Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:15562 comp.unix.solaris:28273 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.solaris Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!bry From: bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus) Subject: Re: Unix for PC Message-ID: <bryD0qAFn.4HF@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.solaris Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <199411210319.TAA18133@nic.cerf.net> <3cd8fo$ns5@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3cdef1$q87@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <3cdkob$4t1@fido.asd.sgi.com> <3cfhlv$dbl@spruce.cic.net> Distribution: inet Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 02:47:46 GMT Lines: 24 Paul Southworth (pauls@locust.cic.net) wrote: : It really seems like there's a mental gap at Sun -- they're trying to : reinvent the wheel and ending up with a horse-drawn carriage instead : of a Ferrari. I'll take public transportation over that any day. If by re-inventing the wheel you mean moving from a uni-processor Kernel to a SMP Kernel and adding support for Kernel threads, I've then lost you. We run Linux here as our internet gateway as well as Solaris, but Linux is not trying to be the most state of the art OS, just a damn good OS. Solaris on the other hand is trying to be a state of the art OS. I have no idea what *BSD are trying to be, except trying to prove that BSD will live forever, which someday they will relise is not the case. Solaris is not perfect, but to compare OS's which have no SMP support or thread support in the Kernel is very much like comparing a horse-drawn carriage to a Ferrari; only the Ferrari is Solaris. -- Regards, Bryan Althaus bryan@krf.com