Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!lll-winken!uunet!bywater!acheron!archet!larouch!jparnas From: jparnas@larouch.uucp (Jacob Parnas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Subject: Re: Who uses IBM/4.3 (AOS)? Summary: Our group maintains > 45 RTs running AOS, we like it Message-ID: <1989Sep8.030653.19509@larouch.uucp> Date: 8 Sep 89 03:06:53 GMT References: <2008@ibmpa.UUCP> Reply-To: jparnas@larouch.UUCP (Jacob Parnas) Organization: Larouch Headquarters, Hopewell Junction, NY Lines: 39 >In article flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: >Who uses IBM/4.3 (AOS) out there? What do you run it on? This is an >informal survey. Tell me about your installation. (E-mail, please.) At IBM Research in Yorktown Heights NY, the math department maintains about 45 RTs using 4.3 BSD UNIX (AOS). We have been very happy with this operating system. Some features that we really appreciate are full 4.3 BSD, source code available for practically all utilities and the kernel, good X11R3, the andrew toolkit, NFS, good asynch support, complete online manuals and documentation, and easily available fixes distributed on usenet. The 800 USC technical support number is useful for quick help with system problems. Most public domain software built for BSD UNIX systems builds and runs on AOS with little or no modification. What I like most about AOS is that it is 4.3 BSD to the core and not System V with some BSD goodies patched on as an afterthought. Charlie Slater, Eric Brunner, and Jeff Weinstein at IBM Palo Alto have been very helpful in helping to fix the few problems that we have had. We use these RTs for almost all of our computing including operating systems research, networking tool development, networking kernel research, SLIP, usenet, mail, gateways, printing, editing, text formatting, internet access, VM terminal emulation, graphing... I think that AOS has improved greatly in 1989. Most of the problems that I've had with it in the past have been fixed (high speed serial line support (thanks to Charlie Slater), X11R3 (not perfect, but overall quite good with the Megapel, and the C compiler among other parts of the OS have been greatly improved). I highly recommend trying 4.3 AOS, if it is available to you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Jacob M. Parnas | DISCLAIMER: The above message is from | | IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Ctr. | me and is not from my employer. IBM | | Arpanet: jparnas@ibm.com | might completely disagree with me. | | Bitnet: jparnas@yktvmx.bitnet \---------------------------------------| | Home: ..!uunet!bywater!acheron!larouch!jparnas | Phone: (914) 945-1635 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------