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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:31:35 CST
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- From: David E Boyes <dboyes@IS.RICE.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Logical Partitions/Physical Partitions
- Comments: To: IBM-MAIN@ricevm1.rice.edu
- In-Reply-To: <9212250149.AA26930@is.rice.edu>; from "Leonard D Woren" at Dec
- 24, 92 5:49 pm
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- > On Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:38:18 EST,
- > "Duane D. Weaver" <WEAVER@OHSTVMA.BITNET> said:
- > > There is a possibility that each center may want to run Unix in partition.
- > > The administrative center is currently running Amdahl's UTS Unix,
- > > which can only run under VM on an IBM machine, but may consider AIX.
-
- One of the folks here used to work at a site that ran UTS heavily
- (Texas A&M) and has lots of positive things to say about it,
- especially w.r.t. how it coexists with the traditional IBM
- environs. I've not heard equally nice things said about the
- various flavors of AIX, although AIX/ESA is supposed to be a
- significant improvement over AIX/370.
-
- > Really? Before we moved unitree to an RS/6000, we were running UTS
- > under LPAR on our IBM 9121-320.
-
- I know of other sites running AIX/ESA in LPARs as well. AIX/370
- required VM. Performance results appear to be somewhat mixed,
- however -- apparently AIX is much more demanding of the LPAR code
- than VM or MVS.
-
- > All I've heard from people who have experience with
- > both AIX and some other *ix is negative to AIX. The TCF (?) looks
- > spiffy to me, if you can use it, but other than that, I don't see much
- > point in AIX.
-
- TCF isn't really supported any longer in AIX/ESA, as I understand
- it. Apparently, not too many sites wanted to mess with AIX/PC and
- the configuration hassles. AIX also requires a System V mindset,
- which is kind of rare amoung academic types who are spoiled by
- BSD Unix derivients. What with Solaris 2.x and most of the other
- Unixen converging on SVR4 though, this may be a moot point in a
- short time. I'll admit to being less than thrilled with POSIX
- compliant Unix, but it's got to be better than the current state
- of affairs with *no* portability standards between Unix systems.
-