Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!mintaka!spdcc!dyer From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Aix Running on Clones? Message-ID: <5057@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> Date: 28 Nov 90 05:57:58 GMT References: <1990Nov13.150450.18758@watserv1.waterloo.edu> <1990Nov19.113340@fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com> <4989@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <17516@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Nov27.205029.28569@turnkey.tcc.com> Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) Distribution: comp Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA Lines: 23 In article richard@locus.com (Richard M. Mathews) writes: >I suspect there is also a problem with selling a product which can only be >used by someone who is violating their license to use AIX on a specific >machine. Huh? There's nothing in my license agreement which says my copy of AIX PS/2 has to be running on a PS/2. Obviously you would only run AIX PS/2 on as many machines as you had purchased licenses for, but that's just a standard licensing issue. Anyway, I doubt Locus could sell a "LPP" in the classical sense to get this to work on clones, but I suppose an "clone installation kit" would work: new boot/install disks with a kernel and utilities which knew about ISA-class machines and common device controllers. Plus a selected few new *.o files to go into /usr/sys/386/*.a. The new install disks would install AIX PS/2 as normal and finish by building a new kernel with the replacement drivers. Hey, what a great idea! When will you come out with it? :-) -- Steve Dyer dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu