Axil update

Alan Perry <[email protected]> Sat, 31 Aug 2013 20:09:00 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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