[comp.unix.aix] AIX software upgrades for RS/6000

bonnett@umd5.umd.edu (H. David Bonnett) (03/15/90)

When I received my seed RS/6000 it came preloaded with 8943I (yeah I).  My
IBM rep has been telling me that a newer release will be here Real Soon Now,
but, somehow, I wonder.  Now I see lots of references to 9005.  Is there 
anyone out here (there) who can tell me how to get this before the machine
is obsolete?  My current release is unable to deal with the net for more than
ten minutes at a time....

As far as impressions, I love the hardware in general, and don't feel qualified
to judge the software from the stuff I have. 

Thanks for any guidance,
-dave bonnett; Instructional Computing Progs, U. of Maryland-

madd@world.std.com (jim frost) (03/17/90)

bonnett@umd5.umd.edu (H. David Bonnett) writes:
>When I received my seed RS/6000 it came preloaded with 8943I (yeah I).  My
>IBM rep has been telling me that a newer release will be here Real Soon Now,
>but, somehow, I wonder.  Now I see lots of references to 9005.  Is there 
>anyone out here (there) who can tell me how to get this before the machine
>is obsolete?  My current release is unable to deal with the net for more than
>ten minutes at a time....

We have 9005K (don't know how we got it, not my department).
Installation went easily (albeit time-consuming) but several problems
have caused us to re-install multiple times.  The bug-fix list is
impressive but as of last night our system is still pretty much
unusable :-(.

jim frost
jimf@saber.com