AIX pedigree (and unique features)

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <31 at ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>, dyer at spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:

|  I was about to say "you can't" because "AIX" doesn't mean ANYTHING but
|  an interface specification.  Right now, AIX PS/2 and AIX/RT are completely
|  different internally.  The system call interface is mostly V.2 with sockets.
|  But if you work with the PS/2 kernel code (which I have) it's clear that it's
|  a Locus kernel, meaning that it shares a pedigree with 4.[123]BSD, V7, Sys III,
|  along with V.2, but has gobs of original Locus code to support TCF file sharing
|  and replication.

  I'm told that the AIX/370 kernel was done from yet another source (I
haven't seen the source, although three headhunters have offered me a
chance ;-) This implies that AIX version are compatible at the acronym level.
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