Don't forget the other cool feature of smit: the running man.
When you started an operation, there was animated icon of a man running. If your command succeeded, he'd stop and cheer. If you got an error, he'd trip and fall on his face.
Also, another advantage of AIX was that it included a volume manager and it was enabled by default. Back in the early 1990s, this was fairly unique. Some other operating systems offered, but only as an expensive add-on, so in practice you did without it. Being able to add a disk and just tell the system to move a filesystem over to it was pretty amazing.
When you started an operation, there was animated icon of a man running. If your command succeeded, he'd stop and cheer. If you got an error, he'd trip and fall on his face.
Also, another advantage of AIX was that it included a volume manager and it was enabled by default. Back in the early 1990s, this was fairly unique. Some other operating systems offered, but only as an expensive add-on, so in practice you did without it. Being able to add a disk and just tell the system to move a filesystem over to it was pretty amazing.