microcode wrote on Tue, 05 Jun 2012:
The best OS is the one IBM made for it, AIX which is a POSIX UNIX with IBM extensions (and great doc!).
It's true that IBM has great documentation. But AIX has quite a few quirks compared to other Unices, even commercial/traditional big iron ones like Solaris. My main pet peeve is that it does not protect against reads from nil pointers for optimization reasons. I've collected some more at http://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_AIX_Port#AIX_quirks
Another one, which isn't mentioned on that page because it doesn't affect end users of the compiler/RTL, is that AIX uses different code page names in libiconv than all other Unix-based platforms we support. That's in part because the iconv standard isn't worth the name "standard" (it defines almost nothing), but it would have been nice if the IBM people could have added some extra code page names so as to be more compatible with other libiconv implementations.
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