A/UX & other *NIXes

Sat Jul 16 07:08:07 AEST 1988

Subject: A/UX and other *NIXes
Keywords: partitioning, compiler tables, UNIX domain, manuals

1) It took me about 30 minutes to partition a disk under XENIX V.2, V.3
using that version of *NIX's menu driven (mostly shell script) interactive 
tools, and that's including the necessary reading of manuals, and it took 
me more than 8 hours using A/UX. You really get to feel what adventure games 
are a simulation of, trying to round up 4 pages of information that's spread
over 3-4 manuals. 

2) I tried to compile X/lib/X with option '-g' (for sdb-ing), and although I
had selected the big-table versions of the compilers: 'too many fake table 
entries' - that wasn't any problem under XENIX-386 (we had other problems
there, but please let me use some more of my RAM).

3) ... and help sdb get rid of its crutches, the current version is pitiful
at the very best.

4) Another aspect is data hiding: >50 pages of information about UNIX_DOMAINS 
with a rich collection of examples - and 1 line saying that only INTERNET 
is supported. I always wanted to spend my time writing socket/select 
simulations for socketless SVR[23] systems - but I digress ;-)

Not even mentioning 386i's,
          rlj

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