[rogerbinns]

Where I worked we got an early system as we made graphical desktops for workstations. IBM required that we have a separate locked room for the system!

Despite having over 20 different brands/Unix systems, AIX was the only one we had to pay a 3rd party consultant to come in and do installations and upgrades. That was back in the days of tapes. It used some convoluted volume management system where the tape contents got spooled into the disk and then the installation absorbed that.

smitty always felt so slow. There was a release where it was sped up. They didn't actually make it do the work any quicker - they just doubled the animation speed of the running man that was shown.