Symbolics LAN - Overview
Over the past two weeks, I set up a small Symbolics LAN, and thought I would share some of the process and findings. I will write »
Symbolics XL LAN Challenges
I recently set up a LAN of my three XL Symbolics machines at home. The XL1201 which was having stability issues has been largely stabilized (thanks »
CLIM on Genera 8.3 [Updated]
In preparation of doing some actual software engineering on Genera, I decided to take a look at the CLIM implementation on my MacIvory III Genera 8. »
Telnet to MacIvory
Just a quick note about how to enable telnet to your MacIvory III running Genera 8.3. First, Edit Object Site NAME (obviously, use your NAME »
Enhanced X11 Keyboard
Well, after living with the default keyboard mapping for Genera under X-Windows, I decided to make an optimized one for an 87-key ANSI layout. The design »
Reloading Translations Files
Just a brief hint... After you modify the file that has your translations (e.g., sys.translations), to make the new changes active, call (load-patches). Per »
MacIvory III Setup and X11
As I haven't had the time to continue to debug the XL1201 hardware problems, I turned back to the MacIvory III and an Intel i7 NUC »
Multiple Crashes
I have been having a hell of a time today with the XL1201. It keeps crashing to the FEP from Genera. Very frustrating. You can Continue »
Auto-setting Time
Every time Genera boots, it asks for the time. However, Genera clearly uses the RFC 868 Time Protocol. So, I thought I'd try to make my »
Genera X11 Fonts on Mac
Although away, I have my laptop with me and decided to try to get Xquartz running with the Genera X11 fonts. Find the Genera X11 fonts »
Autoboot Serial/Telnet and X
I've decided to take a minor detour when I get back from the gaming convention to make a disk image for someone with an XL400 without »
Displaying Genera on iMac
Well, on a whim I decided to see if I could get Genera running on my iMac's X display. (This way I can spare the 3620 »
Symbolics Filesystems (Updated)
Update 1: Added FEP Kernel image. ams asked me for a few clean filesystems so he can analyze how they work. Happy to oblige. They're here. »
Genera 8.3 Setup, Part 2
Good evening with the XL1201 tonight. TL;DR: Got NFS working on Genera, mostly Need to fix UIDs Showed editing a file on NFS server Showed »
Clean Genera 8.3 FEPfs
I was asked to provide a full list of all the files on the XL1201 Genera 8.3 hard drive I received from David K. Schmidt. »
Setting Up Genera 8.3, Part 1
I'm setting up Genera 8.3 on the XL1201 using a clean hard drive. Literally all this hard drive has on it is Genera 8.3 »
XL1201 and SCSI2SD v5 128GB
I'm attempting to use the SCSI2SD v5 with a 128G microSD card. You can find out the size of an SD card attached to a modern »
XL1201 Mini-benchmark
UPDATED July 28, 2016: More mini-benchmark results added. I was asked to do a simple benchmark of the XL1201 by Jerome Ibanes and share the results. »
Clean Boot of Genera 8.3
The XL1201 now boots nicely from a new ST318451LW Cheetah drive that David K. Schmidt sent (sold) me. It loads FEP version 333 and a clean »
Clean Install Genera 8.3 on XL1201
Attempting a clean install of Genera 8.3 on XL1201 using just a CD-ROM drive and a blank hard drive. However, from preliminary results, this seems »