AIX Running on Apple's M1
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Re: AIX Running on Apple's M1
#2We seem to be having a lot of "emulators for old Unix boxes exist" posts recently?
It's sort of neat, but kinda not news really.
Now, I'm off to port Hercules to QNX to make my car an IBM mainframe.
Re: AIX Running on Apple's M1
#3We seem to be having a lot of "emulators for old Unix boxes exist" posts recently? It's sort of neat, but kinda not news really. Now, I'm off to port Hercules to QNX to make my car an IBM mainframe.
Yes, not news but definitely interesting. Some of these old unixes were only available for multi-thousand dollar machines. Current computers are powerful enough to run these systems somewhat comfortably inside emulators or using JIT or dynamic binary translation...
If 30 years ago you dreamed on using any of those systems, now you can do it.
Re: AIX Running on Apple's M1
#4We seem to be having a lot of "emulators for old Unix boxes exist" posts recently? It's sort of neat, but kinda not news really. Now, I'm off to port Hercules to QNX to make my car an IBM mainframe.
Yeah agreed. There was the adafruit one too.
Though I'd love to see a PA-RISC emulator for the old HP-UX with VUE. But that's not around unfortunately.
Re: AIX Running on Apple's M1
#5We seem to be having a lot of "emulators for old Unix boxes exist" posts recently? It's sort of neat, but kinda not news really. Now, I'm off to port Hercules to QNX to make my car an IBM mainframe.
Yes, not news but definitely interesting. Some of these old unixes were only available for multi-thousand dollar machines. Current computers are powerful enough to run these systems somewhat comfortably inside emulators or using JIT or dynamic binary translation... If 30 years ago you dreamed on using any of those systems, now you can do it.
On the other hand, the only real reason you’d want to run AIX is because you had to, because you had the hardware and there was no other option.
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#6I miss SMITty!
Re: AIX Running on Apple's M1
#7We seem to be having a lot of "emulators for old Unix boxes exist" posts recently? It's sort of neat, but kinda not news really. Now, I'm off to port Hercules to QNX to make my car an IBM mainframe.
Yeah agreed. There was the adafruit one too. Though I'd love to see a PA-RISC emulator for the old HP-UX with VUE. But that's not around unfortunately.
Seems that 32-bit mode emulation mode of PA-RISC is available, and HP-UX 9 to 11 runs on it:
* https://parisc.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Qemu
* https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2019/04/28/running-hp-ux-11-...
There doesn't seem to be enough interest to really make more capabilities a priority beyond hobby-level interest:
Re: AIX Running on Apple's M1
#8> AIX Running [inside Qemu] on Apple's M1
FTFY; It is still interesting, but leaving that little detail out in the HN submission is IMO a bit clickbaity.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, not news but definitely interesting. Some of these old unixes were only available for multi-thousand dollar machines. Current computers are powerful enough to run these systems somewhat comfortably inside emulators or using JIT or dynamic binary translation... If 30 years ago you dreamed on using any of those systems, now you can do it.
On the other hand, the only real reason you’d want to run AIX is because you had to, because you had the hardware and there was no other option.
I think AIX 5L is what provided RS/6000 owners and developers an offramp to Linux.
I enjoy posts like this because they’re true to a “hacker” mindset: Implementing an unconventional approach - either for use or novelty.
Thinking outside of the box, while a cliche these days was clearly done here. Who else wakes up and thinks, “I wonder if I could run Aix on an M1?” :)
Re: AIX Running on Apple's M1
#10I miss SMITty!
Yes and was chatting with an IBM rep in the 90's about SMIT or smitty for the tty terminal flavour and was told the hardest part was the running man icon at the top right. Getting that to run at the same speed upon all hardware took some effort from all accounts. But darn - smit just made anybody who could type it and some basic understandings an AIX admin and what I really really loved about smit was you could press (F6 or some other function key) to display the exact command/script that would be run. So you could use smit to craft together what was needed for your own scripts and save time and get it right with ease.
Still miss the running joke about AIX though - it's unix with a registry :).