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From: mike@hcr.UUCP (Mike Tilson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.sys.misc,comp.bugs.sys5,comp.bugs.misc
Subject: Re: REQUEST: Comments on IN/IX SysV UNIX
Message-ID: <2602@hcr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 07:59:17 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 20 07:59:17 1987
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Organization: HCR Corporation, Toronto
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Keywords: INTERACTIVE Systems, comments, opinions

In response to a question about IN/IX, mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason)
commented that he had used IBM's Ser/IX (UNIX for the Series/1), and
didn't like it very well.  In his posting, I think it may have been implied
that the Series/1 UNIX is very similar to IN/IX and also to AIX on the RT PC
(all being done by the same people.)

I think UNIX for the Series/1 is a pretty special case, and one can't
judge the other UNIX implementations by it.  From what I've heard there
are several problems with the Series/1, but I don't think it has much
to do with the IN/IX products.  Finally, I can comment directly on AIX,
since we developed the optimizer modules for the C and Fortran compilers.
Therefore we have worked very closely with the AIX system.  AIX is
very impressive -- it's complete, reliable, and fast.  If I had to choose
between IBM's System V (on the RT PC) or AT&T's System V (on the 3B),
I'd take IBM.  AIX is a very solid piece of work.  The original port
was done by Interactive, but IBM has had a large and very talented group
doing enhancements and maintenance.

As Dave Mason indicated, they have re-written the manuals.  Personally,
I think the manuals are now better written than the AT&T originals,
although re-writing always adds the danger of errors.  It is a little
inconvenient for those who just want to look up a command, since the
organization is a bit different.

/Michael Tilson, HCR Corporation, {utzoo,ihnp4,...}!hcr!mike