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From: Claudio Di Martino <claudio@unige.it>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: which Unix to choose?
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 11:33:55 +0100
Organization: Univ. of Genoa, Italy
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Ismaeel Abdur-Rasheed, et. al. wrote:
> IBM, on the other hand, turns it's nose up at the entire unix industry,
> who after great effort finally consolidated their versioning around
> AT&T
> SVr4.  AIX, however, uses it's own proprietary methods of system
> administration (smitty).  SO when you move from one unix box to another
> - if they are SVr4 you have a good chance of being able to administrate
> the system using the command line syntax; but if you move to a AIX
> machine - your sunk!

Hmmm, not really. Using smit isn't mandatory, it's only an interface
to system commands. If you want you can still use the command line
syntax.

Not that I'm happy with AIX or IBM though...

> IBM is like Microsoft in that way.  Insisting on doing things with
> their
> own flavor and to hell with the rest of the industry.  Well, ever since

I'd say Microsoft is like IBM... ;)

> (flame, flame)

No flame intended :)


Ciao!!!

Claudio Di Martino                             claudio@unige.it
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