25 Nov
2021
25 Nov
'21
6:20 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, 18:35 Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS, <
tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> writes:
Ditto. The only SMIT or AIX feature I used/liked.
Oh, that and mksysb.
*maybe* the volume manager, if none was the alternative.
Eventually got to understand (some of) the AIX stanza files &
interactions, though also always hated them -- and no software
worked/ported easily. Then I mercifully escaped AIX, after Wang went ch.11
-- a former manager/colleague had hired me into Wang Australia when they
started selling HP, IBM & MIPS boxen along with PC office networks to avoid
going broke, but weren't quick-footed enough.
---
SMIT - just say no.
... it would show me
the command
line it was about to run. Lisp is the most important idea in computer science.
--Alan Kay
Unless you're a postfix lover?!
Long live RPN, postscript, forth,...
(ducks behind desk; exits, stage right)