stickler@cc.helsinki.fi (06/17/91)
I have the potential option to get a PS/2 (386) running AIX PS/2 on loan for
graduate research, but I don't have any experience with AIX (I have used most
other flavors of UNIX), so I don't know if this machine will help or hinder
my work, so to speak.
Could those who are using (or have used) AIX PS/2 *please* give me some
insights into its reliability, portability, etc. etc.
Of particular concern is the performance of X11 on e.g. a 20MHz 80386 with 16
MB RAM. I will be the sole user, so X11 will more than likely be the most
demanding program running at any given time.
Also, any comments regarding difficulties in compiling "common" PD UNIX tools
such as Perl, RCS, and the GNU stuff would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance for all you AIX people who help me in this!
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Patrick Stickler Research Unit for Computational Linguistics
OH2/KC4YYY Department of General Linguistics
stickler@cc.helsinki.fi University of Helsinki
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//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////jew@rs6000.sunquest.com (Kagebo-shi) (06/25/91)
AIX PS/2 running X11 might be a little slow, but other wise I find it to be a very nice Unix implementation. Make sure you have plenty of paging space and everything should be fine. As to PD stuff, I have compiled GNU emacs 18.57 recently with no problems but all the Larry Wall stuff (uses Configure script) don't install too well on my system. They can't seem to come up with the answers and I certainly don't know the order of bytes in an integer or whatever. I posted to comp.lang.perl, but got no answer. Your mileage may vary. J. E. Ward -- J. E. Ward jew@sunquest.com Confucious say... Hurewitz's Memory Principle: The chance of forgetting something is directly proportional to ..... to ........ uh ..............