I have 2 43P-140 which i used back in the days for development as well as cluster configurations. I haven't switched them on for a long time now and keep them mainly for sentimental purposes, along a Sun U05. The 43P-140 with its PowerPC 603e was able to run AIX 5.1 (or maybe 5.2 - i never bothered to update because 5.2 was a disaster anyways) but definitely not 5.3.

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Having said this: in many cases it is possible to use the GCC compiler suite for AIX to compile software for AIX. This won't work always and sometimes the resulting binaries do not run reliably but for a first test this is usually OK. The evaluation versions of IBMs XlC compiler suite will create permanently usable code but will itself only work for a very short (IIRC 4 weeks) time. They are meant to evaluate the compiler, not the resulting binaries.

bakunin