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Looks like it's the same file as the AWACS driver on my mute 6500, so more analysis is required. Currently I'm theorizing there is a difference between the 275 and 300MHz boards and the ones 250MHz and below.

Very nice! I have a similar TAM (G3, CS2 NIC, 9.2.2, repaired buzz-free base). A periodic goal of mine is a "fast booter" (or a really thinned boot floppy) so I can play CDs in it without having to wait for the full MacOS to come up.

Oh, I ran into that when developing inetb. When threads terminated abnormally (like, I forcibly killed them) it made a mess in net_server, which inevitably needed to be restarted (but at least it could be restarted). I had to figure out a way to gracefully tell threads to go away even when they...

Thanks much. I'll compare this with my system. I'm wondering if I should just pull the cache and see what it does with that.

Well, the rockiness here is the TLS bolt-on -- it really strains the BeOS' stack allocations and its multithreaded nature means things can stomp on it. Stripping out the crashtastic JavaScript and a few other changes improved the core browser's stability markedly.

Who says you can't do TLS on BeOS ... in NetPositive itself? It's a little rocky, but it works! Downloads in the article. It builds with Metrowerks cc/BeOS CodeWarrior, but not sure which was the more appropriate prefix ...

Actually, @wottle, another request. Can you send me what you have in /boot/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/awacs ? I would like to compare that file with the one on this system just to make sure they're identical. How much L2 do you have?

That's very frustrating (for me). Your screenshot says you have a 250MHz system with 64MB of RAM. Any L2? I have a 6500/275 with 128MB of RAM and 1MB of cache, so I need to narrow some of these issues down. Maybe there's a logic board difference. There isn't a Gopher client on BeOS ... yet ;)...

Do you have sound on your TAM? My 6500 doesn't with BeOS, and I'm trying to see if it's unique to it or all Gazelle boards. (I do have a TAM also, but it runs 9.2.2, and I don't feel like putting 8.6 on it just to try this out. The BeOS launcher doesn't work with OS 9.) I've collected BeOS...

Didn't happen to have anything on the 6500, did you? I'm puzzling through why the BeOS AWACS driver works on the 6400 but not the 6500/TAM.

Not sure why. This occurred even with a recapped card. But this IIci is running 24/7, so it's possible they have a finite lifetime most collectors will never run into. Meanwhile, it's far more reliable, even though it's noticeably slower, just to run it without cache.

By far the part that failed the most in my very long running (as in decades) Mac IIci running NetBSD was the cache card. It would chew through one every couple of years and crash, recapped or not. I now run it without one.

Welcome. Mostly a lurker myself. I salute your worthy dayjob.

I got a lot of wear out of my IIsi; it was the first Mac I ever personally owned. At one point I actually did put a NuBus expander and an 8*24*GC in it, since at the time I only used it with a dialup modem and LocalTalk. It did basic papers, Telnet and a little bit of web browsing until I got a...

My first job out of college was on a K250, so I have a real affection for PA-RISC. My favourite is my SAIC Galaxy 1100, which is a Gecko 712/80 in a portable MIL-SPEC shell. It runs NeXTSTEP. I also have a PrecisionBook that runs HP/UX 10.20, a C8000 which I'd like to set up again if I can find...