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From: smvorkoetter@watmum.waterloo.edu (Stefan M. Vorkoetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AIX questions?
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Date: 4 Jun 89 13:15:48 GMT
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In article <592@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>In article <3580017@eecs.nwu.edu> ko@eecs.nwu.edu (John Ko) writes:
>| I have a few questions about AIX, the un*x that was first released
>| for the RT series and is BSD compatible.
>
>	[ ... ]
>
>| I need a BSD based u*nx for AT bus 386.
>
>  This will come as a terrible shock, but AIX is not BSD. It's based on
>SysV.1 with some BSD enhancements, and some IBM changes. As far as I
>know you just can't get BSD for the 386, and I wouldn't bet that you
>ever will.

I am running AIX on a PS/2 Model 70 A21 with 8M of memory and 115M of
disk.  It is a very pleasant system to use, and surprisingly free of
bugs considering this is the first PS/2 release.  I am running X windows
and IBM's C compiler.  I am also running DOS Merge, which lets me run
my DOS based terminal emulator in a winodw under AIX.  This is especially
amazing when you consider that the emulator accesses the hardware directly,
and is thus not what you would  call a well-behaved DOS program.

As far as performance is concerned, all the programs I have ported run
from 3.5 to 4 times faster than they do on our VAX 11/785.

My only peeves are:

There is no "more", so I wrote one.

There is a "tail", but no "head", so I wrote one.

The IBM C compiler gives a copyright notice everytime you run it, which
is very much against the Unix "quiet" philosophy.

Stefan Vorkoetter
Waterloo Maple Software
(watmath!wmsimum!maple)