Axil update
Alan Perry <[email protected]> Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:09:00 -0700
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Got all of the parts that I needed for the Axil. 64M sticks of RAM were $7, so I bumped the 32M to 160M. Got a 2.1G Barracuda HDD and a TurboGX frame buffer. And a NOS Axil Type 5 keyboard (but the mouse doesn't work). Installed OpenStep 4.2 on it and it works great. It certainly has more pep than I remember my '30 NeXT slab having ;) It talks nicely on my network and out my DSL, but its 10M ethernet is slower than my DSL line. Except for one notable exception, it has worked with all of the NeXTSTEP/OpenStep SPARC code that I have found on the net. The one exception that I have found is the newest browser known to work with OpenStep, OmniWeb. I decided to build some modern open source packages on it, but the 1995 vintage compiler and tools aren't quite up to snuff for this kind of work. I have even had problems with gzip and tar. But it is fun trying. alan