Sorry, I meant AIX, A/UX :-(

From: "Jim Capp" <jcapp@anteil.com>
To: "The Eunuchs Hysterical Society" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2020 1:18:48 PM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic]

I first ran across A/UX at a tradeshow.

I can’t recall the date, but I remember very clearly approaching an IBM sales rep who told me that they took UNIX and “fixed all the bugs”.

I shook my head and laughed as I walked away.

On Aug 13, 2020, at 9:06 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu., Aug. 13, 2020, 4:11 p.m. Rich, <rdm@cfcl.com> wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2020, at 12:18, Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Early AIX is what happens when you give a detailed description of Unix to mainframers who've never seen Unix, and then tell them to implement that system, and then ship it, without at any point letting someone who's used an actual Unix system touch it.

My favorite characterization of AIX came from Barry Shein: "It will remind you of Unix."

My favorite was from David Megginson, whose observation was that "you don't run AIX, you chase it"