VMS, UNIX, etc.

[Eduardo Krell]

In article <3718 at killer.UUCP> jfh at killer.UUCP (The Beach Bum) writes:

>at last i heard, IBM had shipped about 40 systems with 370/ix and was
>not able to support them for spit.  big blue obviously is not too willing
>to jump on the Unix bandwagon just yet.

Well, IBM just announced a few days ago AIX (Unix) for a variety of
their hardware: 3090s, 4381s, 9370s and PS/2-386s. AIX includes the
so-called Transparent Computing Facility (TCF), which is really Locus
(distributed, transparent processing, process migration, etc.).

I think IBM said this was a strategic program product
I would call that a first step toward jumping on the Unix bandwagon...
    
    Eduardo Krell                   AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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