10 May
2022
10 May
'22
9:28 p.m.
I recall having an IBM PC port of UNIX in the 1980s on floppy with a
black 6x9 box and Charlie Chaplin with the red rose. I thought it was
called AIX. I installed it, and recall it being very different from UNIX
for sysadmin (different logs, different admin commands) but similar for
users. I thought it was based on System III or thereabouts.
I can't find any evidence of this. It appears AIX 1.0 wasn't for the
original PC.
Does anyone else recall this distribution and what it was called or
based on?
Thanks,
Mary Ann
On 5/1/22 19:08, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:
My understanding of AIX was that IBM licensed the
System V source code
and then proceeded to "make it their own". I had a days experience
with it on a POS cash register fixing a client issue. The shocker -
they changed all the error messages to error codes with a look at the
manual requirement.
Not sure if this is true in its entirety or not.
But that's what I recall, thst it was not a from scratch rewrite but
more along the lines of other vendor UNIX clones of the time.
License the source, change the name and then beat it to death.
On Sun, May 1, 2022, 2:08 PM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
in terms of rewrites from manuals, while it was not the first, as I
understand it, AIX was an example of "read the manual, write the
code."
Unlike Coherent, it had lots of cases of things not done quite right.
One standout in my mind was mkdir -p, which would return an error if
the full path existed. oops.
But it was pointed out to me that Condor had all kinds of code to
handle AIX being different from just about everything else.