1 Feb
2016
1 Feb
'16
11:11 p.m.
On 2/1/16 10:05 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Guy Sotomayor <ggs
at shiresoft.com> wrote:
Yea, all of the management was done through smit (I think that's the
command). Menu
driven and everything was kept in a database.
I think in later versions IBM relented and allowed things to be managed
through "normal"
Unix commands and files.
The AIX in the quote was regarding AIX for the
RS/6000. The kernel for AIX
on the
RS/6000 bore no real resemblance to any other Unix kernel.
[...]
Yes, it was alien (vs traditional Unix kernels)
but it was simple and quite
fast.
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? I thought that
was another motivation for the "space alien" quote, rather than only
the kernel.
I haven't actually used AIX/370. I used AIX for the RS/6000 only long
enough to get disgusted and get an illicit copy of AOS, which was BSD
4.3, which I knew how to use.
I used AIX (I think it was 3.2.5) for quite a while as a build
environment for other systems
(since it tended to be the fastest thing around...at IBM anyway).
TTFN - Guy