[geeks] Carly's Gone!!!

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Wed Feb 9 18:13:29 CST 2005


On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, Mike Meredith wrote:

>> customers of Stuff That Works (AIX, OS/390, zOS, OS/400, etc.) happy.
>
> AIX works? That's good, as I seem to be encountering endless niggles at
> the moment. Probably just that I'm new to it.

Probably just that.  AIX is Weird and Different, and, really, it's Not
Unix under the hood.  If you're getting stuck, feel free to ask me.  I
wrangle it all day long and have grown to like it quite a bit.

>> Then maybe IBM would port OpenVMS to the p5 systems.  -THAT- would be
>> the best of both worlds.
>
> Well, I'd give it 0.1 of a CPU (I seem to be running out of 1/10 to
> allocate on my p5-550).

Ah, are you having troubles with AIX or with the VIO and all that other
assorted crap?  p5 Virtualization has a lot of promise to it, but, man,
it's taking them forever to get all the kinks worked out of the software
that Makes Stuff Happen.

-- 
Jonathan Patschke   )   "Let me hear you make decisions
Elgin, TX          (     without your television."
USA                 )        --Depeche Mode, "Stripped"



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