My favorite quote (by my one-time boss at BU, Barry Shein): "AIX, it will remind you of Unix"
Eric Smith wrote: > 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? Configuration was stored in a "Object Database" (so forget anything you ever knew about the /etc directory). System administration for mortals was done with a GUI called "SMIT". It showed an animation of a person running. If the command failed, they fell down face first. But, SMIT *DID* show you the commands it was using, so you could learn from the mistake of ever running it. Everything was reworded in IBM standard english, ie; DASD instead of Disk. No doubt there are other horrors I've put out of my mind. Here's a memory I couldn't suppress: Device drivers couldn't have persistent mapping of devices into the kernel address space: you had to remap the device each time you entered the driver! ISTR the kernel was SVR3 based. The streams implementation was.... different, but not as bad as the one I remember on HP-UX.
