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Zeetah | 1 year ago

You have an awesome memory, Dinarte!

Eric Mejdric from IBM called on Friday and said we have the chips, when are you guys getting here?

I took a red eye that night and got to Austin on Saturday morning.

We brought up the board, the IBM debugger, and then got stuck.

I remember calling you on Sunday morning. You had just got a big screen TV for the Super bowl and had people over and in-between hosting them you dropped us new bits to make progress.

I think Tracy came on Sunday or Monday and with you got the Kernel booted.

Good times!

This is Harjit by the way.

Edit: added super bowl.

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saturn8601|1 year ago

OMG Harjit! I saw you in the documentary! You and the entire team are total rockstars! I just cannot fathom ever being in a position to design something that provided so much joy and happy core memories to countless people around the world...you guys did it!

Just the thought of how many people you touched with your work....just amazing! :)

Had a question if you don't mind: Can you talk about the thought process behind the power supply design? Its very large even in the super slim models. Were you following a specific design driven by the hardware architecture or were there other reasons? I always wondered about that.

dinartem|1 year ago

Actually Tracy never made it to Austin. He was going to fly in later in the week to continue bring-up, but since we were done by Wednesday, we just sent the chips to Redmond and he continued there. He was of course always available on the phone to answer my kernel questions I had.