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From: shawn@jdyx.UUCP (Shawn Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Death of PS/2-AIX??
Message-ID: <1990Nov10.032314.27055@jdyx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 90 03:23:14 GMT
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Organization: JDyx Enterprises (Atlanta GA)
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It's true that IBM is de-emphasizing AIX for now, but that's due to their
working on porting OSF/1.  The last thing I heard (from the trade
magazines and IBM personnel) is that OSF/1 with an AIX layer should be 
available somtime late next year.  Actually I think almost every implementation
of OSF/1 will have an AIX front-end as the utilities for OSF/1 were derived
from the AIX versions.  I think it's safe to say that IBM will keep selling
AIX for the PS/2.  If OS/2 ever takes off they may not push AIX, but their
unlikely to just drop it.  After all they have a better chance of selling
the RS/6000 into a company if they can get the companies existing PS/2's to
easily talk to the RS/6000.