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by skissane 1253 days ago
> “AIX is what you’d get if aliens implemented a UNIX.”

The first version of AIX, for the IBM RT PC, actually ran on top of a microkernel written in PL/I, called VRM - how’s that for alien.

Subsequent versions moved closer to the Unix mainstream by dropping the PL/I microkernel.