3 Sep
2007
3 Sep
'07
10:24 p.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
And, AIX, well, if you've ever tried to admin an
AIX box, I don't see
how you could say it wasn't "unique" especially among UNIX variants.
AIX is Not Unix. Not any more than OS X is Unix.
I realize that AIX (and OS X 10.5) *is* UNIX, certified and
trademarked, but trying to approach it as one would a traditional unix
(HP/UX, Solaris, etc) is a recipe for heartbreak.
It's an extremely robust operating system with a very nice POSIX API.
Under the covers, it's its very own thing.
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