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>In article <FLEE.89Aug25165610@shire.cs.psu.edu> flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
>Who uses IBM/4.3 (AOS) out there?  What do you run it on?  This is an
>informal survey.  Tell me about your installation.  (E-mail, please.)

At IBM Research in Yorktown Heights NY, the math department maintains about
45 RTs using 4.3 BSD UNIX (AOS).  We have been very happy with this operating 
system.  Some features that we really appreciate are full 4.3 BSD, source
code available for practically all utilities and the kernel, good X11R3,
the andrew toolkit, NFS, good asynch support, complete online manuals and
documentation, and easily available fixes distributed on usenet.  The
800 USC technical support number is useful for quick help with system
problems.  Most public domain software built for BSD UNIX systems builds
and runs on AOS with little or no modification.  What I like most about AOS
is that it is 4.3 BSD to the core and not System V with some BSD goodies
patched on as an afterthought.

Charlie Slater, Eric Brunner, and Jeff Weinstein at IBM Palo Alto have
been very helpful in helping to fix the few problems that we have had.

We use these RTs for almost all of our computing including operating systems
research, networking tool development, networking kernel research, SLIP, 
usenet, mail, gateways, printing, editing, text formatting, internet access,
VM terminal emulation, graphing...

I think that AOS has improved greatly in 1989.  Most of the problems that I've
had with it in the past have been fixed (high speed serial line support (thanks
to Charlie Slater), X11R3 (not perfect, but overall quite good with the
Megapel, and the C compiler among other parts of the OS have been greatly 
improved).

I highly recommend trying 4.3 AOS, if it is available to you.

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