On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >> 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). > > I think you’re right, especially as, IIRC, it was a laptop. > In 1993 AIX PS/2 would hardly have been news anymore. Sounds about right for announcing stuff running on the 601, but it's a bit early for Solaris 2.5.1. I have 2 PPC machines running Solaris 2.5.1. One is a Motorola PowerStack E100, the other an early IBM PReP (6015-40P IIRC). The docs also mention that it runs on the PPC thinkpads (820/850/860). It's actually quite nice, it feels quite snappy and full featured. The only oddity is that when you install it, you need to boot some special openfirmware emulation from floppy disk which can then load the rest from CD. I only have the OS, but I heard there's a version of the Sun Workshop compiler that has PPC support. I'd love to get my hands on that ;) There's also a version of OS/2 for those machines, but it's hardly more than a proof of concept.
