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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!news.alpha.net!MathWorks.Com!news.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!ugle.unit.no!ravn.runit.sintef.no!he From: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: AIX history (was: I hope this wont ignite a major flame w) Date: 8 Aug 1994 19:26:26 GMT Organization: SINTEF RUNIT, Trondheim, Norway Lines: 21 Message-ID: <3260t2$cg6@ugle.unit.no> References: <311omd$bve@server.st.usm.edu> <313v75$onl@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> <9407302107.59@rmkhome.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ravn.runit.sintef.no Originator: he@ravn.runit.sintef.no In article <9407302107.59@rmkhome.com>, Rick Kelly <rmk@rmkhome.com> wrote: >From what I understand: > >The original AIX was a BSD port to Intel processors and the RT. The initial Unix-style OS for the RT-PC was called AOS (Academic Operating System), I think, and it was indeed of a BSD flavour, or more or less a straight BSD port (not sure whether it was 4.2 or 4.3). I'm not sure whether this version was ever ported to the Intel platform, though I doubt it. Again, as far as I know this OS is no longer available from IBM. >IBM then rewrote the entire OS in their own image so that they >wouldn't have to pay anyone royalties. As others have pointed out, the point about licensing is probably not true. AIX has it's roots in System V, but as has been noted has deviated significantly from it's origin. - Havard