From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 20:50:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 20:49:52 -0400 Received: from fla057.us-it.net ([208.60.183.57]:10587 "EHLO onevista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 23 Jun 2001 20:49:39 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: John Adams Organization: One Vista Associates To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix. Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 20:49:42 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <01062310075401.00696@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <01062310075401.00696@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01062320494201.01112@flash.onevista.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 23 June 2001 10:07, Rob Landley wrote: > Here's what I'm looking for: > > AIX was first introduced for the IBM RT/PC in 1986, which came out of the > early RISC research. It was ported to PS/2 and S/370 by SAA, and was > based on unix SVR2. (The book didn't specify whether the original > version or the version ported to SAA was based on SVR2, I'm guessing both > were.) You are partially correct. AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) was built by the Boston office of Interactive Systems under contract to IBM. We had a maximum of 17 people in the effort which shipped on the RT in January 1986. Prior to that time, Interactive Systems had produced a port of System III running on the PC/XT called PC/IX which was sold via IBM. I used PC/IX to produce the software only floating point code in the first version of AIX. johna