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Re: Mono on AIX and IBM i

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hapless wrote: post #42
freehunter wrote: post #38

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But it's not Unix-like. It's Unix. It's actually Unix, as in UNIX™. But at any rate, your comment implied it should be dead because it's so old. Which is a silly statement, considering just how old UNIX™/Unix systems actually are.

I think the implication was that he thought it sucked 20 years ago, so it is surprising that it has continued to suck for 20 more years

Actually it was much better experience than HP-UX, where aCC was stuck between K&R and ANSI C, during the time I happened to do heavy UNIX development.

Re: Mono on AIX and IBM i

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voxadam wrote: post #48
lambda wrote: post #26

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Raptor does have a sub-$2000 machine on pre-order: https://www.raptorcs.com/content/TL1BC1/intro.html That is starting to approach the price point where it's worth it if you want to tinker, but with something that is a lot closer to a real machine than a $250 embedded board. I tried taking a look for cloud services that offer POWER machines, but couldn't find anything that I could just sign up for and try for relativ…

Oregon State University's Open Source Lab offers development hosting on their POWER8 OpenStack cluster.[1] [1] http://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/

Yes, but they require you to fill out a long, detailed form about what project you're affiliated with, exactly what resources you need and for how long, an IBM advocate (?), and so on.

This is quite inconvenient for someone just wanting to do a little bit of experimentation before committing.

For instance, I was interested in experimenting with AltiVec on POWER for the Rust bug bounty. I wanted to get an idea of the scope of the problem, see how things work in C and C++, do a little bit of quick microbenchmarking in C and C++ to see how it compares to SSE.

If it turns out that it was something I was interested in pursuing further, I might try to work with the Rust project to apply for this kind of access officially for a CI system for the Power architecture. But that's a lot of trouble to go through if I just want to do some quick experimentation before deciding on whether the scope of the project is worth it.

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