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From: ron@ron.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix
Subject: Re: AIX, System V comparision
Keywords: AIX, System V
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Date: 12 Jun 89 07:27:00 GMT
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> IBM is wasting their time. System V is so far advanced and accepted that
> IBM has no chance of catching up. Unless AIX has some very advanced and
> useful features, it's a waste of everybody's time.

System V advanced?  Surely you jest.  Just in the networking area
alone, it is woefully deficient.  Sure you can go out and by networking
options, but TCP is already in AIX.  You're an AT&T Meglomaniac if you
think that IBM, DEC, Sun, etc.. have nothing to add to UNIX.  Much of
what really IS UNIX came from the outside.  Vi, fsck, curses, NFS,
TCP/IP, X, etc... had nothing to do with AT&T.  Some of these were
done by Universities (frequently with industry backing), some by
the computer manufacturers themselves.

-Ron