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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: curious
Keywords: IBM, AIX, RT, Opinions.
Message-ID: <178@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 10 Oct 89 22:58:08 GMT
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In article <899@gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Levitt) writes:
>Could we get some feedback from people who are not working at IBM
>in Austin. It's great that Bill and John enjoy their RTs provided for 
>them by IBM here in Austin, but I think Keenan deserves to hear some
>outsiders' development experiences... 

I haven't had a whole lot of AIX/RT experience.  My brief experience with
led me to conclude that the latest (2.2.1) wasn't too bad, although it
still gave you this weird feeling of coming out of an entirely different
"culture", although it had now seemed to have completed "UNIX as a 2nd
language." :-)

AOS on the RT is fantastic, as has been said here again and again, and
would be unbeatable if the High C compiler could be shaken out a few
times more.  AOS really shows off the machine well.  I prefer it to
a Sun 3 or MicroVAX II development environment.

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Steve Dyer
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