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From: moore@betelgeuse.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
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Subject: Re: RS/6000 survey - will post summary
Keywords: Time to get some real-world opinions
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Date: 4 May 90 22:27:15 GMT
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In article <50279@lanl.gov>, hsv@lanl.gov (Henry S Vaccaro) writes:
> Any comments you get on AIX releases prior to 9013 will probably be rather
> misleading.  9013 fixes many problems, and adds a lot of missing
functionality.
> The kernel in 9013 is supposed to be "near gold", tho I have been told that 
> there are still later revisions in house at IBM.
> 
> 	Hank Vaccaro
> 	hsv@lanl.gov

While release 9013 (+ n) might fix some bugs, it can do nothing about
design flaws (they call them "enhancements"), and there are lots of them.

IBM has yet to understand that they don't understand.

AIX v3 is NOT UNIX.  Ask anyone who has managed to use it for more
than an hour.  I've only spent a few hours trying to port various
pieces of software to this box, but by now I start screaming after
trying to use it for more than a few minutes.

Pray you never actually have to use this system.

Keith Moore			Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu
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Disclaimer:  UT is actually thinking about *buying* some of these.
             Obviously I don't speak for them.