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Old 01-28-2013, 08:12 AM   #1
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Is some special hardware required for UNIX or the hardware which can run linux?
 
Old 01-28-2013, 08:31 AM   #2
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It just depends what CPU architecture the operationg system is built for, for example AIX only runs on PowerPC chips AFAIK.
 
  


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