31 Aug
2018
31 Aug
'18
7:58 a.m.
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 08:41:26PM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 8:27 PM Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
So back in the BitKeeper days, we supported everything, including AIX. I've
got a fairly beefy AIX box in my shop in case we need it, 1ghz, lots of ram,
we're never gonna turn that on. I went into smit and I was just like can
you just frigging let me edit /etc/inetd.conf or whatever, but no.
SMIT happens. And I did not like it. I think that's one of the reasons
that SunOS was cool, it was just a better, bugfixed BSD. So we all knew
how to deal with it. SMIT not so much.
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018, Kevin Bowling wrote:
"SMIT happens " AIX takes a lot of shit but there were (and still
are) some areas it was
quite a bit ahead of its time.
The standing joke with AIX was that it was pronounced "aches" (as in
pains), but I was glad that it ran "smit" for admin stuff, as there was no
way that I could remember the appropriate Shell commands.