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Where are you getting this information? The PReP/CHRP was a venture by Apple, IBM, and Motorola (but primarily IBM) to allow companies to build OSes for a comm

Where are you getting this information? The PReP/CHRP was a venture by Apple, IBM, and Motorola (but primarily IBM) to allow companies to build OSes for a common platform. Apple didn't want to participate in the end. But like other ports of NT to MIPS and Alpha (Alpha enjoyed much more support until Compaq dropped support), the popularity was well beneath the dirt cheap in comparison x86 platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_Reference_Platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC_Reference_Platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Hardware_Reference_Platform https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Hardware_Reference_Plat... This had nothing to do with Microsoft's monopoly. And nothing to do with exclusively 'desktop' PPC -- remember, NT4 Server also had PPC support through SP2. IBM's intention was for servers, not desktops (though they did produce compatible laptops/desktops), to support operating systems such as AIX and S[l]o[w|l]aris AIX isn't exactly a desktop OS.

yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
> AIX isn't exactly a desktop OS. If so, only artificially; AIX was born on a workstation and seems to still support running a graphical desktop environment.
- nullindividual 2y ago
  Just like NT4 Server :-) Intended use vs. potential use. And yeah, NT4 Server was just NT4 Workstation with some registry fiddly bits flipped.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
    Right; NT was and is likewise quite capable of being a desktop or server OS, the difference is that MS actually pushed that and NT 10.0 is still actively used in both contexts.
- lizknope 2y ago
  AIX was the first Unix I ever used in 1991 on an IBM RT with the ROMP CPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RT_PC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RT_PC I wanted one on my desktop so bad. DOS/Win3.1 PCs were just so bad to me. Then I saw SunOS and really just wanted any Unix system on my desk. I bought a PC in 1994 just to install Linux.
  - icedchai 2y ago
    I had one of these back in the early 90's, bought used, of course. It was running AIX 2.x. I moved on to Linux pretty quick.
  - lproven 2y ago
    > AIX was the first Unix I ever used in 1991 on an IBM RT with the ROMP CPU Nice. Me too. But it was about 1989. The first machine I ever compiled a C program and it took me ages to find `a.out` and work out that that was my binary. I was more used to DOS compilers that turned $SOURCENAME.$ext into $sourcename.EXE.
FMecha 2y ago
>Where are you getting this information? From personal perception every time I read articles on Taligent, Copland, and Workplace OS (which did result in a demo PowerPC port of OS/2). >This had nothing to do with Microsoft's monopoly. Admittedly I had that comment in mind to pre-empt any potential narrativeposting.
banish-m4 2y ago
An interesting footnote is that installing the web browser package on AIX caused a telemetry dial-home to Big Blue. I found this because it was keeping our ISDN BRI leased line up constantly and costing us money. Blocking that address solved it.

yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago

> AIX isn't exactly a desktop OS. If so, only artificially; AIX was born on a workstation and seems to still support running a graphical desktop environment.

nullindividual 2y ago
Just like NT4 Server :-) Intended use vs. potential use. And yeah, NT4 Server was just NT4 Workstation with some registry fiddly bits flipped.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y ago
  Right; NT was and is likewise quite capable of being a desktop or server OS, the difference is that MS actually pushed that and NT 10.0 is still actively used in both contexts.
lizknope 2y ago
AIX was the first Unix I ever used in 1991 on an IBM RT with the ROMP CPU https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RT_PC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_RT_PC I wanted one on my desktop so bad. DOS/Win3.1 PCs were just so bad to me. Then I saw SunOS and really just wanted any Unix system on my desk. I bought a PC in 1994 just to install Linux.
- icedchai 2y ago
  I had one of these back in the early 90's, bought used, of course. It was running AIX 2.x. I moved on to Linux pretty quick.
- lproven 2y ago
  > AIX was the first Unix I ever used in 1991 on an IBM RT with the ROMP CPU Nice. Me too. But it was about 1989. The first machine I ever compiled a C program and it took me ages to find `a.out` and work out that that was my binary. I was more used to DOS compilers that turned $SOURCENAME.$ext into $sourcename.EXE.

FMecha 2y ago

>Where are you getting this information? From personal perception every time I read articles on Taligent, Copland, and Workplace OS (which did result in a demo PowerPC port of OS/2). >This had nothing to do with Microsoft's monopoly. Admittedly I had that comment in mind to pre-empt any potential narrativeposting.

banish-m4 2y ago

An interesting footnote is that installing the web browser package on AIX caused a telemetry dial-home to Big Blue. I found this because it was keeping our ISDN BRI leased line up constantly and costing us money. Blocking that address solved it.