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From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: curious
Message-ID: <538.nlhp3@oracle.nl>
Date: 12 Oct 89 14:45:54 GMT
References: <27415@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <179@eliza.edvvie.at>
Reply-To: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Organization: ORACLE Europe, The Netherlands
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Article <179@eliza.edvvie.at> by johnny@edvvie.at (Johann Schweigl) gives
much credit to the PC/RT with AIX.  I agree on his comments, that AIX
is not at all a 'Bad thing from Big Blue', we have also been using AIX
here for a long period, mostly doing development.

I would however comment on the manuals (again :-).  When reading the
technical reference (parts (2), till (5) or (6) in SysV manuals) I am
always missing information on what is (real) Unix and what is AIX additions.
I used to work for a smaller computer manufacurer with a SysV box, and
their manuals always had a 'RELATIONSHIP TO SVID' entry just before
the BUGS entry.  

Please IBM, think about those of us who have to produce portable code. It
would be much easier if the manual told us what is portable :-)
-- 
Bjorn Engsig, bengsig@oracle.nl, bengsig@oracle.com, mcvax!orcenl!bengsig