[Leaplist] AIX on an AMD64 machine

[Derek Konigsberg]

On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:23 pm, Randall Perry wrote:
> 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.
Yes, but those Thinkpads were PowerPC-based RS/6000 machines under the covers.

They were *not* PC laptops.

-Derek

>
> 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).
> > >
> > > *:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.,_,.-:*'``'*:-.
> > >    Randall Perry
> > >    Hope Crisis Response Network
> > >  www.hcrn.info
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