Aix Running on Clones?

[Steve Dyer]

In article <richard.659757178 at fafnir.la.locus.com> richard at locus.com (Richard M. Mathews) writes:
>I suspect there is also a problem with selling a product which can only be
>used by someone who is violating their license to use AIX on a specific
>machine.

Huh?  There's nothing in my license agreement which says my copy of AIX PS/2
has to be running on a PS/2.  Obviously you would only run AIX PS/2 on as
many machines as you had purchased licenses for, but that's just a standard
licensing issue.

Anyway, I doubt Locus could sell a "LPP" in the classical sense to get this
to work on clones, but I suppose an "clone installation kit" would work: new
boot/install disks with a kernel and utilities which knew about ISA-class
machines and common device controllers.  Plus a selected few new *.o files
to go into /usr/sys/386/*.a.  The new install disks would install AIX PS/2
as normal and finish by building a new kernel with the replacement drivers.

Hey, what a great idea!  When will you come out with it? :-)

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