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From: nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: AIX Peculiarities
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Date: 6 Aug 89 18:10:17 GMT
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[flames about knocking AIX peculiarities]

I think personal attacks against people who are upset about AIX
are unwarranted. It takes a lot of time to document every single
instance that AIX is peculiar, but if IBM keeps track of postings
on the net long enough it should be clear what those incompatibilites
are. Also, it should not be hard for IBM to do a comparitive analysis
of AIX funtionality/performance with other BSD/SysV systems. The
market place is flooded with documentation for the systems IBM 
is marketing the RT/AIX against.

Also, there is a lot to be said about the bottom line--the RT
has simply not sold as well as workstations produced by other
vendors. It should not be to hard to determine why. The RT
has not performed to users' satisfaction for lots of reasons,
and word does get out through the grape wine. 
The net is part of that vine. It should be obvious 
that applications that users generally use on workstations
simply do not run with out substantial rewrite on the RT. Signal 
incompatibilities needs to be looked into. Since scripts for
other systems do not work, obviously a testing/comparison 
of the man pages for competing systems against AIX is warranted.

Enough said--let's get back to business. (:->)