Home at last!?

Greetings!

Sorry for the delay in writing.  It's been busy with "visitors",
lately.  <frown>  It was good seeing all of you -- looking forward
to April!

I made the Doppler additions to the demo you saw.  You should be able
to play with it on your existing hardware.  There's a ReadMe that
explains the controls.

I started porting the OS to a small ARM development board.  Goal is
to make sure there are no big "gotcha's" before moving the designs
to foil.  Having to redo *one* would be annoying; redoing ALL of
them would just be depressing!   :<

I've also been reexamining the VM scrubbing code.  The synchronous
implementation may be more deterministic but it seems like it's
less *efficient* (well, you know what I mean...).  I may try to
move that to the Dx thread at some cost in *real* efficiency
(though a net gain in *perceived* efficiency).  I will explore
the options as I port that bit of code to this development board.

[Though I still consider the Dx thread somewhat dubious...  OTOH, I
can't see any other way around it (besides the offline option we
discussed -- and it's drawbacks!)]

I also updated the _MMU Exploits_ document in an attempt to make it
more specific/pertinent by eliding those items that aren't directly
used by the OS.  Comments welcome.  (it still retains a "general"
tone so I will need to make it even more *specific* -- with concrete
examples per *this* implementation).

Watch your doorsteps -- dropping a box of goodies in the mail to
each of you this afternoon.  I'll leave it to each of you to sort
out how they get shared in your families -- or not!  ;-)  I imagine
kiddies will be disappointed (but spouses, not!  :> )

Let me know if Vegas or SoCal in April.  I'd also be happy to let
it slip to May (all the recent visitors have me WAY behind!  Still
a few more "obligations" to address before I can get back to life
as usual...).  Much later than May would probably invalidate Vegas
as an option (?)

Good seeing you all!
--don

P.S.  Managed to harvest the Valencias the other day.  Some 160 pounds
on that one tree!  Already juiced about 7 gallons and still have
several bags of fruit left.  But, *nowhere* near as sweet as the juice
from the Navels that you had while here.

Argh!  Sorry, too many windows open at the same time -- pasted
email and USENET posts in the wrong windows (so, now I have to
go explain an "odd" email to several people..  :< )

AIOE apparently doesn't support cmsg's (?)