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From: xxremak@csduts1.lerc.nasa.gov (David A. Remaklus)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX vs VMS
Message-ID: <1990Mar21.143055.20475@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 21 Mar 90 14:30:55 GMT
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Reply-To: xxremak@csduts1.UUCP (David A. Remaklus)
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In article <9428@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes:
>buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:
>|hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall) writes:
>|>     Hmmm, how novel...and how many years have these things been in VMS?
>|
>|And how many architectures does VMS run on?
>|
>|Oh, sorry.  I forgot we're not supposed to notice that putting features in
>|a portable operating system is much harder than to hack things in to a
>|particular machine.
>
>And how many architectures does AIX run on?
>
>Or, probably more importantly, how many different manufacturers'
>architectures? What? All IBM so far?
>
>Uh huh.
>
>-Miles

An even better question, how many different versions of AIX does IBM have?
At last count I think it was four.

Dave R.
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David A. Remaklus
NASA Lewis Research Center
Cleveland, Ohio
xxremak@csduts1.lerc.nasa.gov