AIX

From: Jay West <jwest_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Wed Mar 31 17:53:54 2004

Lyle wrote...
> I've worked extensively with Solaris, IRIX, Linux, and AIX for over twenty
> years (not Linux - only since release 0.9?) - and in my opinion, AIX has
> features that from it's inception were better than it's competitors -
Logical
> Volumes when no one else had them - and SMIT - which made system
> administration simple. I've worked with AIX on accounts which had
migrated
> from mainframes to AIX - and was pleased to find it could scale to meet
the
> challenge.

HP has had LVM for as long as I can remember as an optional add-on, and SAM
even longer. Wasn't SAM around long before SMIT? I vaguely recall thinking
that SAM came out first and IBM copied the idea but I'm not at all sure at
this. Anyone know for sure and can set me straight?

Jay
Received on Wed Mar 31 2004 - 17:53:54 BST