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- From: taylor@SunWorld.Com (Dave Taylor)
- Subject: The Best and Worst of IBM's AIX?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.183139.12122@netcom.com>
- Sender: taylor@netcom.com (Dave Taylor)
- Organization: SunWorld Magazine, San Francisco, CA: +1 (415) 267-1728
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:31:39 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- Just like other Unix implementations, AIX differs in a variety of
- ways from the 'standard' (whatever that is nowadays). I would like
- to hear from some AIX folk on the following questions, and would
- be most appreciative of any feedback resultant:
-
- + How does AIX differ from SVR4? SunOS? HP-UX? BSD4.3?
-
- + What has IBM added that makes AIX *better* than other Unixes?
-
- + What has IBM added that makes AIX *worse* than other Unixes?
-
- + Is source from the net easily ported onto the AIX platform? And are
- programs written for the AIX system portable?
-
- + What about X, and Motif? Are they standard and compatible? What
- version of X11 is with the existing version of AIX?
-
- + What do you think of "smit"? What about the rest of the system
- administration tools?
-
- + If you could change one thing in the AIX OS, what would it be and why?
-
- + If there was one thing in AIX that you'd like to migrate to the rest
- of the Unix industry, what would it be?
-
- + IBM touts the SAA connectivity and ability for the AIX systems to
- plug right into existing IBM networks, mainframe and otherwise.
- Have you found that true?
-
- + What about the RS/6000 series? What are your thoughts about it,
- how did you come to the decision to purchase it, and how do you
- think it compares to other workstations from Sun, HP, DEC, etc?
-
- + If you had it all to do again, would you buy another IBM RISC
- workstation with AIX?
-
- + Finally, whatever happened to NeXTstep on AIX, and what do you
- think about it, PowerPC, and perhaps the possibility of Windows
- NT on the RS platform?
-
- THANKS GREATLY for your assistance on this: if you're interested in
- a summary of the answers to this question, just note as such in your
- message and I'll arrange for you to get a copy via email.
-
- PLEASE RESPOND VIA EMAIL ONLY!
- Thanks.
-
- -- Dave Taylor
- SunWorld Magazine
- San Francisco, California
-
- taylor@sunworld.com taylor@netcom.com
-