Title: Just installed OPENSTEP on an Axil 320
Post by: tipo158 on August 26, 2013, 09:26:31 PM
Post by: tipo158 on August 26, 2013, 09:26:31 PM
Two weekends ago I picked up an Axil 320, a SPARCstation 20 clone, that I had seen at the local computer recycler for the last few months. Last week I accumulated some missing pieces (a frame buffer and a HDD - I swore that I had spares, but I guess not). The disk showed up today, so, after installing the disk in the system, I installed OPENSTEP 4.2.
The Axil is a dual processor (60MHz SuperSPARCs) with 160M of memory. I only ever ran NeXTSTEP on an '030 slab and an '030 cube before, so this systems feel pretty peppy.
Now that I have it running, I need to decide what I will use it for.
alan
The Axil is a dual processor (60MHz SuperSPARCs) with 160M of memory. I only ever ran NeXTSTEP on an '030 slab and an '030 cube before, so this systems feel pretty peppy.
Now that I have it running, I need to decide what I will use it for.
alan
Title: Just installed OPENSTEP on an Axil 320
Post by: blakespot on June 21, 2014, 09:53:32 PM
Post by: blakespot on June 21, 2014, 09:53:32 PM
Please post some photographs of the machine running OPENSTEP!
Title: Just installed OPENSTEP on an Axil 320
Post by: tipo158 on May 26, 2015, 09:53:14 PM
Post by: tipo158 on May 26, 2015, 09:53:14 PM
I now have 416M of memory in it and it runs OPENSTEP very well.
I am not using a Sun display; it has a LCD monitor and a 13W3 to VGA adapter (like the rest of my Sun boxes).
I still haven't found a web browser to run on it. The copy of OmniWeb that I found says that it is an expired demo.
Anyway, here are pictures:
After I took the photos, I fixed the date.
alan
I am not using a Sun display; it has a LCD monitor and a 13W3 to VGA adapter (like the rest of my Sun boxes).
I still haven't found a web browser to run on it. The copy of OmniWeb that I found says that it is an expired demo.
Anyway, here are pictures:
After I took the photos, I fixed the date.
alan
Title: Just installed OPENSTEP on an Axil 320
Post by: blakespot on May 27, 2015, 07:59:13 AM
Post by: blakespot on May 27, 2015, 07:59:13 AM
I am guessing that NEXTSTEP does not detect / support dual processors. Do you see any indication in the running system to the contrary?
Thanks.
bp
Thanks.
bp
Title: Just installed OPENSTEP on an Axil 320
Post by: mikeboss on May 27, 2015, 09:30:15 AM
Post by: mikeboss on May 27, 2015, 09:30:15 AM
Quote from: "blakespot"I am guessing that NEXTSTEP does not detect / support dual processors. Do you see any indication in the running system to the contrary?
type "hostinfo" and hit enter in the terminal an you'll know. but I also expect OPENSTEP to not detect the second CPU.
Title: Just installed OPENSTEP on an Axil 320
Post by: tipo158 on May 27, 2015, 10:13:38 AM
Post by: tipo158 on May 27, 2015, 10:13:38 AM
Yes, it is only making use of one processor.
hostinfo reports that the kernel is configured for single processor only and that 1 processor is physically available.
alan
hostinfo reports that the kernel is configured for single processor only and that 1 processor is physically available.
alan