AIX vs VMS

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <1990Mar26.175619.22528 at hybrid.UUCP> mdapoz at hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz) writes:
>In article <519 at siswat.UUCP> buck at siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:
>>IBM architecture - RS/6000
>
>This is AIX V3, runs on RS/6000 only

AIX 3.1 is intended to run on as many things as you can throw it at,
remember that this the same code selected by OSF for OSF/1.  If you
wanted to run AIX 3.1 on a VAX, DEC would only have to join OSF
[ which we all know they already have ;-) ], and port AIX 3.1 to the
VAX architecture.

VMS is intended to run on the VAX, and that's about it.  There isn't
a "Open DEC Software Foundation" out there to join if you want to
run VAX/VMS on your System/6000.
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