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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!venus.sun.com!male.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!peyto!thurlow From: thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 9 Jan 1996 17:16:16 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Lines: 26 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4cu7t0$mg5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4crnbe$8a@olympus.nwnet.net> <4cs2kn$kfg@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: peyto.eng.sun.com Cc: Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1764 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1893 comp.unix.solaris:56044 comp.unix.aix:67735 In article <4cs2kn$kfg@cynic.portal.ca>, Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca> wrote: >Solaris. `SunOS' generally means `SunOS 4.x.x.' I've heard Solaris >called SunOS 5 I suppose this is a losing battle, but your terminology is the main problem here. Solaris is the term for the bundle that includes OpenWindows (or later on, CDE); Solaris 1.x include SunOS 4.1.x, while Solaris 2.x include SunOS 5.x. Every Sun operating system boots as "SunOS <something-or-other>", and the 5.x releases are the SVR4-based releases. The only reason you associate Solaris with SVR4 is that it was coined sometime near the same time as SVR4 hit the streets. >but on the other hand, I've also heard Sparcstation >IPCs called Sun 4/20s. Don't confuse machine models with OS releases, never the twain and all that. Sun 3's were Motorola, Sun 4's are SPARC based. Rob T -- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@eng.sun.com There was something fishy about the butler. I think he was a Pisces, probably working for scale. -- Nick Danger, Third Eye