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12/8/04 11:43:20 PM

8/21/07 6:36:20 AM

AIX Use

last I used AIX was around......mmmmm.....1996-7. I don't remember the version number. Must be gettin old.

As a (developer's) desktop I found it much less nifty/friendly/useful than both the SunOS (nobody trusted Solaris yet) and HP-UX machines I used the year before (although HP's original cfront based C++ compiler from that era was far and away the worst compiler ever).

We seem to have different ideas about what makes a good OS - mine involves ease of application development and user experience. I seem to recall doing Motif programmin on AIX to be painful - tooltip windows would simply freeze and the app would stop responding to events deep in the event dispatching code.

Even more criminal is that IBM licensed but never shipped NeXTStep for AIX (although a friend of mine who was inside IBM at the time said he had a desktop with it for awhile). So AIX might have had the same decent UI layer as OS X does today - except IBM fumbled that ball too (FWIW, there was OpenStep for Solaris too for awhile and Sun fumbled the same ball).

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BTW, I found out why my linux desktop is ancient - seems we have a custom modified kernel for some reason (our app server pretty well takes over the box and wants some wacky capabilities) and there is work to get it updated.

Whether this was a [link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/08/amazon_probs_continue/|good idea] is debateable - although this article definitely exagerates the actual scope of the issues.

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush

Edited by tuberculosis Dec. 8, 2004, 11:54:17 PM EST

Edited by tuberculosis Dec. 9, 2004, 12:04:37 AM EST

AIX Use

last I used AIX was around......mmmmm.....1996-7. I don't remember the version number. Must be gettin old.

As a (developer's) desktop I found it much less nifty/friendly/useful than both the SunOS (nobody trusted Solaris yet) and HP-UX machines I used the year before (although HP's original cfront based C++ compiler from that era was far and away the worst compiler ever).

We seem to have different ideas about what makes a good OS - mine involves ease of application development and user experience.

BTW, I found out why my linux desktop is ancient - seems we have a custom modified kernel for some reason (our app server pretty well takes over the box and wants some wacky capabilities) and there is work to get it updated.

Whether this was a [link|http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/08/amazon_probs_continue/|good idea] is debateable - although this article definitely exagerates the actual scope of the issues.

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush

Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:36:20 AM EDT

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Welcome back IBM. Seriously. - (tuberculosis) - (16) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:35:04 AM EDT

Well, one question for you Todd. - (folkert) - (3) - Dec. 8, 2004, 10:38:11 PM EST

well I get your point but AIX on the desktop isnt going to - (daemon) - (1) - Dec. 8, 2004, 10:41:33 PM EST

:-) -NT - (Another Scott) - Dec. 8, 2004, 10:59:35 PM EST

AIX Use - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:36:20 AM EDT

It's Altos all over again. - (Andrew Grygus) - (7) - Dec. 8, 2004, 11:43:00 PM EST

You'll probably have the most interesting answer to this - (drewk) - (6) - Dec. 9, 2004, 12:39:36 AM EST

It wasn't that long ago that IBM lost $1B plus in the PC biz - (Another Scott) - Dec. 9, 2004, 01:45:21 AM EST

No, I won't. Naive, perhaps, sure, but I would never... - (CRConrad) - (2) - Dec. 9, 2004, 05:59:09 AM EST

Or you could call me a poor typist and lzay proofreader -NT - (drewk) - (1) - Dec. 9, 2004, 12:54:54 PM EST

But where's the fun in that? -NT - (ben_tilly) - Dec. 9, 2004, 04:56:49 PM EST

Or, they wanted money (capital) elsewhere - (Arkadiy) - Dec. 9, 2004, 10:12:25 AM EST

NYTimes: PC division hadn't made a profit in 3.5 years. - (Another Scott) - Jan. 1, 2005, 01:14:55 AM EST

This is going to be interesting - (cforde) - (3) - Dec. 11, 2004, 02:41:10 AM EST

I hope Charlie's right, but we'll see. :-( - (Another Scott) - Dec. 11, 2004, 09:42:52 AM EST

ICLRPD^2 (new thread) - (drewk) - Dec. 11, 2004, 04:58:26 PM EST

Gotta Love It when.. - (Ashton) - Dec. 11, 2004, 08:52:58 PM EST

The third one burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp.
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