[neilv]

`smit`, IIRC. Most workstation platforms, you mainly just had to know whether they were based on BSD or System V (or Apollo Domain, or the VMS of the VAXstations), but AIX had this interactive UI thing that was different.

Three other things nice about the RS/6000 and AIX:

* When it first came out, it was noticeably faster than the SPARCstations at the time.

* The hypertext documentation browser was nice. (This was slightly before the Web.)

* IBM would send two field technicians, in suits. (Which was funny, when they were meeting with frumpy nerdy teenager me.)

(We developed workstation software engineering tools for mil/aerospace/datacomm, which seemed to be wanted on everything except SGI. So, every time there was a new architecture, or a major OS change like SunOS 4 to Solaris 2, we'd get it immediately for porting.)