On Thursday 01 April 2004 08:44, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> Erm, methinks this copy of AIX-PS/2 I have is older than any RS/6000...
> so unless they used AIX on the RT/PC (which I don't think they did),
> I'm going to go with "ported to other architectures - namely POWER".
AIX was the OS for the RT/PC (We had one before we picked up a "real" POWER
system).
AIX-PS2 came out after the RT/PC AIX - and was never popular. Like the
concept of putting what was supposed to be an enterprise OS on "toy" hardware
- although I remember charging $3,000 - $10,000 for large disks (300MB) on
PS/2 Servers around 1987,88. The margins were wonderful then....
By the early '90s we used to charge $15,000 for upgrade memory for large AIX
systems - and that was at a 50% discount from IBM's list price. Someday I'll
have to look up in our archives to see how much memory that bought (for sure
not a lot by todays standards!).
Lyle
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Lyle Bickley
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