Re: HTTP Apache V5R3 problem

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

One could look at the current  box, with its non-library file system, 
and see a strong resemblance to the directory names of a Unix system - 
/etc, /usr, /dev, /home and all that.

But all this came when IBM added the IFS much late in its life cycle.


Joe Pluta wrote:
> Dr. Syd Nicholson wrote:
>   
> > I would like to here comment from IBM, but I often wonder if i5/OS is built
> > on top of unix.
> >   
> >     
> Definitely not.  If you've worked on the platform over the years, you 
> would see the evolution from the System/3x through the AS/400 and on to 
> the i - no Unix at all in the early years.  One of the surest arguments 
> for a non-Unix pedigree is the lack of a hierarchical file system - an 
> absolute requirement for Unix - in the original architecture.
>
> Joe
>