IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs Again
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IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs Again
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Re: IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs Again
#2To bootstrap GCC all you need is Linux. Crosscompile GCC on Linux to generate a set of binaries and install on AIX. Job done.
Re: IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs Again
#3It's very interesting to think AIX was ported to such a foreign architecture as it was so deeply tied to the R/S 6000 hardware. IBM Austin is where AIX was developed in the 90s.
Re: IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs Again
#4AIX was/is one of the few big commercial unixes I've never got to touch, is it worth it?
Re: IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs Again
#5>IBM who brought it’s [ sic ] AIX
This is misleading at best.
AIX didn't exist for IBM to purchase. IBM collaborated with Interactive Systems Corporation under contract to develop AIX in 1985 and released AIX Version 1 in 1986. IBM collaborated with Locus Computing Corporation, again under contract, to release Version 2 in 1992. Since the mid-1980's, IBM has poured massive development into AIX, which got so stable and feature-rich that when IBM tried to switch to Linux prematurely in 2005, its customers' and their systems administrators complained until IBM's Linux deployment was shelved for nearly a decade in deference to AIX (5, 6 & 7), and never really went away; AIX is still under active development.
Re: IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs Again
#6It's very interesting to think AIX was ported to such a foreign architecture as it was so deeply tied to the R/S 6000 hardware. IBM Austin is where AIX was developed in the 90s.
AIX is still developed in Austin.
Re: IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs Again
#7>IBM who brought it’s [ sic ] AIX This is misleading at best. AIX didn't exist for IBM to purchase. IBM collaborated with Interactive Systems Corporation under contract to develop AIX in 1985 and released AIX Version 1 in 1986. IBM collaborated with Locus Computing Corporation, again under contract, to release Version 2 in 1992. Since the mid-1980's, IBM has poured massive development into AIX, which got so stable an…
"Brought" is the past tense tense of "bring", not "buy". I think you're missing the 'r' when you read that.
Re: IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs Again
#8>IBM who brought it’s [ sic ] AIX This is misleading at best. AIX didn't exist for IBM to purchase. IBM collaborated with Interactive Systems Corporation under contract to develop AIX in 1985 and released AIX Version 1 in 1986. IBM collaborated with Locus Computing Corporation, again under contract, to release Version 2 in 1992. Since the mid-1980's, IBM has poured massive development into AIX, which got so stable an…
"Brought" is the past tense tense of "bring", not "buy". I think you're missing the 'r' when you read that.
missed the r. Aren't I illiterate?
Re: IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs Again
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#10AIX was/is one of the few big commercial unixes I've never got to touch, is it worth it?
No. AIX is the "you can't have nice things" version of linux.
Command options you take for granted aren't there in AIX.
Search on Unix stack exchange and there's always a more complicated "here's how you do it in AIX."