Anyone know ancient versions of XLC?

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2021 at 15:10, David Schmidt via cctech
<cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> 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

Thanks for that!

I only ever worked with AIX in my first job -- 1988-1990. Never saw it
again. I wish I'd learned a bit more now...

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