An IBM RT AIX PC Experience

Published: 27 December 2019
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I had an opportunity to play around with an IBM RT for a few hours and it is now on my short list for coolest vintage computers for sure!

A huge thanks to David for giving me that chance. He got this system a little while back and I've been giving him some Linux/UNIX pointers on using it online. But we both had a much better understanding of it's AIX OS after the time spent on it. It's a different beast than Linux and was really nice to use. Seeing that from that time period just makes me wonder how UNIX managed not to dominate the home computer market. It was better back then! Granted, the RT is most certainly NOT a home PC and would have rivaled the cost of some homes at the time. But it is a look at what could have been.


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