[rescue] Axil320?

[Dave McGuire]

On February 15, 2025 2:14:41 PM Alan Perry <alanp at snowmoose.com> wrote:
>> 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.

  We'll have to agree to disagree there. I find 2.6 to be completely unusable in any capacity. IMO, for production use anyway, Solaris didn't become a usable OS until 8, and didn't become a GOOD OS until 9.

                     -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA