6 Nov
2019
6 Nov
'19
1:12 a.m.
It was used in academia although it did appear elsewhere for instance in
some PLC applications, for a long while some supertankers were running
PS/2s with Optio22 I/O boards to control pumps and whatnot.
I have seen the media kits in person recently. They comically come with an
“action” key cap for your Model M. I have a picture of interested.
I don’t think the lack of popularity was any conspiracy. SCO had much
better ISV and hardware support for PS/2. And if you had a nickel for a
real computer there’s a reason the RS/6000 platform and AIX are still
around today, it’s not bad stuff despite being a bit different and foreign.
On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 12:03 PM Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 13:08, Kevin Bowling
<kevin.bowling(a)kev009.com>
wrote:
Clem,
The AIX/386 stuff is readily available http://ps-2.kev009.com/aixps2/
and can run in virtualbox
https://astr0baby.wordpress.com/2018/09/14/running-aix-1-3-inside-virtual-b…
Wow, so the "x86" version of AIX truly existed!
I had long heard rumour of this, and had heard of it from sources I was
inclined to trust not to be making it up. The dates seem to decently
explain the invisibility; introduction in 1992 and withdrawal in March 1995
left but a brief period of time when anyone would have been willing to
acknowledge it as a product.
--
When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"