psrc@pegasus.ATT.COM (Paul S. R. Chisholm) (06/29/89)
In article <14774@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, afscian@violet.waterloo.edu (Anthony Scian) writes: > . . . . IBM appears to be having the same feelings because > AIX (or future OSF derivative) is AVAILABLE NOW on everything > above (and including?) a PS/2. Um, sort of. Yes, you can buy a version of AIX for any IBM hardware platform, except for (oddly enough) the AS/400. (Maybe they decided the UNIX(R) operating system doesn't run on minis?-) But if you look at Systems Network Architecture, if you look at Systems Application Architecture, if you look at Office Vision . . . golly, they don't seem to have UNIX-based systems anywhere in the fancy little slides. If you want to buy a UNIX-based box from IBM, they'll sell you one. If your organization wants to get all of its computers working together, IBM really wants to sell you a mainframe (that's what Office Vision is all about), and they really want to have you use proprietary operating systems, or PC-DOS or OS/2 on the desktop. > Anthony Scian afscian@violet.uwaterloo.ca afscian@violet.waterloo.edu Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories att!pegasus!psrc, psrc@pegasus.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind. UNIX(R) is a registered trademark of AT&T.