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From: johnny@edvvie.at (Johann Schweigl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: curious
Message-ID: <179@eliza.edvvie.at>
Date: 12 Oct 89 10:22:22 GMT
References: <27415@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
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From article <27415@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, by royle@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (keenan royle):
> 
> 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 am *NOT* a previous SUN user, VAX hacker or MIT guru. So I couldn't say
that I'm too preoccupied with clean BSD experience. 
We are working mainly with 4 flavors of UNIX: SINIX, from SIEMENS. Can't figure
out what SIEMENS did to UNIX. Suppose even they don't know.
SCO XENIX. Things are a little complicated. All things ...
AIX on PS/2. Not much systems software so far. IBM *PLEASE* gimme NFS or larger
disks for the A21.
AIX on RT since release 1.x. In an commercial production environment (ORACLE 
DBMS, C programs, Bourne scripts) we never had any serious trouble caused by 
the RT or AIX. It simply worked, and still does. Installation was easy.
Porting software from PD tapes is a little boring - all the good programs
are very BSD'ish. AIX/RT is not. Job control missing up to now - AIX PS/2 
has it. Friends of mine, who previously worked on HPUX also loved it - because
of AIX' administration tools.
Sure the RT could be faster, that's what RIOS brings to us.

The only fact I dislike *VERY* much is, that at least IBM Austria seems
not to be willing to sell and support it actively. They're fully on the
AS/400-Trip. If you want any good technical info about AIX - go to USENET
(hello Austin, Almaden, ...) but forget your (Austrian) SE.

Support from Hewlett Packard - that is all I'm missing in AIX.
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