<OT>SCO

[Matthew Carpenter]

I have been lead to believe that AIX has recently replaced their kernel with
the Linux kernel.  Is there any truth to this?  Or is it just that they added a
"Linux Compatibility" layer?


begin  On Tue, 20 May 2003 09:05:05 -0500
Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:

> Ahhh .. but ISC (Interactive) was the first to Market Commercial UNIX to the
> world. And if so, they would have had the rights to Intel based code as well,
> no?
> 
> What I have found out today as a matter of fact, that AIX is based
> on ISC's version (see:
> 
> 
>   http://www.rootvg.net/column_risc.htm
> 
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 19 May 2003 21:43:02 -0500
> > Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Yeah, but didn't Interactive do the "ACTUAL" SYS V port for SCO and AT&T ?
> > 
> > 
> > Nopesiree. It was AT&T Bell Labs who did this. When Novell bought Unix from
> > AT&T, it was the guys at Bell labs (New Jersey, USA and Bracknell, UK) who
> > were sold as well, as they did the work. I guess some of those AT&T Bell
> > Labs guys still work for SCO doing UnixWare Kernel stuff.
> > 
> > What I think you are thinking of is that Interactive was bought by Sun
> > and provided the basis for Solaris on intel. This being after Interactive
> > was bought by Kodak to be used in point-of-sale image solutions.
> > 
> > Still, the binary compatability was quite good. For years I ran, on my AT&T
> > SVR4 Unix, an X server from Snitilly Graphics that was compiled for
> > Interactive Unix. Never a glitch. Worked for years.
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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