at http://www.unlambda.com/lispm/explorer-docs/e3-docs/ ? --Alastair From rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Wed Apr 7 05:49:01 2004 From: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk (Robert Swindells) Date: Wed Apr 7 04:49:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <20040407112051.GA27258@miyu.paradiesanalytics.com> (message from Nyef on Wed, 7 Apr 2004 07:20:51 -0400) Message-ID: <200404071244.i37CisQu036283@ren.fdy2.net> >On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:09:35AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote: >> >> Steve Ford wrote: > >Robert Swindells wrote: >> > >> >>Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor >> >>Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? >> >> >I think I do. >> >> If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ? >> >> Robert Swindells >Wait, isn't this the file E2-proc-gen.pdf.bz2 at >http://www.unlambda.com/lispm/explorer-docs/e3-docs/ ? It is. Thanks. It references the "Explorer Lisp Microprocessor Specification" document, is this available anywhere ? My interest is in trying to work out why my microExplorer fails it's self-test as well as thinking about emulating it. Robert Swindells From ford@objs.com Wed Apr 7 05:52:01 2004 From: ford@objs.com (ford@objs.com) Date: Wed Apr 7 04:52:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]More documentation In-Reply-To: <20040407112051.GA27258@miyu.paradiesanalytics.com> References: <40718013.7080506@objs.com> <200404071009.i37A9Zgl035998@ren.fdy2.net> <20040407112051.GA27258@miyu.paradiesanalytics.com> Message-ID: <4073F898.6020607@objs.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070104090401030208080408 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nyef wrote: >On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:09:35AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote: > > >>Steve Ford wrote: >> >> >>>Robert Swindells wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor >>>>Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ? >>>> >>>> >>>I think I do. >>> >>> >>If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ? >> >>Robert Swindells >> >> > >Wait, isn't this the file E2-proc-gen.pdf.bz2 at >http://www.unlambda.com/lispm/explorer-docs/e3-docs/ ? > >--Alastair > Yep. I'm off the hook. Steve --------------070104090401030208080408 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Nyef wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:09:35AM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
  
Steve Ford wrote:
    
Robert Swindells wrote:

      
Does anyone have a copy of "Explorer II Processor and Auxillary Processor
Options General Description" - 2537187-0001 ?
        
I think I do.
      
If you do, would there be any way of getting it scanned ?

Robert Swindells
    

Wait, isn't this the file E2-proc-gen.pdf.bz2 at
http://www.unlambda.com/lispm/explorer-docs/e3-docs/ ?

--Alastair
Yep. 

I'm off the hook.

Steve
--------------070104090401030208080408-- From aek@spies.com Thu Apr 15 22:04:01 2004 From: aek@spies.com (Al Kossow) Date: Thu Apr 15 21:04:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]nevermore progress? Message-ID: <200404160507.i3G57II7020225@spies.com> I see there is an image up now from 04/08 with the standalone diag menu. From nyef@softhome.net Sat Apr 17 00:07:01 2004 From: nyef@softhome.net (Nyef) Date: Fri Apr 16 23:07:01 2004 Subject: [LMH]nevermore progress? In-Reply-To: <200404160507.i3G57II7020225@spies.com> References: <200404160507.i3G57II7020225@spies.com> Message-ID: <20040416103520.GA7279@miyu.paradiesanalytics.com> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:07:18PM -0700, Al Kossow wrote: > > I see there is an image up now from 04/08 with the standalone > diag menu. Indeed so, even if it did require patching the partition table in order to get it to come up (and figuring that out took about a day and a half). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to do too much since then. I got a rather difficult-to-interpret result from the ALU tests, and then got bogged down in the I-Memory tests (which won't accept an abort command). Then between messing with SBCL and actual for-pay work (unfortunately not Lisp related), I haven't had much time for Nevermore recently. The situation is improving now, but I probably won't be releasing a new version until after it can pass a few more of the standalone diagnostics. --Alastair Bridgewater From jm@mak.com Mon Apr 26 08:57:01 2004 From: jm@mak.com (John Morrison) Date: Mon Apr 26 07:57:01 2004 Subject: [LMH] Ooh, look! List traffic! In-Reply-To: <200404070959.i379xBXE035981@ren.fdy2.net> References: <200404070959.i379xBXE035981@ren.fdy2.net> Message-ID: <200404261157.28508.jm@mak.com> On Wednesday 07 April 2004 05:59 am, Robert Swindells wrote: > As a followup to the thread on putting a CPU in a FPGA, anyone interested > might like to look at the JOP CPU. > > It is designed to run Java, but is implemented as a microcoded stack > architecture. > > > There's also: http://www.tensilica.com/html/tensilica_instruction_extensio.html (So much to do, so little time...) -jm -- ==== John Morrison ==== MAK Technologies Inc. ==== 185 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge, MA 02138 ==== http://www.mak.com/ ==== vox:617-876-8085 x115 ==== fax:617-876-9208 ==== jm@mak.com