On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, 18:35 Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS, < tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org> wrote: > Larry McVoy writes: > > > SMIT - just say no. > ... it would show me the command > line it was about to run. Ditto. The only SMIT or AIX feature I used/liked. Oh, that and mksysb. *maybe* the volume manager, if none was the alternative. Eventually got to understand (some of) the AIX stanza files & interactions, though also always hated them -- and no software worked/ported easily. Then I mercifully escaped AIX, after Wang went ch.11 -- a former manager/colleague had hired me into Wang Australia when they started selling HP, IBM & MIPS boxen along with PC office networks to avoid going broke, but weren't quick-footed enough. --- > Lisp is the most important idea in computer science. --Alan Kay > Unless you're a postfix lover?! Long live RPN, postscript, forth,... (ducks behind desk; exits, stage right)