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From: mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX vs VMS
Message-ID: <1990Mar26.175619.22528@hybrid.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 90 17:56:19 GMT
References: <9428@stiatl.UUCP> <519@siswat.UUCP>
Organization: The Home for Unemployed Basselopes, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <519@siswat.UUCP> buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:
>In article <9428@stiatl.UUCP>, meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes:
>> Or, probably more importantly, how many different manufacturers'
>> architectures? What? All IBM so far?
>
>IBM architecture - RT

This is AIX 2.2.1, runs on RT only

>IBM architecture - RS/6000

This is AIX V3, runs on RS/6000 only

>IBM architecture - S/370
>Intel architecture - i386

These are AIX/TCF, the only version of AIX that runs on more than one
architecture.

Just because the three different versions of AIX share the same name doesn't
mean they share the same source code.  They are in fact quite different from
each other.
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