http://www.loveunix.net/html/200503/pe11090.html
http://www.loveunix.net/html/200602/pe18879.html
http://attachment.itpub.net/attachme...%E0%D1%B55.pdf

I stumbled across this. Can anyone translate the relevant part of PDF?

Kevin Bowling schrieb:

> http://www.loveunix.net/html/200503/pe11090.html
> http://www.loveunix.net/html/200602/pe18879.html
> http://attachment.itpub.net/attachme...%E0%D1%B55.pdf
>
> I stumbled across this. Can anyone translate the relevant part of PDF?

VMWare uses the x86 CPU to emulate a complete PC not a PReP nor CHRP
PowerPC machine.

So AIX won't run on anything but a RS/6000 or pSeries or equivalent
machines from Bull.
I forgot that there also was a server from Apple running AIX 4.1.something.

--
Uli

Uli Link wrote:
> Kevin Bowling schrieb:
>
>> http://www.loveunix.net/html/200503/pe11090.html
>> http://www.loveunix.net/html/200602/pe18879.html
>> http://attachment.itpub.net/attachme...%E0%D1%B55.pdf
>>
>>
>> I stumbled across this. Can anyone translate the relevant part of PDF?
>
> VMWare uses the x86 CPU to emulate a complete PC not a PReP nor CHRP
> PowerPC machine.
I know this and that is why the screen captures caught my eye. I was
hoping someone here was fluent in Chinese and could read what is going on.
Also, wasn't AIX 5.0L ported to IA64 but never released?
Kevin

i saw that posts long time ago. this is a joke.

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 18:25 -0700, Kevin Bowling wrote:
> Uli Link wrote:
> > Kevin Bowling schrieb:
> >
> >> http://www.loveunix.net/html/200503/pe11090.html
> >> http://www.loveunix.net/html/200602/pe18879.html
> >> http://attachment.itpub.net/attachme...%E0%D1%B55.pdf
> >>
> >>
> >> I stumbled across this. Can anyone translate the relevant part of PDF?
> >
> > VMWare uses the x86 CPU to emulate a complete PC not a PReP nor CHRP
> > PowerPC machine.
> I know this and that is why the screen captures caught my eye. I was
> hoping someone here was fluent in Chinese and could read what is going on.

I'm not, but I could hazard a guess: Someone installed
Linux/*BSD/Solaris and started an X server with 'X -query
some-aix-box'

> Also, wasn't AIX 5.0L ported to IA64 but never released?

Possibly, but I don't think VMware does IA64; only x86 and x86-64.
"IA64" is usually used to indicate Itanium, not the 64-bit extensions
first released by AMD and quickly reproduced by Intel, which is what
most new 64-bit PCs are. The Itanium and x86/x86-64 are, AFAIK, about
as a different as they are from POWER, SPARC, MIPS, etc--that's to say,
other than provisions for a built-in x86-32 emulation engine, they're
not at all related, other than that they're made mostly by the same
company.

Wil

This is a red herring...

Someone installed a linux vmware server on a PC which does an
"autoconnect" to an AIX server. They labeled the tab AIX 4.33. vmWare
absolutely will NOT run AIX. Other discussions about Itanium are moot
as well because AIX 5.1 (not 4.33) was the only version of AIX which
ran Itanium.

Throw this topic in the bit bucket and move on.

Chris Young
AIX Consultant for Hire
614-804-UNIX