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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!barrnet.net!cdrom.com!wcarchive.cdrom.com!jkh From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: AIX history (was: I hope this wont ignite a major flame w) Date: 10 Aug 1994 06:12:04 GMT Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 10 Message-ID: <JKH.94Aug9231205@freefall.cdrom.com> References: <311omd$bve@server.st.usm.edu> <313v75$onl@wsiserv.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> <9407302107.59@rmkhome.com> <3260t2$cg6@ugle.unit.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: freefall.cdrom.com In-reply-to: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no's message of 8 Aug 1994 19:26:26 GMT In article <3260t2$cg6@ugle.unit.no> Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes) writes: 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 Actually, it was called ACIS and it wasn't all that bad! There followed a short but intense war between the ACIS and AIX camps, a war which AIX won to our great and lasting sorrow. Jordan