> has anyone ever sat down to watch an RS/6000 boot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bN1hYqD7Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bN1hYqD7Y The ridiculously g

> has anyone ever sat down to watch an RS/6000 boot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bN1hYqD7Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bN1hYqD7Y The ridiculously glacial boot, which ended in a system artifcially crippled by license restrictions, not to mention the eye-watering prices, is what killed the commercial Unix industry. They were all like that to some degree, really. I used to have a dumpster-rescued RS/6000. You could telnet into it with a maximum of three simultaneous sessions, after that you just got a banner saying to buy more licenses. It went back into the dumpster.