On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 20:22:43 -0800 (PST) Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)floodgap.com> wrote: 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.

It was thus said that the Great David Holland once stated: I don't know why AIX has such a horrible reputation, I rather liked working on it (and I *love* SMIT and wish IBM would port it to Linux). The only horror story I have about AIX is the time I worked at an ISP (late '93, early '94) and the President of the company decided to add a SCSI disk to the main (and only) machine, without turning it off (it was an external SCSI drive, and SCSI is hot swappable, right?). I learned the hard way that the partitioning data is stored as a file and when I restored, I restored the *old* partitioning data so when I rebooted, boom! Wow ... it's been 10 years ... my, how time does fly ... -spc (Where did it all go?)