Re:PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000
by linksnapzz on Thursday May 28, 2020 @11:50PM
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My first five minutes on an AIX machine involved trying to find a logfile to read...this is how I discovered 'errpt'; and the (new to me) IBM habit of giving certain cli output in all-caps. "Why is this machine shouting at me?"
I did end up liking it a lot, and I wish I had more of them. Once you set aside your expectations about what a unix should act like, it was kinda fun.
Yeah...one of the IBM folks pointed me at the my first AIX box and just said "smit is your friend...don't fight smit". He were right.
AIX is Unix that a bunch of really smart folks with a mainframe mentality said "we can improve this...".
Back when I was in that game, we had an AIX guru spend a week or two teaching our kernel devs how things actually worked and at the end everyone was "even if I don't agree with how you did things, I understand how to make things work". We saw lot of folks try and shoehorn their view of Unix into AIX and it never ended well.