Anyone know ancient versions of XLC?

[David Schmidt]

On 4/12/21 1:00 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> AIX 3.2.5 was so much leaner and meaner than 4.x that came along next...
>> I never did warm up to it the same way.
> 
> Twas ever thus, no?

A universal truth.

> I remember an ad campaign for AIX when it was quite new... "We took
> UNIX and added millions of lines of code to it." (Or words to that
> effect.) To me and to a lot of other people, this did not sound like a
> good thing...

The ad campaign I remember was "A disciplined merge of System V and BSD"

This looks relevant, from 1989:
https://technologists.com/sauer/Convergence_of_AIX_and_4.3BSD.pdf