Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!hsi!stpstn!aad
From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: BSD Unix on 6150-135?
Message-ID: <2852@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 89 23:02:39 GMT
References: <1966@nmtsun.nmt.edu> <28304@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <496@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: aad@stepstone.com
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT
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In article <496@Portia.Stanford.EDU> karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish) writes:

>	  The AIX async driver works OK up to 9600 Baud.  As of version
>	  2.2, AIX has 4.3BSD networking facilities.

I wish they'd give them normal names, though.  ftp becomes xftp, and I
just discovered lpr lurking as lprbe.  It'd also be nice to find the
binaries in expected places, instead of /usr/lpp.
I imagine these things would be clearer if we had documentation.

>	- There's no support for emulating any well-known terminal
>	  type on the ACIS console

Is it still an ibm3101?  Certainly not a well-known terminal.  I found,
oddly enough, that setting the terminal type to "owl" on a DEC-20
produced results that were acceptable for occasional use.

>	  The AIX native console is an ANSI terminal emulator.

Thanks for the info.  I hadn't suspected that "ibm5081" was an ansi terminal.

>	  It supports multiple sessions, switchable by a hot key.
>	  This makes life tolerable on a system without job
>	  control.

I go insane because of the things that aren't there, like more, head, tail,
whoami, clear, strings.  Microemacs compiles and executes just fine with the
termcap routines, which are hidden in some non-obvious library (curses,
I think)

>	- ACIS seems to have a better driver for the streaming tape
>	  drive.  It'll keep the drive streaming on its own.

I remember 4.2 ACIS as being pretty wretched on the tape -- is 4.3
better?  It used to take me 45 minutes to do a tar cf of a Scribe
distribution (5 or 6 meg) onto a cartridge.
-- 
@disclaimer(Any concepts or opinions above are entirely mine, not those of my
	    employer, my GIGI, my VT05, or my 11/34)
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