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From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.immure.com>
To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>,
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Subject: Re: IBM supercomputer
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In-Reply-To: <20000630120036.A29936@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:00:37PM +0100
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 12:00:37PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 02:37:16PM +0530, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > > http://msnbc.com/news/426657.asp
> > 
> > (a) Where does it say it's running Windows?  The only mentions of
> > Microsoft or Windows I could find were at the bottom, "this page
> > optimized for..."
> > (b) Since when did windows run on an RS/6000?
> > 
> > Something wrong here.  
> 
> this was obviously a HUGE tongue-in-cheek remark.  i'm sure it actually runs
> either unix or some proprietary OS.

The RS/6000 SP systems run AIX (IBM's version of unix) as do all
RS/6000s that I know of.  (I spent the last 12 years of my 30-year IBM
career working on AIX.)

Bob

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