[rescue] Axil320?

Alan Perry alanp at snowmoose.com
Sat Feb 15 14:14:09 EST 2025



> On Feb 15, 2025, at 10:41, Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 2/15/25 13:35, Alan Perry via rescue wrote:
>>>> Just to follow up on this, I did order the Axil 320 & a Zuluscsi on
>>>> Friday and blew the toy budget even further to hell this morning when
>>>> I found a pair of matched Ross HM142S-1024 142mhz processors that I
>>>> could just afford. That should be quite the little SS20 clone system
>>>> by the time I get done.
>>>> 
>>>> Once I see how much ram is on board, that will probably be the next
>>>> step but really, I'm going to have some fun I think.
>>> 
>>>   That will be a fantastic system.
>>> 
>>>   Don't try to run Solaris on it!
>>> 
>> Solaris 2.6 (or maybe 7) runs just fine on my 320.
> 
>  Sure, it *runs*.  But if you want to see it run maybe 4x faster, put SunOS4 on it.

If I were strictly looking for speed, I wouldn’t be running 30 year old hardware. Solaris is fast enough to be usable (unlike running it on my lunchboxes) and has more functionality than SunOS 4.

alan

> 
>         -Dave
> 
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
> 
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