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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 08:23:22 -0500
From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.immure.com>
To: The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net>
Cc: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>,
	Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>,
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Subject: Re: IBM supercomputer
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007010017380.2259-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net>; from res03db2@gte.net on Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 12:18:31AM -0700
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On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 12:18:31AM -0700, The Clark Family wrote:
> 
> AIX once ran on PS/2 hardware? And consequently on Intel procs?

That wasn't the same OS, really.  The kernel was from LCC and completely
unrelated to the kernel that runs on RS/6000.  Many of the commands and
libs were ported over from the RS/6000 system, but that's it.

> 
> (Only MCA though?)
> 
> They may soon again?

Well, one never really knows for sure what will make it out the door.  I
believe it is public knowledge that IBM has been working on a version of
AIX to run on Intel's itanium but I know nothing about it.

> 
> [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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> > bob@immure.com                his judgement.
> > Austin, TX                       -- anonymous
> > 
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-- 
Bob Willcox                   Everyone complains of his memory, no one of
bob@immure.com                his judgement.
Austin, TX                       -- anonymous


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