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The Nightmare of Getting Doom Running on a RS/6000 [video]

86 points by zdw 4y ago

makeclean 4y ago
I would love to know what software was used to make the video, I have no background in making such things, but I've no real idea where to start.
- NCommander 4y ago
  I use DaVinci Resolve 17 for primary video editing, plus Fusion for basic composition. Blender was done for most of the animation work (the semaphores being fusion compositions instead cause I was lazy). Audio is recorded in Resolve, but post-processed through RX Elements 8, and music is from the YouTube library.
chasil 4y ago
Now do it in OS/400.
- NCommander 4y ago
  If I had one, I'd look at doing so :)
  - dylan604 4y ago
    Look at the bottom of dried up lakes as I heard they made great boat anchors.
    - NCommander 4y ago
      Instructions unclear, currently at bottom of the Pacific. Found Integrity hardware, but nothing actually useful.
- tannhaeuser 4y ago
  i series is identical at the CMOS level to p series, and was already around 1990 when those were called OS/400 and RS/6000, resp. Dunno about System/360 times. Ofc DB/2 and RPG aren't exactly made for general-purpose computing ;) but there's something called ILE for C/C++ programming on i series (and z series) I believe.
  - lproven 4y ago
    They are now, but they weren't always. RS/6000 evolved from the RT PC, of course. Successive generations of POWER are substantially different. AIUI OS/400 only moved to POWER in 2008: https://www.helpsystems.com/blog/ibm-i-history-and-timeline https://www.helpsystems.com/blog/ibm-i-history-and-timeline
endre 4y ago
Respect for all the suffering, NCommander. :)
- NCommander 4y ago
  I should just change my opening to "This is your host NCommander, and once again, I'm suffering through X" :)
dkonofalski 4y ago
All I can say is "wow". I immediately posted to /r/itrunsdoom.
natas 4y ago
I think this is really cool. Good job Michael!
bbatchelder 4y ago
I have such fond memories of these systems. I was lucky enough to go to a magnet high school in the late 90s and we had a lab full of these. Getting such early exposure to not only UNIX (well, AIX) but also the RISC architecture definitely had an impact on my computing career.
IntelMiner 4y ago
NCommander is a scarily smart guy and crushingly under-appreciated as a retro tech youtube person I love watching their streams while working on my own projects over the weekend
hestefisk 4y ago
Man, I would love one of these beasts …
- lproven 4y ago
  How much? I know someone selling one in Prague...
pjmlp 4y ago
Aix was one of the target platforms for our development software back in the 2000's. One of the most interesting differences from the other UNIXes we were using (HP-UX, Solaris), was the XCOFF format meaning a development experience to create shared objects similar to Windows dynamic libraries, including the famous import libraries and symbol definition files.

86 points by zdw 4y ago

I would love to know what software was used to make the video, I have no background in making such things, but I've no real idea where to start.

NCommander 4y ago
I use DaVinci Resolve 17 for primary video editing, plus Fusion for basic composition. Blender was done for most of the animation work (the semaphores being fusion compositions instead cause I was lazy). Audio is recorded in Resolve, but post-processed through RX Elements 8, and music is from the YouTube library.

chasil 4y ago

Now do it in OS/400.

NCommander 4y ago
If I had one, I'd look at doing so :)
- dylan604 4y ago
  Look at the bottom of dried up lakes as I heard they made great boat anchors.
  - NCommander 4y ago
    Instructions unclear, currently at bottom of the Pacific. Found Integrity hardware, but nothing actually useful.
tannhaeuser 4y ago
i series is identical at the CMOS level to p series, and was already around 1990 when those were called OS/400 and RS/6000, resp. Dunno about System/360 times. Ofc DB/2 and RPG aren't exactly made for general-purpose computing ;) but there's something called ILE for C/C++ programming on i series (and z series) I believe.
- lproven 4y ago
  They are now, but they weren't always. RS/6000 evolved from the RT PC, of course. Successive generations of POWER are substantially different. AIUI OS/400 only moved to POWER in 2008: https://www.helpsystems.com/blog/ibm-i-history-and-timeline https://www.helpsystems.com/blog/ibm-i-history-and-timeline

endre 4y ago

Respect for all the suffering, NCommander. :)

NCommander 4y ago
I should just change my opening to "This is your host NCommander, and once again, I'm suffering through X" :)

dkonofalski 4y ago

All I can say is "wow". I immediately posted to /r/itrunsdoom.

natas 4y ago

I think this is really cool. Good job Michael!

bbatchelder 4y ago

I have such fond memories of these systems. I was lucky enough to go to a magnet high school in the late 90s and we had a lab full of these. Getting such early exposure to not only UNIX (well, AIX) but also the RISC architecture definitely had an impact on my computing career.

IntelMiner 4y ago

NCommander is a scarily smart guy and crushingly under-appreciated as a retro tech youtube person I love watching their streams while working on my own projects over the weekend

hestefisk 4y ago

Man, I would love one of these beasts …

lproven 4y ago
How much? I know someone selling one in Prague...

pjmlp 4y ago

Aix was one of the target platforms for our development software back in the 2000's. One of the most interesting differences from the other UNIXes we were using (HP-UX, Solaris), was the XCOFF format meaning a development experience to create shared objects similar to Windows dynamic libraries, including the famous import libraries and symbol definition files.