2025-10-27 02:12:01 <tpbsd       > https://sourceforge.net/projects/mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc/files/furs.fossil.howto.md/download
2025-10-27 02:12:17 <tpbsd       > https://sourceforge.net/projects/mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc/files/furs.fossil/download
2025-10-27 02:12:56 <tpbsd       > ok, FURS is released, I hope there arent too many errors, if anyone reads it and finds some, please let me know ?
2025-10-27 11:31:36 <veltas      > tpbsd: I'm hoping I'll get some time to look at that after work, will let you know if I do and whether I find anything
2025-10-27 11:33:08 <tpbsd       > veltas, awesome, I'm really looking forward to your comments
2025-10-27 11:34:25 <tpbsd       > https://sourceforge.net/projects/mecrisp-stellaris-folkdoc/files/furs-ui-homepage.png/download
2025-10-27 12:58:56 <KipIngram   > M-Sci: Intresting device.  I don't have a lot to say about it; it's tube-like behavior seems to arise pretty clearly from its geometry.  Primarily that really low on resistance being due to its vertical structure and thus very short drain-to-source distance.
2025-10-27 12:59:37 <KipIngram   > I find it a little interesting that it didn't sticka around better - that must be telling us that the market that's so into tube-like sound and so on really just isn't big enough to drive economics.
2025-10-27 13:11:26 <veltas      > What's funny is a physical block size on a lot of new devices is going to be 4K or 8K, which means the 1K block size of Forth makes a bit more sense
2025-10-27 13:12:11 <veltas      > I say because at some point your data was being managed in 1K blocks in Forth even though physically it was stored as 512 byte blocks, so you'd think that would be inefficient
2025-10-27 13:12:30 <veltas      > I guess not that inefficient though, if you've already 'spun up' to read one block you might as well read 2
2025-10-27 13:12:50 <veltas      > Or however those janky disks work
2025-10-27 13:13:46 <veltas      > The claim was that PolyForth was a lot more efficient than anything running on an OS with a filesystem because you knew the physical block to read a record from immediately, without any intermediate lookups
2025-10-27 13:14:25 <veltas      > I think with the amount of RAM and caching going on that's not really true now, but it's an interesting historical point anyway
2025-10-27 17:03:35 <M-Sci       > tpbsd: You dismissed SIT like some people dismis Forth ;) .
2025-10-27 20:48:13 <tpbsd       > M-Sci, Im a retired electronics tech who grew up with real triodes and beam tetrodes etc, I guess I have strong opinions there in the same way that programmers are so polarised about Forth.
2025-10-27 20:59:07 <M-Sci       > tpbsd: OK
2025-10-27 20:59:55 <M-Sci       > All FETs, J and MOS, have Bulk electrode, 4 in total.
2025-10-27 21:00:51 <M-Sci       > Is SIT hiding in every JFET?
2025-10-27 21:00:53 <tpbsd       > M-Sci, and of course I could be wrong and the SIT could be a massively important device, I just wasn't overly impressed at first glance, and the article did say it was discontinued
2025-10-27 21:02:09 <M-Sci       > And it didn't say why at all.  I need to understand it better.
2025-10-27 21:03:20 <tpbsd       > we do have a ton of fet designs thesedays like 'finfets' in very high density devices, due to the reductions in size
2025-10-27 21:04:18 <tpbsd       > I have a fondness for the good old BJT myself
2025-10-27 21:06:00 <tpbsd       > lol, and Ive been mistaken many times, initially I thought AI was just another search engine, then I ended up buying hardware to use it locally as it has some very useful functions (not design)
2025-10-27 21:07:28 <tpbsd       > to me AI is like a  Intern, but at least I can ask it all my dumb questions and it doesnt get annoyed with me :)
2025-10-27 21:07:56 <tpbsd       > and it's tireless and free, another useful tool in my kit
2025-10-27 21:11:09 <tpbsd       > M-Sci, and of course when it comes to electronics, everything is a compromise, no exceptions. What are the compromised made with the SIT ?
2025-10-27 21:11:30 <tpbsd       > compromises
2025-10-27 21:12:35 <M-Sci       > IDK yet.
2025-10-27 21:13:58 <tpbsd       > is it capacitance of the gate ?
2025-10-27 21:15:23 <tpbsd       > they talked about use in hi-fi, so I suspect that the gate capacitance, like all fets is high in the case if the SIT
2025-10-27 21:41:14 <KipIngram   > I believe that video specicifcally said the gate capacitance is low - it's one of the things that makes it fast in switching applications.
2025-10-27 21:41:23 <KipIngram   > I could be misremembering, though.
2025-10-27 22:15:49 <veltas      > tpbsd: Got an open <i> tag on your home page on "Headers" that doesn't close
2025-10-27 22:15:56 <veltas      > For furs
2025-10-27 22:16:13 <tpbsd       > veltas, thnaks!
2025-10-27 22:18:37 <veltas      > Where are the web pages stored, are they in the fossil database or something?
2025-10-27 22:19:23 <tpbsd       > yeah
2025-10-27 22:19:42 <tpbsd       > everything is in the 5mb Fossil repo inc the webserver