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RS/6000 was the fourth AIX platform after x86 (AIX 1.x), IBM RT/ROMP (AIX 2.x), and the mainframe (AIX/370, AIX/390)


How related to one another were those though? I remember AIX being expanded to “Any IBM UNIX”.


Not particularly. Any influence or overlap between them was in a strictly general sense. There are front end similarities but the internals are rather different, as would be expected for a rapidly evolving OS with lots of different authors. AIX didn't start to gel until around the 3.x or 4.x days.




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