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Robin D. Wilson writes
> I don't know why anybody would call it "rat s___".  Ours  
screams.  

Ours too.

I think I caused some of that fuss in the ibm group.

The first gold version of the operating system under AIX  
had some problems with the NFS serving.  Response was quite  
variable.  This has been fixed.

It also had awful problems with context switching.  If you  
were using vi in an X-window, if you stopped typing for  
more than a second, it would switch contexts, disks would  
thrash, and nothing you typed would show up on the screen  
for 10 seconds or so.  (This on a machine with 64 MB)

That too has been fixed.


I still despise them however.  
[semi-religious rantings follow:]

1.  Despite the fast hardware, the implementation of  
X-Windows feels much more sluggish than NextStep.

2.  When we had a problem reading a CD-ROM that no PC, or  
HPUX had trouble with, it took us several months just to  
convince them that there was a problem.  We had to send  
them the CD.  They still haven't delivered a fix that works  
despite two attempts.

3.  It took a trained IBM rep over a day to upgrade the  
machines to a minor revision of the operating system.
We've received three sets of patches already.

4.  Their "improvements" over standard(?!) unix flat files  
is an order of magnitude more obnoxious than netinfo, and  
lacks any means of converting between flatfiles and their  
format.

5.  Many of their changes seem to be completely arbitrary  
with little method behind them.  (e.g. print spooling)

They are excellent compute servers, pretty good NFS  
servers, mediocre at running X-windows, and a pain in the  
butt to administer.