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10 Mar
7:07 a.m.
Quick question: are there any AIX gurus out there? I
need to upgrade this
box to 4.1.5 or some Y2K compliant version. I have a contact at IBM who might
be able to get me the upgrade, but I was wondering if anyone out there has the
patches already. 4.2 is apparently right out as I doubt IBM supports the
POWER architecture anymore, but I'd like to be pleasantly surprised.
Sorry, I'm an AIX anti-guru. We have AIX machines here but I tend to avoid
them. (I have wanted to play with the X-specific programs, but I forget the
commands. Also I used to know about the "extract the manual entries from
the database" program but I forget that command too.)
Naturally, Apple doesn't support the NS line
anymore. Figures.
At least you admitted you're off-topic. (Though it is an interesting
machine and it's unsupported, so that counts for something... but not a
tremendous amount.) Why not ask on the AIX newsgroups too?
-- Derek
7:35 a.m.
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11:07 a.m.
::> Naturally, Apple doesn't support the NS
line anymore. Figures.
::
::At least you admitted you're off-topic. (Though it is an interesting
::machine and it's unsupported, so that counts for something... but not a
::tremendous amount.) Why not ask on the AIX newsgroups too?
I tried comp.unix.aix and the response was alternately "what's an NS500"
or
"use linuxppc". I've become rather attached to AIX, though, especially
(m)smit. Like our system admin says, smit happens. :-) As for my question
about 4.1.4->4.1.5p<whatever>, I got a load of zilch nada.
The problem is most AIX groups only have a clue on IBM hardware.
I don't see any reason Power architecture would be dropped in 4.2.x.
I was still running RS6000/550 systems and seeing no problem upgrading them
to 4.2.x.
Probably you'd find the 4.2 stuff would work (depending on if there were any
Apple specific device drivers) that weren't on the CDROM.
Bill
8:02 a.m.
On 10 Mar 99 at 9:26, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
This is definitely OT.
I have, about six feet away from me, a brand spanking hardly used Apple
Network Server 500. Nice unit. I've managed to get AIX 4.1.4.0 on it (provided
with the system) and CDE runs well. No cc or xlc, but we have some RS/6000s
here, so I built gcc on one of them and copied the binaries over and now I
have a Perl and a decent compiler (had to steal as from the RS/6000s also).
It's a 603e PPC emulating an RS/6000 (!), 132MHz, 32MB RAM. Fast sucker.
Bookstore buys this guy to handle their database system, vendor says we don't
support it, so it goes into the server room powered off for almost two years
until the tech guy decides he doesn't want it anymore and tells me I can use
it to my heart's content if I can fix it. So I did! :-)
Quick question: are there any AIX gurus out there? I need to upgrade this
box to 4.1.5 or some Y2K compliant version. I have a contact at IBM who might
be able to get me the upgrade, but I was wondering if anyone out there has the
patches already. 4.2 is apparently right out as I doubt IBM supports the
POWER architecture anymore, but I'd like to be pleasantly surprised.
I've also thought about linuxppc on this. Any ideas from those willing to
perpetuate yet another OT thread? ;-)
Naturally, Apple doesn't support the NS line anymore. Figures.
--
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You might try the PS2 newsgroup. Some very knowledgeable
people on there. ISTR several AIX threads a while back.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
13 Mar
13 Mar
7:06 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 09:26:54AM -0800, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
This is definitely OT.
I would argue that since the NS{5|7}00 models were the best hardware
Apple has ever produced, there weren't many made, and they've been
discontinued, they can be considered on-topic.
It's a 603e PPC emulating an RS/6000 (!), 132MHz,
32MB RAM. Fast sucker.
ITYM 604e.
Quick question: are there any AIX gurus out there? I
need to upgrade
this box to 4.1.5 or some Y2K compliant version.
I know several AIX gurus, as I have an office two floors down from the
20th most powerful AIX-based computer in existence. (Or some such
small number) Email me privately if you don't actually want 4.3; I can
almost certainly get the patches for you, assuming that 4.1 -> 4.1.5
is a free upgrade.
4.2 is apparently right out as I doubt IBM supports
the POWER
architecture anymore, but I'd like to be pleasantly surprised.
First, the Network Servers are PowerPC and not POWER. Second, IBM's
flagship CPU is the POWER3, so I'd definitely say that POWER is still
supported. How's 160KB of L1 (that's not a typo) cache sound? Then
there's the eight-way superscalarness (is that a valid word?) to
consider. But that's definitely getting off topic.
I've also thought about linuxppc on this. Any
ideas from those willing to
perpetuate yet another OT thread? ;-)
Just like any other supported system, except much nicer hardware (if
not quite as good in the CPU department as the newer machines).
--
Brad Ackerman N1MNB "...faced with the men and women who bring home
bsa3(a)cornell.edu the pork, voters almost always re-elect them."
http://skaro.pair.com/ -- _The Economist_, 31 Oct 1998
11:25 p.m.
Brad Ackerman <bsa3(a)cornell.edu> wrote:
I would argue that since the NS{5|7}00 models were the
best hardware
Apple has ever produced, there weren't many made, and they've been
discontinued, they can be considered on-topic.
As people like to remind me, the charter of this list specifically does
not define classic to be
* the best
* rare
* discontinued
It's on-topic if it is at least ten years old.
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