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From: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: AIX history (was: I hope this wont ignite a major flame w)
Date: 10 Aug 1994 06:12:04 GMT
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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In-reply-to: Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no's message of 8 Aug 1994 19:26:26 GMT

In article <3260t2$cg6@ugle.unit.no> Havard.Eidnes@runit.sintef.no (Havard Eidnes) writes:

   The initial Unix-style OS for the RT-PC was called AOS (Academic
   Operating System), I think, and it was indeed of a BSD flavour, or

Actually, it was called ACIS and it wasn't all that bad!  There followed
a short but intense war between the ACIS and AIX camps, a war which AIX
won to our great and lasting sorrow.

					Jordan