Re: Beating a dead horse

[Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2015, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
> While LVM may have been designed by committee, I am pretty sure it was 
> originally an SGI committee, & seems pretty good to me as well.

As a guy who still supports ancient Unix platforms every day, I'll tell 
you that IRIX categorically rocks in my opinion, too (at least as far as a 
commercial OS goes and excluding the horrible inst/overlay install 
process). However, IIRC, it was HP, IBM, and someone else (the open 
group?). At least that was the story I was told. Remember that IRIX has 
XVM, which works well, but isn't all that similar to LVM. AIX and HP still 
have strong LVM implementations.

> All of my old SGI stuff worked like clockwork as long as it functioned 
> (snif ....).

You are going to make me choke up, here. I'm sitting here looking at my 
Tezro and O2 and I'm cursing Rick Belluzo's name. SGI had a period in the 
90's where just about everything it released was chock full of awesome and 
made other vendors gear look 10 years old the day it was released. The 
Indy and O2 were especially wonderful in their day...

-Swift