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From: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: curious
Message-ID: <578@pan.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 89 07:19:54 GMT
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Reply-To: jw@pan.UUCP (Jamie Watson)
Organization: Adasoft AG, Solothurn, Switzerland
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>I am curious, is there anyone out there who has used RTs running AIX as a
>developement and/or production platform and is pleased.
>
>I used them for more than a year and hate the things.

I'm sure this is going to come as a huge shock to most of the regular
readers of this group, but I am *very* pleased with the RT, both as a
development system and as a platform for installing our application.
(I am extremely *unhappy* with IBM support policies, but you didn't
ask that...).

I find the RT to be fast enough (I used to consider it to be very fast,
until the latest wave of announcements from other suppliers).  It has
been very stable, both the operating system and the hardware; I don't
think I've seen a single operating system crash in two years of hard
development work.  It is well documented; but you really have to have
the patience to actually read the RT documentation.  If you have been
working with any other Unix system, and you just assume that things
will be the same on the RT, you're in trouble.  Finally, IBM has done
a reasonably good job of providing the things I need/want from various
sources, including most of the best parts of BSD Unix, X, NFS and such.

I should mention that I have previously worked for the Swiss distributor(s)
of a lot of Unix systems, including Momentum (really), Plexus, Sun, Opus,
Arete and Sperry/Unisys.  For the past two years I have been working for
a software house, where we use RT/PC and MicroVax/Vaxstation systems for
development.  Given free choice of a development system today from any of
those companies, I would probably still choose an RT for my development
system.

jw