Originally posted by: Elemental007
Originally posted by: BaDaBooM
Hey, I guess more what I was looking for was just kind of an overview. Like just some facts like is it command line, or gui? Does it only run on IBM? What kind of hardware is it? CISC, RISC, or something else? What's the name of it's filing system? stuff like that. Just anything like that you all could tell me or have a web site that tells that.
Well, to summarize, it is almost entirely 100% command line, but nothing like Linux or Windows. It's usually a series of menus seperated by screens at which you can view variious queues that state basically the status of every pending job in the system. The concept of services are intermixed with the concept of doing actual work, there really isn't any difference.
There is no menu for most of the commands, though, it's just memorization. It runs only on IBM Hardware which is almost entirely RISC, but the hardware isn't at all familiar like a PC. It is usually much more stable and redundant, but there are no, say, PCI slots, for example, or ATA controllers. It's entirely new, more or less, it's like learning relativitiy with a 2nd grade math knowledge.