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Re:PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000 by linksnapzz on Thursday May 28, 2020 @11:50PM (#23346099)
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.

Re:PowerPC Solaris on the RS/6000 by kjs3 on Friday May 29, 2020 @06:07PM (#23356107)
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...".