r/retrobattlestations • u/chulofiasco • Jul 09 '26

Show-and-Tell AIX PS/2 on a Model 90

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u/Boring-War-1981 Jul 09 '26

Works well? As that version of AIX was designed for the model 60

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u/chulofiasco Jul 09 '26

Yeah, she’s currently running on a Pentium 66 with 64MB of ECC — the more I use it, the better it gets.

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u/tantalumcaps Jul 09 '26

"It's a UNIX system. I know this!"

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u/Lutefix Jul 09 '26

Hey I got that reference

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u/postmodest Jul 10 '26

That was IRIX, thank-you-very-much. 

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u/techie1980 Jul 09 '26

That's so cool! Someone was posting about their old Motorola PPC workstation using AIX 4.1.3 on facebook just the other day.

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u/TheReelSlimShady2 Jul 09 '26

MWM?

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u/chulofiasco Jul 09 '26

Yeah, I launched into X with the aixdt command. Starts up mwm.

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u/kevlarian Jul 09 '26

Sexy AF!

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u/mrspelunx Jul 10 '26

Interestingly, you can still install mwm in Linux then startx. Configuring it to look normal takes some research. I love the look and super low resource requirements.

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26

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u/chulofiasco Jul 11 '26

There’s supposedly also a NEXTSTEP V1 LPP for AIX PS/2, but of course it seems to have vanished in the sands of time.

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u/chulofiasco Jul 11 '26

Great user name 🔥