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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Path: sparky!uunet!wts!jbf
- From: jbf@wts.com (Jens B. Fiederer)
- Subject: Re: What Does IBMR2 Mean?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.184013.25632@wts.com>
- Keywords: IBMR2
- Organization: Wegmans Transaction Services
- References: <BuFt5w.AzC@storcon.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 18:40:13 GMT
- Lines: 13
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- In article <BuFt5w.AzC@storcon.uucp> john@storcon.UUCP (John Hunley) writes:
- >ones such as "SUN3" and "VAX" I can figure out, but which one do I choose for
- >my RS/6000-AIX 3.2 combination? The possible candidates are "AIX386," "IBMRT,"
- >and "IBMR2." (Is there really an AIX for the 386?)
- >
- AIX386 refers to the AIX running on the IBM PS/2 machines, which use 386
- family CPUs. IBMRT would be for the old AIX on the old RT (RISC Technology),
- a machine that never really got popular. My guess is they call the RS/6000
- IBMR2 because it was their second try at a RISC machine....
-
- Jens
- Note: Except for the bit about the PS/2, which I have used, the above is
- speculation...
-