27 Sep
2013
27 Sep
'13
3:21 p.m.
On 09/26/2013 10:15 AM, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:49 AM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
Hmm... how do I know if I have a spock or tribble board, vs. something
else? Do you happen to know the part numbers?
I hauled a PS/2 65sx out of a dumpster a few weeks ago (using more modern
PCs as stepping stones to reach it) and it's got a SCSI board and a 60MB
drive fitted - putting AIX on it (assuming that AIX is OK with that
particular model, and 6MB of RAM is enough) might be fun.
Currently it halts with 161 & 163 errors, which I think is down to a dead
CMOS battery, but hopefully if I fix that then it will be happy (of course
I've no idea yet what's on the hard disk - assuming that the drive isn't
dead - so for all I know it's got AIX on there already :-)
cheers
Jules
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
It was *very* HW specific. The only disk interfaces were the PS/2 ESDI card and
two of the PS/2 SCSI cards ("spock" and "tribble"). I wrote all of
the SCSI subsystem
code.
On Sep 25, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:
How hardware-specific was it? Is there a chance of it running in a VM? Some posting on another list gave me a hankering
for wanting to try to
get the old AIX for x86/PS2 systems running in a VM.
I have two old Floppy disks (3.5") labelled AIX BOOT and AIX INSTALL
... the BOOT disk boots but doesn't give an option for installing from
the install disk.
The install disk doesn't really seem to boot.
I assume there are more than just these two disks to get the OS
running. Anyone out there have a source?
Damn. That takes me back. ;-) I worked on AIX PS/2 for a number of years
(from before it was a real product until just before IBM stopped active
development on it).
The full set was ~53 diskettes as I recall. I can't remember how many cases
of diskettes I ended up with since each build was delivered as a set of diskettes.