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From: perand@ttds.UUCP (Per Andersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AIX questions?
Message-ID: <1209@ttds.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 89 18:16:51 GMT
References: <3580017@eecs.nwu.edu> <592@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Reply-To: perand@ttds.UUCP (Per Andersson)
Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
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In article <592@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>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
>|  
>
>
>"A person running SCO Xenix for four years and counting"
>	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
>  {uunet | philabs}!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen
>"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me


Well, it is not completely true that BSD is not available on the '386.
SUN-OS might just be it, it is rumoured that SUN wrote that on a Compaq,
because the 386i was not finished. On the other hand I don't know if SUN
will sell to anybody not buying a 386i..... Then again, you might check
out Interactive more closely. The version I have claims to have even BSD
job control, along with socket library, sendmail etc.

Per
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