AIX, System V comparison

[John E Van Deusen III]

In article <1100 at altos86.UUCP> (Jeff Tye sys adm) writes:
>
> IBM is wasting their time. System V is so far advanced and accepted
> that IBM has no chance of catching up.  Unless AIX has some very
> advanced and useful features, it's a waste of everybody's time.

The May 1989 issue of UNIX REVIEW tested several i386 boxes, including
the IBM model 70 running AIX.  It seemed to be a good product and a very
good value.  The author, David Wilson of Workstation Laboratories, wrote
"[other] combinations are unlikely to be available, since no plans to
port AIX to non-IBM systems have been announced".  What arrogance on the
part of IBM!  One last try to sucker people onto a proprietary bus with
a proprietary operating system. 

> Interactive Systems 386/ix System V 3.2 or SCO's UNIX 3.2 (which is in
> beta now) would be two good choices. They are both available on the
> PS/2 386.

I read in the May 1989 issue of UNIX WORLD that SCO was planning to
bundle UNIX/386 3.2 with about every support function you could want;
NFS, X-windows, DOS-merge, Ingress RDBMS, etc.  The list price was
quoted as $995.  Apparently the product is already in the hands of those
"open desktop" developers who have signed over their souls to SCO.  The
first commercial availability is to be on Tandy 386 machines, presumably
in the second or third quarter of 1989.
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