[comp.unix.wizards] AIX vs. BSD

ajw%bikini.cis.ufl.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (04/13/87)

Maybe this should be in net.jokes...

	"They took 4.3 and did all sortsa good stuff to it"

		-An IBM Dealer Describing AIX development
		at a recent product review.

Mike, Kirk?  Are we going to see these improvements in 4.4?
Wow, a virtual resource manager and window manager *both* below 
the kernel!  Geez, I can hardly wait!  (-:

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Andy Wilcox
ajw@beach.cis.ufl.edu

jordan@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (04/14/87)

Isn't AIX the sysV derivative?  I thought the 4BSD-based one is called ACIS.

/jordan

henry@garp.UUCP (04/14/87)

jordan@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Jordan Hayes) wrote: 
->Isn't AIX the sysV derivative?  I thought the 4BSD-based one is called ACIS.

This is correct.  It seems the IBM sales rep. had parked his brain in a
no-standing zone when he said that.

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