OS/390 (now known as zOS) IS a Unix

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/facts.html

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
To: gllug@linux.co.uk
Sent: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 16:43:13 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
Subject: Re: [Gllug] HP Compaq? 

> On Tuesday, 4 Sep 2001, Kim Hawtin wrote:
> >Intel has been buying the rights to many alternative PC/micro
> >processors recently...IIRC
> >IIRC that Compaq sold Alpha as a condition on the purchase of DEC [1].
> 
> Hardly; Compaq bought DEC years ago, and actively developed Alpha for
> a little while afterwards.
> 
> My guess is that the death of Alpha was anticipating this deal; HP
> having killed PA-RISC in favour of IA-64 would then find it difficult
> to own the CPU that's proof that non-Intel designs can be viable.
> 
> >Remember that Sun have one OS, one processor. No-one else can
> >claim that,
> 
> If you mean that they sell only one OS running on only one processor,
> not so; they sell Solaris x86 and Cobalt Linux-based boxes.
> 
> If you mean that they control both the OS and the processor, IBM can
> claim that _twice_; once for S/390 (not a UNIX) and once for RS/6000 +
> AIX.
> 
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