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Subject: Re: IBM supercomputer
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AIX once ran on PS/2 hardware? And consequently on Intel procs?

(Only MCA though?)

They may soon again?

[RC]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Bob Willcox wrote:

> 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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