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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX vs VMS
Message-ID: <18179@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 28 Mar 90 01:45:02 GMT
References: <9428@stiatl.UUCP> <519@siswat.UUCP> <1990Mar26.175619.22528@hybrid.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: Lone Star Cafe and BBS Service
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In article <1990Mar26.175619.22528@hybrid.UUCP> mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz) writes:
>In article <519@siswat.UUCP> buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:
>>IBM architecture - RS/6000
>
>This is AIX V3, runs on RS/6000 only

AIX 3.1 is intended to run on as many things as you can throw it at,
remember that this the same code selected by OSF for OSF/1.  If you
wanted to run AIX 3.1 on a VAX, DEC would only have to join OSF
[ which we all know they already have ;-) ], and port AIX 3.1 to the
VAX architecture.

VMS is intended to run on the VAX, and that's about it.  There isn't
a "Open DEC Software Foundation" out there to join if you want to
run VAX/VMS on your System/6000.
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