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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: AIX software upgrades for RS/6000
Keywords: AIX RS/6000
Message-ID: <1990Mar17.134652.6991@world.std.com>
Date: 17 Mar 90 13:46:52 GMT
References: <6258@umd5.umd.edu>
Organization: Saber Software
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bonnett@umd5.umd.edu (H. David Bonnett) writes:
>When I received my seed RS/6000 it came preloaded with 8943I (yeah I).  My
>IBM rep has been telling me that a newer release will be here Real Soon Now,
>but, somehow, I wonder.  Now I see lots of references to 9005.  Is there 
>anyone out here (there) who can tell me how to get this before the machine
>is obsolete?  My current release is unable to deal with the net for more than
>ten minutes at a time....

We have 9005K (don't know how we got it, not my department).
Installation went easily (albeit time-consuming) but several problems
have caused us to re-install multiple times.  The bug-fix list is
impressive but as of last night our system is still pretty much
unusable :-(.

jim frost
jimf@saber.com