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- From: marke@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com (Mark W. Easter)
- Subject: Re: Zmodem protocol on AIX ???
- Sender: marke@dev1.csg.ssd.fsi.com (Mark Easter)
- Message-ID: <MARKE.92Aug21151131@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com>
- In-Reply-To: borders@ms.uky.edu's message of Mon, 17 Aug 1992 21:59:41 GMT
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 20:11:30 GMT
- References: <1992Aug10.130401.1091@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw>
- <MARKE.92Aug16011050@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com>
- <1992Aug17.175941.15613@ms.uky.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug17.175941.15613@ms.uky.edu> borders@ms.uky.edu (Johnny Borders) writes:
-
- > marke@fsi-ssd.csg.ssd.fsi.com (Mark W. Easter) writes:
- >
- > >In article <1992Aug10.130401.1091@ccsun7.csie.nctu.edu.tw> gcp80532@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Chien-Lu Fang) writes:
- >
- > >> Would you please tell me where i can get the Zmodem utilities
- > >> based on AIX 3.1 ???
- >
- > >See "rzsz.tar.Z". I got mine from uunet, and it works great.
- >
- > *NOTHING* on AIX works "great." You're lucky if you can get it to work
- > at all. But I just *LOVE* IBM's er.. 'solutions' (see .sig :)
-
- Gee, ever try "make sysvr3". I think I spent 20 minutes getting this
- package up including waiting for it to come down from uunet.
-
- You know, I have avoided this debate for a long time now, but since
- this comment was in reply to a message of mine and (I believe) an
- issue of fairness is involved, I feel the time to say something has
- come. I, for one, am tired of all the lame comments about
- IBM/AIX/RS6000. No, AIX is not SUNOS, and so what? I am reminded of
- a comment during the Republican Convention last night that went
- something like this, "Berlin Wall Down - Freed Border Guards Lose Jobs
- - Bush Blamed." SMIT is a step in the right direction, LVM is
- liberating, control of out of memory conditions is welcome. So it's
- different than BSD, SUNOS, or ATT; it's different because it is trying
- to be better, and it has done this while still providing the tools to
- maintain portability with most other major environments. All it takes
- is a little thinking and a little work, and the reward is usually an
- application that performs better than it did in its original
- environment. We use SUN, HARRIS, IBM, CONCURRENT, and MOTOROLA
- systems. With the exception of CONCURRENT, I have been quite pleased
- with all of them; however, after working with all of them, I prefer
- the IBM, and I prefer it because I place performance and vendor
- response (HARRIS is a tie for first in the vendor response category)
- above the "it doesn't work like a SUN" litmus test. Most of these
- complaints come from "younguns" that haven't lived much yet. Let me
- tell you, change is the name of the game. Those of us who can juggle
- multiple projects on multiple platforms in multiple languages without
- complaint or whining command the big bucks and the respect. You'd
- better learn to slip out of your rut, look at the world, separate the
- good from the bad, and, when objective analysis shows you've been
- wrong, adapt. IBM has produced an "excelling" product at a reasonable
- price (for a change and to their credit), they support it VERY well,
- they have followed through on all their promises for product
- introduction and performance goals, and they have the muscle to bring
- us all into the nirvana of open systems. I, for one, applaud them on
- their product and their efforts and their vision. It has been a long
- time coming (I never EVER thought I'd be saying things like this about
- IBM), but it is here. Bravo Austin. Keep up the good work, keep up
- the progress, keep listening, and those of us who make major product
- purchase decisions/recommendations will choose IBM, not because it is
- or isn't "like" something else, but for the time honored reason that
- it makes the best business and technical sense.
-
- Now, that I've done my duty in defending a company that has become a
- friend, I've got to get back to work (some of us are solving problems
- rather than griping, squawking, and creating new ones). Consider me O
- and O on this issue.
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