29 Mar
2004
29 Mar
'04
6:44 p.m.
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:22:43 -0800 (PST)
Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)floodgap.com> wrote:
Hey now, I *like* AIX! :) (recovering system admin and I maintain my own
couple of AIX boxen in my apartment) smit happens, you know.
And I am proud that I just got AIX 4.3 up and running on an ancient 320H RS/6000 box. One
of the neater things about it is that it's so old that the "Power" processor
on it is actually a board with five or so chips. Not cool like a CPU that's a
wirewrap panel of TTL, of course.
Now I'd like to find a microchannel ethernet card for it that is twisted pair, because
right now it's only connection to the 'real world' is the serial console (it
has no video card), and thin-coax ethernet, which I haven't run in a long time here at
home.
I just got handed one, along w/ a AIX 5.1 media set..
Now I get to go
have fun.. Course, it would be nice to know exactly what bits I'm
pulling out of it, as I poke at its innards. .
I'll warn you, AIX (pronounced Aches) isn't the most fun of OS's, for a Unix
box at home, I prefer IRIX, Solaris, or for a secure system OpenBSD.