[znpy]

A while ago I watched a video on YouTube about a guy reviving an old rs6000 workstation from ibm, running aix, with the ultimate goal of running doom.

When it talks about compilers, the c/c++ compiler suite was price at like 4 k$… although supposed/allegedly (that is, according to ibm marketing) it won over 4x over gcc (in the performance of the generated code i guess).

[pjmlp]

They still do, many HPC systems make use of XL compilers.

https://hpc.llnl.gov/software/development-environment-softwa...