[rescue] Apple Network Server (AIX) V4.1.5 CD Pack on ebay

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, March 7, 2002 at 00:31:15 (-0600), Bill Bradford wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Apple Network Server (AIX) V4.1.5 CD Pack on ebay
>
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:37:06AM -0500, Eric Webb wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 March 2002 12:59 am, you wrote:
> > > I know there are a few people that are interested in Apple Network
> > > servers, so I though I would point this auction out.
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2006138367
> > Apple?  AIX?
> > *scratching head*
> > Ohh, I see...  it's just another prep/chrp/twirp/burp/whatever-compliant 
> > machine, ja?
> 
> Yep.  the only "Apple" thing about it is the logo on the front; its basically
> a PPC AIX machine.

Hmmm....  I don't know about all of the models, but if it's a 700 series
then it's 100% Apple designed hardware from the ground up.  Even the
hot-swap power supplies are of Apple design IIRC.  The motherboard in
particular is the same one as is used in some of the other machines,
just with different firmware.  It's a very "Apple" machine!

As I understand it the Apple guys did much of the AIX port too, and did
a lot of other related AIX work, some of which even got fed back to IBM
for inclusion in newer releases.  I have a friend here in Toronto who
still has at least one such machine and was a senior support guy for
Apple Canada, and I had a couple of friends working in the OS group
until it was disbanded.  One did the release builds for the MAI product
for a while.

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