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I used to get a kick out of how the lil 'running man' in SMIT would fall over if a command failed :-P More sense of humour then I gave IBM credit for :-D
> the lil 'running man' in SMIT would fall over if a command failed To anyone wondering: https://youtu.be/YMWSD69BWqI?t=114
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I mean ... I used to write software in C that targeted AIX as well as HPUX, Solaris etc back in the 00s. It was fine. Posix compliant, had a C compiler, debugging was OK with dbx (IIRC you could get ddd to use dbx as its subordinate debugger, which was helpful). The main selling point AFAICT was that it was on POWER, which has always been a pretty competitive set of processors, often faster than x86/64 in some (no do…
Zones all run under the same kernel. I'm guessing these lpars all have separate kernels.
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> I still wonder why neither qemu nor any other (open-source) emulator ever tackled Itanium emulation. There is actually some work on adding ia64 emulation support to qemu, see: > https://github.com/XVilka/qemu-ia64
There is something deeply amusing about Itanium setting out to be Intel's new flagship 64-bit architecture before sinking under its own weight into niche use by effectively just HP Ten rendered irrelevant by their own competitor, AMD releasing "AMD64" (x86_64) a few years later Now fast forward 20~ years into the future and we're building emulators for Intel's dead 64-bit platform to run atop effectively AMD's 64-bit…
>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…
Heh, yea I was sorely disappointed when I switched from primarily admining AIX to Linux for work. While I had played with Linux long before I got started with AIX, I had only ever used it on desktop workstations and such. Lots of things like ethernet channel bonding that worked fine out of the box on AIX took endless hours of fiddling to get it to sort of work under Linux.
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Cross-compiling for AIX+IA64+COFF is going to be tricky. I rather doubt binutils supports that particular combination of items
*** Configuration ia64-ibm-aix is obsolete. *** Specify --enable-obsolete to build it anyway. *** Support will be REMOVED in the next major release of BINUTILS, *** unless a maintainer comes forward.
