First off: thank you for your consideration. You did nothing wrong but i thought it a good idea to clearly state some points proactively.
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eh2scqw
About the 43P. Really strange. The software map of this system tells: "AIX 5.1 was the last supported version". But my old, tiny and weak 7046-B50 (with the sam CPU) supported AIX 5.3.
If i remember correctly (sorry, but this is some time ago now) the support for the Power3 generation was dropped only with the introduction of AIX 6. 5.3 worked on the S80, the 6H0 and similar systems which all had Power3-processors. The difference between the B50 (i think that was a rack-mounted system, wasn't it) was not so much the processor but the B50 being a real CHRP system which the 43P was not although it had PCI slots. Maybe this was the difference. It might also be that 5.3 would run on the 43P but simply was not
supported out of marketing reasons. IBM is full of these stories.
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Originally Posted by
eh2scqw
That would be more than enough time for me. I just want to compile an older version of an open source software and see it it works.
There are people using the XlC compiler to compile (and package) open-source software since a long time. You might be lucky and find i.e. the version you are looking for in
Michael Perzls archives since he has available older versions too, some even compiled for AIX 5.1.
I hope this helps.
bakunin