UX, AIX, FLAYX...

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 08:36:12 CDT 2007


Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 13:49:14 -0700 (PDT)
> Chris M <chrism3667 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>  Correct me if I'm wrong, wasn't the first machine to
>> run AIX the IBM/RT's? Googling...
> It was called AIX, but it doesn't have much in common with the later
> AIX. The RT-AIX was a more or less straight port of some 4BSD to the RT.
> The later AIX is an IBM reimplementation of UNIX. (AFAIK)

Nope.  The RT AIX is the predecessor of the current AIX.  You're 
thinking of AOS, which was a port of 4.3BSD (or was it 4.2BSD?).

Peace...  Sridhar


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