The Musings of Peter Tattam

On making a better mousetrap…

October 5, 2023

As a veteran Delphi developer, the age old problem of memory management keeps raising its ugly head. Again, and again, and again. One would expect that after 20 years into the 21st century we wouldn’t have to be contending with manual heap management (new/dispose or GetMem/FreeMem), but sadly even after this length of time, we…

Computing in the 21st Century – how can we avoid “bugful” programming?

March 30, 2016

One has to wonder whether using imperative computing models in languages like C, C++, pascal, Delphi, Java and the like is entirely suitable for the modern computing age. The complexity of computing tasks has grown exponentially in recent years along with the scale of hardware that is available. My premise is that imperative languages like…

Tattam’s Great Escape – departure

August 31, 2015

Ok folks. I’m not a great fan of travel blogs, but Joy and I have been asked to post some stuff, so here goes. I’m not a happy traveller these days, having done a fair bit of commuting to Los Angeles from Tasmania in the Trumpet days. But it was time – this trip being…

Thanks for donations

March 3, 2011

A hearty thank you to all those who have donated recently (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875) as compensation for their unpaid use of Trumpet Winsock in the past. I will put the money to good use – it will enable me to work on projects that up till now I’ve had to fund out of my limited personal income as…

Australian IPv6 Summit

November 13, 2008

I’m heading off to the Australian IPv6 summit next week. See http://www.ipv6.org.au/summit/index.php I spent quite a bit of time in the past 10 years working with the IPv6 people worldwide. I ran the 6BONE IPv6 testing backbone for the Australian region, did work on IPv6 tunneling on demand gateways, designed protocols for TCP connection survivability…

Windows Device Driver in Delphi (Ring 0 Windows programming)

August 3, 2008

Just recently I thought I’d work on a project I had shelved a few years back. It’s a by-product of the recent Classios work I’ve done. Since I used Delphi (D2006) to build the classios kernel, it seemed logical to see if I could build a windows device driver directly with delphi without the use…

Nice tech…

July 10, 2008

NVidia has made a nice little unit here called the Tegra. http://www.nvidia.com/object/io_1212391368499.html In the past I have considered doing work on ARM devices. I would need to get my Opascal compiler (currently i386 which I don’t use right now) to run on the ARM. P!

ClassiOS alpha release 0.001

February 22, 2008

For those patient folks who want to kick the tyres on classios, it’s finally here. Note this is a 0.001 release, just to prove that it exists and boot a kernel. For more details go to the forums http://forums.tattsoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=4.

Good things come to those who wait….

February 15, 2008

Well, it’s finally happened!!! After more than 5 years, I finally have PetrOS and the other Trumpet products solely in my own name along with the rest of the IP of the Trumpet Software company. This has major implications for the future of PetrOS and ClassiOS. I’m not sure what else to say except it’s…

Update on Classios and embedded work

January 19, 2008

It’s been a while but it has been moving on slowly. I have got to the stage of running some win32 code finally. I have a small shell (which doesn’t do much yet), but the shell is 100% win32 code (written in Delphi). Basically, I have enough of the win32 api to read/write to the…