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From: staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Evaluation of R6000 and AIX
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Date: 30 Sep 90 18:48:36 GMT
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jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) writes:
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>However, I'm far from pleased with AIX.  It tries to do too much.  

A fair and concise assessment!  As a SW developer, this functional
richness has hit me hard in just one place, but a KEY one - linking.
Don't DREAM of doing serious sw development with just 16 meg of RAM,
your links will CRAWL.  If you can afford to stuff the beast with
expensive ECC memory, I believe it would be a great environment
(MOST unices are rich and complex nowadays... in the workstation
business I know of only Sony selling a reallly-vanilla bsd 4.3,
and that's not exactly MINIMAL for one coming from an USG background,
you know!).
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