Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:53:39 -0500 From: madodelatptdprolog.net Subject: [VOICENWS] Philadelphia OS/2 Mtg: Wed, Mar 20th From: "Larry Lavins" . PHILADELPHIA OS/2 USER GROUP . http://www.phillyos2.org The Philadelphia OS/2 User Group invites all interested computer users to attend the March monthly meeting: . WEDNESDAY, March 20, 2002 7:00 - 10:00 PM . The Episcopal Academy, 376 N. Latches Lane, Merion, PA . *** MARCH 20th MEETING AGENDA *** . -- LIVE IBM RS/6000 WORKSTATION DEMO -- PLEASE NOTE: The March meeting will be on March 20th this year, the 3rd Wednesday of the month, in order to avoid conflict with religious observances during our usual 4th week meeting date. The feature presentation at the March 20 meeting will be a live demo by Vadim Kavalerov, one of our PhillyOS2 leading gurus, of an IBM RS/6000 workstation (w/PowerPC) running the AIX 4.3.3 OS. The introduction of IBM's pSeries Regatta systems in November 2001 with the Power4 microprocessor, PowerPC architecture was confirmed the world-leading high-performance computing platform. The PowerPC and Power series line of the microprocessors have a decade-long history, and a large number of products shipped to enterprise customers. For example, the 43P line of RS/6000 workstations shipped over 1 million units since its introduction in 1996. Incidentally, this is precisely the kind of the hardware which was originally destined to run OS/2 5.0, cancelled weeks before its planned introduction early in 1996. As such systems are replaced in various enterprise environments, they often find 2nd or even 3rd owners due to their unprecedented longevity. By PC standards, these machines are quite fast at 200-300 MHz CPU speed. Such systems can be purchased at used PC prices from a large number of dealers including IBM. The standard OS on RS/6000 is AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive), an IBM version of Unix. The user interface of the RS/6000 is Common Desktop Environment (CDE), a standard on many other Unix systems. Generally, AIX is Unix, but there are a couple of significant differences that will be explained. IBM also added a system management interface (SMIT) that makes it easy even to someone unfamiliar with Unix to perform basic system management functions. If you'd like to learn Unix, AIX might be just for you. There are hundreds of in-depth RedBooks available from www.redbooks.ibm.com. You may also wish to browse the following related web sites, and bring your questions to the meeting: . http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/ . largescale/sp.html . http://www.austin.ibm.com/software/OS/aix43.html . http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/ . http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/library/ . http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/aixpdslib.html Other agenda items include U/G business items, OS/2 news, new releases, Q&A session and raffles. The usual free refreshments will also be available. Mark the date and time: Wednesday, March 20th, at 7:00pm. OS/2 meetings are open and free for OS/2 users, their guests and others interested in learning about OS/2 and associated technologies. We have a very full agenda, so also please try to be on time promptly by 7:00pm. Further information, directions to Episcopal Academy, and other useful information about the OS/2 U/G activities may be found on our web site at http://www.phillyos2.org, or contact U/G Leader Larry Lavins: llavinsatworldnet.att.net, or phone (215) 878-9609. - - Larry Lavins Leader, Philadelphia OS/2 User Group -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajoratos2voice.org unsubscribe news end If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submitatos2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedbackatos2voice.org