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From: mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX vs VMS
Message-ID: <1990Mar28.200036.21081@hybrid.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 90 20:00:36 GMT
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In article <18179@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
>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.

As I understand it, OSF is not going to use the AIX 3 kernel, only the 
utilities and libraries.  To me this would mean that OSF/1 != AIX 3.1.
Am I wrong in this assumption?  I can't see how using a Mach kernel will
maintain 100% compatibility with the AIX 3.1 kernel.  You'll probably
see OSF/1 on several platforms but I doubt you'll find AIX 3 on anything
other than an IBM platform.
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