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Jason Bowen 🇺🇦<p><a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/IBM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IBM</span></a> and <a href="https://mast.hpc.social/tags/AIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIX</span></a> friends: is there any place I can get a shell account on an AIX box (any version, any processor generation) for &lt;= 25USD (not a hard cap). To be clear, I'm not looking for Linux on POWER, but prpoper AIX.</p>
chesheer

Some twenty years ago you could just order stuff on the Internet for free. Big companies were giving away cool things: I remember you could get IA-32 programming manuals from Intel at zero cost (and zero shipping costs).
Me being stupid me got this. A whole package of IBM DB2 8.1 for AIX (32-bit) disks including learning materials.
I still wonder what to do with these.
There's zero chance of me stumbling upon an AIX-supported hardware.

#IBM#DB2#AIX
Marseille

Avignon, Aix, Marseille… Selon le « Touriscore », ces villes font partie des plus touchées par le surtourisme

Il s’inspire du Nutri-score, cette échelle qui informe le consommateur sur les qualités nutritionnelles d’un produit. Le Touriscore,…
#Marseille #FR #France #Actu #News #Europe #EU #2025 #actu #Actualités #Aix #Avignon #ces #europe #Provence-Alpes-Côted'Azur #Républiquefrançaise #selon #Société #Touriscore #Villes
europesays.com/fr/220355/

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JdeBP

@cks @whitequark

Back in 1993, #AIX was the example that people gave of a C library where malloc(0) returned NULL.

groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.

Most of the C libraries that I touched back then either just handed off to the operating system's API for suballocation, which did not treat zero specially, or had their own suballocation functions, which did not treat zero specially.

groups.google.commalloc(0) fails on AIX and nowhere else I could find ...
#CLanguage#StandardC#C89
The Last Psion | Alex

#plptools update!

Haiku

The #HaikuOS port is now mostly working, with caveats. Everything compiles except plpfuse, which might require migrating plpfuse to FUSE3. I've been able to send and receive files using plpftp, but RS232 DSR checking has to be disabled in the code. I don't want to speak too soon as it could very well be my mistake, but there might be a bug in Haiku's implementation of ioctl() for serial ports. Stay tuned...

FreeBSD

The #FreeBSD port currently has issues with linking to readline, but I'm sure that's fixable. However, a different issue has come up involving FreeBSD's implementation of the timezone global variable. This, in turn, might have uncovered some very old, slightly iffy code when working out timezone offsets.

Other platforms

The #macOS port is running fine at the moment, thanks to @captfab and @jbmorley's sterling work. If you're on macOS, check out Reconnect.

I'd like to resurrect the #NetBSD port for a few reasons, not least because you can still run the current release of NetBSD on a Series 5. I have no experience with NetBSD, so that's my challenge for this afternoon.

There are indications that plptools has at some point worked on #HPUX, #IRIX and #AIX. I personally feel that these ports probably don't need to be resurrected.

The code also mentions #Solaris - I'd certainly consider working on an #IllumOS port, if people were interested.

Interestingly, there's no mention of #OpenBSD, but again I would consider working on that if people are interested.

This is very much a *NIX/POSIX suite of tools. A Windows port isn't going to happen any time soon, unless someone wants to try building it using cygwin. I'm not saying it will never happen, but it's not a priority.

Misc

A couple of small bugs have been squashed by Reuben, including an issue where logging didn't go to stdout when using the --autoexit switch.

#psion#retrocomputing#retrodev
Aix-in-Peace

"À l’occasion du mois des fiertés, l’Institut de l’image propose un cycle autour du #cinéma #Queer avec quelques auteurs incontournables (#Fassbinder, #GusVanSant, #ToddHaynes) et films déjà cultes (Call me by your name, Love Lies Bleeding…) mais également des films qui nous amènent vers des territoires où la question des minorités #LGBTQIA+ est encore un objet de luttes"

📍 #Aix-en-Provence, École d'#art (#ESAAIX)
📆 du 5 juin au 29 juin

🎦 institut-image.org/programme/l

#PrideMonth#AixEnProvence
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Blake Patterson

Oh come on! I read this assuming they got it running on the front-mounted 180x32 backlit LCD display!

;->

#weak
#Apple #ANS #Mac #PowerPC #vintageApple #vintagecomputing
#retrocomputing #retrocomputers #DOOM #retrogaming #technews #tech #AIX

Link:
mstdn.social/@osnews/114614253

Mastodon 🐘OSNews (@osnews@mstdn.social)Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom Of course you can run Doom on a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because https://www.osnews.com/story/142473/harpoom-of-course-the-apple-network-server-can-be-hacked-into-running-doom/ #Apple #RetroComputing
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