UX, AIX, FLAYX...

[Cameron Kaiser]

> On 01/09/07, Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >  I know nothing about AIX or it's associated hardware
> > (oh ok I know it's made by IBM). I know little more
> > about HP-UX. All I know is I want a box/boxes I can
> > run this stuph on. This is a continual plea and the
> > cry of my heart :(. I know there's some of this stuph
> > out there for me. Question is how do I get it. Thus I
> > turn to y'all. Please help. Please...
> 
> I've been offered 2 or 3 free RS/6000 machines over the years. Turned
> 'em down - not exotic or inherently interesting enough to pique my
> collecting urge.
> 
> I should think old/slow ones would be cheap enough on eBay, though.

If you want an interesting/exotic AIX machine, I think the Apple Network
Servers will fill the bill. They only run their tweaked version of AIX 4
(you can coerce them into running Linux or NetBSD, but that's dull, man!),
they're really nice looking machines and they are cantankerous enough to
be fun to mess with. Most people dump them when they find out they won't
run Mac OS (or at least won't run without a lot of extremely tedious work,
and then won't run well).

This E-mail comes to you from an ANS 500 with a 200MHz card, which has
been my favourite ornery beast since 1998 and has run continuously since
then.

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