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From: geoff@edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: System/6000 questions.
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.191604.648@edm.uucp>
Date: 12 Jul 90 19:16:04 GMT
References: <2644@awdprime.UUCP>
Organization: Unexsys Systems inc.
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From article <2644@awdprime.UUCP>, by jeffe@sandino.austin.ibm.com (Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091):
->> In article <40900001@sunb6> voss@sunb6.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
->>>9)  What do you think of AIX in general?  (I'm a BSD bigot myself.)
->>>    One person told me half jokingly:
->>>	"throw out the best of BSD, and the best of SYS V,
->>>	 what is left is AIX."
->>>    What do you think?
->> 
->> I think that's a bit silly; much of the kernel is drawn from both sources,
->> and I can say from first-hand experience that the tcp/ip/socket code is almost
->> indistinguishable from BSD tahoe, except where we've fixed bugs.  As for the
->> rest, it seems well-structured and reasonably lean, considering that IBM has
						  ^^^^^

	And how do you define lean? It takes approximately 80 Mbyte of Disk
space to install the bare minimum of load 9013. I don't consider that lean.


Geoff Coleman
Unexsys Systems