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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_ThinkPad_Power_Series lists 8 models and says 1994-98, which is a long time ago but certainly isn't nothing, and says they ran AIX, Solaris, and Windows NT.


These machines cost $12,000+ in 1990s dollars.

I think it's probably more accurate to say that a version(s) of AIX, Solaris, NT ( and I think a beta of OS/2) technically existed briefly for some models. While some commercial software might have been ported, I doubt it was ever officially supported. Except perhaps some AIX software? I assume it was binary compatible with PowerPC AIX.


Checking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation_20 implies that that's a perfectly reasonable price for what it was? The more interesting question is (relative) sales volume I think.


Funny to hear there were ~8 models because my impression has always been that they sold ~8 of them total.




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