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socceroos on Oct 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: What Does an Idle CPU Do?

RS/6000. Heh - I'm the only person left in my state who still knows how one of these works.

Diagnosing startup problems with all those super quick flashing codes was a nightmare.

beat on Oct 29, 2014 | [–]

Yeah, but SMIT is still the best old-school admin tool ever.

Back in the day, I considered doing an open-source knockoff, just to call it SMUT.

ghuntley on Oct 29, 2014 | | [–]

http://www.pimpworks.org/ibm/aixled.html

:-)

kev009 on Oct 30, 2014 | | [–]

http://ps-2.kev009.com/rs6000/ - some fun stuff here

petemc_ on Oct 30, 2014 | [–]

I played with one for a few years, felt pretty l33t dd'ing the kernel into the prep partition rather than using yaboot.

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