Is Unix a PC Operating system?
- by Corelgott
I have got kind of a stupid question. I am doing my bachelor at a university. In a wirtten assigment a prof 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 beeing PCs right now?
The question was given in a written assigment! It was not a question that came up during lecture!
Due to the original postest task being in German, I'll include it just to make sure, that nobody suspects an error in the translation...
"Nennen Sie 3 PC-Betriebssysteme:"
Response / 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."
Anybody got something on that?
Thx & Cheers
Corelgott