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General Discussion / Re: Learning POWER9 assembly

« on: November 08, 2021, 11:34:48 pm »

I did some reading of the recommended materials thus far. How in the actual hell is this considered a Reduced Instruction Set?!?!? PowerPC from almost 30 years ago makes the z/Architecture look like a paragon of simplicity and elegance - God only knows what abominations await in POWER9.

Update:



Are you f**king kidding me

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General Discussion / Learning POWER9 assembly

« on: November 02, 2021, 01:16:22 am »

Can anyone recommend some good resources for someone who wants to get into POWER9 assembly programming? I have an old book somewhere about 32-bit PowerPC assembly but don't know how much things have changed since the days of the Power Macintosh G4.

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Talos II / Re: Order processing time

« on: October 30, 2021, 12:14:02 am »

Very promising signs of life from Raptor after they mysteriously fell asleep for most of October.

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Talos II / Re: Order processing time

« on: October 27, 2021, 03:35:59 pm »

It has now been just over a week since I ordered; can't get a hold of Raptor on the phone, on social media or by email. Considering what I paid for it, I wish they did a better job of looking out for their paying customers.

UPDATE: Never mind, I got a reply on Twitter, the 8xSATA controllers are out of stock likely until November. Thank you, Raptor Computing Systems, for your prompt response, and I apologize for my impatience

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Talos II / Re: Order processing time

« on: October 26, 2021, 08:19:08 pm »

I ordered a board last November and still have no idea if or when I will receive it, however the part was listed as Backordered. It's just killing me because my main board has been unusable after a personal blunder.

I'm pretty sure they are focusing on dual-socket production right now due to the pandemic economy - the Blackbird board has been backordered for over a year now.

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Talos II / Re: Order processing time

« on: October 22, 2021, 08:03:54 pm »

No, though they're both good signs. In Stock means they literally have it in the warehouse right now, in a box, ready to go. Full Production means they're being made now (not merely to order) and will be in the warehouse.

So how long do you think I have to wait until it's ready? Weeks? Months? I would like to have it before the RMA period ends so I can make sure it works.

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Talos II / Re: Order processing time

« on: October 22, 2021, 07:44:33 pm »

It's US to US, so if it's in stock my experience is they've been good with getting it out (three systems here).

Are "Full Production" and "In Stock" the same thing? It didn't say "Backordered" so it should probably ship some time next week, hopefully.

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Talos II / Re: Order processing time

« on: October 22, 2021, 02:17:32 pm »

Wonderful, thank you!

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Talos II / Re: Order processing time

« on: October 21, 2021, 11:55:22 pm »

Side note: United States Federal regulations require most items ordered online to ship in 30 days unless a longer time is specified or the item is listed as out of stock/backordered, or else the seller has to take action or face a chargeback. I suppose that places a handy upper bound on it, but I hope it doesn't take that long - everything I ordered was listed as full production or in stock at the time of ordering. Let's hope it doesn't come to this:

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/rules/rulemaking-regulatory-reform-proceedings/mail-internet-or-telephone-order
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-do-if-youre-billed-things-you-never-got-or-you-get-unordered-products

Not to be a downer of course, this is good to know in any situation where you are ordering something online, especially considering the sorry state of the U.S. supply chain and online retailers like Chinamazon...

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Talos II / Order processing time

« on: October 21, 2021, 06:11:12 pm »

Hello all,

My name is Dave and I am a newcomer to the Talos community. I'm not as much a security freak as I am an exotic hardware enthusiast; I just ordered a Talos II kit with dual quad-core POWER9v2 CPU's and the 8-port SATA controller. Does anyone know how long it generally takes to process such an order these days?

Looking forward to receiving my components so I can start building!