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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AIX questions?
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Date: 2 Jun 89 18:27:16 GMT
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In article <3580017@eecs.nwu.edu> ko@eecs.nwu.edu (John Ko) writes:
| I have a few questions about AIX, the un*x that was first released
| for the RT series and is BSD compatible.

	[ ... ]

| I need a BSD based u*nx for AT bus 386.

  This will come as a terrible shock, but AIX is not BSD. It's based on
SysV.1 with some BSD enhancements, and some IBM changes. As far as I
know you just can't get BSD for the 386, and I wouldn't bet that you
ever will.

  I don't know what IBM support for AIX looks like, but the support for
PC/ix and IBM Xenix was not particularly good, even by current
standards. I think for UNIX you might as well go with SysV.4 when
available. It will have virtually all of the BSD system stuff included.

| 					j.ko
| 					a person running DOS with 386
|  


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