[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[ChrisQ]

On 01/20/13 13:57, MG wrote:

>> AIX?
>
> The feeling I got of it was like a 'commercial generic UNIX with
> much of the functionality of Linux with lots of proprietary and
> unusual administration tools', the last time I tried it (I believe
> version 6.1 on an unwieldy POWER4 thing).
>
> The desktop of AIX may not have been much, but it did provide
> hardware-accelerated graphics and software like CATIA ran on it.
> (In fact, the last POWER-system I had was originally used at BMW
> as a computer-aided technical design system and still had the
> inventory labels on it.)
>

I picked up a power 5 machine with aix 6 recently and got quite
a few frowns when I mentioned it. However, it really is a very
well sorted machine, with excellent system management tools,
though there was a slight learning curve getting to grips with all
the ibm terminology around the edges. Once you get in though,
it's fine and everything is there, including the good old cde
desktop that we all remember. Truckloads of open source software
available as well. I guess it's reputation must relate to older
versions, but looks all there to me...

Regards,

Chris