AIX for IBM PS/2

supervinx supervinx at libero.it
Wed Feb 3 11:24:08 CST 2016


Il giorno mer, 03/02/2016 alle 09.11 -0800, John Ball ha scritto:
> >Good luck in finding media for AIX PS/2.  As far as I know, it was never
> released on
> >CDROM and the last version I had was ~53 3.5? floppies (long gone now
> unfortunately)
> >and *only* worked on specific PS/2 hardware (no BIOS ? all drivers went
> straight
> >to the ?metal?).
> >
> >TTFN - Guy
> 
> Nope, AIX 1.3 is readily available. It's over on http://ps-2.kev009.com if
> you know where to look along with a rather massive amount of documentation
> and (VERY HANDY) installation instructions. I can confirm that it will work
> on a stock IBM 8580 and you can get several different flavours of window
> system if you wanna roll that way. I put a video on Youtube a few years ago
> of a running machine when it was still rather badly configured. I briefly
> had it working on the model 55SX as well but because I was not labling the
> disks as I wrote them I went out-of-sequence somewhere and frustratingly
> couldn't find Disk 15.
> 
> 
> -John
> 
This is a dual booting PS/2 (OS/2 and AiX), configured using kev009
floppy images and instructions...
http://www.supervinx.com/OnlineMuseum/IBM/8595/AJF/



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