[Leaplist] AIX on an AMD64 machine

[Jim Hartley]

Actually, there was AIX for Intel back around 1990 or so. It was for the 
IBM PS/2 mod 80 (top end machine), but it did have dependencies on the 
IBM MicroChannel bus architecture and the IBM ABios (Advanced BIOS). Of 
course you really needed a big machine ... 16MB of memory ... a couple 
of 400 MB SCSI drives ... stuff like that. Fun to play around with, but 
most people just ran OS/2. Eventually they discontinued the PC AIX.

Jim Hartley

Randall Perry wrote:
> On 3/21/07, Kyle Gonzales <kyle.gonzales at gmail.com> wrote:
>> First off, I am sorry you were given such a horrible thing. :P
>>
>> AIX only runs on the POWER platform.
> Practically speaking, yes.  But just an over generalization (probably
> to make for a brief answer).
> The long answer: it was ported off of PowerPC over 6 years ago.
> Remember TheBS talking over and over about SCO being about Project 
> Monterey???
> That is _exactly_ about AIX being ported to Itanium platform.
> So, way back in 2000, AIX ran on non-power architecture.
> That coincided around the 5.1 launch/SCO sold to Caldera/IBM puts
> brakes on Monterey/SCO sues IBM.
>
> Homer, if you really want AIX to run, then pickup a cheap box off eBay
> for under $200 (that about what a 43p should go for).
>
> *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.
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