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From: tom@stiatl.UUCP (Tom Wiencko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: RS/6000 survey - will post summary
Keywords: Time to get some real-world opinions
Message-ID: <10036@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 90 00:53:18 GMT
References: <11111@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <50279@lanl.gov> <1990May4.222715.23648@cs.utk.edu>
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moore@betelgeuse.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore) writes:


>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.

That is awfully funny ... I have ported a pretty good bit of code to the
RS/6000 and the only problems I have had are compiler and library bugs.
I have yet to run into any design flaws.  None.  Not one.

Perhaps you can be a little more specific about exactly what it is that
IBM does not understand.

I do not have to use the system, but I really like it so far.  It also 
seems more "compatible" (that is, runs more things without messing around)
than most other flavors of UNIX I have run into.

Perhaps you just hate IBM and would like to take it out on this box?

Tom

Disclamer:  I work for me, and my opinions are not influenced by anybody,
most especially not IBM.

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