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Operating Systems AIX Hobbyist looking for AIX 5.3 licensing advice... Post 303041868 by bminear on Thursday 5th of December 2019 01:12:54 PM
Old 12-05-2019
Hobbyist looking for AIX 5.3 licensing advice...
Hello. I'm a hobbyist who likes to buy old(er) machines on eBay then play around with them (hardware and software). My current project is an IBM RS/6000 43p-150. It came with AIX 5.3 pre-installed, no media or licenses or documentation of any kind. One of the things I like to do is run various benchmark applications, both commercial and stuff I've writing (mainly in C). I installed gcc on the system but I can't do some of the stuff I want because libm.a is not part of gcc, it is part of the commercial OS/SDK from IBM. So I went looking through IBM websites and literature and it appears that I would need to get a license for 5.3, and perhaps I indirectly have one by the fact that I now own an IBM RS/6000 and AIX would have been included with it (but probably not the development kit). So I then attempted to ask IBM about how to get properly licensed so I can download what I need. I was then told AIX 5.3 is no longer supported so even if licensed the software would not be available. So I'm kind of stuck. Anybody have an IBM rep who is friendly, patient and able to help with older equipment/software? This obviously won't be a big "sale" so I think that's why I'm not having a lot of luck getting IBM to engage. Thanks in advance for any pointers!
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

tr

TR(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						     TR(4)

NAME

     tr -- TROPIC based shared memory Token-Ring cards device driver

SYNOPSIS

     tr0 at isa? port 0xa20 iomem 0xd800 irq ?
     tr* at isa? port ? irq ?
     tr* at isapnp?
     tr* at mca? slot ?
     tr* at pcmcia? function ?

DESCRIPTION

     The tr device driver supports TROPIC I based shared-memory Token-Ring cards.

HARDWARE

     Supported cards include the following IBM and 3Com models:

	   IBM	 Token-Ring Network PC Adapter

	   IBM	 Token-Ring Network PC Adapter II

	   IBM	 Token-Ring Network Adapter/A

	   IBM	 Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter

	   IBM	 Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter/A

	   IBM	 Token-Ring 16/4 Credit Card Adapter

	   IBM	 Token Ring Auto 16/4 Credit Card Adapter

	   IBM	 Turbo 16/4 Token Ring PC Card

	   IBM	 16/4 ISA Adapter

	   IBM	 Auto 16/4 Token-Ring ISA Adapter

	   IBM	 Token Ring 16/4 Credit Card Adapter

	   IBM	 Token Ring Auto 16/4 Credit Card Adapter

	   IBM	 Turbo 16/4 Token Ring PC Card

	   3Com  3C619 TokenLink

	   3Com  3C319 TokenLink Velocity

	   3Com  3C389 TokenLink Velocity PC Card

SOURCE ROUTING

     Setting IFF_LINK0 enables Token-Ring source routing.  Setting IFF_LINK1 uses all-routes broadcasts otherwise single-route broadcasts are
     used.

NOTES

     The MCA attachment has been only tested on IBM Token Ring 16/4 Adapter/A so far.  It doesn't support ifmedia(4) yet, too.

SEE ALSO

     ifmedia(4), intro(4), isa(4), isapnp(4), mca(4), pcmcia(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The tr driver appeared in NetBSD 1.4.

BUGS

     The PCMCIA attachment does not work with the cbb(4) CardBus driver.

BSD
								  April 14, 1999							       BSD
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