From: Dr Iain Maoileoin <iain@csp-partnership.co.uk>
To: Rich <rdm@cfcl.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic]
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 21:17:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BA883F2-865C-40A2-AA9E-DC4B87135DA1@csp-partnership.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <28CC915D-5EC7-4555-B5AC-CEFB677385C4@cfcl.com>
In the UK, in the 80s?, IBM used to put up HUGE billboards with a slogan like “.. we have added a million lines of code to UNIX”, some smart ar*es around the Uni would grafitti each one with “yes, and every line was wrong”.
AIX had a lot going for it - in some ways, but as the feeling is here it really was not UNIX as we knew it.
I am jaundiced since my car registration is "AIX OK”.
> On 13 Aug 2020, at 21:09, Rich <rdm@cfcl.com> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 13, 2020, at 12:18, Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Early AIX is what happens when you give a detailed description of Unix to mainframers who've never seen Unix, and then tell them to implement that system, and then ship it, without at any point letting someone who's used an actual Unix system touch it.
>
> My favorite characterization of AIX came from Barry Shein: "It will remind you of Unix."
>
> -r
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-13 22:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-17 18:08 [TUHS] H.J. Lu Bootable Root & Base System disks Norman Wilson
2020-07-17 18:14 ` John Cowan
2020-07-17 18:19 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-17 19:53 ` [TUHS] Linux is on-topic Warren Toomey
2020-07-17 19:57 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-17 20:00 ` Adam Thornton
2020-07-17 20:04 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-17 20:03 ` Dan Cross
2020-07-17 23:31 ` A. P. Garcia
2020-07-19 10:26 ` emanuel stiebler
2020-07-17 20:07 ` Warren Toomey
2020-07-17 20:12 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-17 20:19 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-19 9:54 ` Sergio Pedraja
2020-07-17 20:08 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-07-17 20:55 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-17 21:28 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-07-18 20:22 ` Ed Carp
2020-07-18 20:29 ` Warner Losh
2020-07-19 2:31 ` Gregg Levine
2020-07-19 3:46 ` Wesley Parish
2020-07-19 4:42 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-19 18:01 ` Michael Parson
2020-07-20 8:47 ` [TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic] arnold
2020-07-20 9:46 ` Arno Griffioen
2020-07-20 16:35 ` Arthur Krewat
2020-07-20 17:44 ` Arno Griffioen
2020-07-20 19:07 ` Rich Morin
2020-07-20 19:45 ` Al Kossow
2020-07-20 19:49 ` Al Kossow
2020-07-24 0:01 ` Chris Hanson
2020-07-20 20:20 ` Ed Carp
2020-07-20 21:02 ` John Cowan
2020-07-20 22:27 ` Ed Carp
2020-07-24 0:04 ` Chris Hanson
2020-07-31 23:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-31 23:12 ` Richard Salz
2020-08-01 1:36 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-01 16:08 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-08-01 17:01 ` Arthur Krewat
2020-08-13 0:00 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-13 1:47 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-13 3:15 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-08-13 4:02 ` Larry Cashdollar via TUHS
2020-08-31 21:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-09-03 14:10 ` Michael Parson
2020-08-13 1:53 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-08-13 17:14 ` Dan Cross
2020-08-13 17:19 ` Henry Bent
2020-08-13 17:58 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-13 20:04 ` John Cowan
2020-08-13 20:52 ` Dan Cross
2020-08-14 17:31 ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-15 1:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-18 13:57 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-08-18 14:11 ` John Cowan
2020-08-31 21:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-13 19:18 ` Adam Thornton
2020-08-13 19:28 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-13 20:15 ` [TUHS] AIX link repost [was " Charles H Sauer
2020-08-13 20:09 ` [TUHS] " Rich
2020-08-13 20:16 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-13 20:17 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin [this message]
2020-08-14 1:04 ` Christopher Browne
2020-08-14 17:18 ` Jim Capp
2020-08-14 17:37 ` Jim Capp
2020-08-14 17:39 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-08-15 0:33 ` Rich
2020-08-15 1:20 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-15 2:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-15 2:47 ` Warner Losh
2020-08-15 17:44 ` Paul Winalski
2020-08-15 12:05 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-08-15 1:33 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-08-15 2:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-15 2:45 ` Andrew Hume
2020-08-15 16:55 ` William Cheswick
2020-08-15 3:29 ` Larry McVoy
2020-08-15 1:40 ` Gregg Levine
2020-08-13 22:24 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-07-24 0:02 ` Chris Hanson
2020-07-20 9:48 ` Andrew Warkentin
2020-07-20 11:49 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-20 14:36 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-20 17:24 ` John Cowan
2020-07-20 22:11 ` Ed Carp
2020-07-21 1:04 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-22 3:13 ` tytso
2020-07-22 5:40 ` Bakul Shah
2020-07-22 14:16 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-20 12:32 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2020-07-20 12:54 ` Andrew Warkentin
2020-07-21 1:50 ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-21 2:30 ` Gregg Levine
2020-07-22 3:44 ` Jason
2020-07-22 12:23 ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2020-07-20 14:28 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-22 3:50 ` Jason
2020-07-22 4:26 ` Henry Bent
2020-07-24 0:10 ` Chris Hanson
2020-07-20 0:24 ` [TUHS] Linux is on-topic Ed Carp
2020-07-22 3:41 ` Jason
2020-07-22 16:15 ` Michael Parson
2020-07-18 3:34 ` Tomasz Rola
2020-07-18 16:45 ` Christopher Browne
2020-07-19 7:32 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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