marty@ultra.com (Marty Lyons) (11/24/90)
I just purchased an RT with AIX 2.2.1. I've been hearing about other
Un*x variants that will run on the RT, but can't seem to find anyone
with information, or even pointers to information. Anyone know
anything about:
- Later releases of AIX for the RT? I hear 2.2.1 is the latest
and greatest.
- Mach - is CMU or anyone doing a port that would run on an RT?
(From what I've heard, Mach still requires a SysV and 4.3 license,
to get Mach, has that changed?)
- BSD4.3 - I hear someone (MIT?) did a port of vanilla 4.3 to
run on an RT.
Thanks in advance!
/Marty
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Marty Lyons, Ultra Network Technologies, 101 Daggett Dr, San Jose, CA 95134 USA
(408) 922-0100 x196, marty@ultra.com, "Home of the 1 Gigabit/Second network"jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel) (11/25/90)
In article <1990Nov24.052454.12912@ultra.com> marty@ultra.com (Marty Lyons) writes: >I just purchased an RT with AIX 2.2.1. I've been hearing about other >Un*x variants that will run on the RT > - BSD4.3 - I hear someone (MIT?) did a port of vanilla 4.3 to > run on an RT. Yes, IBM themselves at Palo Alto did this port some years back. I believe it is called AOS (no, don't ask me what the acronym stands for). The problem is that for reasons I am unclear on they only make it available to educa- tional institutions. Too bad too since on some of my university support trips I was amazed at how reasonable a workstation the RT can be with enough memory, a 19" monitor, X11, and AOS. Oh well, perhaps if you have some University contacts you can work something out? Oh yes, I also don't believe there is any formal support for it either, but I am not sure about that. Disclaimer: These opinions are my own, not necessarily LCC's or IBM's. -- Jack F. Vogel jackv@locus.com AIX370 Technical Support - or - Locus Computing Corp. jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM