Re: Who uses IBM/4.3 (AOS)?

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From: Scott Schwartz
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1989 19:23

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In article <448@siswat.UUCP> buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:
| I don't know specifically about Yorktown Heights and possibly some
| backdoor help they might get, but the story I got from several people
| inside IBM trying to support the RT under AIX was that real, paying
                                            !!!
| customers get first priority.  

Do you mean AIX or AOS???  I have no doubt that AIX customers get
great support.  It's the BSD (aka AOS) folks that we are talking
about.

| As a matter of fact, I know of one contractor
| on the RT in Austin who found it faster to submit APAR's to have the
| bugs he found fixed than to actually find the (obvious) bugs in the
| source available to him and have them fixed directly.

Oh come now... faster to submit an APAR than to recompile?  No way.
Are sources for AIX even available, by the way?

--
Scott Schwartz		<schwartz@shire.cs.psu.edu>
"APAR's?  We don' neeed no steeenking APARS!"

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