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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: Re: rs6000 & nexts
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.225932.27366@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
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- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 22:59:32 GMT
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- Robin D. Wilson writes
- > I don't know why anybody would call it "rat s___". Ours
- screams.
-
- Ours too.
-
- I think I caused some of that fuss in the ibm group.
-
- The first gold version of the operating system under AIX
- had some problems with the NFS serving. Response was quite
- variable. This has been fixed.
-
- It also had awful problems with context switching. If you
- were using vi in an X-window, if you stopped typing for
- more than a second, it would switch contexts, disks would
- thrash, and nothing you typed would show up on the screen
- for 10 seconds or so. (This on a machine with 64 MB)
-
- That too has been fixed.
-
-
- I still despise them however.
- [semi-religious rantings follow:]
-
- 1. Despite the fast hardware, the implementation of
- X-Windows feels much more sluggish than NextStep.
-
- 2. When we had a problem reading a CD-ROM that no PC, or
- HPUX had trouble with, it took us several months just to
- convince them that there was a problem. We had to send
- them the CD. They still haven't delivered a fix that works
- despite two attempts.
-
- 3. It took a trained IBM rep over a day to upgrade the
- machines to a minor revision of the operating system.
- We've received three sets of patches already.
-
- 4. Their "improvements" over standard(?!) unix flat files
- is an order of magnitude more obnoxious than netinfo, and
- lacks any means of converting between flatfiles and their
- format.
-
- 5. Many of their changes seem to be completely arbitrary
- with little method behind them. (e.g. print spooling)
-
- They are excellent compute servers, pretty good NFS
- servers, mediocre at running X-windows, and a pain in the
- butt to administer.
-
-