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The Nightmare of Getting Doom Running on a RS/6000 [video]

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I have such fond memories of these systems. I was lucky enough to go to a magnet high school in the late 90s and we had a lab full of these. Getting such early exposure to not only UNIX (well, AIX) but also the RISC architecture definitely had an impact on my computing career.

Respect for all the suffering, NCommander. :)

I should just change my opening to "This is your host NCommander, and once again, I'm suffering through X" :)

NCommander is a scarily smart guy and crushingly under-appreciated as a retro tech youtube person

I love watching their streams while working on my own projects over the weekend

I would love to know what software was used to make the video, I have no background in making such things, but I've no real idea where to start.

I use DaVinci Resolve 17 for primary video editing, plus Fusion for basic composition. Blender was done for most of the animation work (the semaphores being fusion compositions instead cause I was lazy). Audio is recorded in Resolve, but post-processed through RX Elements 8, and music is from the YouTube library.

Aix was one of the target platforms for our development software back in the 2000's.

One of the most interesting differences from the other UNIXes we were using (HP-UX, Solaris), was the XCOFF format meaning a development experience to create shared objects similar to Windows dynamic libraries, including the famous import libraries and symbol definition files.

Now do it in OS/400.

If I had one, I'd look at doing so :)

Look at the bottom of dried up lakes as I heard they made great boat anchors.

Instructions unclear, currently at bottom of the Pacific. Found Integrity hardware, but nothing actually useful.

i series is identical at the CMOS level to p series, and was already around 1990 when those were called OS/400 and RS/6000, resp. Dunno about System/360 times. Ofc DB/2 and RPG aren't exactly made for general-purpose computing ;) but there's something called ILE for C/C++ programming on i series (and z series) I believe.

They are now, but they weren't always.

RS/6000 evolved from the RT PC, of course. Successive generations of POWER are substantially different.

AIUI OS/400 only moved to POWER in 2008: https://www.helpsystems.com/blog/ibm-i-history-and-timeline

All I can say is "wow". I immediately posted to /r/itrunsdoom.

I think this is really cool. Good job Michael!

Man, I would love one of these beasts …

How much? I know someone selling one in Prague...

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