Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!spdcc!merk!xylogics!cloud9!bu-cs!madd From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: AIX (is it unix)? Message-ID: <38836@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 25 Sep 89 20:03:06 GMT References: <1702@naucse.UUCP><978@mtxinu.UUCP> <868@cirrusl.UUCP> <2486@auspex.auspex.com> <890@cirrusl.UUCP> <11148@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: madd@cs.bu.edu (Jim Frost) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group Lines: 41 In article <11148@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: |In article <890@cirrusl.UUCP> dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes: |the SVR4 |implementation has little in common with BSD [...] |Its memory management, like SunOS's, is entirely |different. Please, please tell me it's entirely different from that of sVr3. I'm getting pretty tired of figuring out just how many of each NBLK parameter I'm going to be using before I use it, and really tired of watching my system's performance degrade the longer it stays up. These things don't happen under vanilla 4.3 or SunOS! |Its general |filesystem support is entirely different (although one module does support |BSD filesystems as a special case). Well, that's good, the current filesystem is terrible. I hope the new one is much improved. I miss both long filenames and good filesystem response when dealing with sysV. |Its network base is entirely |different, What do you mean by "entirely"? I'll be really unhappy if it only talks to other sysV machines. |And in general it makes the current BSD release look sick. That's good news, it's been too long coming. What I'd really like to know is if there are any publications which describe what's new and what's changed in sVr4. Any leads? This kind of information would go a long way towards appeasing those of us who would really like to know if the new, improved, sysV will be all that has been promised, or if we'll just have to wait until 4.3 runs on our hardware. jim frost software tool & die madd@std.com