1 Feb
2016
1 Feb
'16
10:21 p.m.
My favorite quote (by my one-time boss at BU, Barry Shein):
"AIX, it will remind you of Unix"
Eric Smith wrote:
Am I misremembering, or doesn't AIX use
substantially different
commands for managing things, rather than the commands typically found
in /sbin and/or /usr/sbin on "normal" Unix systems?
Configuration was stored in a "Object Database" (so forget anything
you ever knew about the /etc directory). System administration for
mortals was done with a GUI called "SMIT". It showed an animation of
a person running. If the command failed, they fell down face first.
But, SMIT *DID* show you the commands it was using, so you could learn
from the mistake of ever running it.
Everything was reworded in IBM standard english,
ie; DASD instead of Disk.
No doubt there are other horrors I've put out of my mind.
Here's a memory I couldn't suppress: Device drivers couldn't have
persistent mapping of devices into the kernel address space: you had
to remap the device each time you entered the driver!
ISTR the kernel was SVR3 based. The streams implementation
was.... different, but not as bad as the one I remember on HP-UX.