On 8/30/2017 7:31 PM, Guy Sotomayor Jr via cctalk wrote:
On Aug 30, 2017, at 7:14 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk <[email protected]>
wrote:
Steve Jobs would have been at NeXT at that time, he didn’t come back to Apple
until ’97.
Nearly 25 years later, my memory is pretty vague, however, around ’93 at the
FOSE trade show in Washington DC, IBM had a system running both OS/2 and AIX.
I want to say it was PPC, but it may have been x86.
It was more than likely x86 and the AIX would have been AIX PS/2 (which I did a
lot of work on at the time).
The IBM Microkernel project (which I helped start) was the only way that OS/2
ran on PPC. OS/2 was an OS personality on top of the microkernel and all of
its services. We also had a UNIX running as a personality too. My memory has
faded too much at this point and but I also believe that there was MVM
personality to allow DOS/Windows to run too.
TTFN - Guy
Guy, I had a friend working on the OS2 project in Austin. He worked up
to about 18 months before early retirement age, and then had a mad
scramble to keep from getting laid off when they killed the project. He
was lucky enough to jump into the AIX group long enough to retire, but
not all were that lucky.
Bill Tims, in case you knew him. A closet USL Multician
thanks
Jim
