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From: mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: What flavor of Unix is aix?
Message-ID: <641@alias.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 89 22:05:05 GMT
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I believe a different group/company was responsbility for release 2.x of AIX
on each of the different IBM platforms (i.e. PS/2, RT, 370).

I think more of 3.x was done in-house using as much common source as possible;
hence AIX should look almost identical on each platform.