Talk:IBM370/AIX

POV-check and merge/unreferenced

I removed the POV-check tag, because I can't see any apparent POV issues here, and whoever added the tag didn't put anything in the talk page to indicate why they did so (Edit: It appears that the POV phrase was corrected by Sarcelles earlier). I have added a couple of other things, however:

• I added a request for references, because I did a quick search and could find nothing out there to suggest that a version of AIX for S/370 did, in fact, exist. It appears that IBM made a version of AIX for the ESA architecture, but by my understanding (and I'm not an expert) ESA was only available on S/390, not on S/370. Unless somebody can provide a source for this statement I think it should be removed.
• Assuming that the statement is valid, I also suggest this article be merged into AIX operating system, because it really isn't substantial enough on its own to justify a separate article. I have already added info about AIX/ESA (S/390) to that article. If the assertion about S/370 can be substantiated, I would suggest simply correcting the "Supported architectures" section of AIX.

-- Foogod 22:54, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Please see the comments I added to the talk page for AIX operating system. The AIX that ran on the 370 and PS2 was of an entirely different strain from the one that ran on the other architectures -- it was a clustering operating system supplied to IBM by Locus Computing Corporation, derived from 4.1BSD. Since it has its own story, full and distinct from the other strain of AIX, it may be more appropriate to keep them as separate pages, with appropriate cross-references. However, at this point the text of neither page makes this clear; indeed the first sentence of this page strongly implies that they are the same OS: "It is a little known fact that AIX, primarily available for the RS/6000, was also once available for the S/370." Dave Butterfield 03:17, 21 September 2006 (UTC)