9 Jan
1999
9 Jan
'99
4:22 a.m.
Bill Pechter said...
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|I believe AIX was one of two (along Digital OSF/1) Unix varients
|based on the OSF/1 code. IBM also contributed the file system
|and LVM to OSF/1. DEC kicked in a bunch of their parts.
I don't doubt they rolled some of the changes into
AIX, but (a) they had already put quite a bit of AIX
into OSF/1, and (b) they certainly didn't start over
with OSF/1 as a new AIX base.
|The Sun-AT&T deal faded away as AT&T decided to buy NCR, partner with
|Pyramid and continue their attempt to chase the computer business
|with badly conceived plans (like buying NCR).
And also because Sun was freaked out over OSF/1, and because
their much vaunted UNIX to end all UNIX didn't pan out...