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From: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Why is AIX not "useful"? (was "Re: BSD Unix on 6150-135?")
Message-ID: <2870@stpstn.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 89 01:31:55 GMT
References: <2650@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <583@jc3b21.UUCP> <2854@stpstn.UUCP> <9199@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri)
Organization: The Stepstone Corporation, Sandy Hook, CT
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In article <9199@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> fink@nucthy.PHYSICS.ORST.EDU (Paul Fink) writes:

>I have no great love for RT's, but AIX is a fine System V Unix. If you don't
>like the default partitioning change it. I have never installed a Unix, and
>not reworked the partitioning. I figure that's my job. I have only set one RT
>with AIX, others with BSD, The AIX machine was much easyer to setup. 

I agree that reworking the partitioning is a reasonable part of the
installation.  I would still prefer that it wouldn't spread the system
partitions across two or three disks, but that's a preferences.  What I was
really commenting on was that the installation procedure left all that disk
space unallocated.  I think that a default behavior should set things up in
some semi-reasonable way, and that while the option for customization is
present, that if a user chooses not to use it (in my case, I didn't know I
could) it should use disk space not allocated to system stuff for user
directories, or even /foo.  I would think that if someone is going to want to
customize, they're going to do it from the start.  Ie., someone with manuals
who does a default installation probably isn't going to run the minidisks
command to customize later.

>Your using more that 16 ptys? Wow, that must be a slow moving RT.

I used to hate RT's, but that was from experience on non-APC machines with 4 or
so meg of memory at CMU running Andrew.  The two we have here seem to have
APC's and 16 meg of memory each.  There are things I don't like about AIX, but
I don't mind the machine itself.  It seems reasonable, but then, I don't know
how much IBM charges for them.  I'd like to know why cc pegs the CPU, though.
-- 
@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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Anthony A. Datri @SysAdmin(Stepstone Corporation) aad@stepstone.com stpstn!aad