AIX (is it unix)?

[John Campbell]

My administrator believes in IBM so much that when we mentioned that we
needed to be able to read tapes on a mainframe and move the data down
to work stations via TCP/IP he said use our IBM mainframe (CMS, MVS, and
VM).  Slightly more reasonably, he further suggested we could purchase
AIX and run it as a "virtual machine" under VM.

I know nothing of IBM.  Is this reasonable?  Is AIX a real unix when it
runs on a big IBM?  Specifically, would Sun/Iris/Apollo users understand
the IBM world if they came in through the AIX back door?  (And does
*anyone* know how good a TCP/IP internet running on ethernet implementation
will be for such users?)

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	John Campbell               ...!arizona!naucse!jdc
                                    CAMPBELL at NAUVAX.bitnet
	unix?  Sure send me a dozen, all different colors.