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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: AIX - How is it? (Summary - long)
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Date: 22 Jul 89 23:26:43 GMT
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In article <3829@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>One thing that wasn't clear from people's comments is that AIX PS/2,
>a Locus kernel with Sys V.2 stuff grafted in, is pretty much a
>different animal than AIX RT.  It also has a fair number of features
>that aren't shared by AIX RT; right off the top of my head, I'd
>enumerate job control and >14 character file names on the native
>file system.  It's not very useful to confuse the two of them.

Very true. AIX RT is System V based, AIX PS/2 was built starting from a 
4.3-like kernel, and as a result is much more compatible with 4.3 than AIX RT.
While porting magic to AIX RT required lots of changes, almost nothing 
was needed to port it to AIX PS/2.

-- Marco Papa
   USC- ACSC
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