Symbolics LAN - Overview

Sun, 09 May 2021 21:34:56 +0000

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:

Performance challenges of the Merlin Ethernet under load, and modern 10Base5 to 10BaseT transceivers
An improvement to the stability of my first XL1201 which I was unstable, some five years ago
Y2k problems with the QFILE protocol under Chaosnet, and a “hotfix” to Genera’s QFILE client to bypass them (this is deprecated, but was fun to try out)
IP subnets and routing under Symbolics Namespaces
Setting up the three Symbolics XL computers as a small LAN with a Linux NFS server

Later, I hope to cover some more topics, including:

Lan on Symbolics LISP Engineering

Symbolics LAN - Overview