Is Unix not a PC Operating System?
- by Corelgott
I am doing my Bachelor at a university. In a written assignment the professor posted the task: "Name 3 PC-Operating Systems".
Well, I went on an included a variety of OS (Linux, Windows, OSx) including Unix & Solaris. Today I recieved a mail from my prof saying:
Unix is not a PC-Operating System. Many Unix-variants are not PC-hardware compatible (like AIX & HP-UX. About Solaris: there was one PC-compatible version...)
I am kind of suprised: Even if may Unix-variants are Power-PC and different bit-order – Those don't stop being PCs now, right?
The question was given in a written assigment! It was not a question that came up during lecture!
Due to the original task being in German, I'll include it just to make sure nobody suspects an error in the translation.
Frage: Nennen Sie 3 PC-Betriebssysteme.
Antwort: Unix ist kein PC-Betriebssystem, viele Unix-Varianten sind nicht auf PC-Hardware lauffähig (AIX, HP-UX). Von Solaris gab es mal eine PC-Variante.