26 Sep
2013
26 Sep
'13
11:15 a.m.
On Sep 26, 2013, at 4:49 AM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
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.
The text console code was VGA specific (I wrote the initial version...modified
heavily later).
TTFN - Guy
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.