Really? Wow. I just assumed it was paid because I wouldn't have expected a hobbyist endeavor to port software to a proprietary Unix and mainframe OS running on expensive hardware.
Do you develop for AIX and IBM i for work and have access to hardware and inspiration to do this for that reason? If not, how did you wind up picking this as a hobbyist endeavor?
Hardware-wise, IBM i can scale up from basically a thick pizza box to something relatively monstrous in size. The architecture and OS are still relatively advanced, too, even by today's standards. Those of us who know its history sometimes think of it as "IBM: The Next Generation", since it was based at least in part on the Future Systems project, a replacement computer architecture that never quite came to complete fruition. IBM has never marketed it as a mainframe-class system, though.
I'm more impressed that you were able to acquire the unobtanium that is AIX on POWER, let alone System i (the real iOS, not the one from the fruit company)
I thought the real IOS was from company with the bridge logo that rhymes with Crisco lard, especially since IBM iSeries is just a renamed AS/400 - OS/400 from 2006.
Do you develop for AIX and IBM i for work and have access to hardware and inspiration to do this for that reason? If not, how did you wind up picking this as a hobbyist endeavor?