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From: dar@telesoft.com (David Reisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Re^2: IBM Kills NeXT !! (AIX/Mach)
Message-ID: <707@telesoft.com>
Date: 21 Feb 90 01:22:56 GMT
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In article <4274@helios.TAMU.EDU>, n245bq@tamunix (Keith Perkins) writes:
> ...The 68040 can run at 20 MIPS and 3.5 MFLOPS

(All I want is a machine that will do >= 10 MIPS with fast i/o and a separate
display processor.  (And to think that I used to think that having my own
11/780 would be enough!))

> The IBM AIX is a combination/hybrid of BSD 4.3 and System 5. This means
> that sometimes programs are compatible, and somtimes they're not. There
> was a review out in either MIPS or Byte which looked at AIX ver 3, and they
> were seriously impressed. I think that compatiblity could be its only negative
> factor, and that with IBM backing AIX, it could go on to rival other UNIX 
> standards.

Advertisements indicate that IBM's POWER uses OSF/Motif (which appears to
be much prettier than OpenLook).  My understanding is that OSF has also
chosen Mach as their Unix kernel (good news for NeXT).  Perhaps (maybe?
hopefully?) IBM will move to (an IBM pissed in version of) Mach.

-David
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