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General Discussion / Re: Downgrade from Vista to XP?
« on: 2008.04.01, 05:28:18 »
Re: "even if IBM didn't develop those enhancements". Case in point - there was an wholesale transfer by IBM of the Journaling File System (JFS) (specifically developed for OS/2) to the Linux Operating System. Also, with regards to "Linux as an OS existed before IBM did research to develop AIX". As history will show... if fact "AIX Version 1, introduced in 1986 for the IBM 6150 RT workstation, was based on UNIX System V Releases 1 and 2. In developing AIX, IBM and INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation (whom IBM contracted) also incorporated source code from 4.2 and 4.3BSD UNIX.
Among other variants, IBM later produced AIX Version 3 (also known as AIX/6000), based on System V Release 3, for their IBM POWER-based RS/6000 platform. Since 1990, AIX has served as the primary operating system for the RS/6000 series (now called System p by IBM).
AIX Version 4, introduced in 1994, added symmetric multiprocessing with the introduction of the first RS/6000 SMP servers. AIX Version 4 continued to evolve though the 1990s culminating with AIX 4.3.3 in 1999...." and was not developed after "Linux as an OS existed before IBM did research to develop AIX" as you appear to be saying.
You may wish to try this link for additional information on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX_operating_system
Among other variants, IBM later produced AIX Version 3 (also known as AIX/6000), based on System V Release 3, for their IBM POWER-based RS/6000 platform. Since 1990, AIX has served as the primary operating system for the RS/6000 series (now called System p by IBM).
AIX Version 4, introduced in 1994, added symmetric multiprocessing with the introduction of the first RS/6000 SMP servers. AIX Version 4 continued to evolve though the 1990s culminating with AIX 4.3.3 in 1999...." and was not developed after "Linux as an OS existed before IBM did research to develop AIX" as you appear to be saying.
You may wish to try this link for additional information on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX_operating_system

. Hey "BigWarpGuy"; just to let you know that I have taken the liberty of forwarding "the link" to a few former colleagues of mine in Canada and South America. Here is what the email said in part; "This does not look like the PMTC's Rolls Royce but I really think that I am going to make my reservation". Quite sure you understand the feeling. 