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From: Ron Shepard on 19 Apr 2010 00:28
In article <831v4dFvp9U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
Uno <merrilljensen(a)q.com> wrote:

> My experience with an IBM PC was in 1983 in Washington state.
> Everything was windows.

Maybe in 1993. In 1983, it was still 16-bit MSDOS.

> Microsoft towered over the territory like Mount
> Rainier. Apparently there's been a lot of water under the bridge since
> then.
>
> Tobias mentioned that this compiler is approximately half the price for
> the linux version as opposed to the AIX version. I guess I wonder what
> a customer is getting with the AIX version that it would be priced the
> way it is. From the screenshot, AIX looked like linux to me.

I have not checked in several years, but in the past there were many
utilities that worked with AIX but not Linux. Also some of the
special hardware that IBM had, such as network interconnect
switches, only worked with AIX.

As far as what the login screen looks like, they both look like unix.

$.02 -Ron Shepard
From: Uno on 19 Apr 2010 01:26
Ron Shepard wrote:
> In article <831v4dFvp9U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> Uno <merrilljensen(a)q.com> wrote:
>
>> My experience with an IBM PC was in 1983 in Washington state.
>> Everything was windows.
>
> Maybe in 1993. In 1983, it was still 16-bit MSDOS.

I guess I conflate the two, which is, of course, inaccurate. My job was
to write a payroll program in IBM basic and answer the phones for a
small software concern. Pretty good gig for a teenager.

The machine was beautiful, and I never had trouble with the OS.
--
Uno
From: A Watcher on 19 Apr 2010 02:46
Ron Shepard wrote:
> In article <831v4dFvp9U1(a)mid.individual.net>,
> Uno <merrilljensen(a)q.com> wrote:
>
>> My experience with an IBM PC was in 1983 in Washington state.
>> Everything was windows.
>
> Maybe in 1993. In 1983, it was still 16-bit MSDOS.
>
>> Microsoft towered over the territory like Mount
>> Rainier. Apparently there's been a lot of water under the bridge since
>> then.
>>
>> Tobias mentioned that this compiler is approximately half the price for
>> the linux version as opposed to the AIX version. I guess I wonder what
>> a customer is getting with the AIX version that it would be priced the
>> way it is. From the screenshot, AIX looked like linux to me.
>
> I have not checked in several years, but in the past there were many
> utilities that worked with AIX but not Linux. Also some of the
> special hardware that IBM had, such as network interconnect
> switches, only worked with AIX.
>
> As far as what the login screen looks like, they both look like unix.
>
> $.02 -Ron Shepard

The last time I used AIX it had the desktop that is common to most of
the unix varieties that are still around, like HPUX. It's like the KDE
desktop with linux.
From: Jim Xia on 19 Apr 2010 15:47

> Tobias mentioned that this compiler is approximately half the price for
> the linux version as opposed to the AIX version.  I guess I wonder what
> a customer is getting with the AIX version that it would be priced the
> way it is.  From the screenshot, AIX looked like linux to me.
> --


AIX has more utilities and features supported than Linux. But most
significant difference is the backward compatibilities on binaries.
Try that on Linux :-)

I still have an old PPC workstation under my desk collecting dust for
over 4 years. It was running AIX 5.1 before I powered it off
permanently.


Cheers,

Jim
From: Jim Xia on 19 Apr 2010 23:54

> Jim, let me ask you one last question.  My premise is that getting pdt's
> to work was the final hurdle for your implementation to conform to 2003.


That is correct. And PDT is a tough feature too. It is a truly
untried feature in any other languages, and its implementation has
posed so many challenges to our compiler. I assume it'll be true to
all implementors. The trouble is, though, that I can't see how
programmers really benefit from this feature. Maybe someone from this
forum can shed some light on this.


>   Was it basically the same effort to get it to work on linux as it was
> with AIX?

For us there isn't much difference to get the feature work on Linux
than AIX.

Hope this answers your question.

Cheers,

Jim
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