From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:57:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:57:30 -0400 Received: from 216-60-128-137.ati.utexas.edu ([216.60.128.137]:27804 "HELO tsunami.webofficenow.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:57:17 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley Reply-To: landley@webofficenow.com To: John Adams , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix. Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 10:25:58 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] In-Reply-To: <01062310075401.00696@localhost.localdomain> <01062320494201.01112@flash.onevista.com> In-Reply-To: <01062320494201.01112@flash.onevista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <0106241025580A.01519@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 23 June 2001 20:49, John Adams wrote: > 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. Ah. I got the above out of a book in the UT library. (I have the name written down in my notebook... Um, possibly "IBM PS/2, a business perspective" by Jim Hoskins, or more likely "IBM RISC 6000, a business perspective" also by Jim Hoskins. I have no idea who Jim Hoskins is.) Obviously It's better to have somebody who was actually there. Mind if I bug you offline about this? (Or better yet, convince you to join the mailing list I'll be creating this afternoon...) > 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. Cool. I know there were several nebulous versions of unix available for the PC. (I don't know when coherent was introduced but it was around in 89... And Xenix was always sort of floating around... Considering that IBM also had access to Xenix (if it wanted it), that's at least three versions of Unix IBM could have put on the PC. What do you want to bet no two of them ran the same binaries? :) > johna Rob