-- Mogens Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Funny. IBM is currently winning the Unix processor war, I think, with new
> designs that HP, Compaq, HP and others will not catch up with for a
> couple of years. But a Pentium 4 often outruns a couple of Unix
> processors, and that's pretty scary to an old VMS fan. So running Linux
> on Pentium 4's or on IBM sounds cool to me :).
Main problem I've had with AIX is that nothing quite
works the way you'd expect -- even if you've had the
training and read the doc's. The guts of AIX are still
a batch environment, all they really did was put a
stock *NIX library on top of the existing kernel they
had. It also gets quirky due to attempting support for
both BSD and SVR4 interface standards. Their equipment
is rock solid, but running AIX can be a real pain.
Which is not to say that HP and Sun don't have their
fair share of oddities...
At this point IBM is hocking linux heavily enough that
it might well be worth looking into a supported copy
of IBM's distro -- or SGI's.
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