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From: mjones@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com (Mike Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Aix Running on Clones?
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.113340@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 16:33:40 GMT
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In article <1990Nov13.150450.18758@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, hurley@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Patrick Hurley) writes:
> 
>   Has anyone out there ever gotten aix to run on clones?  
> 
	[lots of stuff about trying to install AIX PS/2 on a clone deleted]
> 
>   Now after all this ranting.....has anyone gotten any further?
> 
>   Is this the way IBM is copy  protecting AIX?  The way I figure it
> the more versions of AIX out there the more hardware IBM will sell in the
> long run if this is indeed the case.

Ummm...copy protecting? Not quite. IBM has never claimed that AIX will work
on anything other than PS/2's, and support has only been announced on
specific models of those. Most clones are clones only down to the BIOS
level, and have various bits of hardware underneath, so a "clone" is
actually a different machine to AIX. Would you be surprised if you tried to
install it on, say, a Sun i386 and it didn't work? The fact is that AIX is
optimized for the PS/2 hardware, not crippled to keep it from working on
other hardware.

	My opinions, of course, are not IBM's official opinions.

Mike Jones         | In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and
AIX Development    | then rubble.
Kingston, NY       | 	-- Alan Perlis
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