On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Paul Clyne wrote:
> > Good listers..
> >
> > Got a question for you, hopefully you can shed some light.
> >
> > Which distribution (RH, Suse, Caldera, etc,etc) is closest to the comercial
> > Unix's?.
> >
> > I suspect that each commercial version has it's own pecularities (I know that
> > in our company we have SCO on some remote sites and whatever runs on AS400's
> > located at HO {does SCO run on AS400's or does IBM have their own variant ?}).
> >
> IIRC, AS400 runs their own "proprietary" O/S called <gasp> AS/400. ;-) It may
> be a *nix variant, for all I know....
It isn't. It's called OS/400, ans it has nothing whatsoever to do with
UNIX. This is the homeground of RPG, the programming language that makes
people run away (well, me anyway). On the other hand, they apparently have
uptimes that Linux machines can only dream about (I believe uptimes over 6
years are no exception).
Frank
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