[rescue] FS/FT: RS/6000 42T

Julius Sridhar vance at ikickass.org
Thu Jan 17 00:57:25 CST 2002


On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Joshua Johnston wrote:

> An RS/6000? Nice.  I've only ever seen one of those in my life, and it
> was way back in '91-92, I think.  I vaguely recall that the University
> of Maine had one in the IT office next to the 3090 mainframe, and that
> access to it was probably the most coveted and unattainable thing on
> campus.  Even the Sun cluster was easier, by far.  All I remember of it
> is some kind of red window manager and an interface that... well,
> confused me for the ten seconds I got to see it.

That's a little weird.  AFAIK, the default window manager under AIX is
Motif, isn't it?  Back then, RS/6K's were almost exclusively used for CAD.

Peace...  Sridhar



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