I was going through a stack of ODD and ran across some disks that seemed to be test disks from internal releases. Does anyone know what these names refer to?
The RUNIN disk seems interesting... kind of a smoke test for hardware by the looks of it.
I've always wondered why an OD I have has been labeled "Crimson". I wish somebody would be able to provide what these internal code names are.
If it's similar to mine then it's probably a 0.9 release candidate. That's what these ones appear to be.
Do you have a drive that can read the media? If not, I'd be happy to dump it for you... sometime the disks contain interesting things. I just found a disk that has a bunch of training materials for SE's on it.
"WARP" was used as code name for some NeXTstation models (WARP9 = non-turbo monochrome NeXTstation; WARP9C = non-turbo NeXTstation color).
But i don't know if there is any connection between these code names and your "warp" labeled disk.
If there is any hardware related information on the disks, i would be highly interested!
This could be documentation of hardware components, software used to do hardware-tests, developer documentation containing hardware informations, source code of some hardware specific application, etc
Please let me know.
Quote from: andreas_g on November 26, 2010, 03:13:35 AM"WARP" was used as code name for some NeXTstation models (WARP9 = non-turbo monochrome NeXTstation; WARP9C = non-turbo NeXTstation color).
But i don't know if there is any connection between these code names and your "warp" labeled disk.
If there is any hardware related information on the disks, i would be highly interested!
This could be documentation of hardware components, software used to do hardware-tests, developer documentation containing hardware informations, source code of some hardware specific application, etc
Please let me know.
Time for some necroposting here! I wonder if
@gtnicol is still around! (Last seen two days ago. Maybe there's a chance?)
@Rob Blessin Black Hole recently found an MO disc with a directory named "Warp9J" (
https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=6031.msg34412#msg34412) that confused the hell out of us (or at least me) since the NS 2.x line stopped with Warp8.5. Is it possible that these releases are NS2.2 builds used to test/develop slab support? (And could J = Japanese?)
More broadly, on the topic of colored codenames, we found another one—Magenta (
https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=6022)—recently. It proved to be Warp4.1, a beta of NS 2.0 specifically made for Lotus Improv 1.0 beta. Based on what little we know I would speculate that Fuschia and Indigo are also from the 1990–1992 era.