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From: jona@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Jon Alperin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Why no comp.sys.ibm.r6000?
Message-ID: <1991Apr19.172908.12696@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 19 Apr 91 17:29:08 GMT
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In article <1991Apr17.035222.18286@midway.uchicago.edu>, rtp1@quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes:
|> 
|> I notice that this group (now that I've finally found it!) basically
|> serves the function of "comp.sys.r6000".

   No. Many of the questions deal with AIX (2.1, 3.1, and 370). Its just
that each AIX version has its own ideosyncrasies (SP?) specific to a
hardware platform.

|>  So why is it stuck under
|> unix?  We have comp.sys.hp, not comp.unix.HPUX, and comp.sys.apollo,
|> not comp.unix.DOMAIN.  What's the history here? 

  Well,... I don't know about the history, but I don't think you can run
anything but AIX on an RS/6k....
 
|>     Is anybody interested in establishing comp.sys.ibm.r6000 and
|> moving there?  

  Nah...its kinda nice to find everything in one place for a change.

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