14 Aug
2020
14 Aug
'20
2:17 a.m.
In the UK, in the 80s?, IBM used to put up HUGE billboards with a slogan like “.. we have
added a million lines of code to UNIX”, some smart ar*es around the Uni would grafitti
each one with “yes, and every line was wrong”.
AIX had a lot going for it - in some ways, but as the feeling is here it really was not
UNIX as we knew it.
I am jaundiced since my car registration is "AIX OK”.
On 13 Aug 2020, at 21:09, Rich <rdm(a)cfcl.com>
wrote:
On Aug 13, 2020, at 12:18, Adam Thornton
<athornton(a)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."
-r