Messages in this thread | | | From | Wayne.Brown@altec ... | Date | Sat, 23 Jun 2001 21:41:29 -0500 | Subject | Re: Microsoft and Xenix. |
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Ah, yes, the RT/PC. That brings back some fond memories. My first exposure to Unix was with AIX on the RT. I still have some of those weird-sized RT AIX manuals around somewhere...
Wayne
John Adams <johna@onevista.com> on 06/23/2001 07:49:42 PM
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: (bcc: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec)
Subject: Re: Microsoft and Xenix.
On Saturday 23 June 2001 10:07, Rob Landley wrote: > Here's what I'm looking for: > > AIX was first introduced for the IBM RT/PC in 1986, which came out of the > early RISC research. It was ported to PS/2 and S/370 by SAA, and was > based on unix SVR2. (The book didn't specify whether the original > version or the version ported to SAA was based on SVR2, I'm guessing both > were.)
You are partially correct. AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) was built by the Boston office of Interactive Systems under contract to IBM. We had a maximum of 17 people in the effort which shipped on the RT in January 1986.
Prior to that time, Interactive Systems had produced a port of System III running on the PC/XT called PC/IX which was sold via IBM. I used PC/IX to produce the software only floating point code in the first version of AIX.
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