RT 6150 Lives! (Long!) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

25 Jan 2002

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Doc Shipley [mailto:doc@mdrconsult.com] 
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    I was able to find archived images of AIX v2.2.1
(which, 
 interestingly
 enough, I may be able to use *legally*.  IBM permits their AIX
 instructors to run AIX on personal machines for private/non-commercial
 machines.  I'm NOT gonna call Mr. Wolden and ask....)  The archive
 includes VRM, BOS and Extended Utilities, all IBM's updates & patches,
 the NFS add-ons, man pages (IBM *still* provides the man pages as a
 separate product!), TCP/IP, and some GNU stuff. And the all-important
 Diags disk set. 
Any idea what the version overlap (if any) is between RT and RS/6000?  In other words, are
there any versions that would boot on either machine?  This is just curiosity for now.

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  every IBM I've
 ever worked on required the ritual blood sacrifice before booting. 
Most machines require that occasionally.

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    You need a "dumb" ISA IDE/floppy
controller.  It must be set to
 secondary IDE and primary floppy.  Any serial/parallel/game ports will
 probably have to be disabled.  The RT will boot from a secondary IDE 
Heh.  :)  Maybe for a project you could get the game ports working? ;)

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    Still to do:
   Find vi. I haven't installed the Extended set yet.  Please 
 Gods don't
 make me use ed. 
Until I read that, I was going to suggest that you could just use ed. 

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    Yee-Haw.  I now have AIX v2.2.1, toys, tools &
updates, on 5.25
 floppy! 
Congratulations.

Chris

Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

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