About robertlipe.com
A personal blog, centered on technology and particularly RISC-V microcontroller exploration
I’m Robert Lipe. I’ve been involved in free/open-source software since the late 1980’s and professionally in the industry since earlier than that. I’ve been involved in everything from a performing a DOS port of vi (Elvis!) to a maintainer of GCC and Binutils to probably my most famous creation, GPSBabel
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. Professionally, I created multi-port sharing devices with Digi, was a senior kernel engineer at SCO, and spent nearly 13 years working on Google Earth.
I’ve been involved in open source in some way since the 80’s and have contributed to a variety of packages, including:
ECU – Extended Call Utility
GNU Autoconf
GNU Autogen
GNU BInutils (GNU as, ld, strip, objcopy)
GNU Debugger (gdb)
GNU Newlib
GNU Tar
GPSBabel (of course!)
GNU Compiler Collection
Kermit
KME – Kernel Memory Editor
OpenCPN
SCO open-source work including LXRun, the GNU Developoment Suite GCC/GDB/Binutils, Connectix Kernel Driver. PThreads, Mutt, fetchmail,
SPIM – MIPS emulator
TBench
UDI Reference Implementation –
Viking
VTL – Virtual Terminal Creator
XEmacs
I was forced into medical disability in 2017. While I can’t spend endless hours at a desk any longer, I can still tinker here and there. I’ve somewhat returned to my embedded and electronics background to keep entertained. I took an interest in RISC-V and as thus, much of my writing here is about that technology.