Re: Anyone got any Axil material?

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 06:33:38PM -0700, Lyle Bickley wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:25:50 -0700 Alan Perry <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Everything that I have found on the Axil 320 describes it as a SS20
> > clone.
> 
> Now that I've been watching the emails fly by regarding Axil - I
> remember having had one myself - and it was a 320. I found that it was
> an excellent clone - and I experimented with several different Sun
> multiprocessors in the Axil w/o experiencing any problems.
> 
> Cooling was an issue in both the 10 and 20 (and Axil) as has been
> mentioned - and I remember adding a small, high-speed fan internally to
> help move more air - especially on a loaded system (multiprocessor,
> video, two HDD, floppy, etc.)...
> 
> BTW: I often look at the OpenBSD site to better understand clones.
> Take a look here: http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html
> 
> You'll see that the Axil 320 is indeed a Sparc 20 clone...

Quite so.  However, Axil 320 did have some features more in common
with SPARC10 than SPARC20.

The most obvious one I can recall was the use of 50-pin narrow SCSI
like SPARC10 has, whereas real SPARC20 had SCA SCSI connectors.

The ofw banner may have said "Axil" in it somewhere, but in all other
respects I can remember, the Axil 320 was a SPARC20 clone.  I freely
exchanged memory modules, CPUs, SBus cards, etc. between them.

Cheers,
sr.