Re: [WinMac] Just what is AIX ?
Yuji Shinozaki(yuji[at]physics.unc.edu)
Mon, 15 Nov 1999 17:00:04 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999, Tom Roth wrote:
>
> Just what is AIX and where does it stand now as a product? Is it still
> alive and if so who's selling it? Apple?
>
Short answer:
AIX is IBM's UNIX operating system. It is a current OS.
http://www.ibm.com/servers/aix/
It is unrelated to Macintosh A/UX which was an old implementation of Unix
for the Macintosh from Apple. To make things a little more confusing there
were early efforts to port AIX to Macintosh (after AU/X and before Rhapsody
-- I don't think MacOSX is based on AIX, but I do not know for sure) and
there are versions of IBM's AIX that run on PowerPC chips but not on
Macintoshes...
Long Answer:
I will leave that to someone who actually has the details.
yuji
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