On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Jerry Kemp wrote: > I won't say any more or provide any specifics, as I like being on this > list and don't want to get booted for sharing locations for unlicensed > software.
Understood. I like to keep it legal, since I mainly work as a systems programmer or sysadmin. > Ultimately, it boils down to what your morals are, when using an > abandoned product from a couple of decades ago for hobbyist and/or > learning usage only. Well, I teach some AIX classes on occasion and I've got to be very careful. YMMV and TEHO. When it comes to A/UX, I'm a little more sanguine since it's completely defunct at this point. I do want to learn about it sometime since it's supposed to have a MacOS compat layer which sounds interesting. > > > AIX - disclaimer - nothing modern going on here either. > > Hehe, careful, you don't want all the AIX fans coming out of the woodwork > > on the attack. [...] > Sorry for any misunderstanding here, you are reading something into this here > that was never intended. Sorry for misinterpreting what you were saying. I understand what you meant, now. > I'm not up to date on the Current version of AIX, but I'm thinking 7.x, > maybe 8.x???? 7.2 TL0 is the latest. There is support for Power8 in 7.x. > The stuff I am playing with is 1.x, again, from a couple of decades ago, > on a hardware platform that IBM abandoned. Nothing more is implied. > Nothing to read between the lines. Gotcha, again, sorry for the misread. > Unix is a very religious subject. My last intent is to get on someone's > bad side here. Tell me about it. I'm just lucky/glad to have avoided the VMS vs Unix wars in the 90's. Too much drama. :-) -Swift
