Oxide Computer: Docs

As someone who's only dealt with commodity server hardware, these specs make me salivate. And all these boot/management TUIs are just so satisfying to look at.

(Sorry to be that guy, but just a friendly suggestion: high contrast dark themes are difficult to read for people with astigmatism. Especially since this is technical documentation, intended to be thoroughly read, you might want to consider a light theme toggle.)

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

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Post by codetrotter » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 9:52 PM UTC

I wonder how much the smallest, cheapest configuration will cost. I would really love to buy one of these. But I suspect it will cost 100x more than I can afford heh.

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

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Post by dang » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 9:56 PM UTC

wmf wrote: post #3

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #2

What's new here

I think these docs were just published.

OK, let's document that in the title above. Thanks!

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

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Post by 0x6c6f6c » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 10:01 PM UTC

> Oxide Computer Model 0, also known as the “0x1”

So is it 1 or is it 0..

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

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Post by all2 » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 10:02 PM UTC

dist1ll wrote: post #5

As someone who's only dealt with commodity server hardware, these specs make me salivate. And all these boot/management TUIs are just so satisfying to look at. (Sorry to be that guy, but just a friendly suggestion: high contrast dark themes are difficult to read for people with astigmatism. Especially since this is technical documentation, intended to be thoroughly read, you might want to consider a light theme toggl…

> sorry to be that guy ... astigmatism

Darkreader is a lovely plugin that might make your life much easier: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

I believe there is a Chrome extension, too.

It lets you set BG, FG, sepia, total contrast, etc. It is quite a neat piece of kit.

Re: Oxide Computer: Docs

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Post by EvanAnderson » Thu, Jul 20, 2023, 10:10 PM UTC

Everything about Oxide's gear sounds like fun. I imagine it must be a bit like what working with minicomputers in 70s thru the 90s was like.

I did a little work in the late 90s with Alpha-based machines. I was impressed at those machines didn't seem like the hack-job crap that PC-based stuff was (with simulated chips from the early 1980's hiding out in dark corners because "compatibility") and still is today. I'm betting working with Sun gear felt similar, though I never got to work with it. Just having an honest-to-God serial console, as opposed to crappy bag-on-the-side things that scrape video memory and pretend to be "legacy" PC input devices, would be an amazing thing.

I'll never be able to work with their stuff because I don't work with Customers at that scale. I'm also vastly unqualified to work for them at their current stage. I suppose maybe someday they'll need field service technicians... I can hope, I guess.