Trusted Systems / mandatory access control (MAC)
SELinux - my way to go (since 2002)
grsecurity - how to learn to swim (before 2002)
High Assurance Systems
Digirule 2U: The Digirule 2 is essentially an 8-bit programmable binary computer of the 1970’s – built into a 20cm ruler.
dgtools: dgtools is a complete toolkit for developing software for the Digirule series
RC2014 is a simple 8 bit Z80 based modular computer
ESP8266 Wifi Module -tbd-
gowinsemi.com FPGA with 20K Logic Units LUT4
Tang Primer 20K is a core board with DDR3 sodimm shape based on GW2A-LV18PG256C8/I7 as the main chip, with 2 ext-boards are prepared, the Dock and the Lite.
BLAI-100 AI hardware accelerator (100GOPS)
Convenient keyboard in retro style
the daily workhorse: Keychron K3D3
a bit of extravagance: Keychron K8 Pro (K8P-J1)
Mojo is a new programming language that bridges the gap between research and production by combining the best of Python syntax with systems programming and metaprogramming.
Colossus (*reminiscence)
My workstation for ML/ AI and Data Science experiments: AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 12-Core (Zen4, 2x32MB + 1x64MB 3D L3 Cache), 128GB ECC DDR5, 1TB PCIe NVMe, gentoo linux
RISC-V CPUs
Pineapple ONE: awesome project on doing a 32 bit RISC-V CPU at home
Linux on awkward hardware
my own: Generation 2 - The Colour Maximite 2 is a small self contained computer inspired by the home computers of the early 80's - ARM Cortex-M7 32-bit RISC processor running at 480MHz / VGA output at resolutions up to 1920x1080 pixels with up to 16 million colours
whishlist: Wifi Modem incl. TCP/IP, connected to COM - i.e. ESP8266 like NodeMcu
Tube Tester
Discontinued Projects
Alpha AXP 21164 @533MHz running RedHat Linux
Alpha AXP 21066 @166MHz running RedHat Linux
2 x Dual Core Itanium 2 @1.6GHz, 96GB RAM at HPE Integrity rx4640 running Gentoo Linux
HPE ProLiant DL980 Gen7 10x8 Core Xeon, 1024GB RAM / 1500 Watt idle ... running Gentoo Linux NUMA-aware kernel nicely
SCO OpenServer + X11 on AMD Am486DX4 / 32MB / 40MB (!) HDD
Novell NetWare 2.2 / 3.x / 4.x on AMD 386 / 486
Slackware since 1993 (24x 3.5" Floppy Disks) on i386SX / i486 / Cyrix / NeXGen / AMD 5x86 / AMD K5 / AMD K6-III / IBM 486 / + IIT FPUs
