Genera

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 a post about each item, but the topics already concluded cover: … »

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 to help from David Schmidt). I will post more about … »

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 8.3. There are a few steps to do first: Load System … »

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 and not mine) in the Namespace Editor and add your network … »

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 goals were: Utilize all the 16 top row keys … »

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 Site Operations guide, page 514, … »

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 I had. First I set up Ubuntu 14.04 on the NUC with NFS and the … »

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 but it will crash again very soon afterwards. Does anyone have … »

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 local Linux server (named HELIUM in our namespace) serve … »

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 (in bdf format) and transfer them to your Mac. I put them in … »

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 a working console. My goal here will be to make a world … »

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 Console from use while I figure out how to recap it.) It was a frustrating … »

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. Configuration: Device used: SCSI2SD v5 Created using … »

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 the SELECT-P peeking stuff Saved file listings for … »

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. Here they are in screenshot form from the first boot this past Thursday. »

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 and these patches: Genera 8.3 y2k patches Copy world patch Fepfs patch … »

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 Mac with diskutil list and then diskutil info /dev/disk8 (or whatever … »

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. Here is his requested code: (defun fib(n) (if (or … »

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 Genera 8.3 distribution world with just a few patches: Genera … »

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 to require a working Genera to install Genera again. … »