Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvax1!ehrlich From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: AIX (is it unix)? Message-ID: Date: 15 Sep 89 15:32:49 GMT References: <1702@naucse.UUCP> Sender: news@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University Lines: 35 In-reply-to: jdc@naucse.UUCP's message of 14 Sep 89 13:49:15 GMT In article <1702@naucse.UUCP> jdc@naucse.UUCP (John Campbell) writes: My administrator believes in IBM so much that when we mentioned that we needed to be able to read tapes on a mainframe and move the data down to work stations via TCP/IP he said use our IBM mainframe (CMS, MVS, and VM). Slightly more reasonably, he further suggested we could purchase AIX and run it as a "virtual machine" under VM. I know nothing of IBM. Is this reasonable? Is AIX a real unix when it runs on a big IBM? Specifically, would Sun/Iris/Apollo users understand the IBM world if they came in through the AIX back door? (And does *anyone* know how good a TCP/IP internet running on ethernet implementation will be for such users?) AIX V2 (Advanced Interactive Executive) has roots in UNIX System V Release 3 (I think). Some people believe it is UNIX. I do not. It is sufficiently different from what I have been using for the last 10 years (BSD UNIX and it's derivatives) that I find AIX painful to use. AIX/370 will run as a guest under VM/XA and does support TCP/IP and NFS. AIX V3 is supposedly `better' for people from the BSD universe. I can not say as I have not been able to play with AIX V3 yet. Who knows, maybe they (IBM) got it right this time. -- John Campbell ...!arizona!naucse!jdc CAMPBELL@NAUVAX.bitnet unix? Sure send me a dozen, all different colors. -- Dan Ehrlich | "A message is not a message until the The Pennsylvania State University | rules for interpreting it are in the Department of Computer Science | hands of the reciever." University Park, PA 16802 | --Apollo Belvedere Smith