On 2017-07-26 10:20 PM, Henry Bond via cctalk wrote:
I have just got a couple of these out of the dumpster, I had to arrange palletised shipping for these monoliths. I was warned they were heavy but I wasn't expecting well, rs6000 heavy. The boot menus are far from intuitive, I have actually had to rtfm. I am yet to get an OS to boot on these machines. I emailed IBM regarding a license to do research with, the idea is, as hardware has become less diversified with the x86 becoming more ubiquitous, malware has become equally prevailant. Thoughts? Any OS recommendations aside AIX? Anyone willing to ship me a paper manual? Happy to cover shipping plus a tip. -H
Any version of AIX that would run on this system has long since gone end of support. This system was one of the last 32 bit machines, less than a year after it was announce the the first of the lower end 64 bit systems was announced and in 2000 this model was replaced by the 7025-F80 that used the RS64 processor.
You could probably run Linux for POWER on them but you will need a 32 bit version they use 604e processor which are still 32 bit.
Paul.
