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From: jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Looking for alternatives to AIX for an RT
Message-ID: <1990Nov24.180622.26312@turnkey.tcc.com>
Date: 24 Nov 90 18:06:22 GMT
References: <1990Nov24.052454.12912@ultra.com>
Reply-To: jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Westchester, CA
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In article <1990Nov24.052454.12912@ultra.com> marty@ultra.com (Marty Lyons) writes:
 
>I just purchased an RT with AIX 2.2.1.  I've been hearing about other
>Un*x variants that will run on the RT 
 
>        - BSD4.3 - I hear someone (MIT?) did a port of vanilla 4.3 to
>          run on an RT.
 
Yes, IBM themselves at Palo Alto did this port some years back. I believe
it is called AOS (no, don't ask me what the acronym stands for). The problem
is that for reasons I am unclear on they only make it available to educa-
tional institutions. Too bad too since on some of my university support trips
I was amazed at how reasonable a workstation the RT can be with enough memory,
a 19" monitor, X11, and AOS. Oh well, perhaps if you have some University
contacts you can work something out? Oh yes, I also don't believe there is
any formal support for it either, but I am not sure about that.

Disclaimer: These opinions are my own, not necessarily LCC's or IBM's.

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