Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!romp!auschs!awdprime!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron From: ron@woan.austin.ibm.com (Ronald S. Woan/2100000) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Re^2: IBM Kills NeXT !! Message-ID: <1550@awdprime.UUCP> Date: 18 Feb 90 23:00:26 GMT References: <1654@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> , Sender: news@awdprime.UUCP Reply-To: @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron Organization: IBM-Austin, AWD Lines: 33 In article , jd3l+@andrew.cmu.edu (J Debaud) writes: |>Keith Perkins (n245bq@tamunix.tamu.edu) writes: |>I have been told that AIX of IBM s... (is so bad) Why is this ? Are you |>sure it is not compatible with other Unix like BSD ? Working for IBM, I am obviously a "little" biased, but having worked on Suns and Apollos most of my life, I'd like to point out AIX 3 is more BSD-like than all previous AIX versions. If I remember correctly, it supports 99.44% of the BSD system calls (a few signals still missing, I believe) while being completely SysVR2 compliant. This is much better than most other so-called "BSD compliant" OSs. Unlike earlier versions of AIX for the IBM RT. AIX 3 also supports full job control (ctrl-Z in the csh or ksh). |>I agree that NeXT sound chip is nice and IBM lacks it but I am sure they |>can remedy to this especially with the power they boost. Remeber you got SCSI support and a micro-channel bus, so adding the DSP will be no problem. If you wait for the new NeXt boxes, pray they use something faster than the 68040. Then again, if they do, you won't be binary compatible, and might as well have switched to IBM. Another plus side of the IBM is the hypertext based documentation (it is really quite nice, basically cross-linked man pages with a Motif interface, bookmarks, notepads). Ron +-----All Views Expressed Are My Own And Are Not Necessarily Shared By------+ +------------------------------My Employer----------------------------------+ + Ronald S. Woan (IBM VNET)WOAN AT AUSTIN, (AUSTIN)ron@woan.austin.ibm.com + + outside of IBM @cs.utexas.edu:romp!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron + + last resort woan@peyote.cactus.org +