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AIX On the Desktop Is Getting the Boot
flnca writes "Today, I was playing with the thought again to purchase an AIX workstation one day when I can afford them, and I was surprised to see that IBM is going to give its IntelliStation POWER Series workstations the boot in January '09. A black day for AIX on the desktop. I really wonder what's the problem there, warehouse costs? IBM has a history of burying its best stuff (like OS/2 for instance). Some years ago, I enjoyed hacking away on an RS/6000 workstation running AIX 4.2, and it was a pure joy. Not only the kernel, but also the admin tools, like smit and smitty. Their blade-centric solution uses Windows as a client for workstation application. This truly sounds like IBM wants AIX only for servers anymore. I'm not amused. Although, eXceed on Windows with an XDCMP server running on AIX might also be a viable solution ... whatever. But it can't beat a native POWER box sitting on your desk, that's for sure."
Q: What happens when AIX is downsized?
A: It gets the AX!
Haw haw, thank you, I'll be here all week!
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Who on earth would need a 5GHz CPU on the desktop?
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Get used to disappointment.
Just in! "Geek wonders why product X that he loves to hack but is only used by 0.0000001% of the market is going the way of the dodo". Film at 11!
Hey, for example, I wanted Baldur's Gate 3 too :( (yes, I know that Stardock's founder wants to renew some old franchises).
I'm still waiting to get my IBM mainframe desktop, I'm hoping I can get a port of Wine for it so I can run WoW on it.
You are joking, you LIKED smit??!? We used to have bumper stickers that said "Smit Happens" on our doors where I worked a decade ago....the IBM guys REALLY hated those.
That reminds me, does anyone have a copy of Ubuntu on UNISERVO tape for my UNIVAC?
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To elaborate: He's bemoaning that this beautyfull desktop is being discontinued. A true catastrophe that will set back the entire industry by years to come.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
And you're complaining about someone who's complaining about a news story that is devoid of anything noteworthy...
I was going to make some quip about you being new here, and then I noticed that I'm AC, and older than your user...so I will: you must be new here.
I'm sure that the submitter and the other five people who really want AIX on the desktop will be sorely disappointed for years to come.
It might have survived had the marketing department been able to come up with a better name for it in the last twenty years.
"I have AIX on my desktop!"
"Oh, I'm sorry honey. I got some aspirin in my top drawer at my desk. Help yourself."
"No, I mean it's AIX."
"You told me already. Take some aspirin and have a cup of coffee. That works for migranes too."
"Arrrrrgh!"
"Poor guy--I should talk to the boss about seeing if he can get some vacation time in soon..."
#fuckbeta #iamslashdot #dicemustdie
I am outraged!
(Better be careful--I might take my ball and head back to VMS...)
"Not an actor, but he plays one on TV."
I have over the years with a number of Germans worked, and he the rules of Germglish appears not to follow.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Hmmm, and here I thought that old-school 8-bit computing is the future, since more than half of all CPUs sold are 8-bit processors.
Throw a fucking chair at him, you fat baldy bastard!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Why ya downgrading?
[...] and he appears the rules of Germglish not to follow.
FTFY. --Your Friendly Neighbourhood Germglish Grammar Nazi
Don't tell your management about LPARs or all your $10,000 x-terminal will be taken away when they realize they can slice a little tiny bit off of one of those production servers, install a "test" environment to do all those vetting activities you talk about.
it'll go to.
See? The problems of using GOTO. You use it and in the end you don't even know what you meant.
The state you are in while your HEAD is detached... - wait, what?
Seriously, how is this a comment? I've always wondered why people waste time commenting about how a story was not worth posting, let alone reading, but apparently these devoid-of-interest stories are still worth commenting on.
Infuriate left and right
And not different-better, different-holy-crap-this-API-was-designed-by-crack-addled-clowns.
Also better known to the rest of the world as IBM engineers.
It's the biggest circus on earth.
No no, its really five! When IBM canned OS/2, AIX picked up both users.
I have an AIX story. Try out this program:
#include
void main(bla bla)
{
int x, y, z;
x = 1;
y = 0;
z = x / y;
printf("%d\n",z);
}
On most versions of unix, this produces a floating point exception. (which is correct) The error you're supposed to get is a clue to explaining why AIX gives you the answer it gives: 15.
brian
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
Step aside, son. I'll handle this.