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From: dba+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Andrew on AIX (was AIX vs. BSD)
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Date: 10 Mar 89 15:59:15 GMT
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Excerpts from todo: 26-Feb-89 Re: AIX "csh" silently exit.. Skip
Coppola/50000@skybi (291)

        >I want to confirm that 4.3 will work on the 6150 just fine.
        >
        >AIX 2.2 isn't all that bad though, and you should really try
        >it first. Andrew and some other things are only BSD, but
        >more is available under AIX, including support.
        >
        >Skip Coppola
        >IBM AIX & AI Consultant
        >
        >uunet!skybird!skipster

As for Andrew being only BSD, hopefully that won't be true too much longer. A
group here at the ITC is actively engaged in porting the Andrew Toolkit (ATK) to
AIX -- the filesystem (AFS) is already running.

As for AIX 2.2 not being all that bad, well, ... :-)

--david