AIX Progress
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I'm still  trying to make my  AIX desktop (the IBM  IntelliStation 285)
more useful. So today I installed the LLNL SILO library and re-compiled
my software to against  it. I already have the MeshTV  viewer (it is an
old  UNIX viewer  for scientific  and engineering  data -  I use  it to
visualize results from my program).

As  I  have  found  that  the   more  modern  LLNL  VisIt  also  exists
pre-compiled for  AIX and  AIX64 (the binaries  are of  course ancient,
older than 10 years)  I tried to install the 64bit  one. I proceeded as
always (visit-install platform version directory) but the result didn't
work. So I postponed the solution of this problem.

There is also a  port of the Free Pascal Compiler  [1]. SO I downloaded
the binary distribution for the AIX  (yes, it does exist!). Last time I
tried to use the  Turbo Pascal at the university (I  assume that it was
before  some  22  years).  I  will  try to  install  it  later.  It  is
interesting  that  they have  a  port  (not a  native  one,  just as  a
cross-compiler) to the Android/MIPS (and to  the ARM, too) and also the
Mas OS X port (both the x86  and the PowerPC!). I should try them, too,
I have OS X on the PowerPC and also a MIPS tablet with the Android (the
Ainol Novo 7 Paladin).

But  back to  the topic.  I also  installed the  Impact [2]  on my  AIX
machine. It's the Java-based program so  it works (I have Java % here).
I'm thinking about  installation of some other Java-based  tool just to
test them (most  of them I can  run on the IRIX but  they are waaaayyyy
tooooo sloooooow):  the jBEAM, the  jGRASP, the jEdit and  possibly the
Freemind, too.


References:

[1] https://freepascal.org
[2]https://impact.sf.net

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