Aix Running on Clones?
Mike Jones
mjones at fenway.aix.kingston.ibm.com
Tue Nov 20 03:33:40 AEST 1990
In article <1990Nov13.150450.18758 at watserv1.waterloo.edu>, hurley at watserv1.waterloo.edu (Patrick Hurley) writes:
>
> Has anyone out there ever gotten aix to run on clones?
>
[lots of stuff about trying to install AIX PS/2 on a clone deleted]
>
> Now after all this ranting.....has anyone gotten any further?
>
> Is this the way IBM is copy protecting AIX? The way I figure it
> the more versions of AIX out there the more hardware IBM will sell in the
> long run if this is indeed the case.
Ummm...copy protecting? Not quite. IBM has never claimed that AIX will work
on anything other than PS/2's, and support has only been announced on
specific models of those. Most clones are clones only down to the BIOS
level, and have various bits of hardware underneath, so a "clone" is
actually a different machine to AIX. Would you be surprised if you tried to
install it on, say, a Sun i386 and it didn't work? The fact is that AIX is
optimized for the PS/2 hardware, not crippled to keep it from working on
other hardware.
My opinions, of course, are not IBM's official opinions.
Mike Jones | In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and
AIX Development | then rubble.
Kingston, NY | -- Alan Perlis
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