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Old 07-06-2004
Comparing AIX and Solaris

Is Solaris still very hardware dependent? As in it is used mostly on SUN workstations and servers?

What about IBM's AIX? Does it only work on IBM machines?

Which is more popular and are there performance or usage differences?
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Old 07-07-2004
For usage differences between implementations of UNIX, I find the UNIX Rosetta Stone very useful.

You can find the document here

-DT
 
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