Job control

Mike Jones mjones at fenway.uucp
Wed Nov 29 06:31:25 AEST 1989


In article <22762 at gryphon.COM> oleg at gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
>Which version of AIX was that RT running?  I am certain that the older
>versions on AIX on RT did not have BSD process control.  I don't know about
>the new RT AIX.
In fact, no AIX for the RT (to date) has job control.

>
>RT's AIX did not have any influences of Berkeley UNIX.  AIX PS/2 (and 370) is
Eh? Well, other than sockets, vi, csh (no job control).... Actually, there
are enough Berkeleyisms in AIX for the RT that folks used to bsd systems
are only moderately uncomfortable.

>-- RT enjoyed some of the worst sales IBM ever had and had some of the worst
>user community reception.  Why should such a commercial failure determine the
>appearance of a perfectly sane operating system?
>-- 
Can you say "customer base"? I knew you could. Even if there's not many
of them, it's not a good thing to ignore existing customers.

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