[Leaplist] AIX on an AMD64 machine

[Randall Perry]

Also, I know that there were Thinkpads with AIX running on them.
Not something you could just pickup from your IBM vendor, but they
were out there.

On 3/21/07, Jim Hartley <xjimh at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> 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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