I hope this isn't completely off topic for this list. My idea is that
posting this report here might be useful to someone in the future
searching for related information.
Back in 2008 I bricked my XO-1 B2 (128MB) machine by upgrading to a
firmware that was incompatible with it. The original
Anna,
So, I took the mobo out of one of the XO 1.5 units, broke it down to just
the board and nothing else, then put it in the toaster. On a metal pan
supported by four balls of tin foil: 385F for 8 mins. Put everything back
together and, to my complete and utter astonishment, it booted.
C. Scott Ananian wrote on Sat, 21 May 2011 19:22:01 -0400
I'm familiar with the processors designed for specific high-level
languages. There was another generation of them built for Java
(microblaze, picoblaze, etc) and some of those are even still
commercially significant (they run Java
Richard Smith wrote:
All 'e' series firmware will brick any machine using a Geode GX (B1
B2) so e12 would have not have saved you.
Right, it would be a good idea to mention this in
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification#Software_on_the_develop
ment_systems
It is pretty easy to
Richard A. Smith wrote:
Ugh. Verified. e15 bricks a B2. I suspect that when I fixed the
board ID table for the upcoming C3 I've somehow broken B2.
I'm investigating now.
It is hard to avoid having these things happen given all the versions of
machines out there. Though it is still more
About a week ago I attempted the update the firmware on a BTest-2
machine from q2c11 to q2e15. There were no error messages, but after it
shut down the screen no longer turns on. The EC seems to be working
(mostly at least) ok.
The idea was to test SqueakNOS but its boot.fth file uses commands
Frank Ch. Eigler wrote on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:57:52 -0400
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 02:50:59PM -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
Plus it requires them (and users) to run the tools embedded into the
possibly suspect image in order to describe itself. Do you see how
there could be a trust problem
Edward Cherlin wrote:
Eh, LISP machine, Smalltalk machine, FORTH machine, APL machine. All
great technical innovations, all market flops, if they were even
implemented fully. Computers should be general-purpose.
I hope you are not saying that it is wrong for me to design Smalltalk
machines for
