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> 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.
by 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 agoJust 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 agoRight; 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 agoAIX 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 agoI 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.