[comp.unix.aix] New product?, AIX 3.0

jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton) (02/09/90)

In article <1499@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>, adam@ncifcrf.gov (Adam W. Feigin) writes:
> "Significant for IBM, but not for the rest of us....just another in a
> long series of products that IBM has introduced to try to gain a
> foothold in the workstation market, only to fail in doing so. When
> will they ever learn."

I read in Unix Today! that the new AIX 3.0 has the Korn shell as the
default shell, if you want the Bourne shell you have to get to it by
/bin/bsh. I wonder what rocket scientist made that decision...it's
lots of little break-the-Unix-tradition things like that that made the
original RT piss off so many users and developers. I wonder what other
"favors" they've done for us in AIX 3.0 ... (and OSF/1! :-> )
--
Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
...uunet!applix!jim    jim@applix.com

chet@cwns1.INS.CWRU.Edu (Chet Ramey) (02/09/90)

In article <1031@applix.UUCP>, jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton) writes:

+ I read in Unix Today! that the new AIX 3.0 has the Korn shell as the
+ default shell, if you want the Bourne shell you have to get to it by
+ /bin/bsh. I wonder what rocket scientist made that decision...it's
+ lots of little break-the-Unix-tradition things like that that made the
+ original RT piss off so many users and developers. I wonder what other
+ "favors" they've done for us in AIX 3.0 ... (and OSF/1! :-> )
+ --
+ Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA
+ ...uunet!applix!jim    jim@applix.com

Who cares?  According to the information I received, AIX 3.0 won't run on
the RT anyway.  If it won't run on what we've got, who needs it?

Anyway, lots of AT&T folks have reported running with ksh as /bin/sh with
no troubles. 


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