[TUHS] First Unix-like OSes not derived from AT&T code?

Rich Morin rdm at cfcl.com
Tue May 3 06:19:33 AEST 2022


> On May 2, 2022, at 02:21, Dr Iain Maoileoin <iain at csp-partnership.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> ... In the UK in the 80s IBM had large bill-board adverts that ran along the lines of “…we took UNIX and added a million lines of code …..”.
> I always thought (rather unfairly) YES, and every one of them was wrong.
> 
> However one of my car registration plates is "AIX OK”.  I changed my mind later on….

I love Barry Shein's snark on AIX (and occasionally paraphrase it for Linux):

"AIX - It will remind you of Unix."

-r



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