From: Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Amdahl UTS, AIX/370, AIX/ESA
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 12:12:00 -0700 [thread overview]
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It was used in academia although it did appear elsewhere for instance in
some PLC applications, for a long while some supertankers were running
PS/2s with Optio22 I/O boards to control pumps and whatnot.
I have seen the media kits in person recently. They comically come with an
“action” key cap for your Model M. I have a picture of interested.
I don’t think the lack of popularity was any conspiracy. SCO had much
better ISV and hardware support for PS/2. And if you had a nickel for a
real computer there’s a reason the RS/6000 platform and AIX are still
around today, it’s not bad stuff despite being a bit different and foreign.
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 12:03 PM Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 13:08, Kevin Bowling <kevin.bowling@kev009.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Clem,
>>
>> The AIX/386 stuff is readily available http://ps-2.kev009.com/aixps2/
>> and can run in virtualbox
>>
>> https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/running-aix-1-3-inside-virtual-box-5-2-16/
>>
>
> Wow, so the "x86" version of AIX truly existed!
>
> I had long heard rumour of this, and had heard of it from sources I was
> inclined to trust not to be making it up. The dates seem to decently
> explain the invisibility; introduction in 1992 and withdrawal in March 1995
> left but a brief period of time when anyone would have been willing to
> acknowledge it as a product.
>
> --
> When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
> question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
>
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Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-03 21:05 Kevin Bowling
2019-11-03 23:29 ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-04 0:06 ` Kevin Bowling
2019-11-04 1:29 ` Dennis Boone
2019-11-04 1:58 ` Kevin Bowling
2019-11-04 3:39 ` Gregg Levine
2019-11-04 4:49 ` Kevin Bowling
2019-11-04 15:32 ` Adam Thornton
2019-11-05 16:21 ` Ronald Natalie
2019-11-05 18:04 ` Kevin Bowling
2019-11-05 19:22 ` ron
2019-11-05 17:30 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-05 18:07 ` Kevin Bowling
2019-11-05 18:15 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-05 19:03 ` Christopher Browne
2019-11-05 19:12 ` Kevin Bowling [this message]
2019-11-05 19:26 ` SPC
2019-11-05 19:28 ` SPC
2019-11-05 20:26 ` Kevin Bowling
2019-11-05 20:10 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-05 20:42 ` Kevin Bowling
2019-11-05 21:11 ` Clem Cole
2019-11-05 22:11 ` [TUHS] one element of one of M factions of N companies [Re: " Charles H Sauer
2019-11-06 0:06 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2019-11-06 3:36 ` Charles H. Sauer
2019-11-06 7:59 ` [TUHS] AOS and IBM/RT " SPC
2019-11-06 15:51 ` Charles H Sauer
2019-11-07 22:40 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-11-08 4:39 ` Jason Stevens
2019-11-21 6:26 ` Al Kossow
2019-11-21 11:58 ` Dan Cross
2019-11-21 13:07 ` Brad Spencer
2019-11-21 14:19 ` Dan Cross
2019-11-21 16:16 ` Chet Ramey
2019-11-21 20:53 ` Dan Cross
2019-11-21 16:43 ` greg travis
2019-11-21 19:41 ` arnold
2019-11-21 20:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2019-11-21 17:33 ` Charles H Sauer
2019-11-21 17:36 ` Dan Cross
2019-11-21 18:11 ` Brad Spencer
2019-11-21 17:29 ` Charles H Sauer
2019-11-22 20:38 ` Al Kossow
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