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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!spdcc!merk!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) Subject: Re: I hope this wont ignite a major flame w Organization: The Man With Ten Cats References: <311omd$bve@server.st.usm.edu> <313v75$onl@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> Message-ID: <9407302107.59@rmkhome.com> Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Sun, 31 Jul 1994 02:07:59 GMT Lines: 26 Andrej Gabara (gabara@Informatik.Uni-Tuebingen.DE) wrote: : In article bve@server.st.usm.edu, davis@blackmoor (Jonathan A. Davis) writes: : >: Unless AIX has been seriously revamped in the last couple of years, : >: that is... : >After nearly 3 years of AIX system administration I'm *still* not sure what : >flavor of Unix it is. (the word "Unix" in this case is used very loosely) : > : >-Jonathan : Maybe there are three UNIX flavors: SYSV, BSD, and AIX ;-) From what I understand: The original AIX was a BSD port to Intel processors and the RT. IBM then rewrote the entire OS in their own image so that they wouldn't have to pay anyone royalties. AIX is a UNIX clone. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.com rmk@bedford.progress.com